Mendocino Mornings
Author : Arlene Moorehead
Publisher : Joshua Grindle Inn
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,8 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780965547406
Mendocino and Other Stories
Author : Ann Packer
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307488152
Book Description
With humor, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men--wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and lovers--who discover that life's greatest surprises may be found in that which is most familiar. In the title story, on the anniversary of their father's suicide a young woman discovers that her brother may have found a "reason for living" in the love of a good woman. In "Nerves," a young man realizes that the wife he is separated from no longer loves him but that it is his own life he misses, not her. The narrator of "My Mother's Yellow Dress" is a gay man remembering his deceased mother and their vital and troubling intimacy. In "Babies"--which was included in the prestigious O. Henry anthology series --a single woman in her mid-thirties finds that everyone, including her best friend at work, is pregnant, and that their joy can only be observed, not shared. In these and six other stories, Ann Packer exhibits an unerring eye for the small ways in which people reveal themselves and for the moments in which lives may be transformed.
Behind the Locked Door
Author : David Herstle Jones
Publisher :
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780578589558
Book Description
A young attorney discovers he has terminal cancer. Finding traditional treatments and hospitals insensitive and unhelpful, he gambles on an unproven but popular alternative: Laetrile. His gamble introduces him to Mexico and exposes him to the mysterious world of healers and alternative medicines and a life he never imagined. Loosely based on actual events in the 1970s, the same story could happen today or any time.
Mendocino Fire
Author : Elizabeth Tallent
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062410369
Book Description
In this collection of richly imagined stories, Elizabeth Tallent, the master of short fiction, delivers a diverse suite of stories about men and women confronting their vulnerabilities in times of transition and challenge. Beginning in the 1980s, Elizabeth Tallent’s work appeared in some of our most prestigious literary publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, and Harper’s. Marked by its quiet power and emotional nuance, her fiction garnered widespread praise. Now Tallent returns with a new collection of diverse, thematically linked, and deeply powerful stories that confirm her enduring gift for capturing relationships at their moment of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. Mendocino Fire explore moments of fracture and fragmentation; it limns the wilderness of our inner psyche and brilliantly evokes the electric tension of deep emotion. In these pages, Tallent explores expectations met and thwarted, and our never-ending quest to avoid being alone. With this breathtaking collection, Elizabeth Tallent cements her rightful place in the literary pantheon beside her contemporaries Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Louise Erdrich. Visceral and surprising, profound yet elemental, Mendocino Fire is a welcome visit with a wise and familiar friend.
Already Dead
Author : Denis Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2003-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061869201
Book Description
A contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana patch hidden in the lush old-growth redwoods on the family land. Nelson has some serious problems. His marriage has fallen apart, and he may lose his land, cash and crop in the divorce. What's more, in need of some quick cash, he had foolishly agreed to smuggle $90,000 worth of cocaine through customs for Harry Lally, a major player in a drug syndicate. Chickening out just before bringing the drugs through, he flushed the powder. Now Lally wants him dead, and two goons are hot on his trail. Desperate, terrified and alone, for Nelson, there may be only one way out. This is Denis Johnson's biggest and most complex book to date, and it perfectly showcases his signature themes of fate, redemption and the unraveling of the fabric of today's society. Already Dead, with its masterful narrative of overlapping and entwined stories, will further fuel the acclaim that surrounds one of today's most fascinating writers.
The Getaway Guide to California
Author : Roger Rapoport
Publisher : RDR Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 14,76 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781571430687
Book Description
Each chapter offers a daily itinerary to one of California's most fascinating destinations. You can follow each of the 22 daily itineraries by themselves or in combination for a weekend, a week or much longer. The book, by travel expert Roger Rapoport is a travel guide with up-to-date information on prime tourist attractions one can visit in the great state of California. The book is a fact-packed and handy resource which is ideal for any California bound vacationer. "Sightseeing for travel in all price brackets. Each recommendation has been personally inspected by the author, assuring you a pleasant trip. Mile by mile travel itineraries make your trip a breeze whether you are driving or going by rail or coach. Destinations covered include San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbrara, Monterey, Yosemite, San Francisco, Napa Sonoma, The Gold Country, Mendocino and The Redwoods. This book reveals the kinds of secrets travel writers keep to themselves." - Midwest Book Review
The Mountain House & Thereabouts
Author : Brian Coe
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,13 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1329136489
Book Description
A glimpse into the fateful, beautiful seeds that came to sprout around the Mountain House upon my arrival in Santa Barbara & the wild branches that spread out to Burning Man, Cuba & beyond...
Ride 'em Jewish Cowboy
Author : Hy Burstein
Publisher : Devora Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 26,92 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781932687149
Book Description
Hy Burstein is a man with a passion, a passion for horseback riding which he has passed on to his family, and which comes alive in the pages of his story. A successful businessman, Hy takes his family on horseback adventures throughout the United States, Europe and the Middle East, spending a great deal of time in Israel, where his wife, the former Miss Israel, grew up. The full color, and black and white photographs throughout this travelog highlight the breath-taking landscapes the author encounters as he travels off the beaten track. But not all his adventures are beautiful. Hy encounter rednecks and anti-Semites who challenge him with their bigotry and hatred. Instead of moving on, Hy defends himself and reveals his pride in his religion and his people.
Sierra Educational News and Book Review
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Education
ISBN :
Book Description
Morning Food
Author : Margaret S. Fox
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0307816982
Book Description
For more than 20 years, Margaret Fox served up some of California's tastiest breakfasts and brunches at her landmark restaurant Caf?© Beaujolais on the Mendocino coast. The original MORNING FOOD shared Fox's legendary dishes and became a comfort food classic. Fully revised with the addition of 30 new recipes, evocative photographs, and a fresh look, the new edition of MORNING FOOD has all the cozy appeal and culinary authority of the original in a charming new package.Reviews "It's a book worth getting up for."-San Francisco Chronicle"With homey graphics and photographs and authors named Fox and Bear, the book has a cozy feeling that matches its subject."-Philadelphia Inquirer and Baltimore Sun "Whether you'¬?re a Caf?© Beaujolais neophyte or a longtime groupie, Morning Food is a treasure."-Kansas City Star". . . for those who love breakfast (any time of day)."-Omaha World-Herald"An unpretentious take on wonderful, homey food."-Sacramento Bee"Caf?© Beaujolais founder finds a delicious new calling."-Los Angeles Times"Morning Food belies its contents. . . these are foods that diners would find satisfying and nurturing at any time of day. . . the Buttermilk Cinnamon Coffee Cake is incredible."-Contra Costa Times "Fox'¬?s conversational tone makes you want to pick up the phone to call and chat it up with her as you whip up your mouth-watering first meal of the day. ...The recipes are consistently delicious and impressive. If you enjoy good morning food, you'¬?ll enjoy this book any time of day."-Cookbook Digest
