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Doris Gates (November 26, 1901 – September 3, 1987) was one of America's first writers of realistic children's fiction.Her novel Blue Willow, about the experiences of Janey Larkin, the ten-year-old daughter of a migrant farm worker in 1930s California, is a Newbery Honor book and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award winner.
Larry Edmunds Bookshop is an independent bookstore located at 6644 W. Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California that specializes in film, television, and theater. . Containing more than 20,000 books, 6,000 original posters, and 500,000 photographs, [1] it is the last of many bookstores that once lined Hollywood Boulevard [2] [3] and was declared by film critic and historian Leonard Maltin ...
Blue Willow is a realistic children's fiction book by Doris Gates, published in 1940.Called the "juvenile Grapes of Wrath", [1] it was named a Newbery Honor book in 1941. . Written by a librarian who worked with migrant children in Fresno, California, this story of a migrant girl who longs for a permanent home was considered groundbreaking in its portrayal of contemporary working-class life in A
As of July 2017 there is a branch of Book Soup in the departure lounge of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles airport. Goldman announced he was selling Book Soup on January 2, 2009, then died of pancreatic cancer on January 3, 2009. [6] Vroman's Bookstore and Book Soup signed an agreement October 9, 2009, to purchase Book Soup ...
Circus of Books, also known as Chi Chi LaRue's Circus, is a bookstore and gay pornography shop in West Hollywood, California. It was established in the 1960s as "Book Circus", and in the past also had branches in the Silver Lake and Sherman Oaks neighborhoods of Los Angeles .
The 100-year-old building at 626 Grand Ave. was the perfect space Richards was looking for to carve her way into the Abilene book scene. The bookstore with its signature blue door was a dream for ...
The Greenwich Village club — long regarded as one of New York's elite spaces for jazz — will open a new venue in Hollywood in March, with 200- and 100-capacity performance rooms and a full ...
The store was founded in 2005 by Josh Spencer, the first incarnation being inside a Downtown Los Angeles loft. While here, the store sold books and other items online, then, in December 2009, it opened a bookstore at 4th and Main Street .