Author: Jonathan Vinton Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Two True California Stories
Author: Jonathan Vinton Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Pioneers of California
Author: Donovan Lewis
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942087062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780942087062
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 567
Book Description
News Notes of California Libraries
Author: California State Library
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
The Second Life of Mirielle West
Author: Amanda Skenandore
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496726529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The glamorous world of a silent film star’s wife abruptly crumbles when she’s forcibly quarantined at the Carville Lepers Home in this page-turning story of courage, resilience, and reinvention set in 1920s Louisiana and Los Angeles. Based on little-known history, this timely book will strike a chord with readers of Fiona Davis, Tracey Lange, and Marie Benedict. Based on the true story of America’s only leper colony, The Second Life of Mirielle West brings vividly to life the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. For Mirielle West, a 1920’s socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne and the star-studded parties of Hollywood’s Golden Age. When a doctor notices a pale patch of skin on her hand, she’s immediately branded a leper and carted hundreds of miles from home to Carville, taking a new name to spare her family and famous husband the shame that accompanies the disease. At first she hopes her exile will be brief, but those sent to Carville are more prisoners than patients and their disease has no cure. Instead she must find community and purpose within its walls, struggling to redefine her self-worth while fighting an unchosen fate. As a registered nurse, Amanda Skenandore’s medical background adds layers of detail and authenticity to the experiences of patients and medical professionals at Carville – the isolation, stigma, experimental treatments, and disparate community. A tale of repulsion, resilience, and the Roaring ‘20s, The Second Life of Mirielle West is also the story of a health crisis in America’s past, made all the more poignant by the author’s experiences during another, all-too-recent crisis. PRAISE FOR AMANDA SKENANDORE’S BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY “Intensely emotional…Skenandore’s deeply introspective and moving novel will appeal to readers of American history.” —Publishers Weekly
Publisher: Kensington Books
ISBN: 1496726529
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The glamorous world of a silent film star’s wife abruptly crumbles when she’s forcibly quarantined at the Carville Lepers Home in this page-turning story of courage, resilience, and reinvention set in 1920s Louisiana and Los Angeles. Based on little-known history, this timely book will strike a chord with readers of Fiona Davis, Tracey Lange, and Marie Benedict. Based on the true story of America’s only leper colony, The Second Life of Mirielle West brings vividly to life the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. For Mirielle West, a 1920’s socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne and the star-studded parties of Hollywood’s Golden Age. When a doctor notices a pale patch of skin on her hand, she’s immediately branded a leper and carted hundreds of miles from home to Carville, taking a new name to spare her family and famous husband the shame that accompanies the disease. At first she hopes her exile will be brief, but those sent to Carville are more prisoners than patients and their disease has no cure. Instead she must find community and purpose within its walls, struggling to redefine her self-worth while fighting an unchosen fate. As a registered nurse, Amanda Skenandore’s medical background adds layers of detail and authenticity to the experiences of patients and medical professionals at Carville – the isolation, stigma, experimental treatments, and disparate community. A tale of repulsion, resilience, and the Roaring ‘20s, The Second Life of Mirielle West is also the story of a health crisis in America’s past, made all the more poignant by the author’s experiences during another, all-too-recent crisis. PRAISE FOR AMANDA SKENANDORE’S BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY “Intensely emotional…Skenandore’s deeply introspective and moving novel will appeal to readers of American history.” —Publishers Weekly
California Dreamin'
Author: Michelle Phillips
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446344302
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Michelle Phillips evokes the heady atmosphere of creativity and meteoric success, and the destructive, drug-filled lifestyle that characterized the West Coast music scene in the sixties
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
ISBN: 9780446344302
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Michelle Phillips evokes the heady atmosphere of creativity and meteoric success, and the destructive, drug-filled lifestyle that characterized the West Coast music scene in the sixties
Finding List
Author: Oakland Free Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Fiction in the State Library Having a California Coloring
Author: California State Library. California Department
Publisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A List of Books by California Writers
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Californiana
Author: Newbegin's, bookseller, San Francisco
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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