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Author : Charles Francis Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Heroes of the Golden Gate written by Charles Francis Adams and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Danielle Steel
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 110188410X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Accidental Heroes written by Danielle Steel and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel—a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco—one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous—perhaps ominous—message. Her supervisor dismisses her concerns, but Bernice calls security and soon Ben Waterman arrives. A senior Homeland Security agent, still grappling with guilt after a disastrous operation in which hostages were killed, Ben too becomes suspicious. Who left the postcard behind, which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean? As Ben scans the passenger manifests, his focus turns to the A321, with Helen Smith as its senior pilot. Helen’s military service and her tenure with the airline have been exemplary. But her husband’s savage death in Iraq was more than anyone should bear, leaving her widowed with three children. A major film star is on board. So is an off-duty pilot who has just lost his forty-year career. So is a distraught father, traveling with the baby son he has abducted from his estranged wife. Sifting through data and relying on instinct, Ben becomes convinced that someone on Helen’s plane is planning something terrible. And he’s right. Passengers, crew, and experts on the ground become heroes out of necessity to try to avert tragedy at the eleventh hour. In her stunning novel, Danielle Steel combines intense action with stories of emotionally rich, intertwined lives. As the jet bears down on its destination of San Francisco, strangers are united, desperate choices are made, and futures will be changed forever by a handful of accidental heroes.
Author : Harvey Schwartz
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806206
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Building the Golden Gate Bridge written by Harvey Schwartz and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver Award Winner, 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Young Adult (YA) Non-Fiction Moving beyond the familiar accounts of politics and the achievements of celebrity engineers and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge is the first book to primarily feature the voices of the workers themselves. This is the story of survivors who vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories of constructing the landmark span during the Great Depression. Labor historian Harvey Schwartz has compiled oral histories of nine workers who helped build the celebrated bridge. Their powerful recollections chronicle the technical details of construction, the grueling physical conditions they endured, the small pleasures they enjoyed, and the gruesome accidents some workers suffered. The result is an evocation of working-class life and culture in a bygone era. Most of the bridge builders were men of European descent, many of them the sons of immigrants. Schwartz also interviewed women: two nurses who cared for the injured and tolerated their antics, the wife of one 1930s builder, and an African American ironworker who toiled on the bridge in later years. These powerful stories are accompanied by stunning photographs of the bridge under construction. An homage to both the American worker and the quintessential San Francisco landmark, Building the Golden Gate Bridge expands our understanding of Depression-era labor and California history and makes a unique contribution to the literature of this iconic span.
Author : David K. Randall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393609464
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague written by David K. Randall and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A mash-up of Erik Larson and Richard Preston.” —Tina Jordan, New York Times Book Review podcast On March 6, 1900, the bubonic plague took its first victim on American soil: Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King. Empowered by racist pseudoscience, officials rushed to quarantine Chinatown—but when corrupt politicians mounted a cover-up to obscure the threat, it fell to federal health officer Rupert Blue to save San Francisco, and the nation, from a gruesome fate. Black Death at the Golden Gate is a spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress.
Author : Charles F. Adams
Publisher : Quill Driver Books
ISBN 13 : 9781884995460
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (954 download)
Download or read book Murder by the Bay written by Charles F. Adams and published by Quill Driver Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder has a long and distinguished history in San Francisco. The city and its Bay Area can stand proudly with Paris, London, and New York in the splendour of its misdeeds -- murders that have suspense, horror, audacity, and flair. The homicides chronicled in Murder by the Bay have been selected because a convergence of personality, circumstance, character, and geography makes them peculiarly San Franciscan. Each of these crimes illustrates an historic importance, each has impacted its times -- either in the course or application of the law or in the manner in which the affair revealed a shortcoming in society. They range from the Montgomery Street killing of James King of William, editor of the Daily Evening Bulletin, in 1856 to the sensational trial of early movie comedian Fatty Arbuckle who was accused of killing a showgirl at a party in the St. Francis Hotel to the shocking "City Hall Murders" in which former city supervisor Dan White killed Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Most were solved, some were not. They are murders that fascinated the city and frequently the country, sometimes for weeks, often for years and even decades.
Author : Louise Dyble
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812241471
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Paying the Toll written by Louise Dyble and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unavailable archives, Paying the Toll describes the high-stakes struggles for control of the Golden Gate Bridge, and offers a rare inside look at the powerful and secretive agency that built a regional transportation empire with its toll revenue.
Author : B. A. Hoena
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 1491404035
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Building the Golden Gate Bridge written by B. A. Hoena and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores various perspectives on the process of building the Golden Gate Bridge. The reader's choices reveal the historical details"--
Author : James Ponti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534414967
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Golden Gate written by James Ponti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies returns for another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls. After thwarting a notorious villain at an eco-summit in Paris, the City Spies are gearing up for their next mission. Operating out of a base in Scotland, this secret team of young agents working for the British Secret Intelligence Service’s MI6 division have honed their unique skills, such as sleight of hand, breaking and entering, observation, and explosives. All of these allow them to go places in the world of espionage where adults can’t. Fourteen-year-old Sydney is a surfer and a rebel from Bondi Beach, Australia. She’s also a field ops specialist for the City Spies. Sydney is excited to learn that she’ll be going undercover on the marine research vessel the Sylvia Earle. But things don’t go exactly as planned, and while Sydney does find herself in the spotlight, it’s not in the way she was hoping. Meanwhile, there’s been some new intel regarding a potential mole within the organization, offering the spies a lead that takes them to San Francisco, California. But as they investigate a spy who died at the Botanical Gardens, they discover that they are also being investigated. And soon, they’re caught up in an exciting adventure filled with rogue missions and double agents! This mission is hot! The City Spies are a go!
Author : Chris Pollock
Publisher : Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.
ISBN 13 : 1558685456
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)
Download or read book San Francisco's Golden Gate Park written by Chris Pollock and published by Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gorgeous book captures the wonders of this park by the bay. Filled with color photos and historical documents documenting the park's illustrious and colorful past.
Author : Catherine Coffin Phillips
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849650685
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Through the Golden Gate - San Francisco 1769 - 1937 written by Catherine Coffin Phillips and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's name was associated with stories of romance and adventure as far back in history as the year 1510. Among those who heard and half believed the romantic tale was Hernando Cortes. By the year 1521 he had conquered the Aztecs of Mexico and forced them to become the subjects of Spain. He was now looking over the western seas for new worlds to conquer. He firmly believed that somewhere in the direction ascribed to California there was a rich and prosperous country. But there were many more who sailed through the Golden Gate in the early years. This book gives an account of their fate and success.
Author : David Hemenway
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520258460
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book While We Were Sleeping written by David Hemenway and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public health has made our lives safer-often behind the scenes, without our knowledge, that is, "while we were sleeping." In more than sixty success stories, this book powerfully illuminates how public health works. It also profiles dozens of individuals who have made important contributions to safety and health in a range of social arenas. Highlighting examples from the United States and other countries, While we were sleeping will inform a wide audience of readers about what public health actually does and at the same time will inspire a new generation to make the world a safer place.
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Author : Donald Langmead
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313342083
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Icons of American Architecture [2 volumes] written by Donald Langmead and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What turns a building into an icon? What is it about some structures that makes their history and legend even more important than their original intended use, making them a part of American, and world, popular culture? Twenty four buildings and structures, including the Brooklyn Bridge, the White House, the Hotel del Coronado, and the Washington Monument are presented here, along with their roles in fiction, film, music, and the imagination of people worldwide. Approximately twenty five images are included in the set, along with sidebars featuring additional structures.
Author : Tiger Powell
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1644581957
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Smiley Riley and The Golden Gate Warriors written by Tiger Powell and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Tiger's Tale embraces the heroes in this country that fight for our freedom and safety. Our military veterans that are wounded in battle for our sakes. Smiley Riley is a darling little girl who is the daughter of one of the best basketball players in the history of the game. She sees a TV commercial with some of the wounded warriors that have lost limbs on the battlefield. Smiley Riley is so touched by the commercial that she drops to her knees in prayer to ask God to assist her in helping these heroes. From that moment on, Smiley Riley and her dad are on a mission that takes of the professional basketball league as well as the airwaves, generating millions of dollars for our heroes, the Wounded Warriors. Smiley Riley becomes a hero in her own life as her, and her famous dad shine the spotlight on the heroes that serve this country. Like all the other Tiger's Tales, this story is inspirational, faith-based fun for all ages.
Author : John McKinnell
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099475
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Myths, Legends, and Heroes written by John McKinnell and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Myths, Legends, and Heroes, editor Daniel Anzelark has brought together scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English literature to explore the translation and transmission of Norse myth, the use of literature in society and authorial self-reflection, the place of myth in the expression of family relationships, and recurrent motifs in Northern literature. The essays in Myths, Legends, and Heroes include an examination of the theme of sibling rivalry, an analysis of Christ's unusual ride into hell as found in both Old Norse and Old English, a discussion of Beowulf's swimming prowess and an analysis of the poetry in Snorri Sturluson's Edda. A tribute to Durham University professor John McKinnell's distinguished contributions to the field, this volume offers new insights in light of linguistic and archaeological evidence and a broad range of study with regard to both chronology and methodology.
Author : James Ponti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481436333
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Vanished! written by James Ponti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Washington, D.C., 12-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret must uncover the truth behind a series of private middle-school pranks that may or may not involve the daughter of the President of the United States.
Author : William Brown Meloney
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Girl of The Golden Gate written by William Brown Meloney and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the captivating world of "The Girl of the Golden Gate" by William Brown Meloney, a mesmerizing tale of love, ambition, and resilience set against the vibrant backdrop of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Prepare to be swept away by Meloney's evocative prose, vivid characters, and timeless themes as you embark on a journey of discovery and self-discovery. Join William Brown Meloney as he introduces you to the enchanting world of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, where the lives of its inhabitants intersect in unexpected and life-changing ways. Through Meloney's rich descriptions and keen insights into human nature, readers are transported to a bygone era filled with romance, intrigue, and adventure. As you immerse yourself in the pages of "The Girl of the Golden Gate," you'll follow the journey of a young woman named Cecilia, whose dreams of success and independence collide with the realities of love and sacrifice. Meloney's compelling narrative and compelling characters offer readers a glimpse into the complexities of life in early 20th-century San Francisco and the timeless quest for happiness and fulfillment. With its blend of romance, mystery, and social commentary, "The Girl of the Golden Gate" captures the spirit of a bygone era and the aspirations of a generation seeking to carve out their place in the world. Meloney's vivid storytelling and heartfelt emotion make this book a captivating read for anyone who has ever dared to dream. Since its publication, "The Girl of the Golden Gate" has been hailed as a classic work of American literature, earning acclaim for its vivid characters, evocative setting, and timeless themes. Its enduring popularity and relevance attest to Meloney's skill as a storyteller and his ability to capture the essence of a place and time with grace and authenticity. As you journey through the pages of "The Girl of the Golden Gate," you'll be captivated by Meloney's vivid descriptions of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and the colorful cast of characters who inhabit its streets and neighborhoods. His novel serves as a reminder of the enduring power of love, hope, and resilience in the face of adversity. In conclusion, "The Girl of the Golden Gate" is more than just a novel—it's a journey into the heart and soul of San Francisco and the human spirit. Whether you're a fan of historical fiction, romance, or simply a lover of good storytelling, this book offers a rich and rewarding reading experience that will stay with you long after the final page. Don't miss your chance to experience the magic of "The Girl of the Golden Gate" by William Brown Meloney. Join the countless readers who have been captivated by Meloney's enchanting tale of love, ambition, and resilience, and discover the timeless beauty of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Grab your copy now and embark on a journey of discovery, adventure, and romance.
Author : James Ponti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1534414959
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Golden Gate written by James Ponti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebel surfer-turned-field ops specialist Sydney finds herself in hot water while undercover on a marine research vessel, while her City Spies teammates investigate a suspected mole.
