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California Standoff
Butte County mining camps and foothill farms were an active front in the California Indian wars. Using centuries-old tribal tactics, Butte Creeks, the Mountain Maidu tribelets’ warriors, resisted settlers’ seizures of their territories. Making a strategic shift, in 1857, they acquired bases in the neighboring Yahi’s Deer Creek Canyon. They merged with renegades and Yahi fighters, called Mill Creeks, whose raids had terrified Maidu and Tehama County farmers through the mid-1850s. Meanwhile, quarrels between miners and farmers and with John Bidwell continued as Civil War loyalties undermined unity against the Indian raiders, now out of Deer Creek. In 1863, Bidwell urged the Interior Depa...
Hops and Dreams
On November 15, 1980, two young homebrewers opened a microbrewery in northern California, naming it after the nearby mountain range. Thirty years later, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. is widely recognized as a leader of the craft brewing revolution that has changed American beer's reputation around the world. Rob Burton's original research as a customer and his professional interactions with the young founders and personnel, describes the stories behind the company's astonishing rise to success. This is the first book written about the Chico brewery.
Apocalypse Secrets
Apocalypse Secrets: Baha'i Interpretation of the Book of Revelation with 60 illustrations is a fresh provocative Parallel Interpretation of the Apocalypse or Book of Revelation. The author, John Able MD, is a retired intensive-care physician. He uses Baha'i Writings that interpret parts of the Apocalypse to decode it as a global tale of three millennia now passing through four centuries of the events of religious end-times. It is a tale of the struggles of seven Empires and seven Faiths, of their materialism and militarism, and the resulting mess into which the world is now crescendoing furiously and fast. These events center on the apocalyptic war waging between the Revelation beast of Musl...
Between Rock and Hard Places
Jim Rooney has just finished his memoir about his days as a drummer for the Johnny Sands Band, a hugely popular 1970s American rock group, when he dies in a suspicious car crash. His widow suspects he was murdered, in part because all traces of the manuscript have disappeared, and hires private investigator Mike McMahon, who moonlights as a junior college instructor teaching a class in in the history of rock 'n' roll, to look into it. McMahon is torn between his commitment to the case and his commitment to his on-again off-again girlfriend, Becka Goldberg, professor of Anglo-Saxon literature at San Francisco State. Ultimately, McMahon uncovers the truth behind the band's untimely end, a result of the death of its front man in a plane crash the night of what turned out to be their final concert, all of which would have been part of Rooney's memoir.
Steward's Fork
A compelling story of place, Steward’s Fork explores northwest California’s magnificent Klamath Mountains—a region that boasts a remarkable biodiversity, a terrain so rugged that significant landscape features are still being discovered there, and a wealth of natural resources that have been used, and more recently abused, by humans for millennia. James K. Agee, a forest ecologist with more than fifty years experience in the Klamaths, provides a multidimensional perspective on this region and asks: how can we most effectively steward this spectacular landscape toward a sustainable future? In an engaging narrative laced with personal anecdotes, he introduces the dynamics of the Klamathâ...
Thinking Critically to Develop a Philosophy of Life
The author passes along scenarios he developed over the years--ponderings and writings trying to help himself think more critically--not to have you agree or disagree with him, but to encourage you to develop your own reasons to some of life’s most challenging questions dealing with sex, love, religion and politics. This second edition has a new cover and additional front matter text.
Meadowlark
Her life was complete, she had it all. Until one afternoon, in the blink of an eye her world stops. While still grieving she commits an unforeseen crime. She is forced to reinvent herself, while detectives knock at her door and Texas Rangers close in. From California to Texas she sets her stride, confronting her fears with unconventional maneuvers. The rarely seen meadowlark serenades her while she rests, regains her strength and slips into obscurity.
El Salvador: Blood on All Our Hands
On April 29, 1981 American journalist George Thurlow was shot by members of the El Salvador Treasury Police on a jungle road in San Salvador. His 29-year-old driver, Gilberto Moran, was killed and Associated Press photographer Joaquin Zuniga was seriously injured in the shooting. Thurlow left El Salvador two days later to receive medical treatment in the U.S. In 2000 he began a more than two-decade search to find Gilberto Moran’s grave and some form of personal redemption. El Salvador: Blood On All Our Hands details that search and introduces us to those who fought in the civil war, U.S. aid workers helping to rebuild the tiny country, as well as every day Salvadorans who suffered through ...
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Joe and Me
This story is told from the point of view of Rose, the magic guitar. She is crafted by the famous guitar maker, Victor Marcini, for his newborn son, Joe. Rose and Joe go through the terrible twos together, with Joe throwing fits, and Rose popping strings. As they grow older, Joe becomes an accomplished player, and the two become inseparably bonded. Rose is stolen and lives through many frightening adventures before she is joyfully reunited with Joe. As Rose tells her story, she uses musical terms playfully. ("He looked like a real treble-maker.") Although many musical references are made, readers do not need to understand music to enjoy the book.
