Bay Area History Books

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Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,803 ratings — published 2012
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Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 420 ratings — published
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Frontier Village (Images of America: California) Frontier Village (Images of America: California)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2013
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Forever Facing South: The Story of the S. S. Palo Alto "the Old Cement Ship" of Seacliff Beach (Topics in Monterey Bay History) Forever Facing South: The Story of the S. S. Palo Alto "the Old Cement Ship" of Seacliff Beach (Topics in Monterey Bay History)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.50 — 6 ratings — published 1991
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The McGlincy Killings in Campbell, California: An 1896 Unsolved Mystery (True Crime) The McGlincy Killings in Campbell, California: An 1896 Unsolved Mystery (True Crime)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.44 — 45 ratings — published
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Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.25 — 1,858 ratings — published 2022
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Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester Heiress to the Rifle Fortune Captive of the Labyrinth: Sarah L. Winchester Heiress to the Rifle Fortune (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.65 — 436 ratings — published 2010
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Wired: A Romance Wired: A Romance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.53 — 38 ratings — published 2003
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California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History California through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 58 ratings — published
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The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1985
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There There There There (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 218,582 ratings — published 2018
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An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History) An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 (The Lamar Series in Western History)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 490 ratings — published 2016
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Way We Lived, The: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences Way We Lived, The: California Indian Stories, Songs & Reminiscences (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 117 ratings — published 1981
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Oakland, the Story of a City Oakland, the Story of a City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 101 ratings — published 1982
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Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published
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Urban Voices: The Bay Area American Indian Community (Volume 50) (Sun Tracks) Urban Voices: The Bay Area American Indian Community (Volume 50) (Sun Tracks)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2002
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American Indians and the Urban Experience (Contemporary Native American Communities) American Indians and the Urban Experience (Contemporary Native American Communities)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 16 ratings — published 2001
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Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,596 ratings — published 2012
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Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (A City Lights Anthology) Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (A City Lights Anthology)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 76 ratings — published 1998
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General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 25 ratings — published 1995
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Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way (1.1) Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got This Way (1.1)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.55 — 38 ratings — published 2008
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,442 ratings — published 2000
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,145 ratings — published 2005
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Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 3) Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, 3)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 407 ratings — published 1999
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Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,257 ratings — published 2010
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American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society in Modern America) American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 363 ratings — published 2003
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Berkeley: A City in History Berkeley: A City in History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 62 ratings — published 2007
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The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as bay-area-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 29 ratings — published 1994
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