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The California Saga

Author : Chunichi
Publisher : Urban Books
ISBN 13 : 1622860756
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The California Saga written by Chunichi and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Michael Burroughs arrives on the scene in Virginia Beach from L.A., he floods the East Coast with top-notch product and quickly earns his title as the California Connection—Calico for short. He's also a smooth brotha with a knack for getting whatever he wants out of women. When he meets Jewel, sparks fly and things quickly spin out of control. When Calico shows his true colors, Jewel knows just how to get revenge. Jewel becomes the queen of the streets. She's making money in a major way. The only problem is that she no longer wants to share her throne. Add to this a federal investigation dubbed Operation California Connection, and Jewel could soon be facing her downfall. When the dust settles, Jewel is left with a boyfriend on the run and a federal case pending against her. Jewel is concerned with only one thing, though. She is determined to give her unborn child a good life, one that doesn't involve drugs, lies, and deception. Armed with a mother's love, Jewel uses her street savvy to try to gain back everything she lost, minus the pain. The California Saga is all about revenge and retaliation, even if it means snitching and snaking. It's about money, power, and greed.

California saga

Author : John Jakes
Publisher : Montréal : Libre expression
ISBN 13 : 9782891114516
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book California saga written by John Jakes and published by Montréal : Libre expression. This book was released on 1990 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catch Me If You Can

Author : Kraig Hanadel
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780380802876
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Catch Me If You Can written by Kraig Hanadel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-05-02 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalistic account of the actual investigation and conviction of Dana Ewell, a son of wealth and privilege who killed his family for money - the 1992 murders of Dale, Glee, and Tiffany Ewell in Sacramento, California with the cooperation of the two detectives who broke the case.

California saga

Author : John Jakes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782258031524
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book California saga written by John Jakes and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Blood Saga

Author : Susan Resnik
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920295
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Blood Saga written by Susan Resnik and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years boys known as "bleeders" faced an early, painful death from hemophilia. Dubbed "the Royal Disease" because of its identification with Queen Victoria, the world's most renowned carrier, hemophilia is a genetic disease whose sufferers had little recourse until the mid-twentieth century. In the first book to chronicle the emergence and transformation of the hemophilia community, Susan Resnik sets her story within our national political landscape—where the disease is also a social, psychological, and economic experience. Blood Saga includes many players and domains: men with hemophilia and their families, medical personnel, science researchers, and the author herself, who was Director of Education of the National Hemophilia Foundation in the early 1980s. At that time the "miracle treatment" of freeze-dried pooled plasma blood products enabled men with hemophilia to lead full, normal lives. Then the AIDS virus infiltrated the treatment system and over fifty percent of the hemophilia community became HIV-positive. But rather than collapsing, this community refocused its priorities, extended its reach, and helped shape blood safety policies to prevent further tragedy. The hemophilia community includes people from every socioeconomic and ethnic group, and Resnik's narrative and use of oral histories never lose touch with those affected by the disease. Her extensive informant interviewing allows much of this social history to be told by participants on all levels: parents, wives, nurses, doctors, government agency directors, health care providers, and many others. Gene insertion therapy now holds the promise of a cure for hemophilia in the near future. Scientific breakthroughs inevitably become intertwined with the industry and academic medical centers that govern the national health care system. And in that system, says Resnik, costs and safety are sometimes contending issues. She makes clear that the lessons learned in Blood Saga apply to all of us.

Don Pedro's Confession

Author : R. A. McConaghay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578159386
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Don Pedro's Confession written by R. A. McConaghay and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first white settler of Alta California tells us about his life marching with Gaspar de Portola's historic 1769 expedition of discovery, living among the native Indians of the region and working to build the third of the California missions. A memoir.

The Beach Boys and the California Myth

Author : David Leaf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780448146263
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The Beach Boys and the California Myth written by David Leaf and published by . This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Beach Boys created the myth of California in the early sixties.

California saga

Author : John Jakes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782724263336
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book California saga written by John Jakes and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America Is Not the Heart

Author : Elaine Castillo
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222436
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book America Is Not the Heart written by Elaine Castillo and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Public Library "A saga rich with origin myths, national and personal . . . Castillo is part of a younger generation of American writers instilling literature with a layered sense of identity." --Vogue How many lives fit in a lifetime? When Hero De Vera arrives in America--haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents--she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But their daughter--the first American-born daughter in the family--can't resist asking Hero about her damaged hands. An increasingly relevant story told with startling lucidity, humor, and an uncanny ear for the intimacies and shorthand of family ritual, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in one family struggling to balance the promise of the American dream and the unshakeable grip of history. With exuberance, grit, and sly tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave one home to grasp at another.

The Beach Boys

Author : Bruce Golden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Beach Boys written by Bruce Golden and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Carmelo Diaries

Author : Marilou Tomblin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595290620
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Carmelo Diaries written by Marilou Tomblin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern story begins at the time when the world famous Pro-Am golf tournament is played at Pebble Beach, California. Rita Minetti, eighth generation Californian, is enmeshed in a mysterious burglary of her antique bookshop in Pebble Beach. The pivotal part of the burglary is the disappearance of family diaries, written in Spanish, by Clarita de Segovia, born in Alta California. Clarita, age fifteen, began writing a diary during her sequestered days before her marriage to a man she had never met. She continued writing dairies during a tumultuous time in California history. The American Conquest and The Gold Rush. Her granddaughter, Isabel, brings the story to the twentieth century by writing more about Clarita and her descendents in her own journals. An ambitious Monterey County Sheriff is eager to question Rita, her friends, and her family, while Rita believes she can solve the mystery by herself. She is torn between the quest of finding the diaries, protecting the family prestige, and pursuing her goal of selling Claritia's story to a television production company.

Bury My Bones in America

Author : Lani Ah Tye Farkas
Publisher : Carl Mautz Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781887694117
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Bury My Bones in America written by Lani Ah Tye Farkas and published by Carl Mautz Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a Chinese man, Yee Ah Tye, during the California Gold Rush. It sheds light on the struggles of an early immigrant determined to embrace his adopted country despite racial prejudice and harsh exclusionary laws.

The Star in the Window

Author : Louis C. Langone
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462014275
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Star in the Window written by Louis C. Langone and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a service banner adorned with stars was displayed in a homes window during World War II, it meant a family member was involved in the war. Some of the soldiers never returned, but those who did come home carried memories and war stories. In The Star in the Window, author Louis C. Langone tells the stories of more than seventy-five WWII veterans who lived in Waterville and Central New York. Langone personally interviewed and listened to more than 100 men and women telling their wartime storiesfrom bombing missions over Europe to the island hopping campaigns of the Pacific to suffering as prisoners of war. The narratives are supplemented with material from books, periodicals, the Internet, press releases, unit histories, and letters, providing a mix of memories and facts. Photographs and community honor rolls are also included. The Star in the Window not only preserves special WWII memories, but also gives insight into the hardships endured and sacrifices made by the veterans of the Central New York area. It provides an opportunity to experience history through the eyes and ears of veterans from the various military branches of service revealing shocking and obscure incidents of the war.

Mestizo

Author : Arnoldo C. Vento
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780761809197
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mestizo written by Arnoldo C. Vento and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers over 2,000 years, tracing the roots of the contemporary Mexican-American. It utilizes the fields of history, political science, cultural anthropology, folklore, literature, sociolinguistics, Latin American studies and ethnic studies. Thus, it is unique for its multidisciplinary approach which probes into the past of the underclass--the exploited Native-American, Campesino and Mexican-American. It presents, therefore, an insider's view of the history, culture and politics of the Mestizo/Mestiza as an underclass. Most important, it presents a new perspective that invalidates the current Spanish/European and Western interpretation of Native-American reality.

Max Hoffman

Author : Myles Kornblatt
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1787119424
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)

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Download or read book Max Hoffman written by Myles Kornblatt and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating story charts the career of Max Hoffman, the US car dealer who represented Jaguar, Porsche, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Fiat, Lancia, BMW, and many other European car brands during the decades following WWII. He pushed for distinguished now-classics like the Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing, Porsche Speedster, BMW 507, and Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider. Hoffman built a reputation as an effective middleman, but as the car companies he represented became more successful under his watch, the less they needed their go-between. When it was inevitably time to say goodbye to Maxie, he showed his teeth with everything from lawsuits against his suppliers, to threatening executives with a mob hit. However, Hoffman also had a very good reason to be defensive. He understood the American market, and he pushed manufacturers specifically for cars that would strike a chord and make everybody involved richer. Sometimes the hero, sometimes the villain, but more often than not, Max Hoffman was the unseen puppet master behind some of today’s best classics.

The Medieval Saga

Author : Carol J. Clover
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740520
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Medieval Saga written by Carol J. Clover and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland—the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate tales are written versions of traditional sagas passed down by word of mouth. How did they become the long and polished literary works that are still read today? The evolution of the written sagas is commonly regarded as an anomalous phenomenon, distinct from contemporary developments in European literature. In this groundbreaking study, Carol J. Clover challenges this view and relates the rise of imaginative prose in Iceland directly to the rise of imaginative prose on the Continent. Analyzing the narrative structure and composition of the sagas and comparing them with other medieval works, Clover shows that the Icelandic authors, using Continental models, owe the prose form of their writings, as well as some basic narrative strategies, to Latin historiography and to French romance.

Law and the Gay Rights Story

Author : Walter Frank
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813573300
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Law and the Gay Rights Story written by Walter Frank and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides have shifted for gays and lesbians, but what caused this enormous sea change? In his gripping new book, Walter Frank offers an in-depth look at the court cases that were pivotal in establishing gay rights. But he also tells the story of those individuals who were willing to make waves by fighting for those rights, taking enormous personal risks at a time when the tide of public opinion was against them. Frank’s accessible style brings complex legal issues down to earth but, as a former litigator, never loses sight of the law’s human dimension and the context of the events occurring outside the courtroom. Chronicling the past half-century of gay and lesbian history, Law and the Gay Rights Story offers a unique perspective on familiar events like the Stonewall Riots, the AIDS crisis, and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Frank pays special attention to the constitutional issues surrounding same-sex marriage and closely analyzes the two recent Supreme Court cases addressing the issue. While a strong advocate for gay rights, Frank also examines critiques of the movement, including some coming from the gay community itself. Comprehensive in coverage, the book explains the legal and constitutional issues involved in each of the major goals of the gay rights movement: a safe and healthy school environment, workplace equality, an end to anti-gay violence, relationship recognition, and full integration into all the institutions of the larger society, including marriage and military service. Drawing from extensive archival research and from decades of experience as a practicing litigator, Frank not only provides a vivid history, but also shows where the battle for gay rights might go from here.