Bones Of The Barbary Coast

Author : Daniel Hecht
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918012
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bones of the Barbary Coast written by Daniel Hecht and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-25 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bert Marchetti, an old family friend of Cree's and an SFPD homicide inspector, has asked Cree to help investigate a human skeleton recently unearthed in the foundation of a fine Victorian home-apparently the bones of a victim of the 1906 earthquake. The bones have been sent to UC Berkeley for analysis, where their peculiar characteristics have intrigued the forensic anthropology team. They call the skeleton Wolfman. Who was the wolfman? What caused his anatomical deformities, and how did he end up in that grand hilltop home? Cree's historical research takes her back to the unholy glory days of the Barbary Coast, old San Francisco's infamous red-light district. As she assists at the forensics lab, she also begins to realize that Bert Marchetti's involvement with the case is more complex than he has let on. Her narrative is illuminated by entries from the 1889 diary of Lydia Schweitzer, a Victorian woman with her own secrets-and her own compelling interest in the person who would come to be known as the wolfman. A vivid and elegantly plotted thriller that reveals San Francisco's hidden face across two centuries, Bones of the Barbary Coast tells the story of two women determined to face human nature's darkest aspects with courage and compassion.

Author : Daniel Hecht
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bones of the Barbary Coast written by Daniel Hecht and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dean King
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0759509697
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Skeletons on the Zahara written by Dean King and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.

Author : Jane Johnson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307409244
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tenth Gift written by Jane Johnson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling story of secrets and discovering love where you least expect it, in The Tenth Gift the art of embroidery uncannily links two fascinating women of different eras and their equally passionate love stories In an expensive London restaurant, Julia Lovat receives a gift that changes her life. At first glance it is a book of exquisite seventeenth-century embroidery patterns belonging to a woman named Catherine Ann Tregenna. Yet in its margins are the faintest diary entries; they reveal that “Cat” and others were stolen from their Cornish church in 1625 by Muslim pirates and taken on a brutal voyage to Morocco to be auctioned off as slaves. Captivated by this dramatic discovery, Julia sets off to North Africa to determine the authenticity of the book and to uncover more of Cat’s mesmerizing story. There, in the company of a charismatic Moroccan guide, amid the sultry heat, the spice markets, and exotic ruins, Julia will discover secrets long buried. And in Morocco—just as Cat did before her—she will lose her heart. Though they live almost 400 years apart, the stories of these two women converge in an extraordinary and haunting manner that begs the question, is history fated to repeat itself? “The Tenth Gift is wildly yet convincingly romantic—a rare combo . . . both a sensitive portrayal of Muslim culture and a delectable adventure of the heart.”—USA Today

Author : Patricia O'Brien Mathews
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838910734
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fang-tastic Fiction written by Patricia O'Brien Mathews and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathews uses a limited definition of paranormal, and examines works set, for the most part, in a relatively realistic modern world inhabited by both humans and paranormal beings.

Author : David Jensen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465315799
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside the Barbary Coast written by David Jensen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2001-12-12 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Pitman, Jr. didnt want to become a doctor. His father had been one and had faileda die-hard who had clung to cupping and purging as a means of ridding the bodys impurities. But as a stevedore on the docks of San Francisco no one could mend broken bones like John Pitmans lanky son Jack. Finally the young lad decides: If he is to become a doctor, he will be the best. INSIDE THE BARBARY COAST is where Jack Pitman chooses to open his medical practice. It is an area of San Francisco filled with saloons, parlor houses and opium dens, bordering on Chinatown. Fresh out of medical school, Jack saves the life of a young Chinese prince who is an actor in Dr. Pierre Louthans medical show. Louthan did not go to medical school but easily passes off as a learned physician with his European manner, silver-tongued ability to converse on any subject relating to anatomy, and his courses of treatment that involve a growing array of patent medicines. Jack falls in love with Louthans assistant, Marie, not realizing she is married to the quack doctor. Although Jacks nurse, the wise Madam Wong, cautions the young doctor, he is smitten nonetheless and fathers a child Louthan believes is his. Jack fights to discredit the huckster, hoping Marie will see Louthan as a charlatan and leave him. She, however, has plans of her own and manages to snare Jack in her own secret web. As Jack becomes consumed in his new practice, he tries valiantly to save the life of Hawaiis King David Kalakaua who is dying at the Palace Hotel. His friend, Gentleman Jim Corbett, the famous boxer, plays a role, as does Adolph Sutro, San Franciscos flamboyant mayor who built the famous Sutro Baths near the Cliff House facing the sea. Jack embraces electro-therapeutics because he believes it is the frontier of the New Medicine. When a prominent socialite is accidentally electrocuted in his office, he dismisses electrotherapy altogether and labels X-rays as another quack fad. But he is wrong and discovers his miscalculation just as tong wars break out in Chinatown and as President McKinley sends 10,000 young troops past the Golden Gate on their way across the Pacific to the Philippines. The young doctor from the Barbary Coast hones his surgical skills while serving as a medic in the Spanish-American War. When he returns, Marie still loves him but cannot find justification to divorce her husband. The bubonic plague hits San Francisco, giving the unions ammunition in their fight to exclude more Chinese from immigrating to the United States. Meanwhile, the always-scheming Dr. Louthan concocts a new patent medicine that increases sexual vigor. It is based on the findings of a European endocrinologist. Louthan experiments on himself, resulting in a fight with Marie that leaves their relationship damaged. But Pierre will not grant his wife a divorce, spurring Jack to join other physicians in San Francisco and around the country to discredit Louthan and other quack doctors like him. The plan works, and Louthan finds the underpinning to his nostrum business slipping away. Jack and Marie have just attended Enrico Carusos performance of Don Jos and taken a room at the Palace Hotel when a devastating earthquake rocks San Francisco. It is April 18, 1906. Shaken out of bed, Jack puts Marie in a taxi to go home and heads to the Pacific Anatomical Museum where he finds Louthan has been trapped by a fallen beam. As a fire erupts and flames begin licking their way closer, Nate Nordstrand, an old friend of Jacks who now works for Louthan, swings a fire ax to amputate the quack doctors leg to free him from the beam and encroaching inferno. But Nate is not finished and swings again, this time squarely across Louthans neck. An eye for an eye, he shouts, Jack knowing the full meaning of his cry. Jack returns home and finds th

Author : Brian Kilmeade
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143131834
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates written by Brian Kilmeade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass market edition of the New York Times Bestseller. This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa routinely captured American sailors and held them as slaves, demanding ransom and tribute far beyond what the new country could afford. Jefferson found it impossible to negotiate with the leaders of the Barbary states, who believed their religion justified the plunder and enslavement of non-Muslims. These rogue states would show no mercy, so President Jefferson decided to move beyond diplomacy. He sent the U.S. Navy's new warships and a detachment of Marines to blockade Tripoli--launching the Barbary Wars and beginning America's journey toward future superpower status. As they did in George Washington's Secret Six, Kilmeade and Yaeger have transformed a nearly forgotten slice of history into a dramatic story that will keep you turning the pages to find out what happens next. Among the many suspenseful episodes: · Lieutenant Andrew Sterett's ferocious cannon battle on the high seas against the treacherous pirate ship Tripoli. · Lieutenant Stephen Decatur's daring night raid of an enemy harbor, with the aim of destroying an American ship that had fallen into the pirates' hands. · General William Eaton's 500-mile march from Egypt to the port of Derne, where the Marines launched a surprise attack and an American flag was raised in victory on foreign soil for the first time.

Author : Tom Stoddard
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jazz on the Barbary Coast written by Tom Stoddard and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Francisco's infamous Barbary Coast was one of the country's thriving centers of jazz in the early 1900s. "Jazz on the Barbary Coast" captures the incredible energy of the black jazz scene of this era through the firsthand accounts of the men who were at the heart of it. Musicians such as Sid LeProttie, Reb Spikes, Wesley Fields, Alfred Levy, and Charlie "Duke" Turner recreate the hot spots, dances, rivalries, and lawlessness that characterized the San Francisco jazz scene and inspired jazz musicians for generations to come.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbary Coast written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressbook promoting the 1944 re-release of the 1935 motion picture Barbary Coast. Contains promotional suggestions, publicity content, and a catalog of assorted posters and other promotional materials available to theaters.

Author : Ronald B. Reiss
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450065287
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ON THE BARBARY COAST written by Ronald B. Reiss and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The San Francisco Bay Area’s unique history and setting provides the background for this collection of nine stories of the strange and fantastic, all told with a meticulous eye for detail and a macabre imagination. On the Barbary Coast: A young man, newly mustered out of the Army, finds himself working as a cable car gripman in Prohibition-era San Francisco. He discovers that dark forces from the past are trying to drag him back to the dangerous Barbary Coast of sixty years earlier, with deadly results. Old Bill’s Secret: A lonely old man living in a flophouse in San Francisco’s Depression-era skid row has a mysterious secret, one which comes back after thirty years to claim his life. The Line: A young architect in Victorian San Francisco discovers that his attraction to a beautiful, mysterious stranger has a disturbingly sinister aspect. The Apartment House: An elderly veteran’s bizarre secret, dating from the South Pacific in WWII, is somehow connected to strange, unexplainable occurrences in a converted Santa Cruz Victorian. The Mark: After his aunt passes away in 1928, her favorite nephew returns to San Francisco for her funeral, only to discover a shocking surprise in her Russian Hill home. The Red Maelstrom: After a young North Beach beatnik commits suicide, the power of her last painting develops terrifying proportions. Unforeseen Condition: A potentially expensive problem arises in the excavation for a new high-rise building in San Francisco’s burgeoning South of Market District. In searching for a solution, a construction project manager discovers ancient forces with awesome powers that change his life forever. The Satan Killer: With nods to H.P. Lovecraft and Raymond Chandler, this tale features a hard-boiled Berkeley psychologist who helps the police investigate a series of disappearances in 1954, only to discover a nemesis with powers far beyond the physical world. Ramona’s Face: A young hippie living in a 1966 Haight-Ashbury flat discovers an unwelcome roommate: the ghost of a former tenant, on a quest to find its own freedom.