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    • The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric—and What It Means for America's Power Grid
    • By: Katherine Blunt
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • Pacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart....

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    • By: Martin Corona, Tony Rafael
    • Narrated by: Jacob Vargas
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,226 ratings
    • Martin Corona fell into the outlaw life at 12 and worked for a crew run by the Arellano brothers, founders of the Tijuana drug cartel that dominated the Southern California drug trade....

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    • Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
    • By: Jessica Bruder
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,580 ratings
    • Jessica Bruder follows an RVer, Linda, between physically taxing seasonal jobs and reunions of her new van-dweller family, or "vanily"....

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    • A History
    • By: Kevin Starr
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • His extensive knowledge shines through this concise, yet comprehensive, depiction of the most fascinating aspects in California's history....

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    • The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders
    • By: Don Lasseter
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 119 ratings
    • In 1985, Charles Ng and Leonard Lake were spotted shoplifting. Ng escaped, but Lake's capture led police to a concrete bunker in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where they discovered the grisly evidence of an orgy of sex crimes, torture, and murder that claimed at least 16 victims....

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    • The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream
    • By: H.W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 17 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill on the American River, it completely transformed the territory of California....

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    • No Ordinary Mountain Man
    • By: Barton H. Barbour
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 446 ratings
    • Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow....

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    • By: John McPhee
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 239 ratings
    • At various times in a span of 15 years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California....

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    • Chasing Water and Dust Across California
    • By: Mark Arax
    • Narrated by: Mark Arax
    • Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil - the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought....

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    • A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America
    • By: Theodora Kroeber, Karl Kroeber
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology....

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    • The Three Californias Triptych, Book 3
    • By: Kim Stanley Robinson
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Series: The Three Californias Triptych, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • North America, 2065. In a world that has rediscovered harmony with nature, the village of El Modena, California, is an ecotopia in the making....

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    • A History of Native California
    • By: Damon B. Akins, William J. Bauer Jr.
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California around the lives and legacies of the Indigenous people who shaped it....

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    • By: C. J. Booth
    • Narrated by: James Romick
    • Series: The Park Trilogy, Book 1-3
    • Length: 33 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • In the dark woods of Olive Park, in the hills above Sacramento, a California Highway Patrol officer stumbles over a gnarled branch. But it isn’t a branch. It is an arm. Reaching up from a shallow grave....

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    • Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild
    • By: Doniga Markegard
    • Narrated by: Doniga Markegard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Through the Pacific Northwest forests and along the rugged coastal shores of California, Dawn Again: Tracking the Wisdom of the Wild is a memoir of exploration and survival from a stunning new voice....

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    • Dreamers, Believers, Builders, and Killers in the Golden State
    • By: Mark Arax
    • Narrated by: Mark Arax
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In the tradition of Didion, Stegner, and McPhee, an intimate portrait of California in flux by the best-selling author of The King of California....

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    • Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
    • By: Marshall Ganz
    • Narrated by: Marshall Ganz
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • On April 10, 1966, a crowd of 10,000 farm workers and supporters gathered at the California state capitol to celebrate victory in one of the most significant strikes in American history....

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    • A Tribal Memoir
    • By: Deborah A. Miranda
    • Narrated by: Deborah Miranda
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems....

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