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A California Childhood

Author : James Franco
Publisher : Insight Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781608873937
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book A California Childhood written by James Franco and published by Insight Editions. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The trade paperback reprint of James Franco’s thoughtful reflection on childhood through a series of personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and short stories. An actor treads the line between reality and fiction every time he plays a part, and for James Franco, that exploration isn’t limited to the screen—he’s also a visual artist with several exhibitions under his belt as well as the author of the widely praised story collection Palo Alto. In A California Childhood he plays with the concept of memoir through personal snapshots, sketches, paintings, poems, and stories. “I was born in 1978 at Stanford Hospital and spent my first eighteen years in a single house at the end of a cul-de-sac in Palo Alto,” Franco writes in his introduction. Steve Jobs’s daughter and the grandson of one of the Hewlett-Packard founders may have both been in his graduating class, but just across the freeway from his home turf lay East Palo Alto, which in 1992 had the highest murder rate per capita in the country. For Franco, the terrain of his upbringing is fraught with the complication of a city divided. But within that diversity, universal aspects of adolescence rise to the surface, and those are the subjects at the heart of Franco’s work. Ultimately this is a portrait of a childhood brightened by California sunshine, but with trouble waiting in the shadows. At turns funny, dark, and emotional, the journey of this book delivers an undeniable immediacy. And at the end, the reader is left wondering just where the boundary lies between Franco’s art and his true life.

Growing Up in Fairfield, California

Author : Tony Wade
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467149101
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in Fairfield, California written by Tony Wade and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in Fairfield in the decades after World War II was an unparalleled experience. From cruising down Texas Street on weekends to catching a carnival in the Wonder World parking lot, fond memories of long-lost times haven't been forgotten. People flocked to vintage eateries like Joe's Buffet and Smorga Bob's and played on the rocket ship slide at Allan Witt Park. Roller rinks like the M&M Skateway hosted not only skaters but also dances featuring Fats Domino and Roy Orbison. Commuters hopped aboard the FART bus to save on gas, and frequenting Dave's Giant Hamburgers was a rite of passage. Longtime Daily Republic columnist and accidental historian Tony Wade takes a deep dive into the Fairfield of yesteryear.

Child in the Valley

Author : Gordy Sauer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781938235795
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Child in the Valley written by Gordy Sauer and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence, Missouri. There, he plans to offer his medical expertise in exchange for passage to California in a Gold Rush party. Joshua is initially rebuffed given his youth and inexperience, but as his resentment and greed grow, a chance encounter with a ruthless adventurer and an ex-slave enlists him in a party comprised of provincial identical twins and a wealthy Englishman. The party departs overland along a 1,500-mile trail carved out by hardship, disease, violence, and death. When finally they arrive starving and exhausted in California's Sacramento Valley, Joshua discovers that attaining those riches is not as simple as pulling them from the riverbed, forcing him to redefine his sense of morality within the context of his greed; his complex sexuality; and the growing, though still-fledgling, American government. This novel is part of the Cold Mountain Fund Series, in partnership with Charles Frazier"--

Growing Up in California

Author : Michael B. Barker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595195679
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in California written by Michael B. Barker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seldom has a biography produced such a ribald cast of characters, from saints to scoundrels, from war heros to draft dodgers, from movie stars to could-have-beens. Growing up in a show business family during World War II, the author relishes in prose unique glimpses of the lives and times of those who entertained and enlightened the greatest generation.

Growing Up with California: 1846~1888

Author : Jacob Wright Harlan
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up with California: 1846~1888 written by Jacob Wright Harlan and published by BIG BYTE BOOKS. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before he had turned twenty years old, Jake Harlan had met the Donners before their disastrous journey, served under John C. Fremont (the Pathfinder) in California, owned a livery stable in San Francisco, opened a store to sell equipment to miners for the '49 Gold Rush, hit paydirt in the gold fields, and become a father. Before he turned twenty! That was just the beginning of Jake Harlan's life. Though he apologizes for offering this book as a "non-lettered man," we should be grateful that he wrote it. His story is the story of the early wild west and of California. It is exciting, well-written, colloquial, sad, and funny. On a return trip to California from the east, he saw Abraham Lincoln speak in the Illinois senate before Lincoln was known to the nation. On finding his mate for life, he writes: "Boy-like, I had fallen dead in love with one or both of those two Fowler girls. For a good while I didn't exactly know what was the matter with me. Just as General Grant says in his book, that when he was in the same fix, he by and by found out what was the matter with him, when he fell in love; so by and by I found out what was the matter with me, and I simplified my case by centering my affection upon one of them." For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.

Growing Up with California

Author : John E. Baur
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Growing Up with California written by John E. Baur and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Living the California Dream

Author : Alison Rose Jefferson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496229061
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Living the California Dream written by Alison Rose Jefferson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.

Elsewhere, California

Author : Dana Johnson
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619020831
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Elsewhere, California written by Dana Johnson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnson's award–winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7–Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith. When Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her studies at USC, to her burgeoning career as a painter and artist, and into her relationship with a wealthy Italian who sequesters her in his glass–walled house in the Hollywood Hills. The past will intrude upon Avery's first gallery show, proving her mother's adage: Every goodbye aint gone. The dual–narrative of Elsewhere, California illustrates the complicated history of African Americans across the rolling basin of Los Angeles.

The Ruins of California

Author : Martha Sherrill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101118024
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Ruins of California written by Martha Sherrill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-01-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Ruin family in 1970s California, as described by the precocious young Inez, life is complex. Her father, Paul, is self-obsessed, intrusive, and brilliant. He's also twice divorced, leaving Inez to bounce between two worlds and embracing neither-that of Paul's bohemian life in San Francisco and the more sedate world of her mother Connie, a Latin bombshell who plays tennis and attends EST seminars in the suburbs. As Inez progresses through high school we are witness to a remarkable family saga that renders a strange and fascinating slice of America in transition-one like the Ruins of California themselves, at once bold and innocent, creative and chaotic, obsessed and liberating.

Alta California

Author : Nick Neely
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 164009444X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Alta California written by Nick Neely and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This national bestseller chronicles one man’s 650–mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco—sure to appeal to readers of naturalist works like Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire, Paul Thoreau’s On the Plain of Snakes, and Mark Kenyon’s That Wild Country. In 1769, an expedition led by Gaspar de Portolá sketched a route that would become, in part, the famous El Camino Real. It laid the foundation for the Golden State we know today, a place that remains as mythical and captivating as any in the world. Despite having grown up in California, Nick Neely realized how little he knew about its history. So he set off to learn it bodily, with just a backpack and a tent, trekking through stretches of California both lonely and urban. For twelve weeks, following the journal of expedition missionary Father Juan Crespí, Neely kept pace with the ghosts of the Portolá expedition—nearly 250 years later. Weaving natural and human history, Alta California relives Neely’s adventure, while telling a story of Native cultures and the Spanish missions that soon devastated them, and exploring the evolution of California and its landscape. The result is a collage of historical and contemporary California, of lyricism and pedestrian serendipity, and of the biggest issues facing California today—water, agriculture, oil and gas, immigration, and development—all of it one step at a time. “Rich in little–known history . . . Up the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county coasts, then inland into the Salinas Valley to Monterey Bay. Somewhere along here, the owl moons and woodpeckers do something you might not have thought possible in 2019: they make you fall, or refall, in love with California, ungrudgingly, wildfires and insane housing prices and all . . . What a journey, you think. What a state." —San Francisco Chronicle

Farmworker's Daughter

Author : Rose Castillo Guilbault
Publisher : Heyday
ISBN 13 : 9781597140348
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Farmworker's Daughter written by Rose Castillo Guilbault and published by Heyday. This book was released on 2006 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age memoir told through the often unheard voice of a Mexican immigrant girl. Farmworker's Daughter presents an intimate, inspiring view of the immigrant experience from a distinctly female and bicultural perspective.

On Sunset

Author : Kathryn Harrison
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385542682
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book On Sunset written by Kathryn Harrison and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Los Angeles at the dawn of the 1960s to parents who quickly departed, Kathryn Harrison was received by her maternal grandparents as a late-life child. Harry Jacobs and Margaret Sassoon, true wandering Jews, had emigrated to L.A. after leading whirlwind lives in Shanghai, London, Alaska, Russia, and beyond. Harrison grew up in their fading Tudor mansion on Sunset Boulevard, a kingdom inhabited by gleaming memories from their extraordinary past. Their photos, letters, and souvenirs sparked endless family stories that spanned cultures, dynasties, and continents—until declining finances forced them to sell the house in 1971, and night fell fast. Vivid and poignant, filled with the wisdom of retrospect and the wonder of childhood, On Sunset seeks to recover a foundational time in her life, affirming the power of storytelling and the endurance of memory.

I, California

Author : Stacey Grenrock Woods
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141654643X
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book I, California written by Stacey Grenrock Woods and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-07-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilarious. Smart. Bitter. Sweet. Self-deprecating. Stacey Grenrock Woods. Experience with her the stirring joys of receiving a Peter Frampton poster for Hanukkah, sitting for a head-shot photo session as a child actress, waitressing Pan-Asian fusion cuisine, having musicians for boyfriends, humiliating people on The Daily Show, and waiting for prescription drugs. Oh, the waiting. From the idyllic sprout-and-yogurt San Fernando seventies; to the idyllic painter's-cap-and-bandanna eighties; to the idyllic, heroin-clouded Viper Room nineties; to the idyllic Botox-infused present, Stacey Grenrock Woods has experienced a prototypically Southern California life on the margins of fame, which is roughly the equivalent of a prototypical American life, isn't it?

Growing Up in California

Author : Bob Phillips
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557014956
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up in California written by Bob Phillips and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of the "Kid" growing up in California from 1926 to 2006. A fun read about Life, how it is and how it was, and about California, past and present. (Paperback)

Growing Up Too Fast, Dying Too Young

Author : Courtney Miller
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478748796
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Too Fast, Dying Too Young written by Courtney Miller and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, the Smith family moved to Elmsford, New York, a suburban community known for its plentiful elm trees and Ford cars. Dad, who liked the fast pace and bright lights of New York City, stayed behind, leaving Mom to raise five kids. With little parental supervision, the Smith children became latch-key kids, essentially raising themselves. Mom and Dad eventually decided to get back together, and the family moved back to New York City. But when heroin swept through the city like a white tornado, the Smiths’ peaceful lives would never be the same again! In Growing Up Too Fast, Dying Too Young, author Courtney Miller chronicles his life as a latch-key kid and shares the pain of his brothers’ fatal love affair with drugs. With his family torn apart by heroin, Courtney chooses a different path and discovers hope and purpose in Jehovah. His memoir offers a raw and honest look at children who grow up too fast…and die far too young.

Growing Up Poor

Author : Bert Langeberg
Publisher : Langeberg & Associates
ISBN 13 : 1430310227
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Growing Up Poor written by Bert Langeberg and published by Langeberg & Associates. This book was released on 2007-03-02 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Up Poor reveals Bert Langeberg's heroic journey from a hardscrabble life on a family farm in Wisc in the 40s and 50s. The US is facing many problems related to our government over spending and going into debt to correct supposed social injustices. These problems range from health care, social security, poor education and global warming. To gain a perspective on how we lived before government spending by FDR promised to cure these social problems Growing Up Poor portrays a simpler time when we had low cost home remedies for minor cuts, bruises, aches, pains and the common cold. Nowdays the government forces all emergency rooms to accept and treat all patients for all these minor problems many without payment. These mandates to get votes from low income patients and illegal aliens have caused health care costs to skyrocket. Bert delves into our Social Security system from his accounting perspective. His insight into the system reveals serious flaws that will need to be fixed in the next few years.

I Will Be Complete

Author : Glen David Gold
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101912456
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book I Will Be Complete written by Glen David Gold and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a big-hearted memoir told in three parts: about growing up in the wake of the destructive choices of an extremely unconventional mother. “Extraordinary ... An audacious, boundary-shattering work.” —Los Angeles Times Glen David Gold’s earliest memories are of a childhood in which he had everything he could possibly want. But when his father’s fortune disappeared and his parents divorced, Gold fell out of his well-curated Southern California life. He was now growing up by the side of his increasingly erratic mother, among con men and get-rich schemes in ‘70s San Francisco. Gold brings all his gifts as a novelist to a kaleidoscope of his most formative experiences: his salvation at boarding school; his dream job at an independent bookstore; a punk rock riot; a romance with a femme fatale; the start of his writing career; and his estrangement from his mother, who moved in with her soul mate, a man who threatened to kill her. By turns heartbreaking and disarmingly funny, I Will Be Complete is one son’s journey, a series of love stories layered into a search for autonomy, and, ultimately, a way of letting go.