Laguna Heat
Author : T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 27,7 MB
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312357078
A Thousand Steps
Author : T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1250793548
Book Description
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller! A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Anthony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom’s a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother’s fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she’s just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesn’t believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. All Matt really wants to do is get his driver’s license and ask out the girl he’s been crushing on since fourth grade, yet it’s up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops don’t trust the hippies and the hippies don’t trust the cops, uncovering what’s really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. If it’s not already too late. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
No Pants Required
Author : Kim Karr
Publisher : Kim Karr
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0997619406
Book Description
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 38,62 MB
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1439128324
Book Description
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is a collection of twenty-two powerful and indispensable essays on Native American life, written by one of America's foremost literary voices. Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is written with the fire of necessity. Silko's call to be heard is unmistakable—there are stories to remember, injustices to redress, ways of life to preserve. It is a work of major importance, filled with indispensable truths—a work by an author with an original voice and a unique access to both worlds.
The Kings of Cool
Author : Don Winslow
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2012-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1451665342
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel, The Force, and The Border In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. Among the most celebrated literary thrillers, Savages was a Top 10 Book of the Year selection by Janet Maslin in The New York Times and Stephen King in Entertainment Weekly. Now, in this high-octane prequel to Savages, Winslow reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are. Spanning from 1960s Southern California to the recent past, The Kings of Cool is a breathtakingly original saga of family in all its forms—fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers. As the trio at the center of the book does battle with a cabal of drug dealers and crooked cops, they come to learn that their future is inextricably linked with their parents’ history. A series of breakneck twists and turns puts the two generations on a collision course, culminating in a stunning showdown that will force Ben, Chon, and O to choose between their real families and their loyalty to one another.
Laguna Beach
Author : Claire Marie Vogel
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738569970
Book Description
As one of the West Coast's most unique and beautiful resort cities, Laguna Beach has thrived as an enduring enclave of art culture, a destination of hidden beaches, and a coastline rich in natural wonders, which its officials and residents strive to maintain. Settlers arrived in the 1870s, and by the summer of 1918 Laguna's first art gallery opened, featuring works by a growing collective of local artists. Hundreds of visitors came on opening day and, in the next month, 2,000 more visited the small art gallery. In 1932, Laguna started what would become a world-renowned event called the Festival of the Arts and later added the equally famous Pageant of the Masters. Since its simple beginnings as a small village situated where Laguna Canyon opens onto the Pacific shoreline to the reason there are traffic jams on Coast Highway during hot-month weekends, this southern Orange County jewel has continued to be a great draw for beachgoers, painters, and nature lovers the world over.
In the Land of Retinal Delights
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN :
Book Description
Little Saigon
Author : Grant Amyot
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312357146
Book Description
Little Saigon
Author : T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 1989-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312915933
Book Description
Beneath the teeming and exotic surfaceon, Chuck Frye, renegade son of a powerful land baron, kidnaps his brother's Vietnamese wife . . . and is plunged into a wealthy family's web of tragic secrets. Non-stop action from the author of Laguna Heat.#St. Martin's Press.
Great Escapes: Southern California
Author : Donna Wares
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1581579586
Book Description
Great Escapes: Selective guides for travelers who want to find quick trips and getaways within a specific locale. They take away the drudgery of sifting through online and printed travel info by listing only the most worthwhile events, activities, and places to stay and eat. Great Escapes: Southern California: Make the most of the SoCal experience by veering toward some unexpected, eclectic haunts: Go "Sideways" along the back roads of the Santa Ynez Valley, find solitude while camping on Catalina Island or the Gaviota coastline, check out San Diego's hip Gaslamp District, and revel in a 50s-style lodge in the desert of Palm Springs.
