This poignant literary memoir is both a portrait of a complicated family and a love letter to the California of the seventies and eighties. Lisa Brennan-Jobs beautifully relates her childhood in Palo Alto during the first tech boom and her strained relationships with her parents, including her father Steve Jobs. --Aggie
San Francisco landscape designer Daniel Nolan gives us this gorgeous and inspiring reminder that artful indoor and outdoor spaces are still realizable in low-water environments. Perfect for enthusiasts of gardening and interior design! --Leigh
A hugely informative and beautifully presented guide to California flora. Vibrant photographs accompany the biology and natural history of over five hundred plants. A thorough yet portable guide for any nature lover! --Amanda
This eye-opening local history captures the Bay Area through interviews with its inhabitants, including tech company employees, a homeless activist, a Bay Bridge architect, and the owner of a tattoo parlor. McClelland highlights the fractures created by the region’s contradictions--its progressive politics and rapid gentrification, its wealth and poverty--and its ultimate unsustainability. --Brynn
Thematically difficult, crafted with great care, and equal parts tender, unflinching, and graceful, Orange's debut, multi-voiced novel is the definition of required reading. --Ron
A young mother struggling to balance work, her young daughter, and her relationship with her husband takes refuge in the family trailer left by her grandparents in far-Northern California. Kiesling crafts Daphne’s perspective impeccably, giving a vivid representation of a woman, a family, and a nation at a crossroads. --Leigh