Chronicles Arnold Schwarzenegger's life, covering such topics as his childhood in Austria, bodybuilding and acting careers, entry into politics, and actions as governor of California.
When Chrysalis Moffat and her brother Eddie inherit a mansion on the coast of California, Eddie comes up with a plan to fleece their neighbors by starting a fraudulent Tibetan School of Miracles, and it soon becomes more successful than they ever imagined.
Fourteen-year-old high school student Michael "Storky" Pomerantz's journal describes his freshman year, from dealing with his mother's dating his dentist to attempting to win the heart of the girl he loves.
Presents an adventure novel that describes how Diego de la Vega, the son of a Spanish aristocrat and Shoshone woman, grew to become the elusive Zorro, who returns to California to reclaim the hacienda of his childhood and fight for the rights of the underprivileged.
Born to Japanese parents in America, Sam Hamada falls in love with another Japanese-American who is later placed in an internment camp while Sam is drafted into the army during World War II.
The author presents fourteen essays, describing and reflecting upon the landscape, plants, animals, and people of the deserts and foothills between California's Death Valley and High Sierra.
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.
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.
