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In 1849 they came to California from around the world ...Some came for the gold. Some came for the adventure. Some came to escape their past. But they all came with dreams...And their lives were forever changed. Hannah Runyon, from Boston's Beacon Hill, lost her fiancé but found her true love. Delfina Austen pined for her lost lover but saved her most important possession. Miette climbs her way to respectability but must fight for her reputati...

When Teresa Diaz's father is arrested in an ICE raid in a Los Angeles area city and deported back to Mexico, her family begins to come apart. She is a student at UCLA on a scholarship for undocumented aliens (Dreamers) looking to have a life in the U.S. in communications. Her brother in High school and her elementary school sister begin having serious troubles without a father in the household. At work in a fast-food drive-through, Teri, as sh...

When Cayatu, a Chumash Indian woman, is banished from her village, she is taken by two Franciscan priests to join the new Mission Santa Barbara. She is baptized there along with several other new neophytes and begins a restricted life far beyond what she expected. Even though she meets a man she is very attracted to, she yearns for the freer life living on her own along the ocean. In the process of trying to escape the mission, she kills one o...

The Girl From the Lighthouse tells the compelling story of Emma Dobbins. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she was raised by her father, a lighthouse keeper at Point Conception in California, where early on she discovers her artistic talent. At the age of 17, Emma travels to Paris with a chaperone, to attend art school but is separated from the chaperone when the chaperone becomes ill. Emma arrives alone in Paris with no money, no langu...

First published in 1891, Frances E. Willard's A Classic Town, chronicles the history of Evanston, Illinois, a town that lies at the edge of Chicago and serves as the home of Northwestern University. Willard's volume is early local history at its best, combining oral history, biography, and political and cultural history. Willard's book offers a glimpse into an American Midwestern town on the verge of the 20th century. This new volume faithfull...

This antique volume contains a comprehensive and reliable manual on producing eggs and poultry for the market, and as a profitable business. The information offered within these pages constitutes the author's personal philosophy concerning egg farming as a business, which is the culmination of many years experience within the poultry industries of England, Canada, and the United States. Much of the information contained herein is timeless, mak...

This antique volume contains a comprehensive and reliable manual on producing eggs and poultry for the market, and as a profitable business. The information offered within these pages constitutes the author's personal philosophy concerning egg farming as a business, which is the culmination of many years experience within the poultry industries of England, Canada, and the United States. Much of the information contained herein is timeless, mak...

A systematic and thorough analysis of a small, determined and comparatively wealthy "new" state's attempts to enlarge its influence and augment its power.Originally published in 1969.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while p...