Heyday: 55 books
All of Us or None
Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This long-awaited catalog of political posters pays homage to an influential and populist art movement that has created some of the most enduring imagery of our time. In All of Us or None, author Lincoln Cushing examines key selections from a remarkable archive of over 24,000 posters amassed by free...
by Naomi Hirahara, Heather C. Lindquist
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From the editor of the award-winning Children of Manzanar, Heather C. Lindquist, and Edgar Award winner Naomi Hirahara comes a nuanced account of the “Resettlement”: the relatively unexamined period when ordinary people of Japanese ancestry, having been unjustly imprisoned during World War II,...
Sierra Stories
Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Sierra Nevada, with its 14,000-foot granite mountains, crystalline lakes, conifer forests, and hidden valleys, has long been the domain of dreams, attracting the heroic and the delusional, the best of humanity and the worst. Stories abound, and characters emerge so outlandish and outrageous that...
Making Home from War
Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Many books have chronicled the experience of Japanese Americans in the early days of World War II, when over 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were taken from their homes along the West Coast and imprisoned in concentration camps. When they were finally...
Where on Earth, 5th Edition
A Guide to Specialty Nurseries and Gardens in California
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
The statewide gardening guide—in a revised and updated fifth edition
Ever since its initial publication in 1993, this guide to California’s specialty plant nurseries has been an invaluable tool for gardeners and landscapers, and it is now available in an expanded and completely revised...
by Tobriner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
For the past one hundred and fifty years, architects and engineers have quietly been learning from each quake and designing newer earthquake-resistant building techniques and applying them in an ongoing effort to save San Francisco. Bracing for Disaster is the first history of seismic engineering...
Enough for All
Foods of My Dry Creek Pomo and Bodega Miwuk People
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Celebrating Native California food gathering and preparation across the seasons, Kathleen Rose Smith reveals the practices handed down through generations of her Bodega Miwuk and Pomo ancestors, and shares how these traditions have evolved into the contemporary ways her family still enjoys wild foods....
by Eric Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
While reading Island of the Blue Dolphins at school and learning about the real woman stranded on San Nicolás Island, ten-year-old Tíshmal begins writing emails to “Miss Karana” in hopes of talking to her spirit. When she arrived on the mainland of Southern California, Miss Karana spoke a language...
East Eats West
Writing in Two Hemispheres
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
From cuisine and martial arts to sex and self-esteem, East Eats West shines new light on the bridges and crossroads where two hemispheres meld into one worldwide “immigrant nation.” In this new nation, with its amalgamation of divergent ideas, tastes, and styles, today's bold fusion becomes...
Under Spring
Voices+Art+Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Winner of the 2013 California Historical Society Book Award
The winner of the first CHS Book Award reimagines what a history book can be, and it tells a story all California needs to hear in order to understand itself. Beneath Los Angeles’s North Spring Street bridge, a deteriorated concrete...
Alice
Memoirs of a Barbary Coast Prostitute
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**Winner of the 2015 California Historical Society Book Award **
In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by the moniker Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld" detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her...
The Bay Area Forager
Your Guide to Edible Wild Plants of the San Francisco Bay Area
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Reading this guidebook is like taking a wild foods walk with foraging experts Mia Andler and Kevin Feinstein: it gives practical advice for gathering edible wild plants in the Bay Area in a voice that is friendly and suffused with rich personal knowledge. The authors provide thorough descriptions...
by Arisa White, Laura Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Building on the brilliance of Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, the newest installment in the Fighting for Justice series introduces young readers to another real-life champion for civil rights: Bridget “Biddy” Mason, an African American philanthropist, healer, and midwife who was born into slavery. When...
by Laura Atkins, Stan Yogi
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
The first book in the Fighting for Justice series
A Kirkus Best Book of the Year
An ACL Outstanding Title
Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends—just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when...