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Author : John Fante
Publisher : Rebel Incorporated Classics
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Bandini, Arturo (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1841950491
Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013156
I had a lot of jobs in Los Angeles Harbor because our family was poor and my father was dead. My first job was ditchdigging a short time after I graduated from high school. Every night I couldn’t sleep from the pain in my back. We were digging an excavation in an empty lot, there wasn’t any shade, the sun came straight from a cloudless sky, and I was down in that hole digging with two huskies who dug with a love for it, always laughing and telling jokes, laughing and smoking bitter tobacco.
Author : Alison Stine
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488056499
A teenage girl treks across a dangerous, frozen nation to reunite with her family in this Philip K. Dick Award–winning apocalyptic thriller. Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty. Her family grows marijuana illegally in order to survive. But now she’s been left behind in Ohio to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn’t return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, Wil begins a journey to join her family in California. But the icy roads and strangers hidden in the hills are treacherous. Gathering a small group of exiles on her way, she becomes the target of a volatime cult leader. Because she has the most valuable skill in the climate chaos: she can make things grow. Road Out of Winter offers a glimpse into an all-too-possible near future, with a chosen family forged in the face of dystopian collapse. Alison Stine’s acclaimed debut “blends a rural thriller and speculative realism into what could be called dystopian noir” (Library Journal, starred review).
Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062012999
Trapped in a small, poverty-ridden town in 1933, under pressure from his father to go into the family business, seventeen-year-old Dominic Molise yearns to fulfill his own dreams.
Author : John W. Robinson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806189376
Most accounts of California’s role in the Civil War focus on the northern part of the state, San Francisco in particular. In Los Angeles in Civil War Days, John W. Robinson looks to the southern half and offers an enlightening sketch of Los Angeles and its people, politics, and economic trends from 1860 to 1865. Drawing on contemporary reports in the Los AngelesStar,Southern News, and other sources, Robinson shows how the war came to Los Angeles and narrates the struggle between the pro-Southern faction and the Unionists. Los Angeles in the early 1860s was a developing town, lacking many of the refinements of civilization that San Francisco then enjoyed, and was much smaller than the bustling metropolis we know today. The book focuses on the effects of the war on Los Angeles, but Robinson also considers social and economic problems to provide a broader view of the community and its place in the nation. The Conscription Act and devalued greenbacks encited public unrest, and the cattle-killing drought of 1862–64, a smallpox epidemic, and recurrent vigilantism challenged Angelenos as well. California historians and those interested in the city’s historical record will find this book a fascinating addition to the body of California’s Civil War history.
Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781632863614
A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure. Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our interstate numbering system, the centerline that divides roads, and such taken-for-granted objects as guardrails, stop signs, and traffic lights--all crucial to our national and local infrastructure. A compelling work of history, The Road Taken is also an urgent clarion call aimed at American citizens, politicians, and anyone with a vested interest in our economic well-being. Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling, and Petroski reveals the complex and challenging interplay between government and industry inherent in major infrastructure improvement. The road we take in the next decade toward rebuilding our aging infrastructure will in large part determine our future national prosperity.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556021217666
Author : Random House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0099877635
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Black-and-white photography
ISBN : 1912339781
Miles one to twelve -- Miles thirteen to twenty-four -- Miles twenty-five to thirty-six -- Miles thirty-seven to fourty-eight -- Miles fourty-nine to sixty -- Miles sixty-one to seventy-two and one half -- A walk across Los Angeles / Nigel Raab -- Afterword.
Author : Steve Erickson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439142295
Our Ecstatic Days begins as the memoir of a young mother desperate to forget a single act, committed out of love and fear, that has changed forever the world around her. In the waning days of summer, a lake appears, almost overnight, in the middle of Los Angeles. In an instant of either madness or revelation, convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, Kristin becomes determined to stop it. Three thousand miles away, on the eve of a momentous event, another young woman -- with a bond to Kristin that she can't even know -- meets a mysterious figure who announces in the dark, "The Age of Chaos is here." Against a forbidden landscape that shimmers with destiny and yearning, Our Ecstatic Days finally takes place on the terrain of a defiant heart. Human connections multiply into astonishing twists of fate -- by which the wrongs of an obsolete century may be set right -- and parallel lives spin faster toward the possibility that they will once again unite, electrifying a vision of the century to come.
Author : Paul Haddad
Publisher : Santa Monica Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595807861
Freewaytopia: How Freeways Shaped Los Angeles explores how social, economic, political, and cultural demands created the web of expressways whose very form—futuristic, majestic, and progressive—perfectly exemplifies the City of Angels. From the Arroyo Seco, which began construction during the Great Depression, to the Simi Valley and Century Freeways, which were completed in 1993, author Paul Haddad provides an entertaining and engaging history of the 527 miles of road that comprise the Los Angeles freeway system. Each of Los Angeles’s twelve freeways receives its own chapter, and these are supplemented by “Off-Ramps”—sidebars that dish out pithy factoids about Botts’ Dots, SigAlerts, and all matter of freeway lexicon, such as why Southern Californians are the only people in the country who place the word “the” in front of their interstates, as in “the 5,” or “the 101.” Freewaytopia also explores those routes that never saw the light of day. Imagine superhighways burrowing through Laurel Canyon, tunneling under the Hollywood Sign, or spanning the waters of Santa Monica Bay. With a few more legislative strokes of the pen, you wouldn’t have to imagine them—they’d already exist. Haddad notably gives voice to those individuals whose lives were inextricably connected—for better or worse—to the city’s freeways: The hundreds of thousands of mostly minority and lower-class residents who protested against their displacement as a result of eminent domain. Women engineers who excelled in a man’s field. Elected officials who helped further freeways . . . or stop them dead in their tracks. And he pays tribute to the corps of civic and state highway employees whose collective vision, expertise, and dedication created not just the most famous freeway network in the world, but feats of engineering that, at their best, achieve architectural poetry. Finally, let’s not forget the beauty queens—no freeway in Los Angeles ever opened without their royal presence.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030112635
Author : Mark Stewart
Publisher : Norwood House Press
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781599536217
A revised Team Spirit Hockey edition featuring the Los Angeles Kings that chronicles the history and accomplishments of the team. Includes access to the Team Spirit website which provides additional information and photos. Table of Contents, Glossary, Timeline, Bibliography of additional resources and Index. Aligns to Common Core State Standards requirements for Reading Informational Text.
Author : John Fante
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062013002
Ask the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the elusive, mocking, unstable Camilla Lopez, a Mexican waitress. Struggling to survive, he perseveres until, at last, his first novel is published. But the bright light of success is extinguished when Camilla has a nervous breakdown and disappears . . . and Bandini forever rejects the writer's life he fought so hard to attain.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 089658660X
This 140 color photos "Only in Los Angeles" celebrates one of the most diverse and lively metro areas in the world. This full-color celebration showcases the many neighborhoods, people, and cultures that define the City of Angels. Coverage includes downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Beverly Hills; Chinatown, Koreatown, and Little Tokyo; beach communities from Malibu to the OC, including Santa Monica and Venice; and the many wilderness areas around this sprawling metropolis, such as the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains and Catalina Island.
