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3841) The know-it-alls: the rise of Silicon Valley as a political powerhouse and social wrecking ball
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life and its libertarian vision of a hypercompetitive society without the protection of unions, government regulations, or social welfare programs.
3842) Ash dark as night
Author
Series
Harry Ingram mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
295 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1965. Tempers have boiled over in the Watts neighborhood, sparked by the traffic stop of two Black motorists, the Frye brothers, by the Highway Patrol. Freelance crime photographer Harry Ingram is on the scene, capturing images of the cops as they unleash batons, dogs, and water hoses on the predominantly Black crowd. When he snaps proof of an unarmed man being shot down by the LAPD, he winds up in the hospital, beaten, his camera confiscated....
3843) Mike Trout
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
80 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mike Trout, the super-talented center fielder for the Los Angeles Angels, has emerged as arguably the greatest baseball player in the game today and is on pace to be labeled as one of the best ever. Winner of the 2012 American League Rookie of the Year Award, Trout has already gone on to win the American League's Most Valuable Player Award twice while putting up never-before-seen numbers in the process.
3844) Engineering Eden: the true story of a violent death, a trial, and the fight over controlling nature
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 370 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 14 unnumbered unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on The Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8-by the two lawyers who argued the case. On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's discriminatory Proposition 8, reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California. Redeeming the Dream is the story...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting inside story of the Supreme Court's landmark rulings on The Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8--by the two lawyers who argued the case. On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a pair of landmark decisions, striking down the Defense of Marriage Act and eliminating California's discriminatory Proposition 8, reinstating the freedom to marry for gays and lesbians in California. Redeeming the Dream is the story...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasy Warner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers-- Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack-- arrived in America as unschooled Jewish immigrants,...
3850) V is for Victorine
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1915, and "missing" heiress Victorine Berryman is living incognito as "Bella Mae Goodwin" with her best friend, Darleen Darling, star of the exciting photoplay serials adventure-loving audiences crave. When the girls travel cross-country to set up roots in Hollywood, California, home of the developing film industry, they find themselves mixed up in a plot as dramatic as anything on the screen, involving switched luggage, stolen artifacts, and...
Series
Library of America volume 268
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
767 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
221 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Memoir from celebrated familyman blogger Jason Good delves into the magic, fails, and meaning of fatherhood. He shares the story of his father, a charismatic, communicative, and affectionate man who taught him how to live and how to be a dad to his own two young sons. The moment Jason was told he would lose his father to cancer, and the year that followed, inspired him to reflect on how an imperfect father can be perfection in all the ways that matter...
3854) Time after time
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A dual tale of two dynamic women from two very different eras searching for fulfillment. San Francisco artist Anne McFarland has been distracted by a cross-country romance with sexy Sergio and has veered from her creative path. While visiting him in New York, she buys a pair of rhinestone shoes in an antique shop that spark her imagination and lead her on a quest to learn more about the shoes' original owner. Almost ninety years earlier, Clair Deveraux,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 2014, outspoken author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza found himself hauled into federal court for improperly donating money to an old friend's Senate campaign. D'Souza pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eight months in a state-run confinement center. There he lived among hardened criminals--drug dealers, thieves, gangbangers, rapists, and murderers. Now the bestselling author explains how this experience not only changed his life, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 384 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In September 1970, ex-Harvard professor and 'High Priest of LSD' Dr. Timothy Leary escaped from prison with the aid of the radical Weather Underground. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy Leary winds its way among homegrown radicals, European aristocrats, a Black Panther outpost in Algeria, an international arms dealer, hash-smuggling hippies from the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, and secret agents...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
151 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A longtime LGBTQ and AIDS activist offers an account of his life from sexually liberated 1970s San Francisco, through the AIDS crisis, and up to his present-day involvement with the marriage equality battle.
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