Heyday: 55 books
Rose Hill
An Intermarriage before Its Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The son of a Mexican Catholic father with aristocratic roots and a mother of Eastern European Jewish descent, Carlos Cortés grew up wedged between cultures, living a childhood in “constant crossfire-straddling borders, balancing loves and loyalties, and trying to fit into a world that wasn’t...
Secrets of the Oak Woodlands
Plants and Animals among California’s Oaks
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Glimpse the marvels of these remarkable communities
A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet, while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author Kate...
Literary Industries
Chasing a Vanishing West
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A bookseller in San Francisco during the gold rush, Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) rose to become the man who would define the early history of California and the West. Creating what he called a “history factory,” he assembled a vast library of over sixty thousand books, maps, letters, and documents;...
Court That Tamed the West, The
From the Gold Rush to the Tech Boom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
From the gold rush to the Internet boom, the US District Court for the Northern District of California has played a major role in how business is done and life is lived on the Pacific Coast. When California was first admitted to the Union, pioneers were busy prospecting for new fortunes, building...
Giving with Confidence
A Guide to Savvy Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
There are thousands of books that tell you how to get money, but few that cover something just as challenging: how to give money away. Giving with Confidence provides thoughtful guidance culled from decades of experience in the philanthropy world. Whether you are an individual who donates to your...
Changing Season
A Father, A Daughter, A Family Farm
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The evolution of a family peach farm
How do you become a farmer? The real questions are: what kind of person do you want to be? Are you willing to change? How do you learn? What is your vision for the future? In this poignant collection of essays, Epitaph for a Peach author David Mas Masumoto...
Rebel Lawyer
Wayne Collins and the Defense of Japanese American Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Winner of the 2017 California Historical Society Book Award! Fred Korematsu, Iva Toguri (alias Tokyo Rose), Japanese Peruvians, and five thousand Americans who renounced their citizenship under duress: Rebel Lawyer tells the story of the key cases pertaining to the World War II incarceration of...
by Oliver James
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This charming, full-color field guide to 25 birds easily found in Berkeley proves that even the city’s avian residents are a little quirky. Meticulously detailed illustrations capture each bird’s distinctive physicality and temperament. A Burrowing Owl faces you in a full-on head shot, perhaps...
Brother and the Dancer
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Winner of the 2012 James D. Houston Award, Keenan Norris’s first novel is a beautiful, gritty, coming-of-age tale about two young African Americans in the San Bernardino Valley--a story of exceptional power, lyricism, and depth. Erycha and Touissant live only a few miles apart in the city of Highland,...
Bringing Our Languages Home
Language Revitalization for Families
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a tape recorder up to her womb so her baby can hear old songs in Karuk. The Baldwin family of Montana...
The Wildness Within
Remembering David Brower
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The twentieth-century environmental movement owes much to a single man: David Brower. Countless natural wonders would have been lost if not for his efforts and the tremendous energy put forth by organizations he directed and/or founded (including the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, and the Earth...
Manzanar to Mount Whitney
The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
In 1942, fourteen-year-old Hank Umemoto gazed out a barrack window at Manzanar Internment Camp, saw the silhoette of Mount Whitney against an indigo sky, and vowed that one day he would climb to the top. Fifty-seven years and a lifetime of stories later, at the age of seventy-one, he reached the summit....
by Charles Hood
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
As its sister title, A Californian’s Guide to the Trees among Us, did for arboreal varieties, this new guidebook introduces casual birders to 120 of California’s most easily seen bird species—native and exotic alike—as found in a mix of urban, suburban, and traditionally natural habitats....