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California California San Francisco Coming of age Earthquakes Fires Incendies Californie San Francisco Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages pour la jeunesse JUVENILE FICTION / Interactive Adventures Plot-your-own stories San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Calif., 1906 Tremblements de terre Californie San Francisco Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages pour la jeunesseChester, John
Summary: Follows the filmmaker and his wife as they try to create a sustainable farm in Ventura County, California.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BIGSummary: Lifelong friends Barb and Star embark on the adventure of a lifetime when they decide to leave their small Midwestern town for the first time ever, only to run afoul of a villain's evil plot!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BARCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BaCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BARVentura, Jesse.
Summary: Jesse Ventura--former governor, wrestler, and Navy SEAL--on what's wrong with the Democrats, the Republicans, and politics in America.--From publisher description.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 977.6 VENYe, Chun
Summary: "After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUAmerica (Musical group)
Contents: CD 1: Riverside. -- Horse with no name. -- I need you. -- Rainy day.-- Here. -- Three roses. -- Sandman. -- Everyone I meet is from California. -- Ventura highway. -- To each his own. -- Don't cross the river. -- Cornwall blank. -- Only in your heart. -- Saturn nights. -- Hat trick. -- Molten love. -- It's life. -- Submarine ladies (unedited, alternate mix).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros./Rhino 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC CD POP/ROCK AME
Hsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSUDavenport, Matthew J.
Summary: "Matthew J. Davenport's The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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Summary: "Hollywood starlet Lana Turner was one Tinseltown's most recognizable faces in the 1940s and 50s. But, when the Academy Award-winning actress began dating mobster Johnny Stompanato-a thug for west coast mob boss Mickey Cohen-all the lights and glamor of Hollywood did not brighten the darkness of her personal life. Johnny's intense jealousy over Lana ruled their relationship from the get-go and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2024
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Summary: In 1930s Burning Cove, California, Maggie Lodge hires PI Sam Sage to find the person posing as her boss, known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia. As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head. Maggie, on the other hand, is convinced that Sam is badly in need of guidance and good advice. Sam is haunted by his past, which includes a marriage shattered by betrayal and violence....
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUICollins, Ailynn
Summary: "The date is April 18, 1906. The city of San Francisco has just been rocked and shaken by a huge earthquake. Even worse, the quake causes huge fires to break out across the city. Can you escape your damaged home before it collapses? Will you join the firefighters as they try to save the city from the devastating fires? Will you be accused of looting after helping a boy escape from some rubble?...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022