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Nathaniel Gee
Failure and Fortitude

In 1976, the Teton Dam collapsed, unleashing a wall of water that ravaged eastern Idaho and shattered the public'Äôs trust in American infrastructure. Engineers, historians, and survivors have asked the s…

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Lee M Panich, Gustavo Flores
We Will Receive Justice

We Will Receive Justice explores how Native people in the southern San Francisco Bay Area---the ancestors of today's Ohlone community---navigated the collapse of the California mission system. The volume …

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John Freeman
California Rewritten

Dive into the revelatory worlds of California's most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future."In Freeman's hands, California is a …

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Amy Gamerman
The Crazies

"Yellowstone meets Matlock" (Tom Clavin) in this dazzling tale of land lust and the American West, chronicling the rise and fall of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a s…

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Paul Vandevelder
Kicking the Loose Stones Home

Beyond the flinty glitz of a Hollywood-imagined American West of two-dimensional characters are the town of Taos, New Mexico, at the intersection of the mystical and the rational; tide pools on the remote…

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Christine R Yano
Speak American

Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Hawai'i from 1924 to 1960 via the public K--12 English Standard School System. In this segregated system, chi…

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John Clayton
The Auto-Biography of Yellowstone

The most important date in Yellowstone National Park's history is July 31, 1915, when the first automobile legally brought tourists into this place that represents everything Americans love about nature.I…

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Christine R Yano
Speak American

Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Hawai'i from 1924 to 1960 via the public K--12 English Standard School System. In this segregated system, chi…

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Russell Rowland
Be a Man

Russell Rowland grew up as a fourth-generation Montanan during an era when Westerns ruled television and film. As a young man Rowland struggled with alcohol, anger management, and domestic violence---grim…

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Craig S Harwood
Bridget's Gambit

In 1828 Bridget Miranda Evoy escaped famine-stricken Ireland with her children for a better life in America. But the relief she desperately sought was elusive. Within two years, she was a widow and was le…

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Robert B Marks
Deep Time in the Mono Lake Basin

Ten millennia in the Mono Lake Basin, showing how this complex ecosystem came to be what it is today.Nestled at the base of the Sierra Nevada in eastern California sits a stunning landscape overlooking a …

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Cerise Castle
A Tradition of Violence

A searing exposé on one of the most insidious and long-standing issues plaguing law enforcement: deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department---by award-winning investigative reporter C…

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George Francis-Kelly
Before and After Rodney King

The urban disorder in Los Angeles in the late spring of 1992 shocked the world. For five days following the acquittal of police officers accused of the vicious beating of African American motorist Rodney …

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Paul Haddad
Mulholland Drive

Running along the crestline of the Santa Monica Mountains, L.A.'s legendary Mulholland Drive cuts through the geographic middle of the city as it intersects famous canyons (Laurel Canyon, Topanga Canyon, …

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David Chadwick
What Happened at Tassajara

From the award-winning and best-selling author of the biography of Shunryu Suzuki, comes the concluding volume of exploration, through personal memoir, oral history, and rare photographs, of the physical …

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Joy Schulz
Daily Life in Colonial Hawai'i

Discover the textures of everyday life in colonial Hawai'i-from missionary households and sugar plantations to hula schools and military bases-through the eyes of the people who lived it.Daily Life in Col…

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Laura Cunningham
A State of Change

A magnificently illustrated classic of California natural history, now updated in a long-awaited reissue."This wonderful book is a vivid reminder of how things began, and also as a vision of the rich…

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Matthew Shaw
The Sea in Every Sound

From Dick Dale's reverb-drenched guitar leads to the Beach Boys' wistful odes to California, surf music is historically viewed as a novelty of the early 1960s , sandwiched between the Elvis craze and Beat…

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Michael-Shawn Dugar
12 as One

The definitive chronicle of the Seattle Seahawks' ascent to Super Bowl LX gloryEntering the 2025-26 NFL season, most observers expected either the Los Angeles Rams or the San Francisco 49ers to finish fir…

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Brandi Thompson Summers
Oakland Afterlives

A powerful account of how Black Oakland survives displacement and erasure--and what its story reveals about the future of Black cities everywhere.What happens to a Black city when its people are displaced…

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