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Spiritland: Ghosts of California’s Central Coast. Avia Belle Moon. A supernatural outing into the ghosts and paranormal sites of California’s Central Coast. Told from the view of the Native Chumash, who have called this part of California home for some 3,000 years. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) •77 color images •192pp. •978-0-7643- 3901-1 • PB • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD UFOs Over California: A True History of Extra- terrestrial Encounters in the Golden State. Preston Dennett. Hundreds of verified sightings including cases of healing, alien surgical implants, and UFO landings. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 36 color images • 192 pp. • 978-0- 7643-2149-8 • PB • $14.95 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD Hollywood Paranormal Films: Fact & Fiction. Jim O’Rear. Delves into 10 blockbuster films, separating truth from fiction in horror entertainment. Through behind-the- scenes stories and paranormal case documents, compare and analyze evidence behind paranormal blockbusters such as The Amityville Horror, The Exorcist, The Change- ling, The Entity, and more. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 72 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3812-0 • PB • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD Classic Hollywood Stars: Portraits & Quotes. Mike Oldham. The most famous Hollywood entertainers of the 1920s to 1960s appear in postcard portraits and person- al quotes that help define their characters. See June Ally- son, Jack Benny, Gary Cooper, and Helen Hayes, along with so many more. Today’s fans continue to relish the personalities of these great stars. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 200 b/w photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-3050-6 • PB • $12.99 / £12.99 / 19.99 CAD Strange California Monsters. Michael Newton. Unknown creatures may appear at any time to startle, frighten, and in some cases devour unwary humans. While Bigfoot is known to many, California’s other strange creatures—giant birds and reptiles, lizard men and winged apes, man-sized fish and salamanders—will surprise and fascinate you. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 48 b/w photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3336-1 • PB • $14.99 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD Supernatural California. Preston Dennett. This comprehensive guidebook takes you to more than 200 sites where the supernatural, paranor- mal, and unknown are most likely to be encoun- tered, including UFOs, Bigfoot, lake monsters and coastal sea serpents, chupacabra and other cryptozoological creatures, haunted hotels, parks, museums, theaters, businesses, roadways, and more. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 66 illustrations • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2401-7 • PB • $24.95 / £23.99 / 36.95 CAD California Ghosts: True Accounts of Hauntings in the Golden State. Preston E. Dennett. Presents 26 true, first-hand accounts of spooks, spirits, and hauntings across the state—some funny, some scary, and some absolutely bone chilling. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 26 illustrations •192pp. •978-0-7643-1972-3•PB•$14.99 / £14.99 / 22.95 CAD California’s Historic Haunts. Brian Clune with Bob Davis. Visit 25 of California’s most haunted and historic sites. Each site is explored by the authors and Planet Paranormal to give the visitor or potential investigator all the tools necessary to conduct a rewarding investigation. All sites are open to the public, and this comprehensive historic guide supplies visitor information, tools of the trade, and a full glossary. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 99 b/w& color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-4706-1 • PB • $16.99 / £16.99 / 24.99 CAD California Gardens of the Arts & Crafts Period. Eugene O. Murmann. Historic California garden design as recorded by Eugene O. Murmann (1900–1962). Released in 1914, the book details 50 garden plans with 103 photographs of actual gardens. This book is a wealth of imagery and ideas about Arts & Crafts era sensibilities, Japanese gardens, and Mission-influenced landscape design. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 154 b/w photos & illustrations • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2861-9 • HC • $24.95 / £23.99 / 36.95 CAD Beach Boundaries: Fences and Gates of Southern California. Linda Byrne and Robert Scott. Tour gardens and homes of Los Angeles County: Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach. Here find compelling photographs that act as a guide for homeowners and garden- ers who are looking to define their outdoor spaces. • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206 mm) • 114 color photos • 80 pp. • 978-0-7643-4097-0 • PB • $12.99 / £12.99 / 19.99 CAD Dark Tourism California: A Paranormal Travelogue . Brian Clune. Ten terrifying (but fun!) locations will show you what a "dark" vacation is all about. • 6" x 6" (152 x 152 mm) • 30 color images • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-6411-2 • HC • $14.99 / £13.99 / 19.99 CAD San Diego’s Most Haunted: The Historical Legacy and Paranormal Marvels of America’s Finest City. Nicole Strickland. Join the San Diego Paranormal Research Society as they explore the history and ghostly occurrences of landmarks in and around San Diego, California. Learn about the types of ghosts, spirits, and hauntings at more than 25 locations, as well as the theories for their existence. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) • 26 b/wphotos • 192 pp. • 978-0- 7643-5528-8 • PB • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD California’s Deadly Women: Murder and Mayhem in the Golden State 1850–1950. Michael Thomas Barry. Rediscover 46 of the most notorious murders and shocking crimes ever committed by women in the state of California between 1850 and 1950. Written in chrono- logical sequence and enhanced by nearly 50 photographs, each entry provides a concise overview of the crime, background information, and final dispositions. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 50 b/w photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643- 5530-1 • HC • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD Hollywood Obscura: Death, Murder, and the Paranormal Aftermath. Brian Clune. Through exten- sive research by Brian Clune, the historian for Planet Paranormal Investigations, take a deeper look at 12 stories dealing with the murders and paranormal aftermath of some of Hollywood’s most mysterious and gruesome murders from the 1930s to modern times. History buffs and paranormal enthusiasts will enjoy this book. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228mm) •48 color photos •128 pp. •978-0-7643- 5354-3 • PB • $16.99 / £16.99 / 24.99 CAD In the Company of Evil: Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980. Michael Thomas Barry. Read about 64 of the most horrifying crimes ever committed in the Golden State, spanning the early 1950s into the 1980s. Includes infamous serial killers, assassins, sadistic rapists, bank robbers, kidnappers, Satan worshippers, and a plethora of other notorious criminals. • 6" x 9" (152 x 228 mm) • 65 b/w images • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643-5003-0 • HC •$24.99 / £23.99 / 36.99CAD California: Stories, Lore & History Hollywood Bachelor Pads. Carol Kipling. When you’re a bachelor rock star, the bedroom can be a very, um, significant feature. 300 vivid color photographs reveal an insider’s view of these killer bachelor pads of rock stars, actors, producers, and financiers. Get an inside look at the rooms where discerning men with demanding careers let loose at home. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215x279mm) •304color photos•144pp. •978-0-7643- 3307-1 • HC • $34.99 / £33.99 / 51.99 CAD Victorian Homes of San Francisco. Terry Way. More than 200 color images showcase details of homes in San Francisco. Styles include Italianate, Queen Anne, Eastlake/Stick, and Victorian. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 204 color images • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643- 3212-8 • PB • $19.99 / £19.99 / 29.99 CAD California Revival: Vintage Decor for Today’s Homes. Carole Coates & Annie Dietz. A new move- ment, featuring vintage furnishings, art pottery, tile, paintings, and decorative arts from California’s Span- ish Revival period of the 1920s–1940s in today’s homes. Go inside ten “real” homes, showing you how to achieve this enlivening and color-saturated style. More than 600 color images with detailed captions and an engaging text. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 602 color photos • 256 pp. • 978-0-7643-2635-6 • HC • $49.95 / £47.99 / 75.00 CAD Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles. John Eng & Adriene Biondo. Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles touches on the history of Modern and explores five housing tracts built between 1948 and 1964. Through these unique tracts, we gain an understanding of what the postwar climate was like and learn why Modern housing still remains relevant today, as new home- owners are drawn to the modern aesthetic and original homeowners continue to enjoy them more than half a century later. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 167 color images • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-3865-6 • HC • $39.99 / £38.99 / 59.99 CAD Architecture Tours L.A. Guidebook: Hancock Park / Miracle Mile. Laura Massino Smith. Identify more than 100 sites, starting in Koreatown at the Post-Modern “Chicken Shack,” and journey through the grand neighborhoods of Windsor Square and Hancock Park, to the Miracle Mile with its concentration of early-twentieth century buildings. • 9" x 6" (228 x 152 mm) • 120 color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2297-6 • PB • $9.95 / £9.99 / 14.99 CAD Architecture Tours L .A. Guidebook: Hollywood! Laura Massino Smith. Here is the way to see Los Angeles’s rich architectural heri- tage! LA is a “driving” city best seen from a car. Homes of movies, celebrities, glamour, and over a century of absolutely remarkable architecture. Original Victorian homes, glamorous hotels and theaters, and work by famed architects Frank Lloyd Wright, John Lautner, and Frank Gehry, among others. • 9" x 6" (228 x 152 mm) • 96 color photos • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-2121-4 • PB • $9.95 / £9.99 / 14.99 CAD CALIFORNIA 70 |