california

Profiles four true cases in which someone was driven by twisted images of love to commit a violent crime.

When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a 70-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.

Traces the life of Father Jun?pero Serra from his childhood on the Spanish island of Majorca, his duties and travels as a missionary, to his death in 1784 and his legacy of the "Golden Chain" of missions in California.

The author shares stories from her high-stress career working as a nurse for CALSTAR, a helicopter ambulance service that flies accident victims and other emergency patients to major hospital trauma centers.

Presents the life of the Bolivian-born teacher who immigrated to the United States where he inspired and motivated his inner city students to excel in mathematics.

The final entry in a trilogy of memoirs in which Dave Pelzer, brutally abused as a child, discusses the struggles he faced as an adult, and his determination to have a meaningful life.

When his high school sweetheart is killed in a car accident, police sergeant Tom McGowan suspects foul play and hires Dr. Elizabeth Chase, a parapsychologist, to help him find the truth.

Lewis Crane, a man who as a child lost his parents in the Los Angeles earthquake of 1994, is now thirty-seven years old and has developed a theory for earthquake prediction, but there are people who do not want him to succeed and soon the country is divided between those who believe Crane and those who do not.

Jaime Escalante, an immigrant from Bolivia, became a high school teacher to inner school Hispanic students with extraordinary results.

An exploration of the California gold rush, describing how news about it spread, tools used by miners, boomtowns, and other related topics.