California

This audio offers a basic outline for the order of Mass in the Catholic Church, including Introductory Rites, Liturgy of the Word, Liturgy of the Eucharist, and Concluding Rites. It also gives a summary of do's and don'ts for Mass etiquette....

In this literary thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family’s killer—aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy past....

Twelve-year-old Marion Parker was kidnapped from her Los Angeles school by an unknown assailant on December 15, 1927. Her body was found days later, delivered to her father by the killer....

Lake Tahoe, situated in both California and Nevada, is the largest alpine lake in North America, and the second deepest lake in the USA....

The Oregon Trail: America's Most Famous Path to the Western Frontier comprehensively covers the history of the Trail and the settlers who moved west along it, including descriptions of the Trail in accounts written by settlers....

One of the most important and memorable events of the United States' westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January, 1848....

L.A. Theatre Works presents four plays about the Japanese American experience during and after World War II: Sisters Matsumoto, Hold These Truths, For Us All, and No-No Boy....

Understand history's most enigmatic serial killer. In December of 1968, a serial killer began orchestrating a campaign of terror in the San Francisco Bay Area. Not satisfied with the simple act of murder, he taunted law enforcement and the public by writing letters to local newspapers....

Spring, 1846: Douglas Allen Deeds dreams of starting a new life out West. When the opportunity to join the Donner Party Expedition arises, he leaves the life he's known behind to set out on the nearly 2,000-mile trek from Independence, Missouri, to sunny California....

It is the summer of 1849 and the California Gold Rush is on....

Luella Murphy and her parents set out to start a new life in the gold rush town of Sacramento, California that was until Luella’s parents passed away on board the ship. Luella (Lilly) decided to continue on, although she was incredibly young there was little else to do....

When California wildfires cause her privileged world to go up in flames, gorgeous, wealthy, and entitled Ruby must struggle to find the grit and compassion to help her family and those less fortunate to rise from the ashes....

Danny Vance was an ambitious young man. Like thousands of other Americans, he was enticed west when word of gold in California reached the rest of the United States. It became his goal to reach California to "see the elephant"....

When a 14-year-old boy travels to San Francisco after leaving his father's run-down, failing farm in Las Cruces, New Mexico, he is shanghaied and flogged for insubordination. Young Bill Bronson has to grow up quickly to survive spending many months at sea before finally making it back to the US....

With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit Temecula. Greater Than a Tourist - Temecula California USA by Brianna Gaffney offers the inside scoop on the Temecula wine country....

Senator Kerry Kilcannon's insurgent campaign against Vice President Dick Mason has come down to the last seven days. Whoever wins the California presidential primary is likely to win the Democratic nomination...

Unlock dairy excellence with "The California Dairy Mastery Manual"—your guide to success in the Golden State's dairy industry. Chapter 1 explores...

Just when he was getting close to discovering the backstory of his mysterious client, the lovely CC Borgia, private detective Al Repane is attacked on his patio, only to wake up to learn his assailants have kidnaped his client....

In this sweet romance, could she dream of a beach wedding? When Donna Turner and her two girlfriends leave Alabama for California, Donna runs out ...

Power Shift charts the rise of Latino political power and its impact, from the breakthrough election of the first Mexican American to the Los Angeles City Council in 1949 to today’s leadership of California and its heavyweight role in polarized America....