Download or read book Montecito Madness written by Robert Eringer and published by . This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montecito, near Santa Barbara on the American Riviera, is arguably the most affluent community in the United States. But beneath the surface, madness lurks, and may be found in neighborhood bars, late at night, which for Montecito means 7:33 p.m. Hanging with the locals, Eringer cultivates his own living soap opera, harnessing the drama and comedy of real people in an original series of real life vignettes far more entertaining than fabricated stories on a TV screen.
Download or read book Prohibition Madness written by Claudine Burnett and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-02-06 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout America cocktail parties sparkled defiantly through the dreaded first minutes of January 20, 1920. With morning would come the official start of Prohibition. It was easy, however, to keep the party going in Long Beach, California. Though Long Beach had been "dry" throughout most of its history, illegal liquor distribution throughout the city was already perfected by the time the 18th Amendment, banning the sale of most alcoholic beverages, became law. Already in place were underground booze operations, secretive speakeasies and bootlegging, the perfect staging ground for crime, corruption AND murder. READ ABOUT: Oil - The one discovery that made Long Beach different from the rest of 1920's and 30's America and would change the life of the city in many unforeseen ways. Good vs. Evil - Murders, gun battles, lawlessness ...the city was a battleground between the influences of good and evil. Involved in the battle was the Ku Klux Klan, Communists, rum runners, bootleggers, gangsters, and corrupt politicians. MEET: Hollywood celebrities William Desmond Taylor, Fatty Arbuckle and other well-known figures who ended up dead, or their careers ruined, because of rampant corruption and illicit booze. Gangsters such as Al Capone's henchman Ralph Sheldon, who gunned down Long Beach policeman William Waggoner, and got away with it. Bootleggers like Thomas Johnstone, murdered by his wife when he refused to give up his nefarious profession. Oil swindlers, many influenced by C.C. Julian and his Ponzi scheme that bilked thousands out of their life savings. Murderers such as Bluebeard Watson, who killed most of his 15 wives until one of them became suspicious. These are just a few of the individuals and matters discussed in this eye opening account of Long Beach and Southern California during the 1920's and 30's.
Download or read book The Montecito Collection written by Richard Crissman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three stories flick at the edges of Montecito society. "Deadly History" tells of shadowy doings at the estate where the Society for Historical Research spends millions and the Fellows squabble over honors. The Senior Fellow sulks in Ireland until a dazzling lawyer pushes him on to center stage. "The Day the Dogs Took Over" is a cautionary tale about the fate of a Montecito eleven year old when freeway sniping orphans him, and just about everyone else who can drive! "The Big Hersey Bar" deals with the romantic and alcoholic ways of some sorts of Montecito lifestyles, following the lives of two girls who both succeed and also fail at joining local society. No matter what the reader thinks he knows about Montecito, these stories will stimulate memories of funny, sad and inspiring people we have all known in this paradise of climate, luxuriant foliage and high mountains.
Download or read book Montecito written by L. Boddez and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shadow of the Cabrillos written by Winifred D. Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behind the Hedges of Montecito written by Elane Griscom and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Haunted Millionaire of Montecito written by Marion P Earl and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Montecito Boy Abroad written by Nevill Cramer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And You Thought this Place was Strange written by Perla Yasmeen Meléndez and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Valley Club of Montecito written by and published by . This book was released on 1954* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Music of Madness written by Tracy L. Harris and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Music of Madness is a book about a young, talented concert flutist and her harrowing journey from sanity into madness and back again. This true story is an odyssey that takes you through the dark cells of mental institutions to the lighted stages of concert halls. Come travel with the author as she journeys from her innocent childhood to the dark world of hallucinations, her face off with death and her emergence into the light of hope and final triumph as she reclaims her career and more importantly her sanity and her right to live life as it was meant to be. The Music of Madness is an inspirational book for all those who have felt the anguish and hopelessness of mental illness either for themselves or for a loved one. This painfully honest story is a source of renewed faith in life and provides everyone who reads it with a stronger belief in the strength of the human spirit. This book brings to everyone¡_s library an exciting adventure full of truth, and the qualities that all of us share in surviving this chancy yet exciting existence we call life. The Music of Madness; have you heard it?
Download or read book American Madness written by Richard Noll and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1895 there was not a single case of dementia praecox reported in the United States. By 1912 there were tens of thousands of people with this diagnosis locked up in asylums, hospitals, and jails. By 1927 it was fading away . How could such a terrible disease be discovered, affect so many lives, and then turn out to be something else? In vivid detail, Richard Noll describes how the discovery of this mysterious disorder gave hope to the overworked asylum doctors that they could at last explain—though they could not cure—the miserable patients surrounding them. The story of dementia praecox, and its eventual replacement by the new concept of schizophrenia, also reveals how asylum physicians fought for their own respectability. If what they were observing was a disease, then this biological reality was amenable to scientific research. In the early twentieth century, dementia praecox was psychiatry’s key into an increasingly science-focused medical profession. But for the moment, nothing could be done to help the sufferers. When the concept of schizophrenia offered a fresh understanding of this disorder, and hope for a cure, psychiatry abandoned the old disease for the new. In this dramatic story of a vanished diagnosis, Noll shows the co-dependency between a disease and the scientific status of the profession that treats it. The ghost of dementia praecox haunts today’s debates about the latest generation of psychiatric disorders.
Download or read book Santa Barbara the American Riviera written by William A. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Harvester Company written by Chaim M. Rosenberg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient farmers used draft animals for plowing but the heavy work of harvesting fell to the humans, using sickle and scythe. Change came in the mid-19th century when Cyrus Hall McCormick built the mechanical harvester. Though the McCormicks used their wealth to establish art collections and universities, battle disease, and develop birth control, members of the family faced constant scrutiny and scandal. This book recounts their story as well as the history of the International Harvester Company (IHC)--a merger of the McCormick and Deering companies and the world's leader in agricultural machinery in the 1900s.
Download or read book Still written by Camilla Monk and published by Yaypub. This book was released on with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It always started like this, a pulse inside me, like a warning before the tide surged, roared… and froze everything. Twenty-year old Emma just landed in Rome, to find the father who walked out of her life more than a decade ago and was too busy eating pizza to call. Traveling with her is a secret she’s carried alone since childhood: sometimes, around her, time stops. People and cars freeze, rain hangs still in the air and there's only her left in the silence. To make things worse, Em runs into a past she'd rather forget in the person of Lily, her estranged step-sis. As the two of them reconnect, Em starts to pick up some creepy vibes from the mysterious archaeological foundation Lily works for—and more specifically the ancient stone table they're digging up near the coliseum… Faust, the blind hobo Em keeps running into, might be the key to piercing Katharos's secrets. Actually, he might even have something to do with that pesky time-freezing thing… From the bestselling author of the Spotless series comes a new urban fantasy where a girl with nothing left to lose comes to terms with life's losses, and inebriated bums take on old gods. Let the madness begin!
Download or read book When the Killing s Done written by T.C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Anacapa, off the coast of California, is overrun with black rats which are threatening the ancient population of ground-nesting birds. Alma Boyd Takesue of the National Park Service is campaigning to exterminate them once and for all, but her systematic plan is in danger of sabotage by two notorious environmental activists, Anise Reed and Dave LaJoy. But when Alma's sights turn to the infestation of non-native pigs on the island of Santa Cruz - where Anise was brought up by her rancher mother - the stakes are raised and the debate threatens to boil over into something much more real...
Download or read book Riven Rock written by T. C. Boyle and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinary love story, based on historical characters and written with Boyle's customary brilliance and wit, follows the lives of two scarred creatures living in a magical age. It is the turn of the century. Stanley McCormick, the twenty-nine-year-old heir to the great Reaper fortune, meets and marries Katherine Dexter, a woman of 'power, beauty, wealth and prestige'. Two years later, Stanley falls victim to a tormenting sexual mania and schizophrenia, and is imprisoned in the massive forbidding mansion known as Riven Rock. He spends the next two decades under the control of a succession of psychiatrists, all of whom forbid any contact with women. Yet Katherine Dexter, now famous as a champion for women's suffrage and Planned Parenthood, remains strong in her belief that someday her husband will return to her whole. Based on a true story of love, madness and sexuality this is a tragic book with enormous depth and scope. Set in America at the turn of the century, it is full of fascinating historical detail.
