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Book Synopsis California Tales by : Jane Ciabattari
Download or read book California Tales written by Jane Ciabattari and published by Shebooks. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three stories reflecting California’s intense pressures and addictions: Sparkling Arabella, high on crystal meth astride a Harley, ascends into the stars. Will she find grace at last? A boy, a girl, and a dog meet in the Viper Room, looking for love on the eve of a devastating Los Angeles earthquake. And Silicon Valley, once filled with apricot orchards, becomes a dream killer for a workaholic on the verge of cashing in.
Book Synopsis The California Tales by : Mathew Kinsella
Download or read book The California Tales written by Mathew Kinsella and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibit-A To dream the im-poss-ible dream to fight the un-beat-able foe to run where the brave (or wise) dare not go -From the Broadway production of The Man of La Mancha, music by Darien and Leigh, 1965 Gracing the awesome coastline of California like a set of stained glass and adobe rosary beads, the 18th-century chain of twenty-one old Spanish missions offer the modern tourist a window into the history of the golden state at once colorful, quaint, often romanticized and just possibly not as benign as the tourist literature would lead us to believe. Investigating just that possibility, three amateur researchers have uncovered an historic mission artifact that, proven authentic, could shaken the golden state to its foundations. Nor would the repercussions end there, cautioned research director Brother Kolbe. Not by a long shot. At the state capitol in Sacramento, the governors Mission Affairs Department, and entrenched bereaucrazy representing the vested interest of the church, civic groups, university and private concerns, is naturally interested in the discovery. With real estate totaling in the multi-billion dollar range, including treasure troves of priceless relics and artwork, the Mission Affairs Department is somewhat hesitant at relinquishing control of their flock of iconic golden geese. Exposing the scandalous mission hullabaloo to the light of day may very well, researcher Samara Del Rio smiled with a perfectly beatific malfeasance, induce a state of anarchy. This my quest, to follow that star no matter how hopeless, no matter how far Along with Sam, ostensibly the team sociologist; Franciscan Brother and linguist Kolbe McCeanna and computer technician Felicia Bonaventura have tracked the legendary article to the derelict ruins of a minor auxiliary mission, Mision Estancia San Micmac, abandoned deep in the cathedral redwoods of Californias rugged pacific coast foothills. Exhibit-A.: as Sacramento knows, the notorious artifact is a legendary mission document lost since the colonial era, and thought to be a Spanish translation of aboriginal petroglyphs, entitled Las Cuentitas Primaveritas de Isla Califia. Past as prologue, a highly divisive work of folkloric Outside Art, colonial-era historians date the slim manuscript to the year 1561. Spakespearean scholars, however, citing key internal references to The Bards colonial-era play The Tempest, insist that the text is no older that the year 1611. Anti-Stratfordians, of course, call the Spakespearean theory leaky as an unstaunched wench. Adding to the debate, pre-Columbian archivists at Villa Poggio Gherado in Canterbury, England claim tevidence supporting a composition date of 1348. Equally divided, modern pundits dismiss Las Cuentitas as nothing more than psychosocial gibberish and third-rate poetic doggerel anyway, or else venerate the document as instrumental to a radical psychosocial transformation. Either way, if birds of a feather flock together than the infamous manuscript resembles a traditional book to the extent a penguin resembles an ostrich. [Embedded in translation throughout the plot of The California Tales], Las Cuentitas represents an extraordinary multimedia-literary genre suppressed censored and banned since the 1960s as irredeemably subversive to the status quo. During its brief hayday in the sun, the tempestuous genre was known as Prosperos Salient Heliotropic Articulation Grids: pSHAGs. And, particularly threatening to the dominate paradigm, pSHAG poetry, (or poemetry), was known, rather tongue-in-cheek, as Teleothanantological Neuropeptidal Algorithms: T.N.A.s. Moreover, reputedly encrypted within a Prospero SHAG TNA are the sole surviving fragments of the theoretical Archetypical Tale: the mother of all manuscripts, the lore at the core. Archetypical Tale theorists insist that this so-called consummate communiqu is simultaneously primordial and pansophic, pro
Book Synopsis Great California Stories by : Arthur Grove Day
Download or read book Great California Stories written by Arthur Grove Day and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1510 a Spanish romancer described an island called California, "very close to the side of the Terrestrial Paradise." It was inhabited by Amazons, and even the harnesses of the beasts they rode were gold. Thus began the rich literature of California. In a place that boasts so many claims to one's attention, short fiction has flourished. Great California Stories trumpets the immense short story tradition developed by visitors like Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce but mostly by natives like Jack London and John Steinbeck. The twenty-one stories in this anthology go back to the oral tradition of the American Indians and recall the Hispanic settlement, the gold rush of the 1850s, the agricultural epoch, the growth of cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, the foibles of early Hollywood, and the rise of ghettos. The ethnic diversity of California is reflected in a cast of story characters including Indians, mission fathers, Asians, Mexican Americans, African Americans, and forty-niners and landseekers from the eastern states. California's varied scenery is drawn on in stories with a strong sense of place, whether Steinbeck's Salinas Valley or Raymond Chandler's Los Angeles. Besides Steinbeck and Chandler, authors represented are Theodora Kroeber, Bret Harte, Gertrude Atherton, Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Edwin Cone, Jack London, Idwal Jones, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Dashiel Hammett, Eugene Burdick, Janet Lewis, Wallace Stegner, and Danny Santiago. For them California is a memorable background, sometimes a fabulous character, always a distinctive quality.
Book Synopsis Tales of California Yesterdays by : Rose Lucile Ellerbe
Download or read book Tales of California Yesterdays written by Rose Lucile Ellerbe and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Classic Tales in California History by : Alton Pryor
Download or read book Classic Tales in California History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Pub. This book was released on 1999 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women discovered gold in California a full year before James Marshall announced his discovery. There have been repeated attempts to split California into two or more states. Wheelbarrow Johnny was one of the gold seekers who came west searching for gold. Instead, he built wheelbarrows and then went on to become one of the nation's great automobile magnates.
Book Synopsis Fascinating True Tales from Old California by : Colleen Adair Fliedner
Download or read book Fascinating True Tales from Old California written by Colleen Adair Fliedner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over four centuries, California has been an ever-changing landscape of innovation and revolution, triumph and tragedy. In Fascinating True Tales from Old California, author Colleen Adair Fliedner mines the history of theGolden State to collect more than fifty tales of famous Californians and their escapades from 1542 through 1940. For many, like James Lick, Leland Stanford, and John Downey, California was a place to strike it rich. Others sought freedom and a new beginning, including Chinese immigrants and African Americans, like philanthropist and freed slave, Biddy Mason. And still some characters just wanted to live their lives outside of society’s rules, like swindler James Reavis or the cross-dressing stagecoach driver, Charley Parkhurst. Readers will be entertained and enlightened as they take a trip through California’s colorful past.
Download or read book Six California Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 20 Tales of California by : Hector Lee
Download or read book 20 Tales of California written by Hector Lee and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterfully written stories filled with drama, adventure, intrigue & humor. Tales of real life - a mysterious painting, a devastating fire, bandits, sacred mountains, romance & more. Real life & folklore set in over 100 California locations.
Book Synopsis The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California by : Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Download or read book The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California written by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California" by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton is a collection of short stories about early California. The volume contains: The Pearls Of Loreto, The Ears Of Twenty Americans, The Wash-tub Mail, The Conquest Of Doña Jacoba, A Ramble With Eulogia, The Isle Of Skulls, The Head Of A Priest, La Pérdida, Lukari's Story, Natalie Ivanhoff: A Memory Of Fort Ross, The Vengeance Of Padre Arroyo, The Bells Of San Gabriel, and When The Devil Was Well.
Book Synopsis California Mineral Production for 1920, with County Maps by : Walter Wadsworth Bradley
Download or read book California Mineral Production for 1920, with County Maps written by Walter Wadsworth Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monthly Chapter of Report ... of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau by :
Download or read book Monthly Chapter of Report ... of the State Mineralogist Covering Mining in California and the Activities of the State Mining Bureau written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stories of California by : Ella M. Sexton
Download or read book Stories of California written by Ella M. Sexton and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tales of Old California by : Charles Caldwell Park
Download or read book Tales of Old California written by Charles Caldwell Park and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Visit Me in California by : Cooley Windsor
Download or read book Visit Me in California written by Cooley Windsor and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-13 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly moving between the comic and the tragic, the sacred and the profane, this collection of short stories is populated by modern children, ancient poets, dying men, and your basic, mundane Greek gods. Windsor turns familiar stories from the Bible and from myth inside out, exploring the feelings of minor characters and looking at events from imaginative perspectives. His prose is rich with detail and emotion and he touches on themes of art and artifice, success and failure, family and its sacrifices, and expectations met or missed. In “The Last Israelite in the Red Sea,” a follower of Moses who dallies during their Exodus finds it more difficult to walk across the bottom of the temporarily displaced Red Sea without shoes. “Four of the Times My Sister Cried” follows a young narrator as his family rehearses for his mother’s death and then, as they must, lives without her. The wry “The Art of War” has characters from Homer to a courtesan talking shop about the battle of Troy from their perspectives. Set as a series of short pieces, “The Fleshly School of Poetry” tells of lessons learned and lessons taught. With its explorations of expectations, “Meet the Author” gives readers intimate portraits of various plans or coping mechanisms people put up when death draws close. “The End of the World” approaches the Rapture with a humorously practical spin: wouldn’t the angels need a plan to ensure that it goes smoothly? “In Parting” explores some of the troubles with family, especially when a sister’s child turns out to be a marionette. The geographically explicit “Three Mediums in San Francisco” touches on frustrated and imagined eroticism. The collection ends with “The Hilton Epiphany,” a fitting closer in which divinity comes to an unlikely person in an unlikely place.
Book Synopsis Tourist Tales of California by : Sara White Isaman
Download or read book Tourist Tales of California written by Sara White Isaman and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Little Known Tales in California History by : Alton Pryor
Download or read book Little Known Tales in California History written by Alton Pryor and published by Stagecoach Pub. This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has 41 different chapters on California's gold rush and development history. Read about The Lost Spanish Galleon, Pegleg Smith's Lost Gold Mine, Joaquin Murrieta, and railroad titans.
Book Synopsis Tales of Mexican California by : Antonio Franco Coronel
Download or read book Tales of Mexican California written by Antonio Franco Coronel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A work in which the author relates the particulars of what occurred in the southern parts during the years of 1846-1847, giving also some idea of manners and customs.
