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Apparition Wren

Maureen Alsop

Abby’s Attic Adventures

Eleanor Aspin

Help Me! Help Me!

Written and Illustrated by Eleanor Aspin

Messy Myko and Tidy Tyko

Written and Illustrated by Eleanor Aspin

Emily and the Ostriches

Dan Bernstein
Illustrated by Gary Aagaard

The Tortoise and the Hare Race Again

Dan Bernstein
Illustrated by Andrew Glass

Gold Mountain Girl

Katherine Blanc

No Dogs, Please!

Written and Illustrated by Katherine Blanc

The Bad Kitty’s Guide to Life

Katherine Blanc

The Bad Puppy’s Guide to Life

Katherine Blanc

Written and Illustrated by Katherine Blanc

Katherine Blanc
Illustrated by Juan Carlos Colla

Cliff the Climber

Katherine Blanc
Illustrated by Swapan Debnath

No Baths For Betsy

Katherine Blanc
Illustrated by Swapan Debnath

The Boy Who Conquered Everest:
The Jordan Romero Story

Katherine Blanc
with Jordan Romero

My Life with the Lincolns

Gayle Brandeis

Self Storage:
A Novel

Gayle Brandeis

The Book of Dead Birds:
A Novel

Gayle Brandeis

The Mediterranean House in America

Lauren Weiss Bricker
Photography by Juergen Nogai

The Geography of Home:
California’s Poetry of Place

Selected and Edited by Christopher Buckley
and Gary Young

The Heart’s Traffic:
A Novel in Poems

Chin-In Chen

Flora of the Santa Ana River and Environs:
With References to World Botany

Oscar F. Clarke

The Tale of Tommy and Teresa Trout:
A Learning Journey from Egg to Fry

Julianna M. Cruz
with Illustrations by Jennifer Anderson

City of Quartz:
Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

Mike Davis

Ecology of Fear:
Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Mike Davis

In Praise of Barbarians:
Essays against Empire

Mike Davis

Planet of Slums

Mike Davis

A Rush of Hands

Juan Delgado

Juan Delgado

Juan Delgado
Paintings by Simón Silva

Barbara’s Leprechaun:
Memoirs of a Healing Journey

Foreward by Former U.S. Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D.
Mary H. Curtin

Still Water Saints:
A Novel

Alex Espinoza

Enriqué Speaks with His Hands

Benjamin Fudge
Illustrated by Tim Edmonson

California Poetry:
From the Gold Rush to the Present

Edited by Dana Gioia
Chryss Yost
and Jack Hicks

Burn Notice:
The End Game

Tod Goldberg

Burn Notice:
The Fix

Tod Goldberg

Fake Liar Cheat

Tod Goldberg

Living Dead Girl:
A Novel

Tod Goldberg

Other Resort Cities:
Stories

Tod Goldberg

Simplify:
Stories

Tod Goldberg

Native Universe:
Voices of Indian America by Native American Tribal Leaders, Writers, Scholars, and Storytellers

Foreward by Kevin Gover
Edited by Gerald McMaster
and Clifford E. Trafzer

Epicenter:
Issue 11

Edited by Jeff Green
Cali Linfor
and Rowena Silver

Phantom Seed:
Issue 2

Edited by Jeff Green
and Ruth Nolan

Nikki Grimes

Bronx Masquerade

Nikki Grimes

Nikki Grimes

Jazmin’s Notebook

Nikki Grimes

Stepping Out with Grandma Mac

Nikki Grimes

The Road to Paris

Nikki Grimes

Nikki Grimes
Illustrations by Mike Benny

Aneesa Lee and the Weaver’s Gift

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Ashley Bryan

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Michael Bryant

Thanks a Million

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Cozbi A. Cabrera

Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

Rich:
A Dyamonde Daniel Book

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie

What is Goodbye?

Nikki Grimes
Illustrations by Raúl Colón

Barack Obama:
Son of Promise, Child of Hope

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Bryan Collier

Welcome, Precious

Nikki Grimes
Illustrations by Bryan Collier

Meet Danitra Brown

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Floyd Cooper

Nikki Grimes
Pictures by Pat Cummings

When Gorilla Goes Walking

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Shane Evans

At Jerusalem’s Gate:
Poems of Easter

Nikki Grimes
with Woodcuts by David Frampton

From a Child’s Heart

Nikki Grimes
Pictures by Brenda Joysmith

Nikki Grimes
Pictures by Jerome Lagarrigue

Danitra Brown, Class Clown

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis

Talkin’ About Bessie:
The Story of Aviator Elizabeth Coleman

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by E. B. Lewis

At Break of Day

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Paul Morin

It’s Raining Laughter

Nikki Grimes
Photographs by Myles C. Pinkney

Hopscotch Love:
A Family Treasury of Poems

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Melodye Benson Rosales

A Pocketful of Poems

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Javaka Steptoe

A Day with Daddy

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell

Voices of Christmas

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Eric Velasquez

Nikki Grimes
Illustrated by Terry Widener

187 Reasons Mexicanos Can’t Cross The Border:
Undocuments 1971-2007

Juan Felipe Herrera

Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream

Juan Felipe Herrera

Cinnamon Girl:
Letters Found Inside a Cereal Box

Juan Felipe Herrera

CrashBoomLove:
A Novel in Verse

Juan Felipe Herrera

Juan Felipe Herrera

Giraffe on Fire

Juan Felipe Herrera

Half of the World in Light:
New and Selected Poems

Juan Felipe Herrera

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler

Juan Felipe Herrera

Laughing Out Loud, I Fly:
Poems in English and Spanish

Juan Felipe Herrera
Drawings by Karen Barbour

Featherless ⁄
Desplumado

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrations by Ernesto Cuevas Jr.

Grandma and Me at the Flea ⁄
Los Meros Meros Remateros

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrations by Anita De Lucio-Brock

The Upside Down Boy ⁄
El niño de cabeza

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrations by Elizabeth Gómez

Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems:
A Book of Lives Cards and Fortune Poems:
A Book of Lives

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrated by Artemio Rodriguez

Calling the Doves ⁄
El canto de las palomas

Juan Felipe Herrera
Pictures by Elly Simmons

Super Cilantro Girl ⁄
La Superniña del Cilantro

Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrations by Honorio Robieda Tapia

All the Wild and Lonely Places:
Journeys in a Desert Landscape

Lawrence Hogue

Every Night Is Ladies’ Night:
Stories

Michael Jaime-Becerra

Fast Cars and Frybread:
Reports from the Rez

Gordon Johnson

American Cookery:
A Novel

Laura Kalpakian

Caveat:
A Novel

Laura Kalpakian

The Victory Garden

Lee Kochenderfer

Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths

Judy Kronenfeld

The Runaway Piggy ⁄
El Cochinito Fugitivo

James Luna
Illustrations by Laura Lacámara

A Working Man’s Apocrypha:
Short Stories

William Luvaas

Going Under:
A Novel

William Luvaas

Glimmer Train Stories:
Issue 66

William Luvaas
Thomas O’Malley
Christopher Bundy
Ruth Ozeki
Al Sim
Andrea Cohen
Eric Trethewey
Danielle Lavaque-Manty
Jay McInerney

Douglas F. McCulloh
Foreward by D.J. Waldie

The Secret Heroes

Carla Mishek
and Margo Sorenson

Anna C. Morrison
Art by Marina Movshina

No Place for a Puritan:
The Literature of California’s Deserts

Edited by Ruth Nolan

Falcon’s Return

Rebecca K. O’Connor

Rebecca K. O’Connor

How Should the World Respond to Natural Disaters?

Rebecca K. O’Connor

Is There Life After Death?

Rebecca K. O’Connor

Rebecca K. O’Connor

A Parrot for Life:
Raising and Training the Perfect Parrot Companion

Rebecca K. O’Connor
Illustrations by April Chmura

Kiki’s Journey

Kristy Orona-Ramirez
Illustrations by Jonathan Warm Day

The Declaration of Independence from A to Z

Catherine L. Osornio
Paintings by Layne Johnson

My Diary from Here to There ⁄
Mi diario de aquí hasta allá

Amada Irma Pérez
Illustrated by Maya Christina Gonzales

My Very Own Room ⁄
Mi propio cuartito

Amada Irma Pérez
Illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzales

Nana’s Big Surprise ⁄
Nana, ¡Que sorpresa!

Amada Irma Pérez
Illustrations by Maya Christina Gonzales

Seven Floors Up

Cati Porter

The Littlest Wrangler

J. R. Sanders
Illustrated by Vin Libassi

Aunt Minnie and the Twister

Mary Skillings Prigger
Illustrated by Betsy Lewin

Aunt Minnie McGranahan

Mary Skillings Prigger
Illustrations by Betsy Lewin

Super Silly Sayings That Are Over Your Head:
A Children’s Illustrated Book of Idioms

Catherine S. Snodgrass

What’s That Look on Your Face?
All About Faces and Feelings

Catherine S. Snodgrass
Forward by Diane Twachtman-Cullen

Bonelight:
Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest

Mary Sojourner

Delicate:
Stories

Mary Sojourner

Solace:
Rituals of Loss and Desire

Mary Sojourner

Margo Sorenson

Danger Marches to the Palace:
Queen Lili’uokalani

Margo Sorenson

Margo Sorenson

Fight in the Fields:
Cesar Chavez

Margo Sorenson

Margo Sorenson

Funny Man Gets Rolling

Margo Sorenson

Hurricane!
Nature’s Most Destructive Force

Margo Sorenson

Kimo and the Secret Waves

Margo Sorenson

Leap into the Unknown:
Albert Einstein

Margo Sorenson

Nothing Is For Free

Margo Sorenson

Margo Sorenson

The Gotcha Plot

Margo Sorenson

The Hidden Dagger

Margo Sorenson

Time Trap:
Martin Luther King Jr.

Margo Sorenson

Tori and the Sleigh of Midnight Blue

Margo Sorenson

Tsunami!:
Death Wave

Margo Sorenson

Who Stole the Bases?

Margo Sorenson

Death of Lies:
Socrates

Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Michael A. Aspengren

Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Michael A. Aspengren

Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Sue Cornelison

Shatter With Words:
Langston Hughes

Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Dea Marks

Ambrose and the Cathedral Dream

Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Katalin Szegedi

Ambrose and the Princess

Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Katalin Szegedi

Clubhouse Threat

Margo Sorenson
Illustrated by Mark Verna

A Million Nightingales:
A Novel

Susan Straight

Susan Straight

Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights

Susan Straight

Susan Straight

I Been in Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots

Susan Straight

Take One Candle Light A Room

Susan Straight

The Friskative Dog

Susan Straight

The Gettin Place

Susan Straight

Susan Straight
Illustrated by Marisabina Russo

African Culture and Melville’s Art:
The Creative Process in Benito Cereno and Moby-Dick

Sterling Stuckey

American Indians⁄American Presidents:
A History

Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer

As Long as the Grass Shall Grow and Rivers Flow:
A History of Native Americans

Clifford E. Trafzer

Death Stalks the Yakama:
Epidemiological Transitions and Mortality on the Yakama Indian Reservation, 1888-1964

Clifford E. Trafzer

Indian War in the Pacific Northwest:
The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip

Introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer

Boarding School Blues:
Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences

Edited and with an Introduction by Clifford E. Trafzer
Jean A. Keller
and Lorene Sisquoc

Forgotten Voices:
Death Records of the Yakama, 1888-1964

Clifford E. Trafzer
and Robert R. McCoy

Renegade Tribe:
The Palouse Indians and the Invasion of the Inland Pacific Northwest

Clifford E. Trafzer
and Richard D. Scheuerman

Native Americans of Riverside County

Clifford E. Trafzer
and Jeffrey Smith

Medicine Ways:
Disease, Health, and Survival among Native Americans

Edited by Clifford E. Trafzer
and Diane Weiner

The Mighty Mississippi:
The Life and Times of America’s Greatest River

Linda Vieira
Illustrations by Higgins Bond

The Seven Seas:
Exploring the World Ocean

Linda Vieira
Illustrations by Higgins Bond

Grand Canyon:
A Trail Through Time

Linda Vieira
Illustrations by Christopher Canyon

The Ever-Living Tree:
The Life and Times of a Coast Redwood

Linda Vieira
Illustrations by Christopher Canyon

Inlandia:
A Literary Journey Through California’s Inland Empire

Edited by Gayle Wattawa
Introduction by Susan Straight

Rooftops Of Tehran:
Poems

Sholeh Wolpé

The Scar Saloon:
Poems

Sholeh Wolpé

Bring Everybody:
Stories

Dwight Yates

Haywire Hearts and Slide Trombones:
Stories

Dwight Yates