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The Three Californias Trilogy (also known as the Wild Shore Triptych and the Orange County Trilogy) is a book by Kim Stanley Robinson, which depict three different possible futures of Orange County, California. The books that make up the trilogy are The Wild Shore, The Gold Coast and Pacific Edge. Each of these books describes the life of young ...
The Boston Globe, though, called the novel "a mostly solid first book". The Washington Post suggested specific elements (including Lepucki's plot twist) were "thrilling" and "amusing". [1] The New York Post included the book in its "29 best books of the summer" [8] and the Orlando Weekly listed it in its "2014 Summer Guide". [9]
ISBN 0-385-72088-2. Hill, Mary (1999). Gold: the California story. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21547-8. Rawls, James J. and Orsi, Richard J. (eds.) (1999). A golden state: mining and economic development in Gold Rush California (California History Sesquicentennial Series, 2).
More than 150 years after the gold rush first began, some Americans are still digging for riches all over California. ... Like many get-rich-quick quests, the California gold rush caused a wave of ...
Densa has been used as the name of a number of fictional organizations parodying Mensa International, an organization for highly intelligent people.Densa is ostensibly an organization for people insufficiently intelligent to be members of Mensa.
Ed Eberstadt, a dealer in rare books, showed Holliday Swain's diary, which was part of the Yale collection. Eberstadt emphasized that it was the "most important" diary of the Gold Rush, but Holliday initially wasn't impressed with Swain's journals. After reading diaries left by other 49'ers, Holliday realized the significance of Swain's writings.
With the release of Netflix's "XO, Kitty," revisit her sister Lara Jean's journey in author Jenny Han's "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" trilogy.
The novel describes, in retrospect, the history and culture of California from its earliest days, and its influence on the rest of the United States and the world when - after an unspecified date in 1969 - the state suffers a Richter magnitude 9 earthquake and the populous coastal regions west of the San Andreas Fault sink into the Pacific Ocean.