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    • Ten Years Inside California's Nuestra Familia Gang
    • By: Julia Reynolds
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • The city of Salinas, California, is the birthplace of John Steinbeck and the setting for his epic masterpiece East of Eden, but it is also the home of Nuestra Familia....

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    • The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History
    • By: Peter Houlahan
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 938 ratings
    • Norco '80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men - led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian - attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in US history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement....

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

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    • Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles
    • By: Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Rosecrans Baldwin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Rosecrans Baldwin's Everything Now approaches the metropolis from unexpected angles, nimbly interleaving his own voice with a chorus of others, from canonical LA literature to everyday citizens....

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    • By: Shannon Messenger
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Kelly
    • Series: Keeper of the Lost Cities, Book 6
    • Length: 20 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,473 ratings
    • In this spectacular sixth book in the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities’ insidious past, before it repeats itself and changes reality....

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    • A Suburban Memoir
    • By: D.J. Waldie
    • Narrated by: Rich Miller
    • Length: 4 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Since its original publication in 1996, Holy Land has become an American classic....

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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 247 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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    • The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
    • By: Benjamin Madley
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter....

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    • From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
    • By: Nick Neely
    • Narrated by: Tristan Wright
    • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Nick Neely chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California....

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    • California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963
    • By: Kevin Starr
    • Narrated by: Elijah Alexander
    • Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • Starr brilliantly illuminates the dominant economic, social, and cultural forces in California in these pivotal years....

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    • Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
    • By: Keramet Reiter
    • Narrated by: C.S.E Cooney
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in US prisons has become long-term and common. Prisoners spend 23 hours a day in featureless cells....

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    • Urban Power, Earthly Ruin (California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Book 3)
    • By: Gray Brechin
    • Narrated by: Gray Brechin
    • Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Imperial San Francisco is the epic saga of how all great cities parasitize their hinterlands for the sake of those elites who own and run them by using the mass media at their command to shape the thought of those who unwittingly serve their interests....

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    • By: Gene Stratton-Porter
    • Narrated by: Anne Makoto
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • This novel, set in 1920s California, tells the tale of Linda Strong who shares her father’s love for the beauty of nature in California. When her parents suddenly pass away, she is left with her sister Eileen, a huge house, and much wealth....

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    • One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
    • By: Lizzie Johnson
    • Narrated by: Lizzie Johnson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds....

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    • Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California
    • By: Frances Dinkelspiel
    • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 178 ratings
    • Frances Dinkelspiel looks beneath the casually elegant veneer of California's wine regions to find the obsession, greed, and violence lying in wait....

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    • How a Mexican Legend Became America's First Superhero
    • By: Stephen J.C. Andes
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In Zorro's Shadow, historian and Latin American studies expert Stephen J. C. Andes investigates the legends behind the mask of Zorro, revealing that the origin of America's first superhero lies in Latinx history and experience....

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    • My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the Poor
    • By: LeRoy Chatfield, Jorge Mariscal - contributor
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten....

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    • What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for America’s Future
    • By: Manuel Pastor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • State of Resistance makes the case for honestly engaging racial anxiety in order to address our true economic and generational challenges, a renewed commitment to public investments, the cultivation of social movements and community organizing, and more....

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