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Author : Jill Alison Ganon
Release : 2008-11
Genre : Architecture
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 936/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis At Home Pasadena by : Jill Alison Ganon
Download or read book At Home Pasadena written by Jill Alison Ganon. This book was released on 2008-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly photographed book showcasing the most beautiful, creative, and/or interesting homes and gardens in a city famous for them.
Author : T. P. Lukens
Release : 1886
Genre : Pasadena (Calif.)
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pasadena, California, Illustrated and Described Showing Its Advantages as a Place for Desirable Homes by : T. P. Lukens
Download or read book Pasadena, California, Illustrated and Described Showing Its Advantages as a Place for Desirable Homes written by T. P. Lukens. This book was released on 1886. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Straight
Release : 2020-08-25
Genre : Family & Relationships
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Book Rating : 20X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In the Country of Women by : Susan Straight
Download or read book In the Country of Women written by Susan Straight. This book was released on 2020-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's Best Books of the Year “Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women’s stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self–proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close–knit Sims family, Straight—and eventually her three daughters—heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post–slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Straight’s mother–in–law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan’s family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California. A Pakistani word, biraderi, is one Straight uses to define a complex system of kinship and clan—those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters. Of her three girls, now grown and working in museums and the entertainment industry, Straight writes, “The daughters of our ancestors carry in their blood at least three continents. We are not about borders. We are about love and survival.” “Certain books give off the sense that you won’t want them to end, so splendid the writing, so lyrical the stories. Such is the case with Southern California novelist Susan Straight’s new memoir, In the Country of Women . . . Her vibrant pages are filled with people of churned–together blood culled from scattered immigrants and native peoples, indomitable women and their babies. Yet they never succumb . . . Straight gives us permission to remember what went before with passion and attachment.” ––Los Angeles Times
Author : Charles Fleming
Release : 2010-04-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 414/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Secret Stairs by : Charles Fleming
Download or read book Secret Stairs written by Charles Fleming. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing walks and detailed maps from throughout the city, Secret Stairs highlights the charms and quirks of a unique feature of the Los Angeles landscape, and chronicles the geographical, architectural, and historical aspects of the city’s staircases, as well as of the neighborhoods in which the steps are located. From strolling through the classic La Loma neighborhood in Pasadena to walking the Sunset Junction Loop in Silver Lake, to taking the Beachwood Canyon hike through “Hollywoodland” to enjoying the magnificent ocean views from the Castellammare district in Pacific Palisades, Secret Stairs takes you on a tour of the staircases all across the City of Angels. The circular walks, rated for duration and difficulty, deliver tales of historic homes and their fascinating inhabitants, bits of unusual local trivia, and stories of the neighborhoods surrounding the stairs. That’s where William Faulkner was living when he wrote the screenplay for To Have and Have Not; that house was designed by Neutra; over there is a Schindler; that’s where Woody Guthrie lived, where Anais Nin died, and where Thelma Todd was murdered . . . Despite the fact that one of these staircases starred in an Oscar-winning short film—Laurel and Hardy’s The Music Box, from 1932—these civic treasures have been virtually unknown to most of the city’s residents and visitors. Now, Secret Stairs puts these hidden stairways back on the map, while introducing urban hikers to exciting new “trails” all around the city of Los Angeles.
Author : Sherri L. Smith
Release : 2016
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pasadena by : Sherri L. Smith
Download or read book Pasadena written by Sherri L. Smith. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.
