It’s 1961 and Palm Beach socialite, irresistible rascal and devoted father Jack Morgan encounters genuine danger while staging his suicide to shield his beloved daughters from scandal and disgrace. Next, meet his daughter Charlotte (Charlie), an over-indulged 23 year-old struggling to cope with the loss of her beloved father, her sister’s resulting mental breakdown and the discovery that she’s now penniless. Fortunately Raul, an admiring young attorney, offers assistance to the traumatized young woman, who can joke about her inadequacies. As terrified as she is about paying for her sister’s costly treatment and her own daily survival, Charlie soon realizes that she must learn what drove her father to kill himself. With Raul’s much needed ego-bolstering, she pursues a career that makes practical use of her lanky 5’ 11” frame. Despite roadblocks and emotional upheavals, she embarks on an ocean-spanning journey that leads to a family she doesn’t know, distressing truths about her father, crimes great and small, a diabolical villain and a fireworks of surprise endings. Excerpts from reviews of "Exceeding Expectations:" “Lisa April Smith . . . has woven an intriguingly rich tapestry of delightful well-developed characters into a perfectly balanced plot bursting with riveting mystery, crimes of the petty and the horrible sort, suspenseful twists, and romantic tension complete with love scenes that sizzle and pop.” “Set in the varied and stunning backdrops of early 1960s Palm Beach and Manhattan high society, as well as mid-1930s to early 1940s Paris . . .” Cari L. Pedstelak: http://audacityshewrote.com “. . . it's the authentic details of the time-periods that make it fun to read . . .” “historical and fictitious characters work in sync as they are perfectly set in these time frames, and midst the transitory madness of WWs I and II Paris.” “ Smith's writing isn't over-blown with emotion and sappy romance; rather, it is sophisticated and subtle.” “It’s witty, fun and sassy.” Deborah Previte: http://abookishlibrarian.blogspot.com

Exceeding Expectations

Romance

Smith, Lisa April

Romantic Suspense

Windgate Press

Pictures covering 100 years of Sausalito from 1850-1950!

Sausalito: Moments in Time: A Pictorial History of Sausalito's First One Hundred Years: 1850-1950

History

Jack Tracy

Americas

Charles Richard Miller, a young scenic photographer from Oregon, came to Northern California around 1900 and settles in the booming lumber camps around the base of Mt. Shasta. Within a few years he became one of the foremost photographers of the region, earning commissions from logging companies to record their activities, camps, and mill towns. He also photographed the private retreats along the McCloud River of wealthy San Franciscans such as William Randolph Hearst and Clarence Waterhouse.

Mt. Shasta Camera : The Photgraphs of Charles Richard Miller by Wayne Bonnett (2005-08-02)

Bonnett, Wayne

California Calls You: The Art of Promoting the Golden State 1870 to 1940

Travel

K D Kurutz

Gary F. Kurtz

United States

Taber: A Photographic Legacy

Wayne Bonnett

Linda Bonnett

Over 750 full-color illustrations of postcards, photos, artifacts and souvenirs. 9 /2 x 12", 184pages, index. Casebound, linen.

San Francisco golden age postcards & memorabilia, 1900-1940

Arts & Photography

Koch, Glenn D

Photography & Video

Book by Warren Cheney; L. Witwer (foreword)

Yosemite Illustrated in Colors 1890

Warren Cheney

L. Witwer (foreword)

A lively examination of movies filmed on Catalina Island, California.

Catalina in the Movies

Lee Rosenthal

Few places in the United States provide a pastoral landscape as appealing and memorable as that of western Marin County, a rural area just north of California's Golden Gate. Winding roads curve around vast panoramas of land and sea, enhanced by family farms tucked into unspoiled canyons reaching deep into the heart of the countryside. Almost unchanged in over a century, rural Marin has inspired landscape artists who strive to capture its essence and reflect the human and natural history that makes West Marin a special and beloved place. Illustrated by prominent landscape artists,Ranches &amp; Rolling Hills presents 135 artworks selected from ten years of the Ranches &amp; Rolling Hills Landscape Art Show, held annually in the town of Nicasio, California. The works exemplify a special partnership between family farmers, artists, and conservationists. The farmers whose ranches, animals, and crops are depicted here are lifelong stewards of the land, safeguarding a personal and community heritage. The artists are dedicated to helping preserve the land that inspires their art.

Ranches & Rolling Hills: Art of West Marin - A Land in Trust

Elisabeth Ptak

"Over 150 rare photographs of life along the river, the great riverboats, the impact of the Gold Rush, the railroads, and development of the Delta into one of the world's richest agricultural regions"

Down river : Sacramento to the Golden Gate : a pictorial record: 1840-1940

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