| |
|
Seaweed, Salmon, and Manzanita Cider: A California Indian Feast
Margaret Denise Dubin
Heyday Books, 2008
The foods of Native California Books such as Seaweed, Salmon, and Manzanita Cider give invaluable insight into how Native American people created food from what flourished around them: food that is simple, abundant and, most of all, flavorful food that is both life-giving and a way of life. Richard Hetzler, Executive Chef, Mitsitam Cafe, ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience
Heyday Books, 2000
An important account of the Japanese American internment
Only What We Could Carry provides an important account of the Japanese American internment experience after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor. Personal documents, art and propaganda are presented in a title which captures the camp experience in a series of personal ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora
Andrew Lam
Heyday Books, 2005
STRIKINGLY HONEST AND TRUE
As I read this collection of essays, I almost felt as if it were my own memoir. Lam's feelings of growing up in two different cultures struck a cord in me and made me realize that someone else out there felt the same way I did growing up in America.
This is an ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Journey To Topaz: A Story Of The Japanese-American Evacuation
Donald Carrick (Illustrator) Yoshiko Uchida
Heyday Books, 2005
Great!
Books arrived in a timely manner (even though it was during the holidays!) and are in perfect condition.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada (California Academy of Sciences) (California Academy of Sciences) ...
Heyday Books, 2007
Great Sierra field guide
I have at least 10 books specifically on Sierra wildflowers and several field guides. This is the best all-in-one book. It's not too heavy for me to carry on a day hike.
Janice
in the Sierra
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
El Corazon De La Muerte/Altars and Offerings for Days of the Dead
Oakland Museum of California
Heyday Books, 2005
Great book
This is a great book for use in the bilingual classroom since it provides the same information in both Spanish and English.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Testimonios: Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815?1848
Rose Marie Beebe, Robert M. Senkewicz
Heyday Books, 2006
Immigrants and Incumbents
I wrote this review specifically for a collection of newspapers published in the Salinas Valley, but I think
it's more broadly understandable. Hope you do.
California: Land of Immigrants who Quickly Become Incumbents
Testimonios is an interpreted collection ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Allensworth: The Freedom Colony
Alice Royal with Mickey Ellinger and Scott Braley, Foreword by Lonnie G. Bunch
Heyday Books, 2008
Vera's Review
THE UNTOLD STORY OF CALIFORNIA'S ONLY AFRICAN AMERICAN TOWN.
Some three hundred families relocated to California's Central Valley between 1908 and 1918 to establish Allensworth -- A town African Americans could call their own.. Challenged by a variety of ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Seeking the Soul of L.A. On Its Streets
J. Michael Walker
Heyday Books, 2008
A unique book about a unique city...
In the first decade of the 21st century, Los Angeles is a city of change and turmoil, a caldron of roiling political and cultural innovation, realization and challenge, an evolving giant not yet fully confident of its strengths, and still very insecure about its ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Ohlone Way
Malcolm Margolin
Heyday Books, 1981
The way it was, before the Spaniards came
This book is a reissue of a wonderful, illuminating book that's destined to remain in print as long as there is a California. Painstakingly researched, The Ohlone Way is an engrossingly readable study of the way the Native Americans of the Bay Area lived in peace, ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Ecotopia Emerging
Ernest Callenbach
Heyday Books, 1981
Most reviews from Statesboro Georgia
Most of the Amazon reviews on this book are curiously from Statesboro Georgia. Perhaps the same individual writing multiple bad reviews.
I would recommend reading Ernest Callenbach's "Ecotopia" before reading "Ecotopia Emerging", as Ecotopia sets the groundwork ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Norman Clyde: Legendary Mountaineer of California's Sierra Nevada
Robert C. Pavlik
Heyday Books, 2008
What a guy!
I finished this book several days ago. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down (so I didn't). This biography is a balanced picture of a man who was an enigma. I really appreciated that Pavlik didn't try to go beyond the available material to create a juicy analysis, ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Heyday Books, 2002
Was It Really A Novel?
Were the "Grapes of Wrath" published today, it may like other recent books, have been classified as historical fiction as opposed to a novel. I am thinking specifically of "Artemisia" that was published as both in different countries. How the work is classified is not ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1786 : The Journals of Jean Francois De LA Perouse
Jean-Francois De LA Perouse
Heyday Books, 1989
Indians Were the First Slaves
I have to admit that I started reading this book because it was my daughter's assignment in a college history class. We were on a long driving trip and I told her to read out loud figuring it would be better than surfing the radio for a decent station. It soon became ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Blithe Tomato
Mike Madison
Heyday Books, 2006
Review of Blithe Tomato
"Blithe Tomato" is a little gem of a book. The stories are brief - just two or three pages. Just right for bed side reading. I read one or two before turning in each night. Madison has a keen eye for interesting and colorful characters. He has a dramatic flair with ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
