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Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. InBerkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs....
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
x, 327 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous,perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means-now-to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the city...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and Lana's daughter, Cheryl, witnessed her mother's bruises...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xvii, 458 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles during the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong, the first Asian American movie star, to bring an unsung heroine to light and reclaim her place in cinema history"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
vii, 355 pages : maps ; 25 cm
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This unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California, follows one woman, with wounds inflicted by war and family alike, as she builds a new existence for her and her children by growing Hmong rice, just as her ancestors did, and selling it to those who hunger for the Laos of their memories.
An unforgettable portrait of resistance, from Laos to California. Hamilton shares the story of Ia Moua. Born into the Hmong minority, she is promised...
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