California

How would you like to have an honorary degree? Imagine the prestige. This audio program explains what an honorary doctorate degree is and the very realistic steps you can take to be awarded one....

Daily gunfights, daily murders, frequent public hangings. Welcome to Los Angeles, California in the 1850s. This amazing first-person account of adventures, revolution, history, and tales, Reminiscences of a Ranger, was written by Major Horace Bell, who was there when it happened....

The Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains the very epitome of contradiction....

Gardening at the Margins tells the remarkable story of a diverse group of neighbors working together to grow food and community in the Santa Clara Valley in California....

During the Great Depression, the Los Angeles area was rife with radical movements. Although many observers thought their ideas unworkable, even dangerous, Southern Californians voted for them by the tens of thousands. This book asks why....

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....

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....

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...

Tacos may have been created south of the border, but Americans have made this Mexican food their own, with each style reflective of a time and a place. American Tacos explores them all, taking us on a detailed and delicious journey through the evolution of this dish....

The true-life story of Sunday, a very amazing little rescue pup, told in his own words. Hear about his extremely difficult beginnings, his incredible rescue, and his adventures all across America while living in California, Texas, Florida, upstate New York, and the Smoky Mountains....

No doubt the California Gold Rush brought more people west than for any other reason. Annabelle Moon is a sliver of what came after the rush was over. Enter Joseph Kinkaid, the less than successful prospector in constant search of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow....

In California, in a mill race on an undistinguished stream, an astonishing discovery was made. It was gold. Gold said to be so plentiful that it just lay there waiting to be picked up. Nuggets of gold that you could just bend down and put in your pocket....

Brandt is a down-and-out guitarist and vocalist who believes his life has hit rock bottom....

At the height of the Dust Bowl came a heat wave in 1936. In June, normally warm southern states grew unbearably hot, setting record high temperatures in excess of 110 degrees....

Explore the stunning beauty of the California Coastline! From the breathtaking beaches of Malibu to the picturesque bays of the San Francisco Bay ...

We meet three children - one in California, one in San Salvador, and one in Tehran. As we follow them over 20 years, we see "good luck or bad tilting life one way or another" for all of them....

Imagine local churches filled with people from all cultures, generations, hues, and backgrounds - each one a true cross-section of its own neighborhood or city demographics. Imagine these churches enjoying rich fellowship internally....

How To Start Flipping Houses with California Real Estate Rehab House Flipping How To Sell Your House Fast & Get Funding For Flipping REO Properties...

Akin to Thomas Hardy stories of the Dorset countryside - timely to his place and ours - Thomas Morgan's Indiana stories synchronize a sense of country place apposite and applicable to our time....

The 1840s, California during the gold rush: As the white settlers begin penetrating the remote mountain canyons, they discover an ancient race, the Tenanken, who date back at least 60,000 years....