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Foghorn: The Nearly True Story of a Small Publishing Empire

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

Bad Nature

O Sinners!

Portrait of a Feminist: A Memoir in Essays

Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman

A Fearless Eye: The Photography of Barbara Ramos: San Francisco and California, 1969–1973

Not Your China Doll: The Wild and Shimmering Life of Anna May Wong

Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

American Sherlock: Murder, forensics, and the birth of crime scene investigation

A History of Hazardous Objects

Colored Television

Raver Girl: Coming of Age in the 90s

You’re Safe Here

Imogen Cunningham: Photographs

Whoever You Are, Honey

Love Is a Burning Thing

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money

Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

Perfume & Pain

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

California a Slave State

Alice Sadie Celine

We Run the Tides

The Names of All the Flowers

Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

The Hungry Season: A Journey of War, Love, and Survival

The Only Woman in the Room

The Golden Gate

Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

Straw Dogs of the Universe

Last of Her Name

Time’s Mouth

The Devil’s Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley

Culver City Chronicles

Neon Girls: A Stripper’s Education in Protest and Power

Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

The Knockout Queen

All New People

Sex and Rage: A Novel

Earning Power: Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930

A Piece of Cake