Heyday: 55 books
De-Bug
Voices from the Underside of Silicon Valley
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Stories of the dot-com boom-from everyone but the techies
No shuttle buses here: De-Bug, a new collection of true stories from the social justice organization of the same name, shows a side of working in Silicon Valley that you won't read about in the business section. As tech moguls land...
High Spirits
The Legacy Bars of San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
The best places to imbibe in San Francisco
Community, heritage, architecture-oh yes, and stiff pours: these are the hallmarks of San Francisco's Legacy Bars. *High Spirits *leads readers on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood pub crawl in search of the city's most remarkable nightspots. Atmospheric...
BART
The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
**The history of Bay Area Rapid Transit, as told by "Mr. BART" himself **
When BART opened in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1972, it became a catalyst for a renaissance in modern rail transit, both nationally and internationally. The concept as sold to Bay Area voters was gargantuan:...
King Sequoia
The Tree That Inspired a Nation, Created Our National Park System, and Changed the Way We Think about Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
The history of California’s Big Trees
From a towering tree, one of California’s preeminent naturalists unspools a history that echoes across generations and continents. Former park ranger William C. Tweed takes readers on a tour of the Big Trees in a narrative that travels deep into the...
Grassroots Philanthropy
Field Notes of a Maverick Grantmaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Set aside the mountains of paper that characterize conventional philanthropy and focus instead on forging enduring partnerships with outstanding individuals. Dare to change the world in imaginative ways that prove deeply satisfying, exciting, and (dare we say it?) fun. Based on four decades of experience...
by Tom Cole
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
This is the story of San Francisco, a unique and rowdy tale with a legendary cast of characters. It tells of the Indians and the Spanish missions, the arrival of thousands of gold seekers and gamblers, crackbrains and dreamers, the building of the transcontinental railroad and the cable car, labor...
Ransoming Pagan Babies
The Selected Writings of Warren Hinckle
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
From his galvanizing exposés in Ramparts magazine to his hand in inventing gonzo, Warren Hinckle upended twentieth-century investigative reporting and gave it new provocation and zest. In the first career-spanning collection of writings by this key figure of American journalism, Ransoming Pagan...
Bad Indians
A Tribal Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
“If we allow the pieces of our culture to lie scattered in the dust of history, trampled on by racism and grief, then yes, we are irreparably damaged. But if we pick up the pieces and use them in new ways that honor their integrity, their colors, textures, stories—then we do those pieces justice,...
The City of Vines
A History of Wine in Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Winner of the 2016 California Historical Society Book Award! The latest title from the author of A History of Wine in America recounts the beginnings of California’s world-renowned wine trade—a story set not in Napa but in the isolated pueblo now called Los Angeles. With incisive analysis and...
When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors
People and Wildlife Working It Out in California
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Wildness beats in the heart of California's urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco Bay again because of a grassroots effort to clean...
Our National Disgrace
Homelessness in the City of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Homelessness in Los Angeles has burst its traditional borders. These days, downtown's Skid Row is only the ugly epicenter of a staggering problem that radiates outward for more than one hundred miles. Homelessness has spread to gloomy underpasses and dark side streets, to parks, libraries, and subway...
The Harvest Gypsies
On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The 75th anniversary of Steinbeck’s masterpiece of journalism
Gathered in this important volume are seven newspaper articles on migrant farm workers that John Steinbeck wrote for The San Francisco News in 1936, three years before The Grapes of Wrath. With the inquisitiveness of an investigative...
by Molly Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Lela Rhoades has a voice so sharp, so funny, warm, and honest, that the stories of her life and the traditions of her parents will barely sit still on the page. As told to Molly Curtis in the 1970's, this memoir takes us back into a world where men chased mother grizzlies out of their dens for their...
Father Junípero’s Confessor
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Led by the zealous Fray Junipero Serra to the fringes of the Spanish Empire in the mid-1700s, Franciscan missionaries Francisco Palou and Juan Crespi are as fervid as their master about the opportunity posed by Alta California: to gloriously swell the kingdom of God through conversion--consensual...