I WILL NEVER GIVE UP is the extraordinary story of Sjany Obispo, California.  Sjany's story begins with her as a young child who must srvive personal loss and the depression of pre war Holland.  Survival became a daily task during the Nazi occupation of Europe as things deteriorated and hunger and death were commonplace.  Her will to survive was severly tested after she and her family immigrated to the United States and new struggles replaced the old ones.

I will never give up: An autobiography of Sjany de Groot

De Groot, Sjany

Central Coast Press

Exploring San Luis Obispo County and Nearby Coastal Areas

Ron Stob

Geneva Hamilton's classic Where the Highway Ends is back! Included in San Luis Obispo County's list of the 25 most important history books, it tells the story of the early history of Cambria, San Simeon, Piedras Blancas and the North Coast Ranchos. This is the exciting tale of the rugged men and women who carved a life and created communities amidst adversity and calamity. From the earliest times when Spanish explorer Portola first set foot on the Central Coast of California to the present, these jewels of history come alive under the animated pen of Geneva Hamilton. Find out about: * the great fire which almost destroyed Cambria. * San Simeon's dangerous whaling operations; * Cambria's dangerous floods; * The quicksilver mining boom which created vast wealth as well as broken men; * how George Hearst saw opportunity in ranch lands around San Simeon and sought to acquire them with single minded determination,

Where the Highway Ends: A History of Cambria, San Simeon and the Ranchos

Hamilton, Geneva

Women fly combat missions today in the military services. They were just as capable 70 years ago. In the early months of WWII an enigmatic bush pilot comes to the rescue of downed American ferry pilot Roseanna Kendell in the northern wilds of Canada. The daughter of Dutch Kendell, president of North American Aviation, Roseanna is strong willed and volatile and has inherited her father's love of aviation. And from her Mexican mother she has inherited uncommon beauty and a bond with an extended family and their culture south of the border. When Roseanna learns that her savior is not only a Battle of Britain veteran but a 'Merlin magician' as well, she concocts a scheme to bring her new friend Waldo to Los Angeles ostensibly to work for her father but in fact, to become her mentor. She has never seen or met anyone who can fly like Waldo. But a plot to disrupt WWII aircraft production, resulting in family tragedy, changes her plans. With the help of her aging sidekick as well as a reluctant FBI agent turned Air Corps Captain, Roseanna sets off on a mission to learn who was behind the plot. After a rocky start, the three begin working together to solve a mystery that will lead them to more murders and take them throughout Southern California, into Mexico, to Washington, D.C. and eventually to Europe. It is a journey that will see them cross paths...and occasionally swords...with the likes of Howard Hughes, General Jimmy Doolittle, Hap Arnold, Captain Ronald Reagan, William Randolph Hearst and J. Edgar Hoover. In the process, the three will learn more than they bargained for...about each other and about who would destroy the Kendell family. Finally, while flying in the guise of civilian technical advisors in the skies of war-torn Europe, Roseanna and Waldo will fulfill their destinies from the cockpit of one of the deadliest fighters of WWII, the Mustang. Roseanna's Reply is a story about flying. It is a murder mystery. It is a story about family and love and friendship and a young woman born half a century too soon.

Roseanna's Reply

Literature & Fiction

Frank Johnson

Genre Fiction

Autobiography of musician Jim Conroy.

Life's an Art . . . and Singing Its heart. Ramblings of a Singer in the Band

Jim Conroy

memoir with photos early california

Avila, a Glimpse of Yesterday

Janet Farris

Special recipes from Scotland

WALLACE, Catherine

San Luis Obispo County Wineries

Janet Penn Franks

The Eastwood/Huntington story has one foot in the past and the other in the halls of Enron Corporation. It played out during the rising powers of the Robber Barons in the east and the California Big Four. The story is threaded through the whole cloth of history and told through the eyes of John Eastwood, a man of titanic ability who made his mark by creating the world's greatest hydroelectric project in a part of the Sierra Nevada called Big Creek. As the driving force behind the dream, Eastwood had to convince financier Henry Huntington that the massive project was feasible. Huntington was a man who demanded absolute control of everything he touched which created conflict with the tenacious Eastwood. The Big Creek Project is not well known today, although at the time, it was the equal of the Panama Canal in scope, difficulty and ingenuity. It remains the last great project done entirely with private funds. This book is a Pulitzer nominee for 2006.

Power From the Mountains

Business & Money

Barbara Wolcott

Biography & History

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