Author: Tamara Warren
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
ISBN: 1489713417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
California's Girl is the story of a young girl growing up on the beach in Southern California during the 1960s and '70s. It is told through journal entries, short stories, poetry, and associated recollections. It begins with an idyllic childhood in a small beach town on the California coast. It details the lifestyle unique to the beach culture. A timeless span of innocence, bursting with the joy of life, surrounded by sand and sea. Adolescence arrives during an era of rebellion and social upheaval. Through the high school years, lessons are learned, and the complexity of life is examined. Reality begins to erode the fantasies of childhood. The first kiss, the first heartbreak, the loss of innocence, and the emergence of personal identity are seen through the eyes of a young girl. The beginning of one life's journey, when choices are made that will ultimately affect the unforeseeable future. A young girl does the best she can, makes mistakes, and savors the triumphsa microcosm of the human experience.
California’S Girl
California's Girl, Book Two
Author: Tamara Warren
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
ISBN: 1489723862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
California’s Girl, Book Two is the continuing saga of a young woman growing up on the beach during the early 1970s. It is told through journal entries, short stories, poetry, and associated recollections. It offers a deeply personal glimpse into the female experience within the unique beach culture of Southern California. On the cusp of womanhood, amid the hot sand and cool ocean, she searches for personal identity, lasting love, and the meaning of life. As she struggles to reconcile her childhood fantasies with the bittersweet reality of life and human entanglements, she discovers a deep connection to the natural world. Nature becomes her sanctuary, inspiring and nourishing her soul while teaching valuable lessons of self-worth and independence.
Publisher: LifeRich Publishing
ISBN: 1489723862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
California’s Girl, Book Two is the continuing saga of a young woman growing up on the beach during the early 1970s. It is told through journal entries, short stories, poetry, and associated recollections. It offers a deeply personal glimpse into the female experience within the unique beach culture of Southern California. On the cusp of womanhood, amid the hot sand and cool ocean, she searches for personal identity, lasting love, and the meaning of life. As she struggles to reconcile her childhood fantasies with the bittersweet reality of life and human entanglements, she discovers a deep connection to the natural world. Nature becomes her sanctuary, inspiring and nourishing her soul while teaching valuable lessons of self-worth and independence.
The Last of the California Girls
Author: Pamela Jekel
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821727256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
He was a New Yorker transported to an alien land of suntans and surfboards in the middle of his senior year. She was the quintessential California Girl grooving on beach music and convertibles. No two people could have been so different. And no two people could have fallen so blindly, so deeply, and so totally in love. Jekel is the award-winning author of Columbia and Sea Star.
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 9780821727256
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
He was a New Yorker transported to an alien land of suntans and surfboards in the middle of his senior year. She was the quintessential California Girl grooving on beach music and convertibles. No two people could have been so different. And no two people could have fallen so blindly, so deeply, and so totally in love. Jekel is the award-winning author of Columbia and Sea Star.
California Girl
Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006183405X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
The Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more—unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. The new decade has ushered in the era of Johnson, hippies, John Birchers, and LSD. Clay becomes a casualty of a far-off jungle war. Nick becomes a cop, Andy a reporter, David a minister. And a terrible crime touches them all in ways they could never have anticipated when the mutilated corpse of teenage beauty queen Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned warehouse.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006183405X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
The Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more—unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. The new decade has ushered in the era of Johnson, hippies, John Birchers, and LSD. Clay becomes a casualty of a far-off jungle war. Nick becomes a cop, Andy a reporter, David a minister. And a terrible crime touches them all in ways they could never have anticipated when the mutilated corpse of teenage beauty queen Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned warehouse.
Pasquala
Author: Gail Faber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936480084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A young Yokuts Indian girl describes her life on the shores of Old Buena Vista Lake in central California and the events that led her to a Spanish mission outside the world of her people.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780936480084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
A young Yokuts Indian girl describes her life on the shores of Old Buena Vista Lake in central California and the events that led her to a Spanish mission outside the world of her people.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Author: Joan Didion
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A RICH DISPLAY OF SOME OF THE BEST PROSE WRITTEN TODAY IN THE USA.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A RICH DISPLAY OF SOME OF THE BEST PROSE WRITTEN TODAY IN THE USA.
Local Girl Makes History
Author: Dana Frank
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A Bay Area historian's nostalgic journey to childhood tourist attractions reveals their hidden stories and universal relevance.
Publisher: City Lights Books
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
A Bay Area historian's nostalgic journey to childhood tourist attractions reveals their hidden stories and universal relevance.
A California Girl
Author: Edward Eldridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
California Girl
Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006183405X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more—unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. The new decade has ushered in the era of Johnson, hippies, John Birchers, and LSD. Clay becomes a casualty of a far-off jungle war. Nick becomes a cop, Andy a reporter, David a minister. And a terrible crime touches them all in ways they could never have anticipated when the mutilated corpse of teenage beauty queen Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned warehouse.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006183405X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The Orange County, California, that the Becker brothers knew as boys is no more—unrecognizably altered since the afternoon in 1954 when Nick, Clay, David, and Andy rumbled with the lowlife Vonns, while five-year-old Janelle Vonn watched from the sidelines. The new decade has ushered in the era of Johnson, hippies, John Birchers, and LSD. Clay becomes a casualty of a far-off jungle war. Nick becomes a cop, Andy a reporter, David a minister. And a terrible crime touches them all in ways they could never have anticipated when the mutilated corpse of teenage beauty queen Janelle Vonn is discovered in an abandoned warehouse.
California laws of interest to women and children
Author: California
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description