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Hotel California

Author : Barney Hoskyns
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781118040508

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"Hoskyns brings a genuine love as well as an outsider's keen eye to the rise and fall of the California scene. . . . This is a riveting story, sensitively told." —Anthony DeCurtis, Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone From enduring musical achievements to drug-fueled chaos and bed-hopping antics, the L.A. pop music scene in the sixties and seventies was like no other, and journalist Barney Hoskyns re-creates all the excitement and mayhem. Hotel California brings to life the genesis of Crosby, Stills, and Nash at Joni Mitchell’s house; the Eagles’ backstage fistfights after the success of "Hotel California"; the drama of David Geffen and the other money men who transformed the L.A. music scene; and more.

Hotel California

Author : JTK
Publisher : NETCOMICS
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Somewhere in America, the Collin Prison exists where there's plenty of room free of charge for anyone who gets himself in trouble. Our protagonist Dallas Westcoast takes revenge on his father's killer, or so he thinks, but kills a wrong person and ends up in the Collin Prison: The Hotel California. A fine-looking girl Joy who really is a transgender martial arts master, a country music fanatic warden Albert, two hip-hop lovers Irving and Tom who resist the musical communism in the prison by holding fast to rap music, and a former Latin world gangster Bati Stuta are just a few members of this crazy place. These by-no-means ordinary characters work up undisturbed series of absurd and hilarious events that transcend your wildest imagination.

Hotel California

Author : Don Bruns
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781665023948

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Featuring a new Jack Reacher story by Andrew Child! A dangerous drifter, a hired gun, a grisly corpse—you never know who you’ll run into at the Hotel California. Eight deliciously talented mystery authors have lent their skills of crafting murder and suspense to this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these eight provocative tales is designed to entertain and mystify—and maybe even chill you to your core. Get lost in the wild imaginations of such New York Times bestselling writers as Andrew Child, Heather Graham, Reed Farrel Coleman, and John Gilstrap, plus authors Rick Bleiweiss, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Amanda Flower, and Don Bruns. From the titular tale “Hotel California” to a new, original Jack Reacher adventure, these stories have a little something for every mystery lover. Go ahead. Check in, enjoy some room service, and stay until the very last tantalizing page. Just don’t forget to search the closet or behind the curtains.

The Hotel California

Author : Royal C. Darrah
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412025003

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Mysterious and known only to its silent victims, somewhere between the sand and sagebrush of the unforgiving desert lies the Hotel California. Every lost and innocent soul that has ever dared to sign the hotel register now unwillingly dwells in an unmarked grave in the old cemetary behind the hotel. For Cliff and Sara Bower, the long holiday weekend is to be their last attempt to salvage what's left of their marriage. Lost and just about out of gas, they are forced to find refuge at the Hotel California. Unknowingly, they are about to enter into the devil's playground, where seduction, murder and the living dead will lead them into a nightmare from hell.

Welcome to the Hotel California

Author : Leroy F. Bennett
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781640823006

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Welcome to the Hotel California by Leroy F. Bennett Pdf

Each year Congress passes a budget, allocating funds to federal programs to include housing and homelessness programs. The reality of homelessness is more complex than its definition. People experiencing homelessness are naturally on high alert and alter their behavior that affects their routine, making it hard for them to get out of homelessness. Often, people experiencing homelessness will undergo a number of life-changing emotions, including severe depression, anxiety, paranoia, and post-traumatic stress. The Hotel California is a homeless shelter. It isn't a resort that you need to have a reservation for, and there's one in every major city and rural county in our country. There are more chains of Hotel California than there are any major hotel or motel. This book describes a man's five-year struggle of living in that situation, on the treatment of guest who lived in the shelters, the discrimination against the homeless population to secure jobs, and the improprieties of funds abused by the people who run the shelters and transition homes. You can checkout anytime you like, but will you ever leave. This is my story!

Operation Hotel California

Author : Mike Tucker,Charles Faddis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762799046

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Operation Hotel California by Mike Tucker,Charles Faddis Pdf

An insider's view of the CIA's covert operations in Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion.

Baja Legends

Author : Greg Niemann
Publisher : Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0932653472

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The author of Baja Fever shares his extensive knowledge of the peninsula, its colorful past and booming present, in this fascinating reference book. History, lore, and amazing stories make it a "must-have" for Bajaphiles as well as armchair travelers.

1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die

Author : Patricia Schultz
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780761189718

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1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die by Patricia Schultz Pdf

Covering the U.S.A. and Canada like never before, and for the first time with full-color photographs, here are 1,000 compelling, essential, offbeat, utterly unforgettable places. Pristine beaches and national parks, world-class museums and the Just for Laughs festival, mountain resorts, salmon-rich rivers, scenic byways, the Oyster Bar and the country’s best taco, lush gardens and coastal treks at Point Reyes, rafting the Upper Gauley (if you dare). Plus resorts, vineyards, hot springs, classic ballparks, the Talladega Speedway, and more. Includes new attractions, like Miami’s Pérez Art Museum and Manhattan’s High Line, plus more than 150 places of special interest to families. And, for every entry, what you need to know about how and when to visit. “Patricia Schultz unearths the hidden gems in our North American backyard. Don’t even think about packing your bag and sightseeing without it.” —New York Daily News

Best Places: Northern California, 6th Edition

Author : Matthew Poole
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781570617003

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Best Places: Northern California, 6th Edition by Matthew Poole Pdf

This new 6th edition of Best Places Northern California recommends the very best restaurants and lodgings throughout the region. Local food and travel experts uncover the finest and most interesting places to go for a romantic getaway, a weekend retreat, or a week-long family vacation. Locals and travelers will find recommendations, attractions, and convenient Three-Day Tours for all major destinations, including updated, star-rated restaurant, winery, and lodging reviews. New sidebars cover free Wi-Fi in San Francisco, the fascinating Paso Robles Wineries, and where to find the most scrumptious desserts. An expanded Central Coast chapter covers the areas of San Simeon, Estero Bay, and San Luis Obispo. Updated maps and a wealth of illustrations help make this the ideal travel companion for any visit, whether a romantic getaway, weekend retreat, or weeklong family vacation.

Small Town Talk

Author : Barney Hoskyns
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780306823213

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Small Town Talk by Barney Hoskyns Pdf

Think "Woodstock" and the mind turns to the seminal 1969 festival that crowned a seismic decade of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll. But the town of Woodstock, New York, the original planned venue of the concert, is located over 60 miles from the site to which the fabled half a million flocked. Long before the landmark music festival usurped the name, Woodstock-the tiny Catskills town where Bob Dylan holed up after his infamous 1966 motorcycle accident-was already a key location in the '60s rock landscape. In Small Town Talk, Barney Hoskyns re-creates Woodstock's community of brilliant dysfunctional musicians, scheming dealers, and opportunistic hippie capitalists drawn to the area by Dylan and his sidekicks from the Band. Central to the book's narrative is the broodingly powerful presence of Albert Grossman, manager of Dylan, the Band, Janis Joplin, Paul Butterfield, and Todd Rundgren-and the Big Daddy of a personal fiefdom in Bearsville that encompassed studios, restaurants, and his own record label. Intertwined in the story are the Woodstock experiences and associations of artists as diverse as Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Tim Hardin, Karen Dalton, and Bobby Charles (whose immortal song-portrait of Woodstock gives the book its title). Drawing on numerous first-hand interviews with the remaining key players in the scene-and on the period when he lived there himself in the 1990s-Hoskyns has produced an East Coast companion to his bestselling L.A. canyon classic Hotel California. This is a richly absorbing study of a vital music scene in a revolutionary time and place.

American Elsewhere

Author : Robert Jackson Bennett
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316214513

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American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett Pdf

From one of our most talented and original new literary voices comes the next great American supernatural novel: a work that explores the dark dimensions of the hometowns and the neighbors we thought we knew. Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map: Wink, New Mexico. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different . . . "Perfect for fans of Stephen King and Neil Gaiman." -- Library Journal

Inamorata

Author : Joseph Gangemi
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101667118

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“Truly wicked . . . an historical thriller on a par with The Alienist.” —Steven Katz, screenwriter of Shadow of the Vampire It is the 1920s, and Spiritualism is all the rage. With séances taking place in parlors across the country and Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arguing metaphysics in the papers, the media embraces the feverish obsession with the paranormal. Twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate Martin Finch is sent by Scientific American on the investigative opportunity of a lifetime: an examination of the powers of Philadelphia “society psychic” Mina Crawley. But Finch, prepared to debunk a fraud, instead finds himself falling under the spell of the beguiling Mrs. Crawley—and uncovering a truth darker than anyone could have imagined.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: California

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-21
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780756694647

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: California by Anonim Pdf

The DK Eyewitness California travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions the state has to offer. Whether you're making the most of the illustrious nightlife or discovering California's history in the museums of San Francisco, this guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs, with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife for all budgets. It's fully illustrated, and covers of all the major areas from LA and San Diego to The Mojave Desert and Wine Country. You'll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites - including Long Beach, the Golden Gate Park and the Transamerica Pyramid - as well as reliable information about getting around this diverse state. DK Eyewitness California explores the culture, history and architecture, not missing the best in entertainment, shopping, tours and scenic walks, in this unique and varied state. With all the sights, beaches and attractions listed area by area, DK Eyewitness California is your essential companion. DK Eyewitness California - showing you what others only tell you.

Japanese Communication

Author : Senko K. Maynard
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-06-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0824818784

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Japanese Communication by Senko K. Maynard Pdf

In an accessible and original study of the Japanese language in relation to Japanese society and culture, Senko Maynard characterizes the ways of communicating in Japanese and explores Japanese language-associated modes of thinking and feeling. Japanese Communication: Language and Thought in Context opens with a comparison of basic American and Japanese values via cultural icons--the cowboy and the samurai--before leading the reader to the key concept in her study: rationality. Writing for those who have a basic knowledge of Japanese language and culture, Maynard examines topics such as masculine and feminine speech, swearing, expressions of ridicule and conflict, adverbs of emotional attitude and the eloquence of silence. Maynard provides a refreshing and entertaining perspective for interpreting contemporary Japan, sometimes in contrast to the United States.

Hotel Dreams

Author : Molly W. Berger
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421401843

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Winner, 2012 Sally Hacker Prize, Society for the History of Technology Hotel Dreams is a deeply researched and entertaining account of how the hotel's material world of machines and marble integrated into and shaped the society it served. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captured the public's imagination as it came to represent the complex—and often contentious—relationship among luxury, economic development, and the ideals of a democratic society. Berger profiles the country's most prestigious hotels, including Boston's 1829 Tremont, San Francisco's world-famous Palace, and Chicago's enormous Stevens. The fascinating stories behind their design, construction, and marketing reveal in rich detail how these buildings became cultural symbols that shaped the urban landscape.