Bøger om California

Join narrator and co-author, ChatGPT, explore AI applications in healthcare, climate change, tech, education, and more. "Choose"'s choose-your-own-adventure format mirrors the real world decisions we face for the future of AI. Choose wisely.

Velkommen tilbage til Avalon Bay, hvor sommerluften er fuld af flirt og hemmeligheder.Cassie har ikke tilbragt en sommer i Avalon Bay i årevis. Men nu hvor familiens strandhotel skal sælges, rejser hun tilbage for at mærke sandet mellem tæerne en sidste gang. Hun har også store planer om at få sig en sommerflirt. Allerede den første aften finder hun den perfekte kandidat: Tate Bartlett, byens player med et hjerte af guld.Fra det øjeblik Tate ser Cassie, ved han, at en uforpligtende sommerflirt ikke er nok. Cassie er smuk, sjov og den sejeste person, han har mødt. Det sidste, han har lyst til, er at knuse hendes hjerte.Det står dog hurtigt klart, at ’bare venner’ er umuligt, men hvis de går all in, hvad sker der så, når sommeren er slut? Og da en mørk familiehemmelighed afsløres, bliver deres forhold for alvor sat på prøve …Sommerflirt-problemet er tredje bog i den sexede og sjove Avalon Bay-serie.

Lonely PlanetâEUR(TM)s Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip.Climb Half Dome, gaze at Mono Lake, and ski in Yosemite; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Yosemite, Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks and begin your journey now!

Embark on a culinary journey through the sun-kissed landscapes of California with our inspired cookbook, a vibrant tapestry of flavors that mirrors the state's rich diversity. Immerse yourself in the art of farm-fresh, seasonal cooking, where the bounty of California's fertile land meets the creativity of top chefs and home cooks alike. From the Pacific coastline to the lush vineyards of Napa Valley, each recipe is a love letter to the state's unique culinary heritage.Savor the essence of California living as you explore a collection of recipes that effortlessly blend global influences with local, sustainable ingredients. Indulge in the simplicity of avocado-centric dishes, embrace the bold flavors of fresh seafood, and experience the joy of grilled farm-fresh produce. Our cookbook is a homage to the laid-back lifestyle and health-conscious ethos that define California cuisine.Discover the secrets behind iconic dishes that have become synonymous with California, from inventive salads bursting with colors to tantalizing tacos that capture the spirit of street food culture. Whether you're a seasoned chef or an adventurous home cook, our California style cookbook invites you to bring the sunshine into your kitchen and create delicious meals that reflect the vibrant, flavorful tapestry of the West Coast.This description highlights the key elements of California cuisine, such as fresh, local ingredients, global influences, and a focus on health and sustainability.

Easy & essential Isan Thai & Lao recipes from a refugee chefJames Syhabout's hugely popular Hawker Fare restaurant in San Francisco is the product of his unique family history, his diverse career experience, and the food of his childhood. Hawker Fare immortalizes the dishes of this celebrated restaurant, which are inspired by the open-air ?hawker? markets of Thailand and Laos as well as the fine-dining sensibilities of Syhabout's career beginnings. The book starts with stories from his roving career as a classically trained chef, as well as his travels as an adult in his parents' homelands?his mother's ancestral village in Isan, Thailand's northeast region, and his father's native country of Laos. From building a pantry with sauces and oils to making staples like sticky rice and padaek, to new takes like Syhabout's recipe for instant ramen noodles with poached egg, Hawker Fare explores the many dimensions of this singular chef's cooking and ethos on ingredients, family, and eating well. This cookbook offers a new definition of what it means to be making food in America, in the full and vibrant colors of Thailand, Laos, and California.

Join us as we take you on a Muffler Man hunt along Route 66. The Muffler Man Coloring Book helps you and your family find these relics off the road, learn more about their history, and offers an engaging activity for the whole family.

An anthology of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry written by 33 San Francisco Bay Area seniors who are writers as a part of the Litquake Elder Project in workshops, classes, or storytelling sessions between Summer 2022 and Fall 2023.

In the heart of Culinary Haven, Chef Albert Amador stumbles upon a futuristic cookbook that merges quantum physics with cooking. As he crafts mind-bending dishes, customers experience strange effects - teleporting flavors, time dilation, and heightened awareness. Albert's restaurant becomes a sensation, blurring the lines between science and gastronomy. But with the unconventional recipes come unintended consequences, forcing Albert to choose between culinary innovation and the risks of playing with forces beyond the kitchen. "The Quantum Chef" is a delectable journey into a world where flavors defy the laws of nature.

After settling into a quiet life in Northern California, the protagonist's past from his college days in Washington, DC, catches up with him in a lethal confrontation. This violent encounter propels him on a surreal journey through the thresholds of the afterlife: heaven, purgatory, and hell.During these celestial visits, gatekeepers evaluate the protagonist's life, sparking debates about his worthiness for each realm. Through these conversations, the protagonist not only defends his past actions but also lays out a blueprint for young American males navigating life's trials, from sports and romance to dealings with law enforcement and face-offs with adversaries.He shares unique strategies for the under-sized athlete to thrive in contact sports and offers insights into everyday challenges, urging others to approach them with extraordinary solutions. His encounters also delve deep into the intricacies of police work, a knowledge he showcases during his discourse with hell's sentinel.With unwavering support from his tight-knit circle of friends, the protagonist surmounts both earthly and ethereal hurdles, exemplifying the indomitable spirit's triumph over adversity and fear.

Natürlich wohnt Donald Duck eigentlich in Entenhausen, Winnie Puuh im Hundertsechzig-Morgen-Wald, Schneewittchen in Deutschland und die Wunderland-Reisende Alice irgendwo im viktorianischen England, ihren Zweitwohnsitz haben sie jedoch alle am selben Ort, im kalifornischen Anaheim. Anfang der 1950er-Jahre realisierte Walt Disney hier seinen lang gehegten Traum, einen Vergnügungspark zu errichten, in dem die Besucher all seinen Trickfilmfiguren begegnen und eine Reise durch die amerikanische Geschichte machen können, vom Wilden Westen bis zur Zukunft im Weltraum. Unter Walt Disneys Leitung verwandelten Architekten, Künstler, Ingenieure und eine Legion von Bauarbeitern ein paar Hektar Orangenhain in ein Reich ewiger Adoleszenz, in ein Ausflugs- und Ferienziel, das jedes Kind in den USA unbedingt einmal besuchen möchte. In den frühen Fünfzigerjahren war es dann so weit. Heutzutage gibt es Disney-Freizeitanlagen von Paris bis Schanghai, doch das Original-Disneyland in Anaheim (Kalifornien) ist nach wie vor eine der beliebtesten Attraktionen der USA und lockt Jahr für Jahr über 16 Millionen Besucher aus aller Welt an. Dieser Bildband stützt sich auf Disneys umfangreiche Archive, Privatsammlungen und Pressearchive und zeigt die Geschichte Disneylands, von den ersten Entwürfen bis heute. Originaldokumente und Hintergrundinformationen machen diese handliche Ausgabe zu einer Fundgrube für alle Disney-Fans, Märchengläubige, ewige Kinder und Pop-Historiker. Copyright © 2024 Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Widely recognized as the godfather of modern American cooking, Jeremiah Tower is one of the most influential cooks of the last forty years. In 2004, he rocked the culinary world with a tell-all story of his lifelong love affair with food, and the restaurants and people he encountered along the way.In Start the Fire, this revised edition of his memoir, California Dish, Tower shares with wit and honesty his insights into cooking, chefs, celebrities, and what really goes on in the kitchen. No other book reveals more about the seeds sown in the seventies, the excesses of the eighties, or the self-congratulations of the nineties.With a brand-new introduction by the author, Start the Fire is an essential account of the most important years in the history of American cooking from one of its singular personalities.

Whitney Port shares personal stories, beauty and fitness secrets, and tried-and-true advice on everything girls need to know to start their lives out with styleFashion trendsetter, MTV reality star, and clothing designer Whitney Port learned to navigate her new independent life in New York with grace, style, and a sense of humor. From backstabbing coworkers and bitchy bosses to long-distance boyfriends and a daring new career in fashion, Whitney managed to handle it all. Intimate and honest, Whitney opens up about everything from fashion and beauty to romance and careers. She dishes on: her experiences working at Teen Vogue, People's Revolution, and Diane von Furstenberg; finding love and trying to make it work; and life in front of the cameras. Whitney shares her unique style philosophy, including when to break the rules, her family's influence on her sense of style, and her perfect outfits for any occasion?from meeting your guy's parents to wowing an interviewer for a job. Whitney also details what young women really want to know, like what to eat when the mid-afternoon munchies strike, how to throw an impromptu party, and how to hide a hangover.With hundreds of photos and chock-full of must-have lists and style favorites, this colorful scrapbook features pics from Whitney's personal photo albums and from major moments in her life, including on the runway, at her private birthday bash, and out on the town with friends. And for the first time, Whitney shares the true reality of an emerging fashion designer, highlighting her creative process, sketches, and fabrics.Through personal stories and private snapshots, fans will get to see a side of her that the cameras don't capture. This is Whitney Port revealed.

When Ri is thrust into the Candy Cosmos-a strange universe filled with sugar-inspired aliens-he acquires unlimited power! No limits-anything he desires becomes reality with one finger snap. There's only one catch. Although surrounded by mouthwatering delicacies, he cannot take a single bite. Lured into this twisted universe by a mysterious alien, Ri has no time to figure out who's behind his latest conundrum. He must first locate the precious treasure that'll liberate him from his perilous paradox of power. He's gotta outwit an angry marshmallow volcano. Race away from a ravenous hardshell-coated T-Rex. Fight off a Pop Rocks pterodactyl woven together with Red Vines. And break free from an infuriated crowd of candy creatures! Doing all this while starving, slowly wasting away... Can he escape the intricate maze of confectionary constructs before he collapses? And guess what? That's only the first level!

Lucy is an author with a past she would rather forget. Matthew has worked in the adult entertainment industry since he was 18 and is starting to get bored with the repetition of it all. Neither of them know they are both each other's biggest fans. When Matthew finds out his favorite author is a woman who has been writing under a male pen name all these years, he convinces her to take the leap and step out from the shadows. The two start a secret romance while working to turn Lucy's books into a movie. Lucy's trust issues start to get in the way when things start to get serious between the two of them. However, Matthew has some secrets of his own he has to work through in order for them to finally get their happily ever after.

It began with a single crime, under the canopy of the giant redwoods of California. He committed that crime. He never took responsibility for any of it. Everything was always someone else's fault, especially hers. He would get her; he would punish her. For him it became an obsession. He had no other life to lead. It began with a single crime. She was the victim. She would not let the crime define her. She had a life to lead. She would lead it to the full. From California to Cambridge, England, Robert built the downward spiral of his existence, and his darkness closed in on him. From California to Cambridge, England, Martha lived life to the full, building an upward spiral from which joy and friendship spread out. Bad karma, good karma. Which will prove the stronger?

"After years on the road performing at sold-out venues alongside platinum-selling and Grammy-winning Christian artists, Tyson Motsenbocker returned home to the impending death of his 57-year-old hero and mother. He begged God to heal her, but she died anyway. When they buried her body, Tyson also buried the childhood version of his faith. Weeks before her death, however, Motsenbocker discovered the story of 18th-century Spanish monk St. Junipero Serra who dedicated his life to the idea that tragedy and suffering are portals to renewal. He discovered Serra's "El Camino Real," a 600-mile pilgrimage route down the California coast that had been largely forgotten for more than 200 years. In desperation, Motsenbocker sets out to retrace the Saint's steps along the freeways and underpasses, littered beaches and multi-million-dollar coastal estates. During the next 40 days, Motsenbocker sinks below the comfortable surface of society he has always known, enduring excruciating pain, dodging addicts and roaring traffic, stepping over rats, and befriending retired veterans. His pilgrimage up the Western shore of America connects him to a lost mystic who often seems to hover just above as he grieves the loss of his mother and the insolubility of the kind of God he once comfortably trusted. Where the Waves Turn Back is a literary journey for the wanderer, doubter, adventurer, skeptic, mystic and seeker in all of us. Worn-out and weary travelers of all ages will be invited, along with Motsenbocker, to renegotiate their place in a world that's irrevocably changed. Readers will be captivated by the depth of Motsenbocker's honesty and vulnerability, enchanted by his lyrical prose, and inspired by his hard-fought healing. But more than this, they will discover portals to their own spiritual wonderings-the kinds that require leaving behind the worlds we once loved and loving the worlds in which we live"--

Üdvözöljük a "VARÁZSLATOS ID¿: A VÉGREHAJTÓ TAMALE-SZAKÁCSKÖNYV" különleges kulináris birodalmában. Ez a kárpit a mexikói hagyományok, a kulináris kézm¿vesség és a masa varázslatos varázsa élénk szálaival sz¿ve. Ezeken az oldalakon egy olyan utazásra indulunk, amely túlmutat a hétköznapokon, elmélyülve a mexikói tamalekészítés szívében és lelkében - egy kulináris m¿vészeti forma, amely belesz¿tt a nemzet kulturális szövetébe. Csukja be a szemét, és képzelje el Mexikó nyüzsg¿ utcáit, ahol a nyüzsg¿ piacok ritmikus hangjait a masa csábító illata kíséri számtalan zamatos töltelékkel. A "VARÁZSLATOS ID¿" több, mint egy szakácskönyv; ez egy portál a mexikói gasztronómia gazdag kárpitjába, ahol minden tama egy történet, és minden recept tisztelgés a szakképzett kezek generációi el¿tt, akik tökéletesítették ezt a kulináris mesterséget.Ahogy kinyitjuk az ajtót e varázslatos világ felé, a leveg¿ megtelik a felfedezés várakozásával - az ¿srégi technikák, a regionális árnyalatok és a titkok felfedezésével, amelyek az egyszer¿ összetev¿ket gasztronómiai remekm¿vekké alakítják. Legyen Ön gyakorlott házi séf, vagy kezd¿ konyha, ezek az oldalak felkérést adnak egy átalakuló utazásra a mexikói kulináris hagyományok szívébe. Minden lapozás nemcsak egy receptet, hanem egy narratívát is feltár - egy olyan elbeszélést, amely magába foglalja a kulturális jelent¿ségét, a közösségi örömöt és azt az érzékszervi gyönyört, amelyet egy tökéletesen kidolgozott tama hoz. A "VARÁZSLATOS ID¿" az Ön útmutatója, amely betekintést nyújt a masa elkészítésének finomságaiba, a töltelékek mesterkélt összeállításába, és a szeretett mexikói kulináris kincs elsajátításának örömébe.tehát , hogy a masa aromája elvigye Önt Mexikó nyüzsg¿ utcáira, ahol generációk gy¿ltek össze az asztalok körül, hogy átadják magukat a tamalékészítés varázsának. Az id¿tlen klasszikusoktól, amelyek kiállták az id¿ próbáját, az innovatív alkotásokig, amelyek feszegetik a hagyományok határait, konyhája váljon a m¿vészi és szenvedély vásznává, amely meghatározza a végs¿ tamali élményt. Csatlakozzon hozzánk ezen a kulináris odüsszeán, ahol Mexikó szelleme elevenedik meg minden aprólékosan kidolgozott receptben. Legyen a ¿VARÁZSLATOS ID¿"-on keresztüli utazása olyan gazdag és teljes, mint az évszázados hagyomány, amelyet ünnepel. ¡ Buen provecho

Identify the plants you'll see growing right next to you on the trail!

BlurbWhy does Daadi Maa pinch so compulsively?Join Vivek as he secretly reads Daadi Maa's diaryand learns about the tragedy that fell upon herwhen she was a young girl.But will tragedies tear apart his family orbring them together?DescriptionSeven year old Vivek thinks his Daadi Maa (Indian Grandmother) is a mean old lady until he finds her diary. Although the first few entries are hilarious to him, Vivek soon realizes it was not meant to be funny. As he reads on, he recognizes that Daadi Maa is trapped in a vicious cycle. Her obsessive pinching is a coping mechanism. Although Daadi Maa has persevered outwardly, she still suffers silently. The diary brings the issue to the forefront and light is finally shed on the death of Daadi Maa's brother Bhola, which is the crux of the problem. It also brings attention to the guilt she feels about the death of her son - Vivek's father. Although Vivek's mother has forgiven her, the fact remains that the last conversation Daadi Maa had with Vivek's father was an argument about her pinching habit - which is why she cannot forgive herself. This obsessive-compulsive behavior which Daadi Maa suffered from most of her adult life touches the issue of neurodiversity. It is only after Vivek finds the diary that Daadi Maa faces her guilt. Here, she finally realizes that she doesn't have to do it alone. She has a smart, educated family that will support her and love her as she is. No one will think less of her. All she needs to do is open up and ask for help even if not in those exact words. Daadi Maa's Diary Of Secrets is a beautiful tearjerker picture book for young adults with twenty-two vivid and detailed illustrations (six of which are center spreads) that make the book come alive! The story explores the delicate issue of death in the family in a gentle way that young adults can relate to.

Six People Struggling With Expectations.One Baseball Game to Find Their Moment.It's The Final Game of the Season...All Star Brett Austen has a chance to secure the first .400 batting average for a season in more than 80 years. But increasing pressure and his own hubris threaten the apex of his career.Meanwhile...A sideline reporter wrestles with a choice between career and her mom in crisis.A retiring usher takes in his final game before moving in with his son's family.A lanky 15 year old can't understand his future stepdad while pining for a girl from school.A lemonade vendor agonizes over a big score to settle gambling debts and fulfill his daughter's dreams.An adult daughter navigates uncomfortable family dynamics at home while her father lies in hospice.Will Their Choices Meet the Moment?

This is the story of the arrival of a little family from another planet to a small town in Northern California.As told and colorfully illustrated by Abi Allen, we see the Greens face fear and prejudice with patient kindness.

A vibrant collection of 70 recipes from San Diego’s top restaurants and chefs that celebrates America’s Finest City’s diverse culinary scene.San Diego is known for sun, surf, and slinging excellent tacos and beer. But when it comes to the restaurant scene, there’s a whole world of multi-cultural eats to explore—in and beyond the city limits. From casual yet-design-centric brunch cafés to high-end sushi restaurants, and from farmers’ market stalls to Michelin-starred dining experiences, this is a place where chefs and foodies alike enjoy the benefits of the region’s enviously long growing season, proximity to the sea, cross-cultural exchanges with Mexico, and the overall diversity of its population.San Diego Cooks proudly presents some of the city (and county)’s most iconic dishes. Recipes such as TJ Oyster Bar’s Baja Fish Tacos and Kettner Exchange’s Kale Salad with Lemon-Pepper Dressing come together quickly with a quick sear of protein and a few turns of a mixing bowl. Smokin J’s Smoked Brisket Chili with Cornbread and Extraordinary Desserts’ Lemon Meringue Cake are surefire crowd-pleasers. And with easy-to-find ingredients and simple instructions, all recipes are designed for home cooks of all levels. For those who want to level up, consider Valle’s charred Onion Tart and Avant’s Grilled Rib-eye with Mole Demi and Guajillo Marmalade.Welcome to a taste of some of the chefs, bakers, distillers, and more who are nourishing us with their passion, stories, eats, and sips throughout this dynamic region.