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Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume ; 23
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberately set by a passionate oenophile named Mark Anderson, a skilled con man and thief with storage space at the warehouse who needed to cover his tracks....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A vivid, searching journey into California's complicated relationship to its water, from the Gold Rush to today -- an epic story of the struggle to overcome the constraints of nature Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers -- a journalist with deep ties to the land, who has watched as the battles over water have intensified even as the state lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land he travels the state to explore...
Author
Series
California studies in food and culture volume 44
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In this authoritative and immensely readable insider's account, celebrated cookbook author and former chef Joyce Goldstein traces the development of California cuisine from its early years in the 1970s to the present, when farm-to-table, foraging, and fusion cuisine are part of the national vocabulary. Goldstein's interviews with almost two hundred chefs, purveyors, artisans, winemakers, and food writers bring to life an era when cooking was grounded...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Before there was such a thing as "California," there were the People and the Land. Manifest Destiny, the Gold Rush, and settler colonial society drew maps, displaced Indigenous People, and reshaped the land, but they did not make California. Rather, the lives and legacies of the people native to the land shaped the creation of California. We Are the Land is the first and most comprehensive text of its kind, centering the long history of California...
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Libray
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the arrival of the Spanish in early California, their impact on the native inhabitants, and the founding and construction of missions there to support their claim on the land.
18) Zorro: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
Diego de la Vega, the son of an aristocratic Spanish landowner and a Shoshone mother, returns to California from school in Spain to reclaim the hacienda on which he was raised and to seek justice for the weak and helpless.
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