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No Candidate for Sainthood
Raymund F. Wood was born at St. Margaret's-on-Thames (later the Borough of Twickenham, Middlesex, England, in 1911, the son of George Stephen and Agnes Lawes Wood and the grandson of Samuel and Emma Cook Wood and Claudius Francis Clement and Catherine Lawes Lawes. His family immigrated to the United States in 1924 and settled at Maywood, California. He and his wife, Margaret, were married at St Paul's Cataholic Church, Westwood, California, in 1943, while he was in the army. They had three sons, 1947-1955. He is a librarian and author.
Ready to Serve
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The War Criminal's Son
The War Criminal's Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the sweeping saga of the firstborn son in the infamous Confederate Winder family, who shattered family ties to stand with the Union. Gen. John H. Winder was the commandant of most prison camps in the Confederacy, including Andersonville. When Winder gave his son William Andrew Winder the order to come south and fight, desert, or commit suicide, William went to the White House and swore his allegiance to President Lincoln and the Union. Despite his pleas to remain at the front, it was not enough. Winder was ordered to command Alcatraz, a fortress that became a Civil War prison, where he treated his prisoners humanel...
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: G-O
Includes biographical information on 4,500 individuals associated with the frontier
HIST SPOTS OLD EDN
"Now in a one-volume revised edition, this encyclopedia of California historical information remains an ideally practical reference to the state."--From the dust-jacket front flap.
Deeds of the Saxons
This book does not include the original Latin text.
Part of Our Lives
Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.
The Lost Land
A perilous voyage to the magic land of Occo, inhabited by hospitable farmers, marauding cannibals and mysterious fey people, transforms a youngboy into a man.
The Los Angeles River
Winner of the J. B. Jackson Prize from the Association of American Geographers Three centuries ago, the Los Angeles River meandered through marshes and forests of willow and sycamore. Trout spawned in its waters and grizzly bears roamed its shores. The bountiful environment the river helped create supported one of the largest concentrations of Indians in North America. Today, the river is made almost entirely of concrete. Chain-link fence and barbed wire line its course. Shopping carts and trash litter its channel. Little water flows in the river most of the year, and nearly all that does is treated sewage and oily street runoff. On much of its course, the river looks more like a deserted fr...
