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On June 28, 2015, retired California State University, Chico librarian Jim Dwyer was found unconscious on the floor of the men's room in a mini-mart outside Sacramento, apparently on his way home from the Bay Area opening night of the Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well tour. He died that evening in a nearby hospital. A nationally recognized literary scholar, Jim had dubbed his alter ego the Rev. Junkyard Moondog, reading beat-like poetry at open m...

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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 wit...

How do we go about repairing the damage inflicted by a president who disrespected ethical norms and political traditions? How can we heal healthily after a pandemic that devastated so many lives and threatened to destroy key components of our social infrastructure? In this book-length dialogue, we hear answers from Sophia Morales, Professor of Humanities at Euphoria State University, California. Even though she is a work of fiction, "you may a...

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 ...

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When Princess Froth saw Grace, the kitchen maid, wearing squeaky yellow boots, she demanded Grace give them to her. Grace obeyed, but Princess Froth soon found out that the boots didn't want to be belong to her. Even when Grace was thrown into prison, the boots found her. Finally the princess decided to buy her own pair of squeaky yellow boots. What she got instead, however, was far more valuable.

Aviation in Northern California 1910-1939, Vol. 1: San Francisco Bay Area is the only book to give a detailed account of early flying in the Bay Area. Historian Allen Herr recalls the aviation pioneers who flew weekly exhibitions promoting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition fifteen months prior to its San Francisco opening. These pioneers formed flying schools, built airports, manufactured aircraft, and competed against each other. He...

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.

Historian Allen Herr's historical aviation stories document fearless risk takers in Northern California with lively biographies of the pioneer aviators, stories of barnstormers, commercial flying, local airplane builders, massive turnouts at airshows, and airfield development from 1910 to 1939. Author Herr devoted years of research to his narrative including 94 illustrations, some published for the first time. Originally published in 2015 as G...

Jesus' style was to avoid giving straightforward answers even though his disciples kept asking for explanations. His unique sayings are the beatitudes, those about turning the other cheek, and the injunction to love enemies. But "treat people in the way you want to be treated" is closer to Jesus' perspective. This book lists 114 "secret sayings" by Jesus preserved by his twin brother Judas (Jude) "Thomas" and found in 1945 near the Egyptian to...

Historical accounts of the first successful flight in California's capital city and other notable Northern California flights that followed over three decades, the courageous aviators, and development of long forgotten airports from which they flew. Among them is the story of aviatrix Blanche Stuart Scott's 1912 flights and Sac Muni female pilots twenty years later. Included is the first accurate history of early ag-flying in the north state r...

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.

Anyone who has walked the streets of London knows how profoundly history haunts the city. From its monuments and memorials to its blue-circled plaques, London wears the past with style, decorum, and a certain spirit. London Spirits pays homage to this spirit using narrators (some dead, some alive, some historical, some fictional) who have a particularly interesting story to tell about their life and times in this great metropolis. There's Ph...

In her late thirties, Denise Minor lived in a spacious apartment in San Francisco with her husband Alex and their small sons Nathan and Max. Two evenings a week she taught Spanish at a local university. She was happy with her life in many ways but could not release a dream that had been simmering for a decade: earn a PhD in Spanish and become a professor. She was accepted into the University of California, Davis. Less than a year after moving ...

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 C...

R.C. Nidever's novel is based on the true story of a California Indian woman left alone on a remote island in the year 1835 and the man, George Nidever, who finally found her. Based on the same story as the well-known book for young adults Island of the Blue Dolphins, but told much more completely and from a completely different perspective.

Pres Longley settled into Butte County in the 1800s to mine gold and write. His verse reflects the interests, concerns, and struggles of California's growing years. He gives the reader an entertaining look at the effect that the gradual arrival of women had on the giant bachelor party that was gold rush California. The decline of mining and the burgeoning of agriculture, the political battles, the debates over how to treat the Indians and the ...

This is a stunning collection of work that demonstrates mastery in several different poetic forms, all in a voice that is distinctively American, yet completely original. There are country songs that read like Hank Williams, personal meditations that remind me of Basho, fierce condemnations of criminal politicians and warmongers, speculative excursions through modern physics, tips of the hat to great poets and philosophers of the past, the mos...