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We are going to have a viable population of wolves in the far northern reaches of California, and it will be with the grudging cooperation of our ranchers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Not long ago, at a time when independent bookstores were folding right and left, Steve Costa, an Oakland community organizer, was thinking about buying a bookstore in the sleepy little town of Point Reyes Station, population 350. Neither he nor his wife, Kate Levinson, a psychotherapist and author, had any retail experience. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Since the first carton of newly printed books landed on a Berkeley sidewalk in August 1974, Heyday Books has been telling stories about California that might otherwise never be known: intimate descriptions of an Ohlone Indian village by San Francisco Bay; stories about Allensworth, the African American utopian community that sprung up in the Central Valley in the early 20th century; Joaquin Miller's accounts of life among the early settlers of far Northern California - to name a few. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Since the first carton of newly printed books landed on a Berkeley sidewalk in August 1974, Heyday Books has been telling stories about California that might otherwise never be known: intimate descriptions of an Ohlone Indian village by San Francisco Bay; stories about Allensworth, the African American utopian community that sprung up in the Central Valley in the early 20th century; Joaquin Miller's accounts of life among the early settlers of far Northern California - to name a few. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kim Bancroft's "roots" journey took her back four generations, back to an ancestor whose career was intimately tied to the early history of California. Bancroft's great-great-grandfather was Hubert Howe Bancroft, founder of the library at UC Berkeley bearing his name. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]