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Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
At Cahuenga Pass, in a stagecoach inn on the road to Los Angeles, Mendoza meets her new cyborg colleagues in this third novel of the Company. In the vein of "Grand Hotel, " readers get to know the lives and stories, both sad and funny, of these operatives from the 24th century.
5) Run river
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
"Joan Didion's electrifying first novel is a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience, a story of murder and betrayal that only Didion could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense."--...
Author
Series
The Forty Niners volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed chroniclers of the Old West comes the epic saga of the great American Gold Rush—and the boldhearted dreamers who made it all happen. . . THEY CALLED THEM THE FORTY-NINERS. In January of 1848, the discovery of gold at Sutters Mill in California sparked a nationwide frenzy, fueling the dreams of Americans from coast to coast. By 1849, hundreds of thousands of fortune hunters from across the globe headed west to stake their claim....
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Sold to a human trafficker after her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang, arriving in 19th-century America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of her absent father, makes her way through an unforgiving new world in hopes of reuniting her family.
"A Chinese railroad worker and his young daughter—sold into servitude—in 19th century California search for family, fulfillment, and belonging in a violent new land...
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