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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking cases handled by the coroner of Marin County, California throughout his four decades on the job--from high-profile deaths to serial killers, to Golden Gate Bridge suicides. Marin County, California is a study in contradictions. Its natural beauty attracts thousands of visitors every year, yet the county also is home to San Quentin Prison, one of the oldest and largest penitentiaries in the country....
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money, she found herself at the door of the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco, auditioning on a stage surrounded by mirrors, in platform heels, and not much else. So began Jenny's career as a stripper strutting the peepshow stage as her alter-ego "Polly" alongside women called Octopussy and Amnesia. But this wasn't your run-of-the-mill strip club--it was a peepshow populated by free-thinking...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program--and practicing emergency medicine on the streets of Los Angeles. Nine months of tying tourniquets and pushing new medications, of IVs, chest compressions, and defibrillator shocks--that was Kevin Grange's initiation into emergency medicine when, at age thirty-six, he enrolled in the 'Harvard of paramedic schools': UCLA's Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program, long considered...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Now a powerful graphic novel, this award-winning memoir is an honest and evocative account of a family's journey from Mexico to the fields of California as seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home.
Author
Publisher
Published by SeaWolf Press
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
English
Description
The Story of My Life, published in 1903, is Helen Keller's autobiography detailing her early life, especially her experiences with Anne Sullivan. It has been adapted for plays and films. The book is dedicated to inventor Alexander Graham Bell. The dedication reads, "To ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Who has taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies, I dedicate this Story of My Life." Keller first...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
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...
Publisher
Sector 5 Films ; Reality Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It did not start in 1942 with the Battle over Los Angeles. In truth it was thousands of years prior. From the dawn of man, Native American cultures have claimed to be visited by people that came from the stars. There are countless shocking and amazing accounts handed down for generations of aliens from other worlds visiting in our ancient past. These star people educated and civilized humanity and guided the first Americans.
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"How May I Help You? is Deepak Singh's insightful and thought-provoking account of disillusionment when, as an educated upper-class Indian, he moves with his American wife to the United States and discovers that America doesn't care if he has an MBA from India or had worked for the BBC. Like many immigrants before him, Singh discovers that in America employers only trust him with a minimum wage job as a clerk, but his disappointment and embarrassment...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
This course is designed to give listeners an overview of the MBA degree-one of the most valuable graduate degrees available. The focus is on the major courses taught in the core curriculum at any one of the top fifty business schools in the United States. We begin with an overview of the MBA core curriculum then proceed systematically through each of the major courses taught at America's top business schools-from accounting, finance, and marketing...
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A traditionally educated oncologist presents a cutting-edge, whole-person approach to cancer's treatment and causes. Cancer as a Wake-Up Call is an easy-to-read guide to an integrative approach to preventing and treating cancer. Conventional medicine focuses on attacking cancer cells, but doesn't address why a person gets sick. But cancer is a systemic disease manifesting a global condition locally. In this well-researched volume, oncologist Mariacute;...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Robert F. Kennedy staunchly advocated for civil rights, education, justice, and peace; his message transcended race, class, and creed, resonating deeply within and across America. He was the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency and was expected to run against Republican Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, following in the footsteps of his late brother John. After winning the California presidential primary...
Author
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Field Division of Education
Pub. Date
[1934]
Language
English
Description
Chronology and bibliographies intended to support the preparation of historical museum exhibits at Tumacacori National Monument. Background on Tumacacori and the chain of Catholic missions of which it was a part.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated...