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Nestled in an idyllic landscape, the remote village of Pine Grove is home to a group of colorful characters, including Evie, a single mom and her adventurous son, Jack. Evie is independent and positive and excels at helping others. She steers her defiant neighbor, Chrissy, to get her life on course, and comforts her friend, Lola, who is grieving a devastating loss.When an unexpected stranger appears and threatens Evie's existence, she is forced to confront her own deeply hidden fears and to decide whether trusting another is worth the risk.

California Country Boy Harold E. Grice entertains you with his oft-requested poem, "What I Miss," with six new, expanded stanzas and period drawings to illustrate the country.

I'm a California kid, great-grandson (on one side) of pioneers, forty-niners, homesteaders, farmers, and fortune seekers, and (on the other) devout New Englanders who left their mark on Pacific Grove. I was born in Bakersfield just as the Great Depression got started, but I never felt depressed. My dad was a forest ranger, and I grew up between San Luis Obispo and Kernville in the tail end of the Sierra, and up the Valley from Bakersfield to Delano. From the time I was three months old, we spent a lot of time on the Monterey Peninsula, and in 1940, when I was ten years old, we moved to Pacific Grove permanently. Graduating from Pacific Grove High School in 1947, I was off to the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque as an NROTC student, flunked out, went back, got married, graduated in 1953, spent three years on active duty with the Navy, went to work with Dean Witter as a stockbroker and branch manager in Oakland and San Francisco, retired thirty-eight years later. We moved to Carmel permanently, I hope, in 1991 and I started writing seriously in 2005, about a year after my wife Susie's death. I have three great kids-Scott, Laura, and Carrie-and six above average grandkids, and a sweetheart also named Susie. More about all of this some other time. Enjoy this accounting of life in Pacific Grove, one of John Steinbeck's homes as well during this time of life.

Dear Polly, Have you read Harold's Country Boy book?It's a humdinger! Sure brings back the memories-the farm, the boys, Helen and Roy and those kids. Talk about mischief, swiping the carrots and then taking the tie-down rope for a swing. Never saw Oscar so mad as when the load came off. Course he couldn't wallop 'im with Helen right there.Then that thing with the dog, blood all over, near scared us to death. And that old sow gonna eat him. Never been so frightened as when the burglar took off with him. I thought he'd do something terrible to the boy.I tell you, Polly, the little scamp kept me up nights wondering what he was a gonna get into next.Made me feel right at home again.Bye for now, GRAN'MABe sure to read Harold's "California Country Boy" You hear me?

The life of Katsuchika Tamura, with letters to his wife, Umeno Tamura, from American Internment Camps, 1941-1946

The illuminating story of one woman's strength, courage, and trust in God under unimaginable circumstances. Imagine... getting the shocking diagnosis of breast cancer at 36. And reeling from this blow, discovering that, while cancer cells invade one part of your body, a new life stirs in your womb. Robin Kimple Ellis recounts her unique and heart-wrenching scenario in a series of vignettes that are alternatively terrifying, humorous, hopeful and inspiring.

Marissa Ohara and Charles Lyons are freelance musicians working in the casino orchestras in Las Vegas in the 1970s. They are among a handful of classically trained string players in the bands that backed the popular singers of the day: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Bob Goulet, Shirley MacLaine, etc. The bands were basically Big Band, and the added strings produced rich symphonic sounds to enhance these idols' spectacular shows. Marissa and Charlie form a close friendship that eventually leads to marriage. The reader is taken behind the scenes of the workplace-backstage and the band rooms-to see the interaction between the players and the stars who were idols in the then-flourishing music business. In 1970 Las Vegas was just a budding desert town. It had a small branch of the University of Nevada where Charlie enrolled as candidate for a doctorate in Nevada history. He supported himself while in college by continuing to play in the Strip orchestras. Marissa lived with him and worked full time in the casino bands for the big stars who appeared nonstop for two decades.Marissa Ohara is not Irish, as her last name might suggest. Rather she is full-blooded Japanese, but thoroughly American by birth and upbringing. Marissa's father, George Shigeo Ohara, a second-generation American, was in his senior year at the University of California at Berkeley when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Through Charlie's knowledge of history Marissa becomes aware of her parent's wartime subjugation. She also learns about the life of the Japanese immigrant in California in the early 1900s: how people of her parents' and grandparents' generations came to America, and how they were denied social and economic advancement available to their white fellow citizens.This book also tells of the 120,000 innocent Japanese-American men, women, and children uprooted from their homes during the war, with details about the evacuation and the three years they were forced to live in barbed wire camps. These stories are drawn from the writer's own experience as one of those internees.

"This child will never walk," the doctor said. "Wanta bet?" retorted her mother. Fifty-nine years later, Donna Love walked over 5,000 miles in three peace walks in the United States and in Russia. Every step was a step toward peace. In Walking For Our Lives, Donna's third book in the three years since she turned 80, she tells how these peace walks alerted citizens of the world to the futility of the nuclear arms race. She chronicles her evolution from a passive homemaker to an involved peacemaker, and into a life where anything's possible and one person does make a difference. Let there be peace... "Journalist, mother and author, in Walking For Our Lives Love captures a combination of pioneer spirit and American zeal that brings back a time when nothing seemed impossible. I felt right there through the heat, sweat and each turn in the road. This must-read book is a reminder of who we are as American women-true, strong, and tenacious. Love's compellng story unfolds on the backdrop of an America in the midst of change that continues to this day, a reminder that individuals contributing together can make a difference." - Marsha L. Keeffer, MBA "Donna Love, proper society wife and mother, boldly set out to walk 5000 miles across two continents for peace. Participating in the Great Peace March across the United States and the Peace Walk in Russia transformed her life and her perspective. From page one, I was caught up in Donna's story-watching her change from passive homemaker to passionate peacemaker. This is a story not to be missed!" - Laura Davis, author of The Courage to Heal and I Thought We'd Never Speak Again And let it begin with me.

Memories, Memorials, and Monuments is intended to be a companion to Van Dorn Hooker's books Only in New Mexico: An Architectural History of the University of New Mexico, the First Century 1889-1989, and the large format picture book The University of New Mexico (with V.B. Price and photographer Richard Reck). Memories, Memorials, and Monuments augments the related book Miracle on the Mesa: A History of the University of New Mexico, 1889-2003 by former UNM President William "Bud" E. Davis. The book also responds to the University Regents desire to have a compendium of the University's named places.The campus began with a scattering of buildings on a treeless mesa at the eastern edge of Albuquerque. Today, the campus is a vibrant and green campus within the larger metropolitan area. The black and white pictures of early buildings depict the buildings and places at or close to the time they were named. These buildings and places may not be recognizable today. And as with any change in the built environment, some named buildings and several markers have been lost to time. Background information may be missing. This first compendium, therefore, is admittedly incomplete and limited to the University of New Mexico's Albuquerque campus. The authors hope that the book will spur others, including those associated with the satellite campuses, to carry on the effort as new information becomes available, the University changes, and the next generation establishes new memorials.

Meet Preston "Presto" Kane... freelance writer, former newspaper reporter, part-time researcher for a Pacific Grove private investigator. When Presto is assigned to ferret out background information on the upcoming auction of a legendary gem, it all seems part of a normal day's work-until a young woman turns up dead in Presto's shower and he's the prime suspect. Suddenly Presto is a man with a target on his back, the grand prize in a cat-and-mouse game played out in renowned locales throughout the Monterey Peninsula, from Pacific Grove's quaint cottages to the mansions in Carmel Highlands and beyond.Even though Presto's favorite weapon is his wry wit, he is forced to learn to shoot straight and drive like Mario Andretti as he eludes his pursuers and digs for the truth. The stakes ratchet up with players ranging from old money families to a crooked cop, Hollywood wannabes and a feuding pair of high-tech moguls-all against the fog-shrouded backdrop of the world-famous Monterey Peninsula. Fans of mysteries with a fast-thinking, wise-cracking amateur sleuth will take an instant liking to Preston Kane ...... while anyone who has fallen in love with the beauty and heritage of the Monterey Peninsula won't want to missA Quaint Town for a KillingA Quaint Town for a Killing is the third of 11 Pacific Grove Books by Patricia Hamilton, for and about residents and visitors to Butterfly Town USA,

Following the success of Book #2, Life in Pacific Grove has expanded to include 20 selected essays by local writers, from the intellectual to Sandy, the Whale, to Gary Kildall, inventor of the personal computer operating system.

A smaller edition of Hamilton's best-selling "Maintenance Techniques for Interior Plants," which served to train and inspire hundreds of new interiorscapers in the early 1980s, at the beginning of the trend. Hamilton, a plant scientist and genius, was able to perfect the science to foster a 'zero replacement rate' for indoor plant maintenance.As soon as you finish reading this book, you will know 95% of the secrets to professional indoor plant care. The remaining 5% will become obvious after you have watched how plants respond to minor variations in environmental conditions over the course of a calendar year. Indoor plants are easy. They respond primarily to light and water. And, although you have no control over the light after they have been installed in a particular spot, current maintenance techniques make watering an exact science. Thus, after you learn how easy it is to water correctly, you can devote all of your working hours to becoming an efficient interiorscaper. As you make your rounds, you will notice how impressed the office people are with your plant skills. They will constantly ask you for advice. They will also notice, however, your overall attitude toward plants. It is imperative that you learn how to put on a 'show' for them. They are paying your company for two things - your watering expertise, as well as your personality. You benefit your company by doing both to the limits of your ability.

"e;. . . A lovely, evocative book. It conveys a hopeful love of life and a satisfying mix of reality and the otherworldly and supernatural . . ."e; ~ Writer's DigestDo we have helpers from other dimensions?Rebecca is an alternative high school teacher who never planned to have children. Although nearing fifty, she becomes pregnant with her partner, Reuben.Her sister, Martha has always judged Rebecca harshly for her footloose life. Much to her further aggravation, Martha's adult daughter has a close relationship with Rebecca. Now, a fateful event causes the two families to become irreversibly entangled.The Dream Loom is a metaphysical story of heartache, unexpected turns, compassion, and healing.

KUTUZOV'S DREAM—The final book of The Ur Legend series IS AVAILABLE 9-9-19:—On the fabled battlefield of Borodino, Napoleon Bonaparte teams up with his historic foe, Russian General Mikhail Kutuzov, to lend their support in the ultimate confrontation, not just of Good versus Evil, but of Good versus the evil in all of us and against a foe that refuses to take a side at all, creating chaos and cruelty simply because it can.THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA—The Ur Legend trilogy that began with Sun Valley Moon Mountainscontinues with The Girl from Ipanema. Once again, fantasy is its fabric, but this second book goes deeper, weaving a complex tale of a dystopian future. Old favorites and new characters engage in romance and conflict in preparation for an epic confrontation that will determine the fate of Earth.