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241) Camarillo Ranch
Publisher
Huell Howser Productions
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Join Huell as he visits the magnificently restored Camarillo Ranch, which was named for 'the last Spanish Don', Adolfo Camarillo, who assumed ownership of the gigantic 10,000 acre ranch in 1880 at the age of 16. The city of Camarillo is named after the charismatic and successful Adolfo, who is known for having bred white horses. Huell takes a special tour of the ranch and 'La Casa Grande,' the 6,000 sq. foot Queen Anne Victorian Camarillo built for...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
352 pages cm
Description
"How a literary idol of the Lost Generation launched America's organic and sustainable food movement. In interwar France, Louis Bromfield was equally famous as a writer and as a gardener. He pruned dahlias with Edith Wharton, weeded Gertrude Stein's vegetable patch, and fed the starving artists who flocked to his farmhouse outside Paris. His best-selling novels earned him a Pulitzer-and the jealousy of friends like Ernest Hemingway. But his radical...
244) 26 Fairmount Avenue
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
57 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
246) Cross Creek
Publisher
Lion's Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Steenburgen portrays Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who, after ten years as a newspaper reporter and unsuccessful author, turns her back on financial security and takes up residence in the Florida everglades, where she finds inspiration for her best work.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
[208 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 27 cm]
Description
"This book takes you to the places that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien to create his fictional locations in The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and other classic works. Written by renowned Tolkien expert John Garth, The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien features a wealth of breathtaking illustrations, including Tolkien's own drawings, contributions from other artists, rare archival images, and spectacular color photos of contemporary locations across Britain and...
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