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L'épouse du MacKinnon
by Tanya Anne Crosby Angélique Olivia MoreauDescendant des puissants fils de MacAlpin, Iain MacKinnon refuse de se soumettre à l'Angleterre. Pourtant, quand son jeune fils est fait prisonnier, le fier chef de clan écossais est prêt à tout pour retrouver son enfant. Rendant la pareille à son ennemi, il enlève sa fille, prévoyant de faire un pacte avec le diable. La fille de FitzSimon a passé toute sa vie dans l'ombre de celui qu'elle appelle « père », mais elle n'aurait jamais pu concevoir que ce dernier repousserait son unique fille. Même si Page en veut à son ravisseur d'avoir rompu l'entente passée avec son père, elle soupçonne la vérité... Les ombres abritent bien des secrets. À présent, seul l'amour de son réticent protecteur pourra sauver l'épouse du MacKinnon.
L'étoile du nord: Le mystère éternel de Tom Thomson et de la femme qui l’aimait (Biographies et mémoires #16)
by Roy MacGregorRoy MacGregor grew up in Huntsville, close to his beloved Algonquin Park, where he spent his childhood surrounded by stories of the famous painter. At the heart of it all was MacGregor’s relative, Winnie Trainor, the “old maid” too eccentric to be considered a romantic character, even if it was well known that Tom Thomson had once been in love with her. MacGregor’s fascination with the mysterious painter went deeper. Thomson had made friends in Northern Ontario, but also enemies. He liked to drink and canoe for days on end; he was also seen as a seducer. Be that as it may, the artist’s body was found in Canoe Lake in July 1917. The confusion surrounding his death and burial site was never resolved. In Northern Light (L’étoile du nord), MacGregor offers new leads and reveals previously hidden details of Thomson’s final days, as well as forensic data. Was Thomson a good-for-nothing womanizer or a visionary artist and gentleman? Did he drown accidentally or was he a victim of homicide? The myth of Tom Thomson has grown to obscure the reality of what happened, but the answers to many of these questions are finally revealed here.
L. Frank Baum: A Biography
by Katharine M. RogersSince it was first introduced over a hundred years ago in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum's world of Oz has become one of the most enduring and beloved creations in children's literature. It has influenced numerous prominent writers and intellectuals, and become a lasting part of the culture itself.L. Frank Baum was born in 1856 in upstate New York, the seventh child of a very successful barrel-maker and later oil producer. However, Baum's own career path was a rocky one. Beginning as an actor, Baum tried working as a traveling salesman, the editor of a small town newspaper and the publisher of a trade journal on retailing, failing to distinguish himself in any occupation. His careers either failed to provide a sufficient living for his beloved wife Maud and their children or were so exhausting as to be debilitating. In the 1890's, L. Frank Baum took the advice of his mother-in-law, suffragist leader Matilda Gage, and turned his attention to trying to sell the stories he'd been telling to his sons and their friends. After a few children's books published with varying success, he published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900 and it quickly became a bestseller and has remained so ever since.In this first full-length adult biography of Baum, Rogers discusses some of the aspects that made his work unique and has likely contributed to Oz's long-lasting appeal, including Baum's early support of feminism and how it was reflected in his characters, his interest in Theosophy and how it took form in his books, and the celebration in his stories of traditional American values. Grounding his imaginative creations, particularly in his fourteen Oz books, in the reality of his day, Katharine M. Rogers explores the fascinating life and influences of America's greatest writer for children.
L. Munatius Plancus: Serving and Surviving in the Roman Revolution (Routledge Ancient Biographies)
by Thomas H. WatkinsThis volume examines the life and career of L. Munatius Plancus, and through him, explores the tumultuous final years of the Roman Republic. Plancus had very active and lengthy political career, from his initial appearance on the staff of Julius Caesar in Gaul in 54BC at least through the censorship of 22BC. During this time, he was in close contact for over 30 years with all the major figures during a period of tremendous political and social upheaval in Rome. He maneuvered carefully and cautiously, changing affiliation from boyhood ties to Cicero, to Caesar, to Antony and Cleopatra, and finally to Octavian - it was Plancus himself who proposed the motion whereby the Senate conferred the name "Augustus" on the new ruler of Rome. More than just a biography of this fascinating figure, this volume also offers insight into the politics of this complex period.
L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology Studies (Elements in New Religious Movements)
by Donald A. WestbrookThis Element surveys the history and practice of Scientology studies over the past sixty years and offers resources for scholars and students moving forward. Section 1 reviews the history of academic research on the subject from 1958 to the present day. Section 2 draws on the author's fieldwork with the Church of Scientology to illuminate how founder L. Ron Hubbard (1911–86) is viewed among contemporary members. Section 3 considers Hubbard's influence and legacy in terms of the church sites and institutions that exist today in connection with the soteriological 'Bridge to Total Freedom.' Section 4 introduces English-language archival resources and their strengths. Section 5 proposes some open areas for Scientology researchers. Finally, glossaries of terms and appendices are included with major dates in Hubbard's life and Scientology research and bibliographical information for major archival collections in North America.
L. S. Dickey and the Valley Horsemen
by Sandra McintoshThe life of and stories about legendary Saddlebred trainer and dealer L. S. Dickey during the first half of the 20th century, in a time that grew a special breed of American Saddlebred horsemen. The stories of L. S. Dickey and his proteges from an area in southern Indiana simply known as "The Valley". These men went on to play a very important role in the Saddlebred world.
L. T. Hobhouse: Liberalism and Other Writings
by James Meadowcroft L. T. HobhouseL. T. Hobhouse was the most sophisticated intellectual exponent of liberal social reform in the early years of the twentieth century. This edition of his classic Liberalism, which includes a number of his other contemporaneous writings, will be of interest to a broad range of students and scholars in politics and the history of political thought.
L.A. '56: A Devil in the City of Angels
by Joel EngelLos Angeles, 1956. Glamorous. Prosperous. The place to see and be seen. But beneath the shiny exterior beats a dark heart. For when the sun goes down, L.A. becomes the noir city of James Ellroy's L.A. Confidential or Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins novels. Segregation is the unwritten law of the land. The growing black population is expected to keep to South Central. The white cops are encouraged to deal out harsh street justice. In L.A. '56, Joel Engel paints a tense, moody portrait of the city as a devil weaves his way through the shadows.While R&B and hot jazz spill out of record shops and clubs and all-night burger stands, Willie Fields cruises past in his dark green DeSoto, looking for a woman on whom he can bestow the gift of his company. His brilliant idea: Buy a tin badge in the five-and-ten to go along with his big flashlight and Luger and pretend to be an undercover vice cop. The young white girls doing it with their boyfriends in the lovers' lanes dotting the L.A. hills would never say no to a cop. Into the car they go for a ride downtown on a "morals charge," before he kicks out the young man in the middle of nowhere and takes the girl for a ride she'll spend a lifetime trying to forget.There's a bad guy on the loose in the City of Angels.Enter Detective Danny Galindo-he'd worked the Black Dahlia case back in '47 as a rookie. The suave Latino-one of the few in the department-is able to move easily among the white detectives. Maybe it's all those stories he's sold to Jack Webb for Dragnet. When Todd Roark, a black ex-cop, is arrested, Galindo knows he's innocent. But there's no sympathy for Roark among the white cops on the LAPD; Galindo will have to go it alone.There's only one problem: The victims aren't coming forward. The white press ignores the story, too, making Galindo's job that much more difficult. And now he's fallen in love with one of the rapist's first victims. If he's ever found out, he can kiss his badge good-bye.With his back up against a wall, Galindo realizes that it will take some good old-fashioned Hollywood magic to take down a devil in the City of Angels.
L.A. Freeway: An Appreciative Essay
by David BrodslyThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
by John BuntinOther cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends. Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as "the white spot of America," a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of "pleasure girls" and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men-one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief-each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city. Former street thug turned featherweight boxer Mickey Cohen left the ring for the rackets, first as mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel's enforcer, then as his protégé. A fastidious dresser and unrepentant killer, the diminutive Cohen was Hollywood's favorite gangster-and L.A.'s preeminent underworld boss. Frank Sinatra, Robert Mitchum, and Sammy Davis Jr. palled around with him; TV journalist Mike Wallace wanted his stories; evangelist Billy Graham sought his soul. William H. Parker was the proud son of a pioneering law-enforcement family from the fabled frontier town of Deadwood. As a rookie patrolman in the Roaring Twenties, he discovered that L.A. was ruled by a shadowy "Combination"-a triumvirate of tycoons, politicians, and underworld figures where alliances were shifting, loyalties uncertain, and politics were practiced with shotguns and dynamite. Parker's life mission became to topple it-and to create a police force that would never answer to elected officials again. These two men, one morally unflinching, the other unflinchingly immoral, would soon come head-to-head in a struggle to control the city-a struggle that echoes unforgettably through the fiction of Raymond Chandler and movies such as The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and L.A. Confidential. For more than three decades, from Prohibition through the Watts Riots, the battle between the underworld and the police played out amid the nightclubs of the Sunset Strip and the mansions of Beverly Hills, from the gritty streets of Boyle Heights to the manicured lawns of Brentwood, intersecting in the process with the agendas and ambitions of J. Edgar Hoover, Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. The outcome of this decades-long entanglement shaped modern American policing-for better and for worse-and helped create the Los Angeles we know today. A fascinating examination of Los Angeles's underbelly, the Mob, and America's most admired-and reviled-police department, L.A. Noir is an enlightening, entertaining, and richly detailed narrative about the city originally known as El Pueblo de Nuestra Se-ora la Reina de los Angeles, "The Town of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels."From the Hardcover edition.
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
by John BuntinThe epic struggle for control of Los Angeles and the history of the 30s, 40s, and 50s in America's dream city. Now the FOX UK TV series MOB CITY.Mid-century Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as 'the white spot of America', a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of 'pleasure girls' and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men - one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief - each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.The Mob had to contend with downtown business (the Chandlers, of LA Times fame), City Hall, and above all the LAPD - and the story is gripping. In these pages you will find the kind of gangsters, cops, pols, and madams familiar from The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and LA Confidential - only this time it's non-fiction, a serious portrait of how the 20th century's most dangerously unaccountable, intrusive model of pre-emptive policing got started. It's a story with great resonance today.
L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City
by John BuntinMid-century Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as 'the white spot of America', a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood stars, protected by the world's most famous police force, the Dragnet-era LAPD. Behind this public image lies a hidden world of 'pleasure girls' and crooked cops, ruthless newspaper tycoons, corrupt politicians, and East Coast gangsters on the make. Into this underworld came two men - one L.A.'s most notorious gangster, the other its most famous police chief - each prepared to battle the other for the soul of the city.The Mob had to contend with downtown business (the Chandlers, of LA Times fame), City Hall, and above all the LAPD - and the story is gripping. In these pages you will find the kind of gangsters, cops, pols, and madams familiar from The Big Sleep, Chinatown, and LA Confidential - only this time it's non-fiction, a serious portrait of how the 20th century's most dangerously unaccountable, intrusive model of pre-emptive policing got started. It's a story with great resonance today.Read by Kirby Heyborne(p) 2012 Tantor, Inc
L.A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand
by Cindy PattonA Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. Where Fred Halsted's Boys in the Sand is a frothy romp at a gay beach resort community, Wakefield Poole's L.A. Plays Itself is a dark treatise on violence and urban squalor. Both films represent particular, polarizing moments in the early history of the gay movement.Cindy Patton is a longtime activist and scholar. She is currently professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
L.A. Private Eyes (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture)
by Dahlia SchweitzerL.A. Private Eyes examines the tradition of the private eye as it evolves in films, books, and television shows set in Los Angeles from the 1930’s through the present day. It takes a closer look at narratives—both on screen and on the printed page—in which detectives travel the streets of Los Angeles, uncovering corruption, moral ambiguity, and greed with the conviction of urban cowboys, while always ultimately finding truth and redemption. With a review of Los Angeles history, crime stories, and film noir, L.A. Private Eyes explores the metamorphosis of the solitary detective figure and the many facets of the genre itself, from noir to mystery, on the screen. While the conventions of the genre may have remained consistent and recognizable, the points where they evolve illuminate much about our changing gender and power roles. Watch a video of the author speaking about this topic: https://goo.gl/Xr9RFD And also: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mkqw3mplruf7jje/Detective%20Talk%20Full.mp4?dl=0 (https://www.dropbox.com/s/mkqw3mplruf7jje/Detective%20Talk%20Full.mp4?dl=0)
L.A. Rebellion
by Allyson FieldL.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema is the first book dedicated to the films and filmmakers of the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African, Caribbean, and African American independent film and video artists that formed at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the 1970s and 1980s. The group--including Charles Burnett, Julie Dash, Haile Gerima, Billy Woodberry, Jamaa Fanaka, and Zeinabu irene Davis--shared a desire to create alternatives to the dominant modes of narrative, style, and practice in American cinema, works that reflected the full complexity of Black experiences. This landmark collection of essays and oral histories examines the creative output of the L.A. Rebellion, contextualizing the group's film practices and offering sustained analyses of the wide range of works, with particular attention to newly discovered films and lesser-known filmmakers. Based on extensive archival work and preservation, this collection includes a complete filmography of the movement, over 100 illustrations (most of which are previously unpublished), and a bibliography of primary and secondary materials. This is an indispensible sourcebook for scholars and enthusiasts, establishing the key role played by the L.A. Rebellion within the histories of cinema, Black visual culture, and postwar art in Los Angeles.
L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher
by Dirk Van DalenDirk van Dalen's biography studies the fascinating life of the famous Dutch mathematician and philosopher Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer. Brouwer belonged to a special class of genius; complex and often controversial and gifted with a deep intuition, he had an unparalleled access to the secrets and intricacies of mathematics. Most mathematicians remember L.E.J. Brouwer from his scientific breakthroughs in the young subject of topology and for the famous Brouwer fixed point theorem. Brouwer's main interest, however, was in the foundation of mathematics which led him to introduce, and then consolidate, constructive methods under the name 'intuitionism'. This made him one of the main protagonists in the 'foundation crisis' of mathematics. As a confirmed internationalist, he also got entangled in the interbellum struggle for the ending of the boycott of German and Austrian scientists. This time during the twentieth century was turbulent; nationalist resentment and friction between formalism and intuitionism led to the Mathematische Annalen conflict ('The war of the frogs and the mice'). It was here that Brouwer played a pivotal role. The present biography is an updated revision of the earlier two volume biography in one single book. It appeals to mathematicians and anybody interested in the history of mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century.
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
by Lucasta MillerA lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short stories, and criticism, like Byron though in a woman's voice, explored the dark side of sexuality--by the acclaimed author of The Brontë Myth ("wonderfully entertaining . . . spellbinding"--New York Times Book Review; "ingenious"--The New Yorker)."None among us dares to say / What none will choose to hear"--L.E.L., "Lines of Life" Letitita Elizabeth Landon--pen name L.E.L.--dared to say it and made sure she was heard. Hers was a life lived in a blaze of scandal and worship, one of the most famous women of her time, the Romantic Age in London's 1820s, her life and writing on the ascendency as Byron's came to an end. Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, a time of conservatism when values were in flux. She began publishing poetry in her teens and came to be known as a daring poet of thwarted romantic love. We see L.E.L. as an emblematic figure who embodied a seismic cultural shift, the missing link between the age of Byron and the creation of Victorianism. Miller writes of Jane Eyre as the direct connection to L.E.L.--its first-person confessional voice, its Gothic extremes, its love triangle, and in its emphasis on sadomasochistic romantic passion.
L.M. Montgomery and War
by Andrea McKenzie and Jane LedwellWar marked L.M. Montgomery’s personal life and writing. As an eleven-year-old, she experienced the suspense of waiting months for news about her father, who fought during the North-West Resistance of 1885. During the First World War, she actively led women’s war efforts in her community, while suffering anguish at the horrors taking place overseas. Through her novels, Montgomery engages directly with the global conflicts of her time, from the North-West Resistance to the Second World War. Given the influence of her wartime writing on Canada’s cultural memories, L.M. Montgomery and War restores Montgomery to her rightful place as a major war writer. Reassessing Montgomery’s position in the canon of war literature, contributors to this volume explore three central themes in their essays: her writing in the context of contemporaneous Canadian novelists, artists, and poets; questions about her conceptions of gender identity, war work, and nationalism across enemy lines; and the themes of hurt and healing in her interwar works. Drawing on new perspectives from war studies, literary studies, historical studies, gender studies, and visual art, L.M. Montgomery and War explores new ways to consider the iconic Canadian writer and her work.
L1-Norm and L∞-Norm Estimation
by Richard William FarebrotherThis monograph is concerned with the fitting of linear relationships in the context of the linear statistical model. As alternatives to the familiar least squared residuals procedure, it investigates the relationships between the least absolute residuals, the minimax absolute residual and the least median of squared residuals procedures. It is intended for graduate students and research workers in statistics with some command of matrix analysis and linear programming techniques.
LA BÚSQUEDA
by Jose Manuel Saiz de Omeñaca Monzon Kathryn Le VequeLa Búsqueda por Kathryn Le Veque Amor perdido y amor encontrado 1298 A.D. - Lady Diamatha de Bocage Edlington perdió a su marido en la Batalla de Falkirk. El duelo, no está preparada para la visita de Sir Cortez de Bretagne, que es comandante de la guarnición del Rey Edward en el castillo de Sherborne. Moreno y fiero por su herencia española, Cortez es un caballero con buena apariencia sensual y fuerte temperamento. También tiene una misión. Cortez fue el último hombre que vio al marido de Diamantha vivo y prometió al hombre moribundo que cuidaría de su mujer. Por lo tanto fue a reclamarla. Horrorizada, Diamantha se esfuerza por llegar a un acuerdo con de Bretagne, pero en su corazón hay resentimiento y odio: el cuerpo de Robert Edlington se quedó en los campos de Falkirk, donde el hombre fue visto por última vez, y de Bretagne, es el culpable. Por lo tanto, antes de que Diamantha llegue a ser la mujer de de Bretagne le solicita que le traiga el cuerpo de Robert a su hogar para un entierro apropiado. Y así, la gran Búsqueda para encontrar el cuerpo de Robert Edlington comienza... Únete a Diamantha y Cortez en su gran viaje desde los campos de Dorset a los terrenos sagrados de Falkirk, un viaje durante el cual descubrirán grandes y terribles cosas sobre el mundo, su país y ellos dos. De las cenizas del dolor asciende el fénix de gran pasión, y se forjan lazos entre Diamantha y Cortez que nunca podrán ser destruidos.
LA MISIÓN
by Noris La Valle Geraldine SolonDescripción La periodista de viajes norteamericana Sophie Matthews está buscando ese esquivo lugar llamado hogar. Su trabajo para Constar Communications le ha permitido ver el mundo y experimentar diferentes culturas, pero este estilo de vida nómade no le ha dejado desarrollar su vida personal. Próxima a cumplir los 40 años, las prioridades de Sophie cambian y decide renunciar a su trabajo en busca de un sueño diferente -conocer a un hombre, establecerse y formar una familia. Su jefe, Greg Sullivan, le pide una sola cosa: que acepte una última misión sobre la vida de la artista y escritora filipina Marina Suárez. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, toda la aldea de Marina fue capturada por los soldados japoneses y ella fue la única sobreviviente de la matanza que cobró la vida de los miembros de su familia y del resto de los aldeanos. Este hecho sigue siendo un misterio para todos. Sophie está intrigada por la misión pero renuente a regresar a Filipinas, país donde diez años atrás conociera a Eric Santiago, el único hombre que había amado en su vida pero que también le había destrozado el corazón. Pronto, Sophie se encuentra en las agitadas calles de Manila y el destino hace que sus caminos se encuentren nuevamente. Mientras Sophie intenta develar el misterio alrededor de la vida de Marina, descubre que Eric es la única persona que puede ayudarla a acomodar las piezas de la historia. Pero cuando finalmente descubre el profundo y oscuro secreto de Marina, lo menos que puede imaginar es que cambiará su vida para siempre.
LA PAZ DE EVE: Una secuela de La guerra de Eve, las heroínas de la SOE (La guerra de Eve: heroínas de la SOE #13)
by Hannah HoweAmbientada en 1948, La paz de Eve es una novela breve e independiente que evoca el pasado de Eva, sus luchas en el presente y sus esperanzas para el futuro. —Estoy aquí porque Cunningham quiere que encuentre a la Kriminalrätin Gisela Winter. Trabaja para un nuevo departamento, muy confidencial. —¿La quieren para los juicios de crímenes de guerra? —Eso dijo, pero sospecho que sus motivos van más allá. —¿Por qué lo crees? —preguntó Guy. —Cunningham mostró poco interés en Gisela Winter cuando regresamos de Francia; no era una prioridad para él entonces. Creo que algo ha surgido en estos tres años, algo que ha llamado la atención de Cunningham y su nuevo departamento. Tal vez esté relacionado con crímenes de guerra, o quizá con otro aspecto de la vida de Gisela. —¿Por dónde empezarás? —Marsella. —¿Hablarás con Michel y miembros de la Resistencia? —Sí. Guy dudó. Parecía inquieto, confuso. —¿Michel aún quiere que vuelvas con él? —Sí. —¿Y tú cómo te sientes con eso? Observé el muro en la zanja. Solo quedaban los cimientos. Aun así, era notable que esa estructura hubiera sobrevivido dos mil años. Me pregunté si nuestros edificios durarían tanto. —¿Todavía lo amas? —insistió Guy. Lo miré a los ojos. —El hombre al que amo eres tú —afirmé.
LA RAGAZZA IMMIGRATA
by Carla Giannini Patricia Ruiz SteeleLa ragazza immigrata Di Patricia Ruiz Steele Era il 1911. Una storia di immigrazione spagnola raccontata attraverso gli occhi di una bambina di 9 anni. Era il 1911. Hanno lasciato tutto quello che conoscevano -- a volte anche tutti quelli che amavano -- per iniziare una nuova vita in un paese lontano chiamato Hawaii e poi in America. La loro storia di immigrazione è epica, piena di tragedia, trionfo, avversità e amore. Allontanamento e promesse. Studiare la storia spagnola e le massicce risorse sull'immigrazione la hanno aiutata a dipingere un ritratto ricco di persone che sono venuti qui e della vita che hanno creato. Questa è la loro storia di immigrazione. Manuela, la figlia maggiore di una famiglia povera di Fuentesaúco, nella provincia di Zamora, nel nord della Spagna, che prende la strada verso sud in direzione La Linea presso la Rocca di Gibilterra e la nave degli immigrati, l'ss Orteric con la sua famiglia allargata. Eccitata, ma spaventata, attende l'avventura, Hawaii e da lì, l'America, la terra promessa. Sebbene riluttante a lasciare la nonna, lei si adatta alla vita sulla nave, l'SS Orteric, ma desidera tornare sulla terra. Mentre eventi storici reali spostano la trama, influenzano i suoi pensieri, la maturità e il futuro. Questa è la vita della nonna dell'autore in cui si rivivono la Spagna e le Hawaii. È un racconto toccante sull'importanza della famiglia e sui legami culturali in cui si impara a bilanciare i valori del vecchio mondo con la promessa del sogno americano.
LA REINA PROFETICA
by Mirella Sichirollo PatzerUn gran libro que te mantendra enganchado de principio a fin por su grandiosa historia,que no te dejara indiferente,un gran libro recomendado.
LAPD '53
by James Ellroy Glynn MartinA remarkable portrait of &“true L.A. noir&” with archival photos from the Los Angeles Police Museum and text by legendary crime writer James Ellroy (Los Angeles Times). James Ellroy, the undisputed master of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to present a stunning text on 1953 L.A. While combing the museum&’s photo archives, Ellroy discovered that the year featured a wide array of stark and unusual imagery—and to accompany the pictures, he has written text to illuminate the crimes and law enforcement of the era. Ellroy offers context along with wild detail and rich atmosphere—this is the cauldron that was police work in the city of the tarnished angels seven decades ago, revealed in more than 80 duotone photos throughout the book. &“These crime images resemble the work of photographer Weegee, but, Ellroy argues, they&’re superior because they resist artistry; they were taken by police officers doing their jobs.&” —Chicago Tribune