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Book THE CALIFORNIANS SERIES

Download or read book THE CALIFORNIANS SERIES written by LORI. WICK and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sean Donovan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lori Wick
  • Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780736919470
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Sean Donovan written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentenced to hang for his part in a bank robbery, Sean Donovan is saved from execution when Charlotte Cooper, owner of the livery, agrees to marry him

Book Whatever Tomorrow Brings

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  • Author : Lori Wick
  • Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
  • Release : 2007-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780736919456
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Whatever Tomorrow Brings written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their mother dies, Kaitlin Donovan must rely on her faith to hold the family together until their father returns to San Francisco, and they can begin a new life

Book As Time Goes By

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lori Wick
  • Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
  • Release : 2007-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780736919463
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book As Time Goes By written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five years Jeff Taylor has wanted to apologize to Bobbie Bradford, but she left town the day after the humiliating episode at the picnic. Older now, Jeff has grown in his faith and as a man. Still, the news that Bobbie is returning to Santa Rosa while considering Cleve Ramsey's proposal of marriage comes as a shock.

Book Donovan s Daughter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lori Wick
  • Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
  • Release : 2007-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780736919487
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Donovan s Daughter written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to spend the night at Dr. Alexander Montgomery's house because of a blizzard, Marcail Donovan, the pretty new schoolteacher, must face the false accusations of Cordelia Duckworth, the wealthy woman who controls the town

Book A College for All Californians

Download or read book A College for All Californians written by George R. Boggs and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive and contemporary history of the largest and most diverse public system of higher education in the United States. Serving over 2 million students annually—approximately one-quarter of the nation's community college undergraduates—California’s 116 community colleges play an indispensable role in career and transfer education in North America and have maintained an outsized influence on the evolution of postsecondary education nationally. A College for All Californians chronicles the sector's emergence from K–12 institutions, its evolving mission and growth following World War II and the G.I. Bill For Education, the expansion of its ever-broadening mission, and its essential role in the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education. Chapters cover California’s junior and community colleges’ development, mission, governance, faculty, finances, athletics, student support services, and more. It also examines the successes and ongoing political, financial, and educational challenges confronting this uniquely American educational experiment. Book Features: Encapsulates the evolution and contemporary status of our nation’s largest and most diverse undergraduate education system.Examines how the colleges were influenced by the political, economic, and social issues of the day.Includes new historical information affecting postsecondary education in California.Analyzes some of the most important current and emerging issues that will continue to influence California’s community colleges. Contributors: Carlos O. Turner Cortez, Michelle Fischthal, Jonathan Lightman, Jessica Luedtke, David W. Morse, Joe Newmyer, Mark Robinson, Leslie M. Salas.

Book Sean Donovan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lori Wick
  • Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
  • Release : 2007-03-01
  • ISBN : 0736931821
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Sean Donovan written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2007-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lori Wick's bestselling series The Californians (more than 500,000 copies sold) has a fresh new cover design to delight avid Lori Wick fans and readers just introduced to Lori's beloved fiction. Caught in his first bank robbery, Sean Donovan is sentenced to hang. But Charlotte Cooper, who needs a blacksmith for her livery, has other ideas. By law, a woman of good standing in the community can save a man from the gallows by marrying him. Humbled by the dramatic rescue and renewed in his faith, Sean's heart goes out to his new bride, a woman whose past has prompted her to guard her heart. Yet could the talk around town be true? Is the fiercely independent Charlotte falling for Sean Donovan?

Book Contested Eden

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  • Author : Ramón A. Gutiérrez
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1998-03-31
  • ISBN : 0520920554
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book Contested Eden written by Ramón A. Gutiérrez and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1998-03-31 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the 150th birthday of the state of California offers the opportunity to reexamine the founding of modern California, from the earliest days through the Gold Rush and up to 1870. In this four-volume series, published in association with the California Historical Society, leading scholars offer a contemporary perspective on such issues as the evolution of a distinctive California culture, the interaction between people and the natural environment, the ways in which California's development affected the United States and the world, and the legacy of cultural and ethnic diversity in the state. California before the Gold Rush, the first California Sesquicentennial volume, combines topics of interest to scholars and general readers alike. The essays investigate traditional historical subjects and also explore such areas as environmental science, women's history, and Indian history. Authored by distinguished scholars in their respective fields, each essay contains excellent summary bibliographies of leading works on pertinent topics. This volume also features an extraordinary full-color photographic essay on the artistic record of the conquest of California by Europeans, as well as over seventy black-and-white photographs, some never before published.

Book The Californians 4 in 1

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lori Wick
  • Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
  • Release : 2022-09-13
  • ISBN : 0736987983
  • Pages : 1182 pages

Download or read book The Californians 4 in 1 written by Lori Wick and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lori Wick's bestselling series The Californians (more than 500,000 copies sold) is now available in a 4-in-1 ebook-only bundle for the first time! The four novels in this popular western romance series remains well-beloved by fans of Lori Wick as well as newcomers to her charming inspirational fiction. In 1871, the Donovan family travels back to California for the first time in years, seeking a restful break from their missions work in Hawaii. Little do they know how quickly their lives will be turned upside down, as each member of the family travels their own journey into the future God has for them. Whatever Tomorrow Brings: Katitlin, the Donovan's oldest daughter, faces life in rugged California. In charge of her two younger sibilings, she must make difficult choices for all of them...but will she find a safe haven for her heart? As Time Goes By: Jeff Taylor has grown in his faith and as a man since the humiliating episode with Bobbie Bradford years ago. Now that she's back in town, he wants to apologize and show her that he's a ready friend...or maybe something more. Sean Donovan: Sean's angry choices led him far from home. A marriage of convenience to Charlotte Cooper, the town's blacksmith, saves Sean from the hangman's noose. Will they each see God's hand guiding them toward salvation and love? Donovan's Daughter: Marcail Donovan finally fulfills her heart's longing as a teacher. But a rogue snowstorm threatens more than just her health. Now she has to decide if she will accept the unique help of Dr. Alex Montgomery to remain the town's schoolteacher. The Californians 4-in-1 ebook-only bundle offers stories of romance, adventure, and family. Come visit the wild west towns of 19th century California with the Donovans and their friends, and watch as love grows.

Book Energy and the Making of Modern California

Download or read book Energy and the Making of Modern California written by James C. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy and the Making of Modern California illuminates the forces that formed the state's culture and economy through the interplay of technology, population growth, human values, and the environment. With impeccable scholarship and vivid abundance of detail, James C.

Book Inside the California Food Revolution

Download or read book Inside the California Food Revolution written by Joyce Goldstein and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-09-06 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative and immensely readable insider’s account, celebrated cookbook author and former chef Joyce Goldstein traces the development of California cuisine from its formative years in the 1970s to 2000, when farm-to-table, foraging, and fusion cooking had become part of the national vocabulary. Interviews with almost two hundred chefs, purveyors, artisans, winemakers, and food writers bring to life an approach to cooking grounded in passion, bold innovation, and a dedication to "flavor first." Goldstein explains how the counterculture movement in the West gave rise to a restaurant culture characterized by open kitchens, women in leadership positions, and a surprising number of chefs and artisanal food producers who lacked formal training. The new cuisine challenged the conventional kitchen hierarchy and French dominance in fine dining, leading to a more egalitarian and informal food scene. In weaving Goldstein’s views on California food culture with profiles of those who played a part in its development—from Alice Waters to Bill Niman to Wolfgang Puck—Inside the California Food Revolution demonstrates that, while fresh produce and locally sourced ingredients are iconic in California, what transforms these elements into a unique cuisine is a distinctly Western culture of openness, creativity, and collaboration. Engagingly written and full of captivating anecdotes, this book shows how the inspirations that emerged in California went on to transform the experience of eating throughout the United States and the world.

Book Living the California Dream

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.

Book An Aristocracy of Color

Download or read book An Aristocracy of Color written by D. Michael Bottoms and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S. Constitution raised the question of whether extending suffrage to black Californians might also lead to the political participation of thousands of Chinese immigrants. As historian D. Michael Bottoms shows in An Aristocracy of Color, many white Californians saw in this and other Reconstruction legislation a threat to the fragile racial hierarchy they had imposed on the state’s legal system during the 1850s. But nonwhite Californians—blacks and Chinese in particular—recognized an unprecedented opportunity to reshape the state’s race relations. Drawing on court records, political debates, and eyewitness accounts, Bottoms brings to life the monumental battle that followed. Bottoms begins by analyzing white Californians’ mid-century efforts to prohibit nonwhite testimony against whites in court. Challenges to these laws by blacks and Chinese during Reconstruction followed a trajectory that would be repeated in later contests. Each minority challenged the others for higher status in court, at the polls, in education, and elsewhere, employing stereotypes and ideas of racial difference popular among whites to argue for its own rightful place in “civilized” society. Whites contributed to the melee by occasionally yielding to blacks in order to keep the Chinese and California Indians at a disadvantage. These dynamics reverberated in other state legal systems throughout the West in the mid- to late 1800s and nationwide in the twentieth century. As An Aristocracy of Color reveals, Reconstruction outside of the South briefly promised an opportunity for broader equality but in the end strengthened and preserved the racial hierarchy that favored whites.

Book Americans and the California Dream  1850 1915

Download or read book Americans and the California Dream 1850 1915 written by Kevin Starr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986-12-04 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.

Book An American Genocide

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  • Author : Benjamin Madley
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-24
  • ISBN : 0300182171
  • Pages : 709 pages

Download or read book An American Genocide written by Benjamin Madley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1846 and 1873, California’s Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials’ culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.

Book The California Wife

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kristen Harnisch
  • Publisher : She Writes Press
  • Release : 2016-05-10
  • ISBN : 1631520881
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book The California Wife written by Kristen Harnisch and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sweeping, poignant sequel to The Vintner’s Daughter, the Lemieux family’s ambition to establish an American winemaking dynasty takes Sara and Philippe from pastoral Napa to the Paris World’s Fair and into the colorful heart of early 20th-century San Francisco. It is 1897, and Sara and Philippe Lemieux, newly married and full of hope for the future, are determined to make Eagle’s Run, their Napa vineyard, into a world-renowned winemaking operation. But the swift arrival of the 20th century brings a host of obstacles they never dreamed of: price wars and the twin threats of phylloxera and Prohibition endanger the success of their business, and the fiercely independent Sara is reluctant to leave the fields behind for the new and strange role of wife and mother. An invitation to the World’s Fair in 1900 comes just in time to revive the vineyard’s prospects, and amid the jewel-colored wonders of Belle Époque Paris, Sara and Philippe’s passion is rekindled as well. But then family tragedy strikes, and, upon their return to California, a secret from Philippe’s past threatens to derail their hard-won happiness in one stroke. Sara gains an ally when Marie Chevreau, her dear friend, arrives in San Francisco as the first female surgery student to be admitted to prestigious Cooper Medical College. Through Marie, Sara gets a glimpse of the glittering world of San Francisco’s high society, and she also forges friendships with local women’s rights advocates, inciting new tensions in her marriage. Philippe issues Sara an ultimatum: will she abandon the struggle for freedom to protect her family’s winemaking business, or will she ignore Philippe and campaign for a woman’s right to vote and earn a fair wage? Fate has other plans in store in the spring of 1906, which brings with it a challenge unlike any other that the Lemieux family or their fellow Northern Californians have ever faced. Will the shadow of history overwhelm Sara and Philippe’s future, despite their love for each other? In The California Wife, Kristen Harnisch delivers a rich, romantic tale of wine, love, new beginnings, and a family’s determination to fight for what really matters—sure to captivate fans of The Vintner’s Daughter and new readers alike.

Book Good Night California

Download or read book Good Night California written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night Books. This book was released on 2012-07-07 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of North America’s most beloved regions are artfully celebrated in these boardbooks designed to soothe children before bedtime while instilling an early appreciation for the continent’s natural and cultural wonders. Each book stars a multicultural group of people visiting the featured area’s attractions and rhythmic language guides children through the passage of both a single day and the four seasons while saluting the iconic aspects of each place.