Find amazing California history books that delve into the many dynamic facets of the Golden State's history in this list, starting with The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands by Verónica Castillo-Muñoz.
In ghost stories to graphic novels, we head west to Oakland, California. A city in the middle of a reinvention, it has a ton of history, a lot of it spooky.
We've got books for hippies from the 60s-70s, and current reads about shirking convention in search of a radical, counter-cultural lifestyle.
Pick up one of these excellent young adult novels about the City of Angels today!
Escondido citizens unsuccessfully fought a city council vote for library privatization, a movement that takes libraries out of community hands.
