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California Orange Box Labels: An Illustrated History
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The Beach Boys and the California Myth
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
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Narratives of Persistence: Indigenous Negotiations of Colonialism in Alta and Baja California (Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interactions in the Americas)
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The Nearest Far Away Place: Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, and the Southern California Experience
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Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
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Workin' Man Blues: Country Music in California
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Hotel California: The True-Life Adventures of Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young, Mitchell, Taylor, Browne, Ronstadt, Geffen, the Eagles, and Their Many Friends
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California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture
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Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 8: California (Handbook of North American Indians)
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The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
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Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California: Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World
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The Mountains of California
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Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual
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Blood in the Fields: Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
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Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal
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California Comeback: How A "Failed State" Became a Model for the Nation
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The Golden Shore: California's Love Affair with the Sea
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California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820–1930
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State of Resistance: What California's Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Means for America?s Future
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The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
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Proud to Be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California (Volume 22)
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Fool's Paradise: A Carey McWilliams Reader (California Legacy Book)
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Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California
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Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
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Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of The Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror
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Los Angeles Stories
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The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
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South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
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Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area: Introduction, Notes, and Classification (American Folklore Society Memoir nº 56) (Spanish Edition)
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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
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The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll's Best-Kept Secret
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The Murders That Made Us: How Vigilantes, Hoodlums, Mob Bosses, Serial Killers, and Cult Leaders Built the San Francisco Bay Area
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Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991
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A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area (A People's Guide Series - volume 3)
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The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
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San Francisco: Legends, Heroes & Heartthrobs
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This is San Francisco
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The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco
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The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound
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The Four Immigrants Manga : A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924
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The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature
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Hello from San Diego
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Buck 'Em!: The Autobiography of Buck Owens
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Merle Haggard: The Lyrics
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Man of Tomorrow: The Relentless Life of Jerry Brown
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The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography
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The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
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An Organizer's Tale: Speeches
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John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath and Other Writings 1936–1941
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The Complete Zap Comix Boxed Set
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The Complete Crumb Comics, Vol. 5: Happy Hippy Comix
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Raymond Chandler: Stories and Early Novels
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Raymond Chandler: Later Novels and Other Writings
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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
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Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography
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Richard Nixon: The Life
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Mountains That Remade America: How Sierra Nevada Geology Impacts Modern Life
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Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
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Hawkeye, Volume 3: L.A. Woman
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Crime Wave: Reportage and Fiction from the Underside of L.A.
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The Black Dahlia (L.A. Quartet, #1)
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The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont
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Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century
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City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s
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The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood
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