Vroman’s Bookstore: Santa Monica Pier

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Celebrate a century of good times on the Santa Monica Pier, with the revised edition of Santa Monica Pier: America's Last Great Pleasure Pier! Vintage images and magnificent color photos capture […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: George Geary discusses Made in California Vol. 2

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Beloved food historian and chef George Geary is back with even more remarkable stories of the countless international chains that started in the Golden State. Ruby's Diner. Panda Express. Yogurtland. […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Kevin Fedarko discusses A Walk in the Park

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his best friend, the National […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Max Podemski discusses A Paradise of Small Houses

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of families and […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Jacqueline Winspear discusses The Comfort of Ghosts

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Psychologist and Investigator Maisie Dobbs […]

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Vroman’s Bookstore: Nicola Yoon discusses One of Our Kind

Vroman's Bookstore 695 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA, United States

Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can […]

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