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The Riflemen
The Riflemen, in one way, is a love story about two boys, Jake Garrett and Johnny Grubbs and their childhood sweethearts. They meet their wives in the first grade, who are identical twin. The story takes Jake and Johnny through the horrific Civil War. Their stories tell some of the historical parts of the war and shows much of the struggles each boy endures during the war. After the war, they come home to find their parents have disappeared and their ranches in the hands of a ruthless cattle baron, Gardner Ware and his wife Emma, who frame them for murder. Not able to clear their name they are on the run. They do marry their childhood sweethearts and their new struggle is shared with them. The go to Wyoming where they make a grubstake by guarding payrolls for the mines. This leads to collecting a large reward for bringing down a gang of train robbers and collecting the bounty. Only knowing ranching they use the money to buy land along the Yuba River in California so they can sell cattle and mules to the miners.
Gabriela Mistral's Letters to Doris Dana
The Nobel Prize–winning poet Gabriela Mistral is celebrated by her native Chile as the “mother of the nation” even though she spent most of her life in Mexico, Europe, and the United States. Throughout the Spanish-speaking world and especially in Chile, Mistral was characterized as a sad, traditionally Catholic spinster. Yet her voluminous correspondence with Doris Dana, long believed to be her secretary, reveals that the two women were lovers from 1948 until Mistral’s death in 1957. These letters, published in Spanish in 2010 and now translated for the first time into English, provide insight into her work as a poet and illuminate her perspectives on politics, especially war and human rights. The correspondence also sheds light on the poet’s personal life and corrects the long-standing misperceptions of her as a lonely, single, heterosexual woman.
Los Angeles Stories
"Los Angeles is a city of losers."Robert MitchumFourteen million inhabitants in Los Angeles county in a battle for survival. Three million people within the city limits of Los Angeles compete for jobs, space, food, water, & air, and are seduced and overwhelmed by exiting living in Los Angeles, with too much luxury that exhausts the human spirit.This is a collection of short stories about the characters that Robert Noyola knew and lived among during his years in Los Angeles. The final story The Golden Triangle, is an accurate fictionalization of the history of his hometown of Port Arthur, Texas. Where he finally returned after retiring in Los Angeles, California then moving to El Paso, Texas.
City of Losers
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Shipwrecked
From the New York Times: "The astonishing stories in Shipwrecked ... [offer] a fresh perspective on the mess of pitched emotions and politics in a nation at war over slavery." Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-19th century, from the California Gold Rush, filibustering schemes in Nicaragua, Cuban liberation, and the Civil War and Reconstruction. Most importantly, the book depicts the extraordinary lengths the Lincoln Administration went to destroy the illegal trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using Oaksmith’s case as a lens, Whi...
The Orion
A monthly magazine of literature, science, and art.
Encyclopedia of Television Pilots
On November 27, 1937, NBC presented TV's first pilot film, Sherlock Holmes (then called an "experiment"). Thousands of pilot films (both unaired and televised) have been produced since. This updated and restyled book contains 2,470 alphabetically arranged pilot films broadcast from 1937 to 2019. Entries contain the concept, cast and character information, credits (producer, writer, director), dates, genre and network or cable affiliation. In addition to a complete performer's index, two appendices have been included: one detailing the pilot films that led to a series and a second that lists the programs that were spun off from one series into another. Never telecast pilot films can be found in the companion volume, The Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018. Both volumes are the most complete and detailed sources for such information, a great deal of which is based on viewing the actual programs.
