California

Joining the California exodus, Charles leaves the Golden State for high adventures in the Great Plains. Landing in Oklahoma City, he decides to check out the food in The Big Friendly by using food delivery apps to see what the city's residents are eating....

Greater Than a Tourist by Navit Reid offers the inside scoop on San Rafael, California, and Marin County. Most travel guides tell you how to travel like a tourist. As a part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this guide will give you travel tips from someone who lives at your next travel destination.

The contradictions of the new frontier were never so evident as when gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada mountains....

Ella M. Sexton's stated purposed is "to recount in simple accurate narratives the early conditions and subsequent development of California"....

In this first biography of Edmund Gerald Brown Jr. in more than 30 years, Chuck McFadden explores the unique persona of one of the most idiosyncratic politicians in California history....

When George M. Stratton made himself a pair of “inverting glasses," his world turned upside down – and the scientific community gained some interesting new perspective....

At the age of 5, he arrived at a Greyhound bus station in California, transplanted from Mexico City into the pervasive sounds of English. Now with the ink still fresh on his Juris Doctor diploma, he looks back on the journey with the rigorous training he acquired in law school....

Two young teenagers meet on a wagon train in the mid 1800s. After Jacob saves Hannah's life and they fall in love, Jacob must move on to California with his family....

Greater Than a Tourist - Riverside California USA by Marc J. Feldstein offers the inside scoop on Riverside. Although there is nothing wrong with traveling like a tourist, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination....

Luella Murphy and her parents set out to start a new life in the gold rush town of Sacramento, California that was until Luella’s parents passed away on board the ship. Luella (Lilly) decided to continue on, although she was incredibly young there was little else to do....

Would you like some culinary guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Eat like a Local book is for you. Eat like a Local - Encinitas, California by C. Tavassoli offers the inside scoop on tasting what Encinitas has to offer....

This is the behind-the-scenes story of the invention, development and commercial promotion of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison....

In 1879, near the small northern California town of Ridgeway, Lilly Warren is a young woman who has recently lost her father. There is little time for mourning, though, as the responsibility of running the twenty-six-acre farm now belongs to her....

When the raptors come out of sinkholes across the United States, Deandra Antigone Merriweather’s elder brother Johnny sees the chaos as opportunity. Overrun by prehistoric beasts of increasing size and savagery, the world has completely gone to hell....

No doubt the California Gold Rush brought more people west than for any other reason. Annabelle Moon is a sliver of what came after the rush was over. Enter Joseph Kinkaid, the less than successful prospector in constant search of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow....

The 1840s, California during the gold rush: As the white settlers begin penetrating the remote mountain canyons, they discover an ancient race, the Tenanken, who date back at least 60,000 years....

Tacos may have been created south of the border, but Americans have made this Mexican food their own, with each style reflective of a time and a place. American Tacos explores them all, taking us on a detailed and delicious journey through the evolution of this dish....

Terrorist Plot: When a military jet went down off the California coast, killing the Secretary of the Air Force, it was a tragedy....

A strange man (named Howard) on a strange quest (for a Paper Grail) in a strange land (California)... A lot of fuss for a folded scrap of paper....

A Coming-of-Age story for four 58-year-old best friends Dubbed The Fearless Foursome in high school, Cory, Kate, Trish, and Monica will have to be ...