| 单词 | California |
| 例句 | Back in California, on the beach in Malibu, he proposed to her for a third time. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z With two hundred meters to go, California edged ahead of Washington by inches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Leo could only manage it because he’d seen New Rome in California. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The Cahuilla lived in Southern California and once thrived in Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z His characters escape from Cuba on rafts of sticks and tires, refuse to harvest grapefruit, dream of singing in a rock and roll band in California. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z However, I spent the following summer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t imagine Mexico being any better than Southern California right now. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Her children saw striking changes in Shin’s confidence and social skills after a couple of years in California: he was less shy, quicker to smile, and became something of a hugger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We can only venture a guess, by analogy with witnessed events in modern times when steel-toting white farmers collided with stone tool-using hunter-gatherers of Aboriginal Australia and Indian California. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As California continued to improve, other issues surfaced, new resentments arose, and the relationship between the two programs deteriorated further. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He would know if there was a place where a mixed couple could live with something approaching safety, and maybe he could tell Wash something about Baja California. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He liked to sail mostly in coastal waters, up and down the coast to visit the small California towns, and probably just hadn’t thought of being out very far. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “And then, well, it is a big world. Maybe America. Somewhere near the sea. Like California.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z In my second year at Howard, I fell hard for a lovely girl from California who was then in the habit of floating over the campus in a long skirt and head wrap. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Six hundred and seventy miles to the south, on the Oakland Estuary—the University of California’s home water—Ky Ebright was facing remarkably similar problems. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There thousands of California fans dressed in blue and gold mingled on the span with hundreds of Washington loyalists in purple and gold, everyone jostling to get a good view of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baylor’s son was at the University of California Berkeley and she was quite proud to tell us and then repeat it at every opportunity. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Sometimes it still sucks that Dad decided to pack up and move just to run for the seat in California.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If he said NO NO, he could be sent to Tule Lake camp in northern California where all the “disloyal” were to be assembled for what most people believed would be eventual repatriation to Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom and I left California to come here. Start fresh, she said. She’s just really protective.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He dreamed of someday becoming the pastor of the largest Baptist church in California, with a congregation of a thousand and a four-hundred-strong choir behind him. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Long ago I owned a little ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains in California. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was 7:30 in the evening in Islamabad, roughly about the same time in the morning in California. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We travel west, to California, and the promise of a new life. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When she said, “The great Armenian-American writer who lived and wrote in California,” he said, “Oh yes, oh yes!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z At least now we finally had something to show for flying all the way to California. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z California used to be part of Mexico, though. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z After dropping off the last passenger in Berkeley, near the University of California campus, they’d returned home. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “It’s much greener. And the air is so, like, thick! The air in California isn’t like that at all.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Then one day he said he had to get back to California. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted a priest to watch over the farmers of the valley; he wanted a son to travel with him to the vineyards of California. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “And papá is still talking about California,” León said dreamily. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Grapes of Wrath, the classic novel about the Dust Bowl and the migration of Oklahoma farmers to California, ends with death and a glimmer of renewed life. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z After three days they boarded another train and began a languid crawl toward California. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Daddy Bailey invited me to spend the summer with him in southern California and I was jumpy with excitement. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But at least we were back together, and our future in California was wide open. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z On Valentine’s Day 2011, I finally got the chance to compete using some of my new skills while at the Gliders National Elite Qualifier in Riverside, California. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Soon afterward, Woolf drove from Maryland back to California, where he arrived at Tanforan to general applause. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Washington freshmen paddled over to the California boat and collected the traditional trophy of victorious crews everywhere—the shirts off the backs of their vanquished rivals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And in Salinas, California, where I grew up, although we had some frost the climate was cool and foggy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s either California, or going to work on the highway with him—” León thought aloud. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The MacGregors ruled the land near San Diego, and the Alacrans had a vast empire stretching from central California all across Arizona and into New Mexico. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Regina had moved back to California from Nicaragua after having dizzy spells, a result of heart problems. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Coming up to the two-mile buoy, the California shell rolled slightly off keel; a moment later it happened again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The two boats churned toward the railroad bridge with Washington in the lead, but by the time they passed beneath the steel expanse, California had closed the gap to a matter of inches. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Drawing from the entire California database, here are the names that signify the most poorly educated white parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It’s hundreds of miles long and everyone in Northern California has to worry about getting tangled up in it, especially little kids and poodles and now asshat surfers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z After World War II, business soared at Carl’s Drive-In Barbeque, along with the economy of southern California. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Although she longed for California, the magical place of light and warmth, she seemed happier than the rest of us kids in Welch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I would give anything to move to California right now!” my father exclaimed and banged his fist on the table. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But this time I felt excitement, not pain—the same feeling I had as a child when my family and I took the train north from Guadalajara, crossed la frontera, and entered California. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The last thing she remembered was sunning herself by a swimming pool in Palm Springs, California. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, I thought, I bet this would never happen in California. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z In acknowledgment of the University of California’s tolerant hospitality toward a laboratory that was now devoted almost entirely to government work, Lawrence dubbed the new unit the calutron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z An enormous moan arose from the California fans en masse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It had been two hours since they had defeated the California freshmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “You did very well last year,” he said, “except in driver education. You made the California Scholarship Federation. Congratulations.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Moved from China to Santa Monica, California, a few years after marriage. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z But a dozen or so family members would dutifully show up at each hearing, some traveling from as far away as California. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The finish line, on the other hand, ran straight across the water, just about intersecting the bridge on the California side of the racecourse but intersecting the Washington side several yards short of the bridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Though the audit studies can’t be used to truly measure how much a name matters, the California names data can. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer followed these terrifying events from his home in California, burning with what he described as “a continuing, smoldering fury” toward Adolf Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I had purchased an old sailboat, which I wanted to use to explore the Pacific, and I kept this boat in Ventura, California. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The California crew valiantly rowed on as hard as they could nevertheless. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Do you think I look like a ten-year-old who lives in California and rides magical flying bicycles?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “How about wheat? They raise a lot of wheat in California.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “To California, maybe. Wouldn’t you love to see the Pacific Ocean?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The GIs were spread on other planes and me and Peewee talked a lieutenant into putting us both on a flight to Fort Ord, in California. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Oakland, California, is a city of more than 400,000 people, but it can still feel like a small town. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In the summer he usually raced at the cluster of tracks around Vancouver or at another western Canadian track called Glacier Park; in the fall and spring it was California’s Tanforan; in the winter, Tijuana. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain stayed with me all the way back to California. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In Riverside, California, eleven out of thirty men picking oranges became violently ill and all but one had to be hospitalized. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She had intended to stay in southern California for one semester, but I changed her mind. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They are childhood friends from New York City, who started dating when they both went to college in California. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “If you put something in here — Miss California, will you do the honors, please?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He’s studying Astrophysics at a university in California, having finished his undergraduate degree in two years instead of four. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the postwar years, when an influx of demobilized students threatened to burst the seams of Berkeley’s outdated scientific facilities, California’s legislature and the university’s private patrons responded with unprecedented generosity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I imagined if I lived someplace on the very edge of the continent, like California, that the wonderful ocean breeze would set me free. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I know it’s reckless and unplanned and I’m choosing California because having Jamie there feels safer than being alone, but I don’t care. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Many of the women were fellow villagers; others might as well have been villagers, together so long in California. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother had a hot temper, and boyfriends and husbands came and went as they moved from one small California town to another. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I had originally thought about filling a cooler with Polyface meat and bringing it home with me to California to cook there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I flew to Los Angeles and drove hundreds of miles through the heart of Central California farmland to meet Antonio at a maximum-security prison dominated by gangs and frequent violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Invalids, retirees, and small businessmen were drawn to southern California by real estate ads promising a warm climate and a good life. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined us zipping across the California sand and planting our toes in the ocean. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z California challenged several times but Washington repeatedly moved back in front, still holding at thirty-two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I was fortunate enough to go to the Santa Rosa, California, home of Dr. George McCabe, a San Francisco State University professor, and his wife, Carol, and their four children. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “For sure. They started from the state of Missouri, went by here, and ended up in California or Oregon. They did that for twenty years.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Fie jumped into a friend’s Cadillac and drove to California to say good-bye to his family before heading into his final round of training, then war. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He’s probably trying to think of a polite way to tell me I’ve lost my mind—that I can’t move to California to be closer to him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It seems they’ll sell a high-powered rifle to just about anybody in California, but it’s against the law to aim the thing at an animal without a fourteen-hour class and a multiple-choice exam. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But before the Olympic trials at Princeton, Al Ulbrickson faced another daunting series of challenges: First the Pacific Coast Regatta with California on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But he was pretty sure Rome wasn’t in California. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Agricultural use of insect diseases, caused by a bacterium highly specific for certain lypes of insects, is already being tried in California, and more extended tests of this method are under way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ebullient and direct, she’d grown up in northern California, where her father had introduced her to camping, hiking, and skiing as a young girl. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Four such bodies were in existence already–in Hawaii, California, Alaska, and Washington–but oddly none in the largest volcanic zone in the world. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They spent one week each month at the Palomar Observatory in California looking for objects, asteroids primarily, whose trajectories carried them across Earth’s orbit. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Women came from as far away as Maine and California to form the new organization, the Women’s Loyal National League, which would work to abolish slavery and preserve the nation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He’d lived in California till he was ten, so he knew how I felt about the sun. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z California feels like it’s slipping farther and farther away from me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I'd flown to South Dakota, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Arkansas, Virginia, Wisconsin, and California to argue cases on behalf of condemned children over the preceding months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z California fans rushed up the hill and demanded their winnings from the same bookie, who again paid out. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The duck hunters dropped him in El Golfo de Santa Clara, a fishing village on the Gulf of California. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s gone clean out to San Francisco in California for an encampment of the Grand Army. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They keep saying they'll get together one weekend, but that Southern California is huge. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In the beginning, family was the only thing we had in California. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Momma sat at the sewing machine all hours, making and remaking clothes for use in California. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexander tracked the progress of 650 first graders from the Baltimore public school system, looking at how they scored on a widely used math- and reading-skills exam called the California Achievement Test. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z California racing rules mandated that no horse carry fewer than 100 pounds, and Seabiscuit was clearly more than 30 pounds better than most horses on the West Coast. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The event would provoke the worst crisis in the long partnership between Ernest and the University of California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Emily guessed there were more houses in this one corner of California than in the entire state of New Mexico, where they had most recently moved from. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Not part of mainland Mexico, Ensenada was located on the long, narrow peninsula that hung down the western coast and was known as Baja, or Lower, California. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The Italians—four of them veterans of the crew from Livorno that had come within two-tenths of a second of beating California at the 1932 Olympics— also looked like a threat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z California fans who had been leaning over the railing as the boats passed below insisted that the nose of the Cal boat had gone under the bridge first, by three feet at least. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He grew up in Mountain View, California, just south of San Francisco, which is the absolute epicenter of Silicon Valley. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Prison jobs became civil service jobs; prisons within the states became more standardized and centrally controlled; and unions in a few states, particularly New York and California, became important players. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To the left lay the remnants of the Gulf of California, but presently it vanished and was replaced with drifting sand. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1900 it had reached California in the vicinity of the Klamath River, hence the name locally given to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I mean, that wife of his—Mr. Pignati’s wife—looked like she didn’t take anything with her to California. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z I went first to Fort Ord in Monterey, California, for basic training and then to Aberdeen, Maryland. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Blythe was in California, but the Arizona border was within spitting distance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At the California shell house, Ky Ebright sat on the upstairs porch, wearing dark glasses, nodding and smiling at people as they streamed by below, saying nothing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But Glenn was able to take advantage of the superb state university system of California, where tuition was free to residents. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z My sisters and I had stayed up practically all night California dreaming about what seemed like the other side of the world. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, she was almost exacdy what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “It’s like Guantanamo, except in California. I’m scared of what will happen if we get stuck here. There’s got to be something we can do....” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Namitha works for a company called Growing Stars, based in Cochin and Fremont, California. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The talk did not last long, since Linus, still on California time, was becoming tired, and the party was over at midnight. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Jesus, Jude. How many diseases can you think you have in one night? And all those freaking obituaries you read—like from every county in California.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Daniel Ellsberg watched it all from his new home in Southern California. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They ran crazy relay races without winners, because that, apparently, was another thing about California: Everyone is a winner. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z In 1975, he enrolled in graduate school at the University of California at Berkeley. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z From where we live now, in the California coast town of Santa Cruz, it’s a full day’s drive. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Success in other states followed, with California, Kansas, Arizona, and Oregon passing laws in the next few years. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He had done this several times when I was in high school and in college in California, for no reason really except to display his authority in front of my mother and his co-workers. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The bus would be heated, she reminded herself, and in California the sun always shines. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The distance from Ohio to California was so huge—he coulda been on another planet. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z As soon as the colt had disembarked in California, Smith had sent him to the Burlingame Polo Grounds near the Howards’ house. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon in May of 1936, driving a filly around the far turn of California’s Bay Meadows Racecourse, Neves was on the lead and looking like a cinch to win. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In California, we were always worried about droughts, always conserving water. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In California he fell among literary people and, as he still had a little of the fifty thousand left, in a short time he was backing a review of the Arts. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Then they told her they were on their way to California, and invited her to come along. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Like, his parents were divorced, but his mom would come down from California and live with them on some weekends. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Once I got to the NBA and started pulling down those big bucks we could get a house in the country or maybe in California. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z So when windy conditions resumed shortly after California arrived in Seattle, Ebright wasted no time. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I couldn't help thinking if she'd still been staying with us in California, the accident would have been avoided. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Even before we visited California, we knew all about the household at Oakland and its inhabitants, because Mother used to like to tell us about her girlhood. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Hatsue’s father— he spoke in Japanese—asked Mr. Oshiro if in fact there were submarines and if the rumors of an invasion of Oregon and California were factual. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z And we decided to be partners for Mr. Petrelli’s next geography assignment, which was on “The California Gold Rush and You.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z That afternoon in California, Tony Russo came home from a day in the park. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He lives in a forge that has been a blacksmith shop since the time of the California Gold Rush in 1849. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Chiron informed us that the Party Ponies had sent chapters from almost every state in the Union: forty from California, two from Rhode Island, thirty from Illinois . The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Kissinger guessed there must have been a copy at the Rand offices in California. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “I mean...are you guys just going to walk to California?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z More than anything, that was what my newly enlisted father, Seaman 2nd Class Milton Stephanides, looked like as he bounced in a landing craft off the California coast in the fall of 1944. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “God, I don’t know how they do things in California, but here, you don’t act like that.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z In the mid-1920s, the University of California was at a crossroads. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In recent years the State of California has reported an average of more than 200 cases of accidental parathion poisoning annually. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When the envelope with an Oakland, California, postmark arrived, I opened it and gave Vonetta her letter and Fern hers. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I wish it wasn’t so expensive to call California. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z California exploded off the line, lashing the water at a furious thirty-eight strokes per minute. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Oh, how I wished I could go to California. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There, she hands out food and clothing, often shirts and pants her children in California send for her to give. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Blake Grunwald’s parents’ home was what real estate agents in California called seventies ranch style—which meant it was long and narrow, dark on the interior, and built on one level. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t forget your snow stuff, California girl,” he said to me. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z In contrast, the Mediterranean zone of Chile offered only two of those species, California and southern Africa just one each, and southwestern Australia none at all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Very slowly, seat by seat, the Husky Clipper began to regain water on the California Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z You might say it would have happened sooner or later anyway, this sliding apart of such a large family, in postwar California. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, Jamie will go back to California before the summer is over, and what am I going to do then? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z California had also moved recent alumni into its boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Among these living carriers were fish that had hatched nine months after the last DDD application, grebes, and California gulls that had built up concentrations of more than 2000 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “You’d need a wallet as big as the Grand Canyon to hold El Patron’s paper money,” Celia had said, “and you’d have to drain the Gulf of California for the small change.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Another thing was the women. The white women in California. Boy! You never saw anything like it! They couldn’t get enough of us, huh?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Despite this, I had a bet with Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology that in fact Cygnus X-l does not contain a black hole! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, Adams’s long year in Vietnam was over, and she was sent back to the Oakland Army Base in California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah, freaks. California School of the Aliens, that’s what people call it.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Great-grandmother took him home from hospital, raised him in projects in Oakland, California, until she died of melanoma when Rondell was six. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Candice heard from many of Coach Washington’s students—some as far away as California. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When the Southern California ministers were really whipping their congregations into a froth, they would get rolling on the subject of “the Road to Hell,” a byway that ran south from San Diego. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z GM, Mack Truck, Firestone, and Standard Oil of California were all found guilty on one of the two counts by the federal jury. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z They appear as knackery trucks that carry dead horses, as collapsing dams, and maybe as beautiful girls with long dancer legs who drift silently through the dust of a California desert morning. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z California searches vehicles for vegetables and fruits which might carry pernicious insects and diseases, and regulations of these are enforced with almost religious intensity. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After I spent over a year in a coma, how could they have predicted exactly when I would wake up and then move to California precisely at that time? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “I can't go to California. I need to find an apartment.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Similarly, a 2002 survey of 122 California employers revealed that although most employers would consider hiring someone convicted of a misdemeanor offense, the numbers dropped dramatically for those convicted of felonies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Below them, morning sunlight illuminated the Italian countryside—rolling green hills and golden fields not too different from those in Northern California. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Father Rico proudly proclaimed it the first nursery in California, but the treasure for both of them lies in the seeds and DNA that are left behind. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Ten years ago, California had 10,000 incarcerated juveniles in eleven state facilities and six camps. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But when I was twelve, my mother fell in love with a man from California. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z In California, where all sixteen finalists were library whizzes, Sarah Trager Logan, the librarian in charge, knew teamwork would be crucial for victory inside the Lemoncello Library. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z It begins at a high school in Burnt Mill Creek, California. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I couldn’t blame him — the closest edible Mexican food was probably in southern California. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “We endeavor to keep track of those who are discharged and receive reports from time to time,” the general superintendent for the California State hospital concluded cheerfully in 1912. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His son, Muhammad Faisal, had “met” me on American television while attending a Northern California university. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to college in California to escape them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “There are places in California where they speak Klingon. You can get a job there.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I had to go back to an appellate court in California and argue to get that sentence replaced with a reasonable sentence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I stepped into some clean State of California underwear and pulled on another pair of Burnt Mill Creek Pioneers basketball shorts. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I want To fly them to California, But then walk Them to my library. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It should also be noted that the $25,000 bonus for California teachers was eventually revoked, in part because of suspicions that too much of the money was going to cheaters. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was called the California Arrow, though Red Rabbit was a rocket compared to it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, were traveling but we have no idea where we’ll end up. How can you walk from New York to California in a day?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Much of California will float off and become a kind of Madagascar of the Pacific. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The California state flag hangs above her bed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Half of the soldiers were black, mostly from Chicago, the other half white, mostly from California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Hard to believe that only one week before, I’d placed first at Trials in San Jose, California. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I heard he went to California,” she said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When the start was called, California jumped out in front and then settled in at thirty-two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Maybe here in California, people did that all the time. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z After Christmas he announced that he was going to take us to California for vacation. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z In one recent ten-year stretch, each of these names was given to at least two thousand babies in California—fewer than 2 percent of them black. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Scruggs was discharged the same day he deplaned from Vietnam in Oakland, California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Mother came from a well-to-do family in Oakland, California. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes me wonder if I’m being an idiot for hiding out in California when I have a job waiting for me back home. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Standing up, they probably would’ve been eight feet tall—tiny compared to the giant Polybotes or even the Cyclopes they’d seen in California, but that didn’t make them any less scary. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Sometimes on the weekends there would be what might be called excessive traffic, but I confined my driving to the weekdays and it did not get thick until I was close to Southern California. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Or consider the fate of the Mexicans who immigrated to California between 1900 and the end of the 1920s to work in the fields of the big fruit and vegetable growers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Also, California boys are cute in a different way from New York boys. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z We had just passed Hawaii and here came the California coast, visible from Alaska to Mexico, and my bacon cubes not yet finished. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock, and escaped death only through skilled medical attention. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I didn’t have to be back in California until the following week. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Then Washington began to overtake California, methodically, seat by seat, the boys still rowing at a remarkably low thirty. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A regular, nondescript conventional train that has probably been decommissioned, since California rail has gone high-speed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I had thought for months of going to Sacramento or somewhere else in California’s Central Valley not far from Berkeley, where I’d spent the spring. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z According to one freight bill, the Underworld’s billing address was DOA Recording Studios, West Hollywood, California. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Minutes later the official results were announced: Ky Ebright and California had won their third consecutive national varsity title, by one-third of a second. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By the end of August, William Faulkner left California to return to Mississippi. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She would’ve come with me today, but she’s in California with her family, touring Berkeley and a couple of other state schools. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His dad had been the delegate to cast the votes from California that put her over, and they all cried. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In 2003, a study by University of California, Davis, researchers studied two crops of corn, strawberries, and blackberries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He could haunt Montana or shack up in the mountains of Southern California. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Al Ulbrickson had arranged for them to move into Cornell’s former house, a much more substantial structure on the east side of the river, right next door to the California house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The amount used on California farms alone could, according to one medical authority, “provide a lethal dose for 5 to 10 times the whole world’s population.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “You should come to California with me. We could go to Disneyland or Universal Studios. You know, to celebrate graduating high school.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for them, a fold of the map crossed Baja California over a small coastal town named Tomatan, printed in small letters. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “It must be really different here from California.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Shortly after arriving in California in the spring of 2009, Shin began having severe and recurring headaches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Or maybe California, which, if I ever get there, you can bet that I would find the virtue that possession would show us. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I’ve seen the beaches in California, water that goes on for miles and miles, people basking in the perfect waves first thing in the morning. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z With quarters, nickels, and dimes jostling in my pocket, I stepped off the train and into the California sunshine. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Beth’s been gone for six whole weeks at a summer college-prep program in California. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z At 3:00 p.m., in a light chop, the freshmen maneuvered their shell parallel to California’s, did their best to settle their minds into the boat, and waited for the start signal. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The city of Baltimore didn’t give its kids the California Achievement Test just at the end of every school year, in June. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I take a walk over to the zoo every day. My wife usually goes with me, but she’s in California visiting my sister.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z She could hitchhike across the country to California. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z In Salinas in California, where I was born and grew and went to school gathering the impressions that formed me, there was only one Negro family. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "Daddy can't come. He has to fly to California," she said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I had a good life in California, pretty Victorian home with a peaked roof, a good marriage, a promising writing career, in-laws who loved me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was also marvelously warm, almost summery, the way December days can be sometimes in southern California. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivanov then asked Eltenton what he knew about atomic bomb research being done at the University of California, Berkeley. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z From the sound of it, had I stayed in California I might have ended up in a cult or at the very least practicing some weird dietary restriction. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z "It says here that you are charged with delivering oil to Japanese submarines off the coast of California." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1815, California was nothing more than a distant Spanish colony—a colony this woman had probably never heard of. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think I could look at art schools in California? Maybe some of them are still accepting late applications. Plus, California is cheaper than New York.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “But if you live in California, Daddy, you won’t be here for my piano recitals or...or...my soccer games! You won’t ‘always be here’ for me!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Movies is all pretend. They’re made in California, you know. But they prove a point. Make something seem real, and people will believe it. The public will swallow anything.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Penn remained out in front by three-quarters of a length, and even continued to slowly draw farther ahead of California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nearly every day now I run ten or fifteen miles, barely clothed, my skin exposed to the California winter rain and wind or the summer sun of late afternoon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With the bad blood that had lately arisen between the Washington and California crew programs, Cal’s two gold medals had been bitter pills to swallow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Back in California, Papa had asked their landlord if he could plant a pine in the backyard. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As chairman of the Berkeley Physics Department, Raymond Birge was deeply sensitive to the threat Harvard’s offer posed to the University of California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Vannevar Bush balked at the sum, complaining that it was too much for the government to spend on equipment that would remain the property of the University of California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They had just boarded a train at Oakland, California, after the ceremony, and Mother was trying to appear blasé, as if she had been married for years. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I moved up to the front of the line to join my classmates who had also made the California Scholarship Federation every semester for four years. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Pennsylvania, Navy, and California quickly moved out in front of the pack, rowing high at first, then gradually dropping their stroke rates into the low thirties. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He picked the University of California, in Berkeley, where he quickly built the country’s best theoretical physics program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Wayne Grody, director of the Diagnostic Molecular Pathology Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles, was once a fierce opponent of consent for tissue research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z After being sent to live with extended family, enrolled in a public school in Guerneville, California. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Percy guided the boat through the strong currents off the northern California coast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The proper California School of the Aliens feedback sandwich starts and ends with praise—in between, people say the terrible things they really think. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was his mother’s sister calling from California to chat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day rumors began to circulate that California had held yet another time trial. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Dude,” said a kid from California, “I’m heading straight to the Electronic Learning Center so I can halfpipe the craters on the moon.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Barack and I came back from our honeymoon in Northern California to both good and bad news. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Three months after his sentencing, the judge would receive an evaluation of his conduct at the Division of Juvenile Justice, as California’s juvenile facilities are called. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He was sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of a house on the California coast. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Soon after, on a pediatrician’s advice, Louise and Anthony decided to move their children to the warmer climes of California. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I have no clear picture of California, having never been there, but I think of it as sunny, and warm all the time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I want to stay in California so I can be close to him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “We moved from California,” the new girl said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Why, at three and four, did we have tags put on our arms to be sent by train alone from Long Beach, California, to Stamps, Arkansas, with only the porter to look after us? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She said she had talked by telephone with her mother, and that her mother wanted all of us to move out to California. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Joe, clutching a California jersey, bounded up the steps to the upper deck, beaming, looking around for Joyce. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There wasn’t anything left to beat in California anyway. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Washington and California freshman crews paddled briskly out toward the starting line off Sand Point. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She snapped her fingers in the faces of all the yanquis in California. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Skeet was sent to Boys Republic, a residential treatment facility for troubled youths in Chino Hills, California. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z California voters also came very close to banning the death penalty; the ballot initiative lost by only a couple of percentage points. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It is the evening of a California summer day. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We were, after all, Mrs. Henderson’s California grandchildren, and had been away on a glamorous trip way up North to the fabulous St. Louis. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone who had a part in shutting off the flow of the Colorado River into California is facing criminal prosecution. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I remember she said she wanted to make it to University of California, San Francisco, too. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Woo,” it says at the top, and below that, “June May,” who was born in “California, U.S.A.,” in 1951. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the dad, who was there with his family, thought the other, bigger man would back away if he identified himself as being from Ohio; like Aimee was from California. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z It was the Hotel California of mental illness: patients who checked in rarely ever left. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He runs the new neuroimaging lab at the University of California at San Francisco, one of the world’s leading scientific institutes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z California took the lead, then relinquished it to Washington, then reclaimed it again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Whatever the real reason, The Truth, for taking us to California, I shall always think it lay mostly in an incident in which Bailey had the leading part. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Crews worked to widen all roads leading in from California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And kids in Ohio and Iowa and New York and Texas and California started using it, too. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure she began piecing together the details of our California trip that night. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is it true,” he said, “that the gals are prettier in California?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The Husky Clipper remained stuck on California’s tail. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Armed with a large grant from the Commonwealth Foundation, he put together a team of fieldworkers and sent them out into California’s elementary schools. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As much as we needed to go off and have our California adventure, it was nice to be back. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave us spending money for the five-day trip to Los Angeles, California. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z But Adam, looking out over his dry dust-obscured land, felt the panic the Eastern man always does at first in California. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Since the mid-1960s, he has been working out of a ramshackle Victorian townhouse at the University of California at San Francisco, where he holds a professorship. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One man from Sacramento, California, wrote to Claudette: The wonderful thing which you have just done makes me feel like a craven coward. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z It is the back road to the Sierras and the main route from southern California to Reno and Lake Tahoe. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The race was scheduled for July 16, giving Smith only a week to prepare Seabiscuit after his arrival in California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I had cousins in California and Oregon whose parents were basically a subspecies of helicopter, they hovered so much. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The Washington boys, though, declined to speak to the California boys, and vice versa. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It’s funny—when Dad was in California, Mom’s house was where I lived. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z But they were running out of steam, and California and Cornell just kept coming. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Standard Oil’s California Research and Development subsidiary read the handwriting on the wall: the decision was tantamount to cancellation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mrs. Holton, he explained, liked California so much she had decided to settle there permanently. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Does she live back in California? Or did she move with you?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Only a consummate politician could have balanced the interests of regents, legislators, professors, and philanthropists to build the University of California into the first-class academic institution it had become. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In its place was pure California Valley girl. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The rumor is that Harm Junior moved to California and became a hippie. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There were California girls turned Muslim, born anew, in hijab and long skirt. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Evacuation centers are being set up throughout Southern California in school gymnasiums, churches, and malls—but there seems to be a staggering number of people who are choosing not to cooperate with these government mandates.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “You didn’t have to. That’s the other thing about California. People move here just to get divorced.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z While Mamá helped him put on the white shirt, I slipped into my graduation gown and put on my white silk California Scholarship Federation sash. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It’s not California I long for anymore, or even Dad—it’s sixth grade and another year with Mr. Terupt. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z She’s already very skilled at it, having helped on some of Dad’s plays back in California, but now she’s writing for herself. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z In 1988 she did just that, and to her surprise Fischer phoned her from California. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The California supreme court agreed and overturned the earlier guilty verdict. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Stheno just kept toting them across California so she could offer Percy a snack before she killed him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But for the most part, the people of Bakersfield, California, are following the rules of rubbish, meaning that they are tossing their garden waste in the right direction. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The Warners stayed free in a condo that belonged to Neal Harris, Terryl’s old friend from Southern California who had been engaged to April before she died of cancer. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z In fact, Simitian pointed out that the California Highway Patrol had been collecting data since 2001 and found that cell phone use was the number one cause each year in distractions leading to car accidents. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Usually in summer I do lots of things by myself because my best friend, Melissa, spends the whole vacation in California with her dad. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The warmest and coziest of them were the Bears from California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Several ran for public office, and there were two superior court justices, one municipal court judge, two members of the California state legislature, and one prominent state official. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I used to live in California,” the first man said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z I would tell them that the Border Patrol officer had made a mistake thinking I was here illegally, that once I proved to him I was born in Colton, California, he let me back in. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Richard was released on GPS early on, but eventually he was sentenced to a group home in Redding, California, a three-and-a-half-hour drive from Oakland. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I have never been outside the state of California in the nearly seventeen years that my atoms and molecules have been stuck together, walking around and calling themselves Finn. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z In late August, traveling as George Leonard and Edward Warren, Liddy and Hunt flew to California to conduct a feasibility study for the Ellsberg job. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Rashid claimed Z had headed for California, but no one else had heard from Z. No one knew what to believe. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The conflict involved the University of California’s loyalty oath. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The fire had been big news and every mushroom hunter in California would be out looking for morels there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A geologist from the University of California named Stanley Margolis came to the museum and spent two days examining the surface of the statue with a high-resolution stereomicroscope. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I needed someone skilled in the arts of hunting and gathering who also knew a lot about the animals, plants, and fungi of northern California. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My father’s dream was to gather his sons around him and move westward to the land of the setting sun, to the vineyards of California. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But in fewer than ten years, California’s juvenile facilities went from being some of the worst in the nation to some of the best. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Not long ago in a large university town in California, on a street called Orchard Avenue, a strange old man ran a dusty shabby store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “This company is the second largest taxpayer in the state of California and as such contributes very largely to the funds of the university,” he lectured Berkeley’s research dean, A. O. Leuschner. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She asks him about college, and California, and whether he has a girlfriend—it's so uncomfortable—and eventually she asks how his parents are doing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He wore dark jeans and a cream sweater that was too warm for a Southern California fall. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The governor of the state of California bought every single eleventh-grade Pioneer ice cream sandwiches. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t have to wonder whether I loved him or not, or have to answer “Does Daddy’s baby want to go to California with Daddy?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And in his final months, they came back to him, hundreds of them, from Boston, New York, California, London, and Switzerland; from corporate offices and inner city school programs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The California Turf Writers Association, recognizing that a lack of official information had created this absurd situation, demanded that the stewards clear things up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1965, while he was living in Berkeley, California, he began singing songs at the early protest rallies that had sprung up against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “He directs plays and found a girlfriend at his work. A beautiful actress from one of his productions. My mom decided we needed to get away from California and my father...so here we are.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Jackson and two other “Soledad brothers” had been accused of helping beat to death a white correction officer at the California prison on January 16, 1970. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I bought some of the highest quality fertilizing plasma available in California,” Barbour informed him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z California, on the other hand, would have to face Penn and Navy, both excellent sprinting crews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That whole thing unfolded a few years earlier, when Jayme was eight months old and the family still lived in Southern California. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When I was a child on the ranch near Salinas, California, we had a Chinese cook who regularly made a modest good thing of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z If this seems absurd, consider the situation in the citrus groves of California, where the world’s most famous and successful experiment in biological control was carried out in the 1880’s. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As they carried their shells down the ramp to the water, the national champion California boys were an intimidating sight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Even though they’d only just moved to California and she and James weren’t talking, she wouldn’t trade these last few weeks away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Sent to the Hancock College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria, California, Louie learned that flying a plane was nothing like watching it from the ground. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z If it weren't for that, Stanley's family would now be living in a mansion on a beach in California. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “So, California. That must have been a change for you. Do you like it?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The most conspicuous such examples are the failure of both farming and herding to reach Native American California from the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then a voice on the official loudspeaker boomed out, “California by two feet.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Navy, California, and Penn now formed a cluster, far out in front, exchanging leads, cutting each other up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z "Oh, I was in California. It was fine." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “We were in Long Beach, California. We drove down.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Now they work as car washers in Orange County, California. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Remember in fourth grade when we made California missions and yours was from scratch and everyone else used kits from the craft store? We don’t know how to build a house.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Born in Bulgaria and raised in Switzerland, Zwicky came to the California Institute of Technology in the 1920s and there at once distinguished himself by his abrasive personality and erratic talents. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We drove to California near the end of die month. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z After hunting here for years, Angelo knows there are three groups of pigs sharing the oak forest in northern California where he took me hunting. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A typical office worker was getting interrupted by various media stimulation every three minutes in 2004, according to research by Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California at Irvine. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was located in the heart of southern California’s citrus belt, an area that produced almost all of the state’s oranges, lemons, and tangerines. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Comparing the rainstorms I’d seen in California with what we drove through that August afternoon was like comparing a parakeet’s birdbath with the twelve-billion-gallon St. Francis Reservoir. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He sat out the war as a technical inspector at the Kaiser shipyards in nearby Richmond, California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By luck of the draw, I was sent to Santa Rosa, California, to live with Dr. and Mrs. George McCabe. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Southern California had recently given birth to an entirely new lifestyle — and a new way of eating. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Hilly holds up a Life magazine, points to a spread of a house in California. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Sweet potatoes grown on California fields where BHC had been used two years earlier contained residues and had to be rejected. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It’s something, but, to be honest, I feel like my mind is broken into a hundred tiny pieces, and most of them are still back in California. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The California study shows that many white parents send as strong a signal in the opposite direction. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And all this time her mother had been living it up in California. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the crowns of podocarpus trees, or podos, the largest trees in Africa, nearly as large as California sequoias. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt filled them again from a pipe running out of the Gulf of California. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, California’s native hunter-gatherers initially numbered about 200,000 in aggregate, but they were splintered among a hundred tribelets, none of which required a war to be defeated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You know, we have plenty of world right here in southern California.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Correctional officers had the power to punish young inmates by adding time to their sentences, with the result that California juveniles were locked up almost three times longer than the national average. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Pete had won a scholarship to the University of Southern California, where he had become one of the nation’s top ten college milers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z And he could see California and Cornell finally starting to move up on both sides of his boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In southern California, it felt like summer all year long, the drive-ins never closed, and a whole new industry was born. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Pleads and persists that there must be some waterway to the Gulf of California. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The California sunlight had the pewter cast of a declining season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z While William Faulkner sweated in California trying to imagine what their lives must be like, hundreds of young airwomen were flying and fighting and dying over the battlefields of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Proposition 21, the law allowing prosecutors to file charges against juveniles in adult court, had been upheld by the California Supreme Court way back in 2002. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It took some doing, but right around the time California was swallowed back by the ocean, they were fenced off, too poisonous for use.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Let us now return to our questions: Why did agriculture never arise independently in some fertile and highly suitable areas, such as California, Europe, temperate Australia, and subequatorial Africa? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Because he blinkered out what he could not immediately comprehend, his travels to Tokyo, New York, and California did little to awaken a sense of wonder and excitement. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Not only were both suspended for the rest of the meeting, but the officials recommended that the state racing board ban them from all California tracks until January 1,1939. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Live in California and be a stewardess, that was my dream.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Next he tried the two- mile in UCLA’s Southern California Cross Country meet. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I didn’t understand how they could possibly swim back to Long Island from California. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Kahn sent me to visit a large organic farm operation called Greenways, in California’s Central Valley. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Shortly after that, Washington learned that California’s coach, Ben Wallis, was leaving Berkeley and that the school was on the verge of abandoning its crew program after years of less than stellar results. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My mother told me the other bag contained the most ridiculous clothes, all new: bright California- style beachwear, baseball caps, cotton pants with elastic waists, bomber jackets, Stanford sweatshirts, crew socks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And by the turn of the century, there were anti-suffrage groups in New York, Illinois, California, Massachusetts, South Dakota, Washington, and Oregon. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “You don't need to keep making fun of California. I'm probably not going back anyway.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Apparently after the quake, some parts of California were worth rebuilding and others were not. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z “I don’t want you to stay here. It sucks here. I’d much rather you went to California.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z She’d spent time in Louisiana and Virginia, where her father opened colored institutions of learning, and California. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z S. L. and his wife of Los Angeles, California, tuned to The Mercury Theatre in time to hear the newsflash about the meteor. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z They would race one more time in California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Through brochures and pamphlets it conjured up a place with weather as wonderful as Southern California’s and soil as fertile as that of the finest acre of farmland in Kansas or Iowa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I throw in a dab of secondhand Buddhism remembered from a friend’s account of a monastery in northern California where rich people pay to spend their weekends meditating and doing various menial chores, housework included. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It viewed Southern California as a better place to recruit and house the young volunteers it calls “Nomads.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Only recendy a sleepy village, Tijuana was fashioning itself into California’s guilty pleasure. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Before and after some of my interviews with him in California, he hugged me too. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z June chattered on about how she was going to visit her old friends in California for a week this summer and how she loves the gymnastics unit we’re doing in gym class. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I got the idea that maybe his wife had run off to California and left him. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Momma was relieved too, although she had had a good time cooking special things for him and showing her California son off to the peasants of Arkansas. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A giant oil spill off Santa Barbara blackened California’s coastline. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Outside of that first awkward attempt on the night of the perigee moon to discover Julia Bishop’s past, we had never really talked about the reason behind her relocation to California. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Under California law, a juvenile has to be at least sixteen to be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Lily and I were friends for a long time till she moved away to California. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Navy, Penn, and California left the mark, all rowing hard and high. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He canceled his next appointment and wrote me an absence excuse for my next class, which was California history. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Following the triple victories in California, he had taken to telling Seattle that he would sweep the regatta in Poughkeepsie this year, winning all three events. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But the zoos’ rigorous selection of California condors shows no prospects of yielding an economically useful product. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It couldn’t have been my grandmother, anyway, because she was in California this Christmas with her boyfriend, Uncle Gene. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Lawrence was the University of California’s first Nobel laureate—indeed, the first from any public university in the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Because of such incidents, I listened when my parents remarked that Mexicans were often mistreated in California border towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Wild California pig was the main course, but which cut and how to prepare it? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z During those six years, federal spending was responsible for nearly half of the personal income in southern California. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z From what he understands, the plant, which only has about forty on-site workers at any given time, has become a refuge for Applied Energy Services, and Southern California Edison employees. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Collegiate banners, faded but still colorful, hung from the high rafters: California, Yale, Princeton, Navy, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Syracuse, MIT. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “My friend Melissa’s parents are divorced. She’s in California for the summer with her dad.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to keep the disappointment out of his voice as he heard his oldest friend from his army days on the other end of the line, calling from California. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z The package was placed on a charter plane and flown to Edwards Air Force Base in California. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The nation’s car culture reached its height in southern California, inspiring innovations such as the world’s first motel and the first drive-in bank. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z The California data prove just how dissimilarly black and white parents name their children. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I order miso soup, shrimp tempura, and California rolls with cooked fake crab. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It also helped that my uncle had settled down in California and was willing to take us in. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “So how do you picture your school in Los Angeles, California?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Just behind the house, a freight train lumbered past on the railroad tracks that the observation train would follow during the California race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In California, for example, the loss of some 60,000 game fish, mostly blue- gill and other sunfish, followed an attempt to control the rice- leaf miner with dieldrin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After about a year of trying to explain it, Gregor came up with the story that his parents were divorced and his dad lived in California. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some radical group was holding a community meeting about police brutality, the new three strikes law in California, and the expansion of America’s prison system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They call this part of California the Inland Empire, and it’s always smoggy, because whatever nastiness is in the air gets blown here and caught against the mountains. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There were two unripped dots: one looked like Los Angeles, although there were a bunch of towns clustered so close together in Southern California that the type overlapped. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z But I wonder if even the brand-new Ford Mustang convertible comforted my father any the night my sister left for California to find herself. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Their mother gripped Sal’s steering wheel and leaned forward the way she always did, like she was so excited to get where they were going, whether it was the grocery store or California. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The Harvard affair permanently altered Lawrence’s relationship with the University of California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and wished I could go to California and then I huffed and puffed, trying to blow out every single candle. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The first bestseller list on which Ya-Ya Sisterhood appeared was the Northern California Independent Bookseller’s list. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As they approached Government Island and the halfway mark, California slowly increased its rate and stretched its lead out to a full length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “And you, what’s-your-name, Robert? What sort of pens did they teach you to use in California?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The next day the cousin said she and her son were going to her parents’ house in California, to try to recuperate. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Miss Skeeter say the peace dove be the sign for better times to come. Say folks is wearing em on they clothes out in California.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We are following in their footsteps by traveling from California to Washington D.C., announcing to everyone that we are strong and we will be heard. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Roberto, who is four years older than I, became excited every time Papa talked about the trip to California. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z For a number of years California rice growers have been treating seed with DDT as protection against tadpole shrimp and scavenger beetles which sometimes damage seedling rice. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Which means that the Colorado River won’t even reach California anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Up in the press box, the California contingent roared. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The bodies of 112 men, women, and children had been found in a church in Northridge, California, the third apparent mass suicide in and around Los Angeles in the past week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z He saw a white swirl of seagulls as they rose and sank along the Gulf of California. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In California, agents interrogated Carol Cummings and many of Ellsberg’s friends. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He wrote angrily to Pocock about it: “He heard that you said the shell you hoped Washington would use was a great deal better than the one you made California this year.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z California’s Proposition 21 was approved by 62 percent of the voters in March 2000. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Pack your bags and go to California,” said Tucker. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Young black men in California are now five times as likely to go to prison as to a state university. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Omaha, Nebraska. Sac City, Iowa. Alexandria, Indiana. Darwin, Minnesota. Hollywood, California. Alliance, Nebraska. Okay. Those are the locations of all the things she—well, or whoever read this book—found interesting.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z His main concern was that some Marine kid from California or D.C. had slipped in and, like him, was biding his time until the first practice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Our opposition was a club team from Southern California called the Pumas that had come up on tour to play against teams in the Pacific Northwest, where everyone knows we play a tougher game. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He spoke a stately English without ever using the letter R. When the tong wars were going on in California, it happened now and then that Lee found a price on his head. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “The weather must be different there than in California.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I guess being from California makes you automatically cool. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I bucketed Rocinante out of California by the shortest possible route—one I knew well from the old days of the 1930s. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The rocking and pitching reminded her of surfing with her dad off the California coast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The problem came to a head in California in 1896 when voters there were considering a suffrage amendment to the state constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I guess people in Oklahoma are more reliable and compliant than people from Southern California. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z But I didn’t care anymore because it was April, and it was Opening Day at Yankee Stadium, and the California Angels were out in the field, and the Yankees were up at bat. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Some were going to the University of California at Santa Barbara or UCLA. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “Absolutely. Chiffon cake was created by a California man.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I supposed I had screamed, for he materialized suddenly, and I asked him to help me and we’d run away to California or France or Chicago. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I ask Hiroshi if the job at the café is still available, and he tells me I can start as soon as I’m back in California. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z All began in Orlando and ended in Hollywood, California. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Even more remarkably, nearly 30 percent of the black girls are given a name that is unique among the names of every baby, white and black, born that year in California. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In California and New York, in the advertising world and in Silicon Valley, it became a kind of cult object that matched the stripped-down aesthetic of the new economy. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Up in Burlingame, California, Howard had just arrived from the East. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Its fearful power is illustrated in a fatal accident recently reported by the California Department of Health. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He once coxed a Washington crew to a humiliating fifteen-length shellacking of California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The rhythm of the California boat seemed to waver, then grow erratic. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She splits her time between her family in Korea and Uncle Gene in California, and by the time she makes her way to us for Thanksgiving, she always has a treasure trove of tales. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We lived in dusty little mining towns in Nevada, Arizona, and California. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z With the sweep in California, recent victories in Poughkeepsie, and now talk even of future victories in the Olympics, any Seattleite could suddenly stick out his chest and crow a bit. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I have no idea where we are, and the fact that so much of Southern California looks alike is disconcerting. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They came to California to ruin a man. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He concluded with the declaration that “no one could possibly question the selection of the University of California and Ernest Lawrence as the institution and the scientist to whom the project should be entrusted.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In 2001 researchers at the California Institute of Technology analyzed helium isotopes from sediments left from the later KT impact and concluded that it affected Earth’s climate for about ten thousand years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “This is our new Teen Dream missile launcher. As you can see, it’s a catapult. You can thank Miss Montana, Miss Ohio, and Miss California for that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Cornell, after all, had come within four-tenths of a second of beating California the year before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z California sportsmen have enjoyed excellent hunting because of the concentrations of waterfowl and pheasants in the rice fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That gave him three weeks to relax, play chess, and travel around California. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Highway 101 into California, then headed east into the desert again. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The University of California, Santa Cruz, was merely a forty-five-minute drive on the curvy roads of Highway 17. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The animal is not native, and is regarded as a pest in many parts of California. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But now that the whole of Southern California has actually been plagued, I’m a little disappointed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A prominent eastern handicapper called him “the most overrated horse in California.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Last time was in California. When the war was beginning. Night before we left there was a party.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Their mother gripped Sal’s steering wheel and leaned forward the way she always did, like she was so excited to get where they were going, whether it was the grocery store or California. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “All right, I’ll try. Have you ever heard of a place called California?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z After the reconstituted S-l committee finally got atomic bomb planning under way, its members met at the exclusive Bohemian Grove in California in September 1942, with Lawrence as host. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z How can circuits be busy if most phones in Southern California have run out of juice? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I try to send a mental warning to her, to tell her to get out of California and run as far as she can. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z California had drawn the most favorable lane— lane number one, nearest the western bank of the river, where the current was least likely to affect a boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The judge sent him to California's dangerous, overcrowded adult prisons. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z At least now we finally had something to show for flying all the way to California. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “What makes you so sure? Look, Charles, things grow so fast in California they say you have to plant and step back quick or you’ll get knocked down.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the State of California, things got crazy that night. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z California had had a rowing team since 1868, making it one of the oldest crew programs in the country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For a split second I thought we were still on the train on our way to California. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t tell him that where I came from was California, but then, he never gave me a chance to speak. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z One of them, David Saxon, an MIT- trained physicist, would become president of the University of California in 1975. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Todd Dawson, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, has done exactly that kind of research. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I don’t ever want Jamie to regret letting me follow him to California. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z My mom was from Southern California, but her parents were from Iran. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Mom tells me to call her when I get to California. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The case was appealed to the California supreme court, where it was overturned on the basis of another probability argument. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In California, the lawyers in the O. J. Simpson trial were becoming huge celebrities. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was in West Sacramento, California, a lawyer heading to his job at a firm that handled property-loss cases for State Farm insurance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Once in California, Mary had met a mathematician who spent every weekend climbing among the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The carriages rolled past Sitting Bull’s Cabin, the Lapland Village, the compound of the allegedly cannibalistic Dahomans, and, directly opposite, the California Ostrich Farm, redolent of simmering butter and eggs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z June’s college boyfriend, who broke up with her when he moved to California but is still the only person whose letters come to her directly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z On the other side, pressing for a development program at top speed, were Lewis Strauss and Gordon Dean, a veteran of the Roosevelt Justice Department now teaching law in California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Between 1920 and 1940, the population of southern California nearly tripled, as about 2 million people arrived from across the United States. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Our father left St. Louis a few days later for California, and I was neither glad nor sorry. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not plan on returning to California. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Mom did get a part-time job at a local bookstore, so she can interact with people and keep her mind from wandering back to California. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Dr. Strayer said that, in a few states, like California, talking on a phone was illegal while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Fully eight months later, I was in a boatyard farther south in California, getting my bottom paint renewed, and there was a state or county peace officer in the same boatyard. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When they first came to California, my grandparents picked asparagus in the spring and grapes in the summer and fall. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “The ocean wave reminds me of California, because I was born in San Francisco.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the fifth suicide at a California juvenile facility in as many years. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It seemed the whole place was built on waste from the Gulf of California. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I just had this need to get home and figured if I got to California, I would make it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that in California white folks were not in charge of our people as they were here in Arkansas. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z O High was his third high school in Oakland, plus he’d spent sophomore year living in a group home in Redding, California, three and a half hours away. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She packed up a simple navy pinstripe suit, hat, and sandals and embarked on her journey to California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter of the way down the course, Bobby Moch found himself creeping up on California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The ranks of marchers included many teenagers, small children with their parents, and a couple from California pushing a baby carriage. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Not as he would have a week before, as somebody in a parking lot in Ventura, California, who would think of waves growing larger. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only quite recently that I had managed to extricate myself from a long, claustrophobic relationship with a girl in California whom we will call Kathy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It was bad enough knowing our California vacation wasn’t much to hang a back-to-school essay on. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Our honeymoon was meant to be restful, a low-key road trip in Northern California, involving wine, sleep, mud baths, and good food. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Many times when I walk around Manhattan I feel as if I’m walking among giant sequoia trees in the California Redwoods. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z In the social hierarchy of California’s farmers, orange growers stood at the very top; their homes were set amid fragrant evergreen trees that produced a lucrative income. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z In Colton, California, he was discovered by another bull and thrown in jail. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In California, three-quarters of those juveniles are transferred by prosecutors using the discretion given to them by Proposition 21. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z While he sometimes flew to California or overseas on business, he was never gone for more than a few days. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z About a year after Maureen took off for California, I got a call at work from Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His dad is flying in from California for Christmas, and it’s fine, but it’s also in the Post. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There was no logical reason why he owed California anything more than the quality equipment he continued to send them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At home, he and Oppenheimer would take long walks around Berkeley and into the bucolic woods of Northern California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Emily guessed there were more houses in this one corner of California than in the entire state of New Mexico, where they had most recently moved from. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Navy and California moved out to early leads. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had not taken me to his friends or to southern California’s few points of interest. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You live in California. At least you can go to a theme park whenever you want,” I say. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Margaret eventually moved to Pasadena, California, where she lived through time of war and epidemic and crushing financial depression, and then war again. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In 1919, now aged thirty, he moved to California and took up a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z We were lucky to live in Northern California, I figured. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Mother had been planning for several years to take all of us to California to visit her family. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Carrothers left about two hours ago for the airport, headed for California. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It quickly became clear they had no interest in desert mining towns, so I told them about San Francisco and then about Las Vegas, which wasn’t exactly in California, but they didn’t seem to care. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Look: Even right here in Southern California, most people had never heard of the St. Francis Dam. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Didn’t she tell you she wanted me to come to California like she wrote me?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Another study from the University of California at San Diego found that creativity is enhanced when people let their minds wander, or when they do the most menial of tasks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Every part had been modeled and tested, even against the seismic shocks of shaky Northern California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then people began abandoning farming communities in California’s Central Valley, when it became the Pacific Dust Bowl, overcrowding the already overcrowded cities, like the big cats abandoning the dry hills. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In California, my dad was always the one working and socializing, while my mom hung out with me. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “I mean papá’s dream about moving to California, and mama wanting us to settle along the valley—” he said. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, I had been reading about the population explosion on the West Coast, but for West Coast most people substitute California. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in California, when Papa wanted something really fresh for the restaurant, he sometimes took them with him to a farm, where he bought butter, milk, or meat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z While the Muslim ban was tied up in the courts, Mehdi was denied a visa to visit us, and also his parents, who now reside in California. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The Washington boat leapt forward, the California boat hesitated for a moment, and Washington crossed the line a little more than a second ahead of California, with a new course record at 16:33.4. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the lane nearest to him, California had powered back out in front, rowing beautifully. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z According to Andrews and a dissenting California Supreme Court judge, the ruling didn’t prevent commercialization; it just took patients out of the equation and emboldened scientists to commodify tissues in increasing numbers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But ending a marriage in California would take at least a year, and we didn't have that kind of time. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I remind myself that she’s a California girl and probably grew up swimming in the ocean. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, the San Diego and Los Angeles zoos are now subjecting the last surviving California condors to a more draconian control of breeding than that imposed upon any domesticated species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The scout was Leonard B. Loeb, professor of physics at the University of California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sitting in the number three seat, Joe Rantz was parallel with roughly the six or seven seat in the California boat; in the seven seat, Roger Morris was parallel with nothing but open water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The nine freshman boys who had beaten California would go to Poughkeepsie to race for the national championship after all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As one California Highway Patrol Officer said, “It’s sheer numbers....You’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At the time, he was returning home from visiting some friends in California. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In the 1920s California was not the place to be for a man in a sinning frame of mind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z You left out Susannah, who lives in California and talked you into doing the play. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z On the invitation of a friend, he went to stay at a cabin on the Cahuilla Indian Reservation, in southern California’s high desert. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z National Guardsmen, called out by the governor to quell demonstrations, surround a Vietnam War protester during the People's Park Riot in Berkeley, California, 1969. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As she always had been, Lynn was obsessed with the ocean, especially the ocean by California. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Most of the families, like us, had moved out from southern California with as much luggage as each person could carry. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Several months later, three hundred suffragists in Oakland, California, marched to a state political convention demanding the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The setup was ideal—exactly what they had been looking for during the three days it had taken them to hitchhike from California to Nevada and across Nevada and Wyoming into Nebraska. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z At the university of Southern California, Louie found himself on a campus infested with world-class track athletes. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I have studied astrophysics and even waste management systems in space aircraft, but I have never given any thought to the procedure for custody or guardianship of a minor in the state of California. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z They w as doing a lot of hiring at a munitions plant in California and people was saying that the pay was supposed to be good. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But even the California boys did not climb back into their foxholes that night for fear the earth might move again and bury them alive. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As the California boat fell into the field of view of the Washington boys, their confidence surged. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But a study funded by the Ford Foundation and other private donors found that nearly 30 percent of California public schools provide no courses at all in the arts. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z After four days on the train, with no baths except for the sponge variety, we were not very sanitary when we reached California. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the year I finally put my foot down; these past three summers, my dad, Charlie, vacationed with me in California for two weeks instead. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Well, I guess that’s closer than California. Does he sound all right?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The answer lies in the California data, and the answer is yes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Howard Friedman, a psychologist at the University of California at Riverside, has developed what he calls the Affective Communication Test to measure this ability to send emotion, to be contagious. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the hundreds of thousands of such women in the California data, many bore distinctively black names and many others did not. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z On the other side, so Nico had heard, a fleet of black SUVs waited to transport the legion cross-country back to California. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Bobby also wanted $500,000 to be brought to him in advance—before he ventured from California to Yugoslavia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “My guidance counselor back in California always said that kids who are bullies are usually kids who have been bullied themselves,” she says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Still, 133 pounds was the highest weight any horse had ever lugged in modern California racing, and every other horse in the field would be carrying at least 20 fewer pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z California made a move, starting to sprint, going up to forty strokes per minute and charging forward again, back into the lead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the boat Bobby Moch took a look at the four lengths between his bow and California’s stern, and hollered to his crew, “OK, you lugs! We’re one length behind.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We got home from California to learn that the publisher had canceled his contract, sending word through his literary agent that Barack was now on the hook to pay back his $40,000 advance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It’s been almost two weeks since the Tap-Out officially ended, and it’s taken that long to get things up and running again—not just here, but all over Southern California. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The decision to leave home felt momentous, and the drive to California took a week. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “And you didn’t even have to go to California to figure all that out,” said my father. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “If you know California’s going to be a state,” said Rufus, “you must know some other things that are going to happen.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In January of my sixth-grade year, Josh joined us as a second cameraman at a judges’ conference in Santa Barbara, California. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His California King-size bed has been made, a rare sight. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “Want to see what I brought back from California?” she asks, heading upstairs. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He had no idea how things stood except that he still hadn’t seen the California boat fall into his field of view. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The payoff to the gun seller—usually $50 or $100, but in one California buyback, three free hours of psychotherapy—isn’t an adequate incentive for anyone who actually plans to use his gun. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t even have a bedroom in California anymore; in October, my mother had written to say that she had sold the furniture and turned it into a sewing room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z On December 22 the chairman of the California Horse Racing Commission gathered reporters together and issued the board’s decree: Red Pollard was banned from riding all horses, including stakes mounts, until January 1,1938. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned my head, just a little, just so I could see his face, and I whispered back, “I thought I told you I moved here from California.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z When boxing was illegal in California, you could find an abundance of the sweet science in Tijuana. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “So I looked up that photo of Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor you mentioned. They're out on some dusty outcrop in California, right?” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Samira would stay with family in Southern California while she recovered from the procedure. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z An outstanding example in the field of controlling unwanted plants is the handling of the Klamath-weed problem in California. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The real question of the day was how California would do in their qualifying heat, and the boys wanted to see the answer for themselves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By the end of that hot July, the dry hills of California were the tawny brown of a lion cub that had been rolling in dust. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “There is nothing in my life to compare with this burden,” Shin told me on the day in California when he explained how and why he had misrepresented his past. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He fed the colt a high-quality strain of timothy hay, cultivated in Northern California, which he had come across during his first days as a trainer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Coming from the west, the Pacific trade winds hit the cold air from the Humboldt Current and are forced upward in a classic temperature inversion of the sort common in southern California. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This last fact made it possible to identify the hundreds of thousands of California mothers who had themselves been born in California and then to link them to their own birth records. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Yes! Protect her, okay? She’s my friend. Get her back to California. There’s a demigod camp in the Oakland Hills— Camp Jupiter. Meet me above the Caldecott Tunnel.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The University of California’s medical school faculty, housed across the bay in San Francisco, was especially dismissive of Ernest’s overtures. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She once conducted another experiment in which she set up a tasting booth with a variety of exotic gourmet jams at the upscale grocery store Draeger’s in Menlo Park, California. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Twelve miles on foot brought him to Topock, Arizona, a dusty way station along Interstate 40 where the freeway intersects the California border. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But as Serber now discovered, “The East was evidently a completely different world from California.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I worked on my homework while Samira pored over job applications for a dozen or so retail stores at the posh Valley Fair mall in our hometown of San Jose, California. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He often stayed overnight in the Fischer apartment in Brooklyn and later was Bobby’s houseguest when Fischer lived in California. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I am not prepared for the bright California sun. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My father was happy and full of life, regenerated by talk of the coming summer and moving to California. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody’s seat was safe just because he had rowed in the boat that had defeated California so impressively. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One Christmas we received gifts from our mother and father, who lived separately in a heaven called California, where we were told they could have all the oranges they could eat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z New York and California are just beginning to give first-time drug offenders treatment instead of prison sentences, and that’s a positive development. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The first place he went was right next door to the California boathouse to tend to Ky Ebright’s boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty sure it was Dad’s last-ditch attempt to get me to stay in California.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Thank you, Miss California. By the way, fun fact about Shanti: Her favorite lipstick color is Tickle Me Pink. Don’t you love lipstick, Shanti?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z If people asked, I told them I was on my way to California for my freshman year at college. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A National Guard helicopter sprays tear gas on protestors at the University of California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In mid-November Smith loaded Seabiscuit and the rest of his stable, blanketed in red and white stable colors, into three cars of a train bound for California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Fischer began receiving thousands of letters and cables urging him to continue the match, and Henry Kissinger called him once again, this time from California, to appeal to his patriotism. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Me: “John Mark’s family—I’ve met a few of his cousins, but there are piles of them coming in from Michigan and Tennessee and California. He’s never been married before.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z That I may be missing Gram, but she’s missing her whole family back in California. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Similarly, a California study reported that an estimated 30 to 50 percent of individuals under parole supervision in San Francisco and Los Angeles were homeless. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In New York, California, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii, a woman had been able to obtain a legal abortion for at least two years before Roe v. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Milton Stanley Livingston was a burly farm boy who had been raised in the foothills of California’s San Gabriel Mountains, where his father owned an orange grove. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She sold everything in California— her old Ford, a chest of drawers, a television, the bed she shares with her daughter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Of course, we live in California, so they didn’t have far to travel to our table. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the state of California, a person could have temporary custody of a ward of the state for a few weeks, or under special circumstances, for several months. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He arrived from Long Beach, California, at the beginning of January, in a country where cattle often freeze to death, and he was of course a prisoner of war. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked closely to find my favorite city, San Francisco, California. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Betrayed by her new husband after he discovered she was a Negro pretending to be white, my mother has gone to California to start a new life. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When California had first approached Washington about a new head coach in the fall of 1923, it was George Pocock to whom they had first offered the job. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A disturbing example of the latter seems to be building up on the national wildlife refuges at Tule Lake and Lower Klamath, both in California. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I wonder what it’s like to live in a town like that and if Boy21 had a big house out in California, but I don’t ask him. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother was a Phi Beta Kappa and a psychology graduate of the University of California. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Our first weekend, we had played Go Fish and tic-tac-toe in our room and waited for Cecile to announce that we were going to some adventurous place that existed only in California. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Senator Oscar Diaz is in California speaking at a rally for gun control today, Alex punches the button for the fifth floor instead. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The expense of fending off Harvard awakened the University of California regents to the presence of a prodigy on their payroll. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And in Southern California, a Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department employee reported that deputies routinely planted drugs and falsified police reports to establish probable cause for cash seizures. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z California had won its heat in 6:07.8; Washington had taken 10 full seconds longer, 6:17.8, to cover the same distance. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On the eve of this experiment I had just moved to northern California, far away from the New England woods and fields I knew. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z By some huge oversight on her part, Beth left her diary right out in plain sight when she went to California. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z After becoming a registered nurse, Adams was assigned to work at Fort Ord, in California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Although he wanted to return to California, he didn’t want to take the chance of entering the United States just yet. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Lieutenant Scheisskopf turned white as a sheet when Major Major reported to him in California with bare feet and mud- caked toes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A little before 4:00 p.m., in a driving rain, Tom Bolles’s freshmen paddled upriver to the stake boats and took their starting position, with Columbia on one side and California on the other. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Burnham and his firm went on to build scores of other structures, among them the Gimbel’s department store in New York, Filene’s in Boston, and the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Every pioneer I meet, they like their whiskey. They’ll be needing barkeeps in California.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We’d gone to see my grandmother in California, the last year before she died. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Now grown men—one a doctor and the other an attorney—both live in California. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t care bout no peoples in California,” Minny say, staring at that cover. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “He’s a senior at my high school, and he’s going to the University of California, Berkeley, next year to study astrophysics.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z And you have to keep them inside all winter, or they get too wet and cold, even in California, on account of them not having proper feathers. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “They don’t have any winter in California,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z During that turbulent final week of July 1943, William Faulkner was on the other side of the world in Hollywood, California, feverishly pulling together the screenplay for the sweeping wartime movie Battle Cry. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Garret Charles actually gave us a generic monologue about the dust of California in the eighties. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “It’s a hunting cabin my uncle uses. He’s in California now, so I figured it was safe to break in.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z In California, Shin began giving God all the credit for his escape from Camp 14 and for his good fortune in finding a way out of North Korea and China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He saw a boy and his dog roaming over the yellow hills of California. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z His brow’s creasing up and then I remember: It says California School of the Arts on practically every freaking wall of that freaking place. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Remind me why you didn't join me in sunny Southern California? she wrote. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z At 4:45 the first- and second-place crews from the previous day’s trials— California, Pennsylvania, Washington, and the New York Athletic Club— paddled from the Princeton shell house out onto Lake Carnegie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I had thought there were many of them in the East and the Middle West, but California spawns them like herrings. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But in California it does not ordinarily rain at all between the end of May and the first of November. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She puts miso soup in matching blue bowls and puts a California roll and a sweet potato tempura roll on a plate for me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Then another lie: “Here’s California! We’re on them! Ten more big ones for Mom and Dad!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had a few dollars in his pocket from the last job and he had an uncle in San Francisco or one of the other California Sans. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The most common types of earthquakes are those where two plates meet, as in California along the San Andreas Fault. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Back then, California’s juvenile facilities were notoriously harsh, violent, dilapidated, dull, and overcrowded, with young wards routinely subjected to solitary confinement, and some forced to exercise and attend classes while locked in cages. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By the time the two boats crossed the line, in the last vestiges of twilight, a glimmer of open water showed between the stern of the Husky Clipper and the bow of the California Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I thought you moved to California,” I say. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Through choked tears I said, “My dad’s not around, either. He’s still in California with his girlfriend.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Stub McMillin desperately wanted to peek, to glance over toward lane one where he knew California would be, but he didn’t dare. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I said, “I have never been out of the state of California in my life.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Esther Anderson, one of the missionaries who ran the school, was from California. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z One of their nicknames in California is “dog ripper.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Cook’s children had grown up in the house but had left and gone off to other places a couple of years ago, California and Boston and the like. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Fewer than one hundred graduated with the requirements needed to attend a California state college or university. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Finally, a quarter of a mile from the finish, California began its sprint, charging up from behind, one more time, to nose out ahead of Bolles’s boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mother had spent a good bit of money buying us new outfits so that we would make a good impression in California, and she thought she ought to economize on train accommodations. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Class awareness and the class language is receding at the very moment that class has reorganized American society,” said Michael Hout, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z They had served together in the Mexican War and in the old 6th Infantry out in California. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew of the phenomenon called the Bradley effect, named for an African American candidate, Tom Bradley, who’d run for governor in California in the early 1980s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Bill, it’s two in the morning up here. Are you still in California?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z One question hummed through the crowd: Was Seabiscuit the same horse he was when he left California in April? Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The town was an odd melting-pot of agriculture and industry located on the periphery of the southern California boom, a place that felt out on the edge. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z It was a long way from California to Hawaii with a lot of ocean in between. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, under the three strikes regime in California, a “repeat offender” could be someone who had only a single prior case decades ago, and one arrest can result in multiple strikes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Time and again the students on the ferry called out for Washington to “take it up,” to raise the stroke and put California away. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This, of course, was impossible, for he had met my mother in Iowa, not in California, If he’d stayed in California, he wouldn’t have met her and Lynn wouldn’t have been born. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “My father’s parents worked in the cane fields there before they went to California. Luke could be a relative of mine.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Because he would be entering a controversial war zone, there was a possibility he might not soon be coming back to California. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Only in the integrated control programs developed by some California entomologists do we find anything comparable in this country. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Tell me again about California,” Maureen said after she opened the presents. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Say three hundred and fifteen miles, at least, southwest of the California coast, to where he sat right now, rolling heavily in a boat half full of water. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If anyone at the time had suggested that this unknown disease in gay men in southern California came from wild chimpanzees in Africa, the medical community would have collectively burst out laughing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The epileptic boy had finally broken out of the prison of California. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Lying in his California King-size bed in his suite in his gigantic house, I realize the truth. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I wanted to be back in California, anyway. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z After the ball the operators of California’s new Hollywood Park approached him with a formal match race proposal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They simply exchanged the life of a feudal peasant in Mexico for the life of a feudal peasant in California. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z What the California names data suggest is that an overwhelming number of parents use a name to signal their own expectations of how successful their children will be. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z One afternoon on the way home from school, when I told her we’d lived for a while in California, she lit up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Out west” could have meant California, Idaho, Oregon, Illinois, or Arizona. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His firm — Kavesh and Gau — is the biggest in its field in southern California and one of the top financial planning firms in the country. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As in 1935, California had drawn lane number one, the most protected lane, snug up against the railroad embankment, sitting right under Ulbrickson’s nose. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After being cheered down the California coast, it slid through sunset, into darkness and silence, and across midnight. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Coming from a big high school in southern California gave me some kind of shine, I suppose. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A week later the Apache left for California and they hired their cousin Pinkie again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The FBI tracked down former Langley engineer Eastman Jacobs, known for his left- leaning sympathies, and interrogated him at his new home in California. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z While California voters effectively repealed Proposition 21 in 2016, many states continue to routinely treat juveniles as adults. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z For one thing, the various parts of the Gemini and Apollo spacecraft were manufactured in factories as far apart as New York and California, with places in between such as St. Louis, Missouri. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their two young children, Robert and Mary, lived with Cummings in California. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I wasn’t expecting or looking for a special friend, but Jessica showed up this year all the way from California, and I like her a lot. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z On October 28, he caught a ride with a long-haul trucker into Needles, California. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no roads left in all of Southern California that go anywhere we want to be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He was speaking in an auditorium in Mountain View, California, answering questions about his life from people who worked at Google. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The most intriguing battle had gone on in California. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When I read The California Gold Rush no one lifted a finger unless they were paid in gold nuggets or gold dust. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Nine months after the passage of Proposition 21,30 percent of all teen offenders in California were being charged as adults. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The California, Oregon, and Washington State kids weren’t pros, but they were definitely the best library-cart handlers in the building. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z There were seven children in the family when we set out with Mother for California. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Watching him, I think of Kristi at her dad’s for the weekend and Melissa in California with hers. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, as he had against California in April on Lake Washington, he called up the rate in the last few hundred feet, just for the show of it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Did you ever read about some folks trying to start a black colony in Mexico? In a place called Baja California?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, if you lived in California, maybe I could come visit you one day.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z With a capital A. My hometown, like a lot of the central valley of California, has a desert climate and is flat and dry and very hot for over half of the year. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z My father increased his pleas that they plan a future with him in California, but they only nodded. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On deck the ship’s band was playing “California, Here I Come,” and people were dancing and singing and laughing. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It lives in California now, but he drives it into Texas once a year for this weekend, leaves it in Austin so Alex and June can drive it in. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Upper California had not been in Mexico for over a hundred years. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Wild California pig would be the main course. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I begged him to stay close, but he went to California. In that way he was also like you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She was released after a year and immediately bought a one-way bus ticket to California. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His name was Cal, which I thought must be short for something, but I couldn't think what it would be short for, unless it was California. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “It’s better, then, for you to stay away. The weather in California must not agree with you. You can come for visits.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In a matter of days, Kubat was back in California with the money, and Bobby made arrangements to abandon his tiny room. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I’m already going to California because it’s easier to be with Jamie than to be alone. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z California, rowing at thirty-eight, settled into third place, ten feet in front of Washington’s bow. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Washington sliced across the finish line four and a half lengths ahead of California, and almost twenty seconds ahead of the freshman course record, despite the headwind. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She didn’t know a single person in California. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Justice Stevens noted the trend in a powerful dissent issued in California v. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The first restored the imperative that the University of California take Lawrence’s demands seriously. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The boys in the California boat weighed a total of 1,557 pounds; the boys in the Washington boat weighed 1,561, just four pounds heavier. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Each block was built to the same design, just as each of the ten camps, from California to Arkansas, was built to a common master plan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He told everyone he was from L.A. and used to run with the Crips, but Fee peeped his school record and the dude was really from some place in California called Lompoc. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The gearshift was what attracted him, and it was one of the few parts of that car to reach southern California unscathed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z We can’t possibly hope to examine all the wild plant species of even a circumscribed area like California, and to assess how many of them would have been domesticable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I got my high school diploma, I left California. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z It was going to be Washington, Cornell, or California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Saying you play rugby in Southern California is like saying you surf in Colorado. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z More than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white girls received that year. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Everyone in California, the United States, on Earth, breathes in dramatically. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Tons of people are being heralded as heroes all over Southern California. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I look back at the letter I hold, California scrawled in my mother’s hand, hastily, desperately. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In 1946, wrote Philip Morrison, “for every dollar the University of California spends on physics at Berkeley, the Army spends seven.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “And California is definitely different from Michigan, but it’s cool here. The people are pretty great.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z She asked if maybe I’d come over to her place and tell her mama all about life in California. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Only one of his 1932 Olympic gold medal crew still rowed for California, and his varsity lineup was turning in indifferent times at best. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Those are postcards from California! She must have been in Hollywood.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Horrified by what the country had lost, Ellsberg returned home to California. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Piper should have understood what was happening sooner, but she’d spent most of her life in Southern California with no major changes of season. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Royal Brougham, despite his earlier gloomy assessment, had already announced his personal prognostication: Washington to win, Cornell in second, California third. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Also, Oppenheimer has a local connection to the Bay Area: he taught at the University of California at Berkeley. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z He decided that a fortune could be made catching shrimp and abalone off the coast of Mexico, then bringing it back to dry and sell in southern California. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He stumbled upon a magnificent ranch sprawling over seventeen thousand acres of California’s remote redwood country, 150 miles north of San Francisco, near a tiny lumber village called Willits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, I planned that we would spend our nearly last Saturday in California traveling across the bay to San Francisco to ride a cable car and see Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, and the Golden Gate Bridge. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not difficult to find people in America. I bought a map of the U.S., and called up information for cities in Northern California,” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As we shall see, there were few or no wild mammal species suitable for domestication in the other Mediterranean zones of California, Chile, southwestern Australia, and South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One time in California, the grape pickers went on strike. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The southern California drive-in restaurants of the early 1940s tended to be gaudy and round, topped with pylons, towers, and flashing signs. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Southwest and Mississippi Valley to the modern American breadbaskets of California and Oregon, where Native American societies remained hunter-gatherers merely because they lacked appropriate domesticates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then out past the island of Formosa, looking like a giant, well- fertilized gardenia leaf, and across the Pacific, over Hawaii, and now time for California once again. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It wouldn’t be surprising to find them among the “smartest” girls’ and boys’ names in California, listed on pages 199-200, that are still fairly obscure. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z That’s why June moved here from California, so they could be closer to family. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “That’s the Gulf of California,” said Carlos, shading his eyes as he followed Matt’s gaze. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I know for a fact that there are five Alyssa Morrows in California. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I remember to start with that day in Sacramento—a California now nearly thirty years past—when I first entered a classroom, able to understand some fifty stray English words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He would build a racetrack, the finest in the world, and bring horse racing back to California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Bob Gentry used to be picked on because he was gay, but ended up becoming one of the first gay mayors in California and was a dean at Ms. Gruwell’s college. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "You ought to live in California--" began Miss Baker but Tom interrupted her by shifting heavily in his chair. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z In the case of the California couple, improbability carries more weight, but still, their defense attorney's argument was the right one. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A little after three o’clock that afternoon, Kissinger phoned Nixon from California. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z My dad directs small plays in California, where I still wanted to be. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z There they sent the shell on its way to California, where they would soon race against it on the Oakland Estuary. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Deer in the Northeast; alligators in the Everglades; buffalo in the prairies; grasshoppers in the Great Basin; rabbits in California; moose in Alaska: all were pursued by fire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Later that spring, Marx flew to California to interview Governor Ronald Reagan for her radio show. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He said now that maybe if he’d set off at twelve, he would have ended up staying in California instead of going to Iowa with his family. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “My parents? The father’s in California right now. Maybe sitting in his La-Z-Boy. Maybe driving his truck. Either way, he’s drinking. My mother is probably just now turning off campus.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Then news leaked out that the California varsity had turned in a blazing 19:31 over four miles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z California and Washington careened into the last five hundred yards, storming down the corridor of open water between the spectators’ boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Now he is starting to market it to citrus growers in Florida, California, and Mexico. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Kristin, in her late twenties and a California native, was like a big sister to both my girls anyway. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On a cloudless morning in Torrance, California, Shin revisited and revised the story. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Some of the men who had lived in California were used to earthquakes and they laughed at us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z With the advent of DDT and the even more toxic chemicals to follow, the populations of the vedalia in many sections of California were wiped out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now, from California, lying on his bunk in the evenings, so sore he could barely move, Milton consulted a Greek-English dictionary to piece together reports on his navy life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She moved to Massachusetts from California, and I think she forgets that winter isn’t just an idea anymore. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He also pressed for the University of California to renew its government contract to manage Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z No aunties to visit in Hawaii or California, like Amelia. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At first, Brenner reported, all he could see in the experiment was the chemical equivalent of thick “California fog—wet, cold, silent.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z After the last day of school, Kyle went to California again for the summer, before I could prove to my dad that I had a friend, or to my friend that I had a dad. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Reinforcing that finding is research by Dr. Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California at Irvine, who found through survey studies that people are happier at work when they use Facebook more. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z More than one hundred thousand people had turned out to view the annual contest between California and Washington, crowding along the shores of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For instance, I spoke to eight thousand students at the University of California, and the press there gave big coverage to what I said of the power and program of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The night Bobby Kennedy died, he had just won the California Democratic primary, which meant he had a strong chance to win the party’s presidential nomination. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He lived on a California ranch so huge that a man could take a wrong turn on it and be lost forever, but it wasn’t his circumstances either. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z From that day on, for the next ten years, while we traveled from place to place throughout California, following the crops and living in migrant labor camps, I feared being caught by the Border Patrol. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Seabiscuit, wrote another reporter, “was a hero in California and a pretty fair sort of horse in the midwest. In the east, however, he was just a ‘bum.’ Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As the rate dropped, the Husky Clipper continued to hold its position just off of California’s stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It must be getting rather hot down there in Southern California by now. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All I knew was the capital of California, because Sacramento was the name of the street we lived on in Chinatown. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Bacterial insecticides have already been tried on a wide variety of vegetables, especially in California. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Imagine that. Charles,” she said, into the kitchen, “he lives in California and he’s never been to the La Brea tar pits.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The answer is to be found in the amazing history of Clear Lake, California. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Where is Patricia now? Does she still live here or—” “No. She’s gone. Moved to California. Can we talk about something else now?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She sold the place off to Ole Jurgensen, sent their equity on down to them in California, didn’t try to hold back their money. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z As much as we needed to go off and have our California adventure, it was nice to be back. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He appeared at the University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University, and spoke to employees at Google. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He wanted to be an actor, but he didn’t want to go to California, because it was too close to home, and the whole point of being an actor was to be someone else. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It seems comical, looking back; we were a band of Charlie Chaplins marooned in the California desert. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z My journey from California lasted about as long as a ride on the Viper roller coaster, and our journey to the Collaborative Classroom took no time at all, either. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z ‘Four years with no monsters to fight, no battles, no stupid prophecies. Just me and Annabeth, getting our degrees, hanging out at cafes, enjoying California -’ ‘And after that. Annabeth kissed Percy on the cheek. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Parimutuel racing was spanking new in California and many other places, so there were few established racing writers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1930, when Louie was entering his teens, California was enraptured with eugenics, and would ultimately sterilize some twenty thousand people. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I could be all the way across the country in California and I’d still be white, cops and everyone else would still see me as just a “regular kid,” an “All-American” boy. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When Edith told him about that, he wanted to know why she was in California. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t want to go to California,” Eugene said emphatically. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They do anything in California—crazy religions and that kind of thing. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z As soon as he completed his thesis—“An Analysis of Conical Helices”—he transferred to Hughes’s big California operation, where the real action was, eager to make his mark in the race for space. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “That big explosion on the Navy ship in California? Port Chicago disaster, they called it. My daddy was on that. Been three years now....” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z By 1933, their collaboration had poised the University of California to take its place as one of the great academic centers of the world, one of the richest institutions and most ambitious. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1928, she made her first coast-to-coast trip, which allowed her to work directly with Prohibition and Coast Guard agents in California. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They had disposed of over half their cargo when they were stopped at the California line and their potatoes refused entrance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad grimaced when Mother told him I’d been taking lessons from Caroline Moyle, and I thought he was going to start talking about California socialism again, but he didn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A man who might have been well-to-do on ten acres in Europe was rat-poor on two thousand in California. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I get the feeling her family is wealthy from some things she’s mentioned, like her country club and her trips to Disneyland in California. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Momma told us one day that she was taking us to California. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In truth, she had long since transferred her devotion to her adopted Northern California and found Ernest’s interest in Harvard distressing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Bruce, thank you for flying out, too. How's the weather in California these days? " The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the chasm was still full of water when the Gulf of California dried up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I prayed for my sister, driving in a yellow bug toward California—or maybe she was there already, trying to find herself. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Fellow in the army told me there’s valleys in California—miles and miles—and you can’t find a stone, not even a little one.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Stay with me. Stay in California. You don’t have to move back in with your mom and your uncle.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Two years later, the California Supreme Court ordered them all reinstated. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z California and Navy were far out in front, with Columbia trailing them; Washington had eased past a weakening Penn crew but remained a devastating four lengths back. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Beauty is pain. And in this case, it’s somebody else’s pain. Miss Ohio, Miss Montana, Miss California, you have each earned yourself something from the goody bag. Reach in.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z We’ve gotten shipments from as far away as California, Maryland, and even Canada. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Everyone could tell from the way he talked and from the car and clothes that he was rich and maybe had a castle out in California. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It's just a few minutes past nine, and three hours earlier in California. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Here in the United States the problem has been most troublesome in the rice-growing areas of California and the South. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She looked back, even though California was far behind us now. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Kyle had gone to his mom’s house in California, so I didn’t really have anything to do outside. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z What I mean is the California of four years ago, before we moved here, when Eleanor was a sophomore and I was going into ninth grade. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I wanted to drive my fists through the tiled walls in our perfect California bathroom. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Even his grandfather had looked healthy when he’d visited him in California a few months before he died. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And in those last two hundred yards, in an extraordinary burst of speed, rowing at forty strokes per minute, pounding the water into a froth, Washington passed California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He pointed out that across the gray wire barricade was California, that famous place I had heard so much about. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The train was cold, but when it crossed into Montana, I heard we was heading all the way to California. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I never knew why I was given a scholarship to the California Labor School. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When the ticket arrived from California, they became frantic. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z California is virtually alone among the states in having a formal program in biological control, and many states have not even one entomologist who devotes full time to it. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Well, the pirates learned to respect us. Eventually we made our way to California where we—” She hesitated as if the memory was painful. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Antonio Nuñez's judge in Orange County, California, replaced his sentence of life imprisonment without parole with a sentence of 175 years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I started wondering if going to California was the right thing to do. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z After being honorably discharged seven years ago, Uncle Jet lived out of his duffel bag in California, Nevada, and even Colorado. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Shortly after we moved to California, I started running into Angelo. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The map showed that he would be in Southern California. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z An important shipment of plants from California failed to arrive, worsening an already critical shortage of all plants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He eventually moved his family from Tehran to Saratoga, California, in the seventies, and we moved in with them when we arrived in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Sean said he heard some knucklehead in the ceramics studio claim that Erin was being sent to a Catholic boarding school somewhere in California. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Recently crews from California had even won Olympic gold twice. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If he were in California, he’d sneak the jeep out and drive way too fast down the 101, doors off, blasting N.W.A., inches from being painted on the pavement. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We drove up through the Sierra, out of Nevada and into California. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I did not know exactly what California was either, but Papa’s eyes sparkled whenever he talked about it with Mama and his friends. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Antonio told her of the deserts in Baja California, describing them as terrible places of heat, sand, and bare rocks, with no water to be found. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They had all heard stories of Japanese homes being attacked, of beatings in the streets of California towns. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aliens who etch little hearts into stone in the middle of the California desert. Of course, Occam’s razor. Go with the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions needed. Vandalizing aliens it is.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But he assures me it is in America and therefore, it must be a little bit like California. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He got his doctorate from the University of Southern California and now teaches at the University of Texas School of Business Administration. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On June 5, hours after winning the California primary, Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin in Los Angeles. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Man, those singer guys just bombed so hard. I mean, they utterly and totally butchered ‘Hotel California,”’ Ashish said, walking in with two bottles of water. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The shortcut shaved off nearly eight thousand miles for ships traveling from New York to California. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z A few people whisper excitedly when she says “California,” and when Fina is done, Austin calls out, “Gnarly, bro!” in a terrible surfer accent. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He admired Kennedy’s determination to end the war, and helped the candidate craft speeches in preparation for the pivotal California Democratic primary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In 1916, shortly after California’s ban on wagering, they opened the Tijuana Racecourse, which immediately became a haven for American stables and racing fans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z So he told his friend Wergin there was a freighter they could board that was heading to Japan with a stop in California. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid finally called her niece, who put Moon Orchid in a California state mental asylum. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a small and militant sect of California writers was siding with Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A few years before I was born he had settled the family on a twenty-two-acre farm near Watsonville, California, raising apples, strawberries, and a few vegetable crops. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The radio broadcasters huddling under the shelter hesitated, then beamed the news out to the nation: “California Wins.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One such organization, based in Oakland, California, is named All of Us or None. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Within only two years after the first shipment of the beetles, the scale was under complete control throughout the citrus-growing sections of California. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One spur surely was the 1921 transformation of Throop Polytechnic Institute, a modest private technical school in Pasadena, into the California Institute of Technology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The turning point for me was probably in northern California, the winter after the paperback came out,” Wells said. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This was always her sign-off line when I was alone and on the loose in sunny California. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “California Technology is quite a ‘powerful Katinka and is out for both intellectual recognition and financial return wherever proper and possible.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A poor bicycle repairman just a few years before, Howard soon had hundreds of thousands of dollars for every penny he had brought to California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in the happiest times he’d made fun of my California accent, my secondhand overcoat and my room barren of tasteful bibelots, but in such an ingenuous way I couldn’t possibly do anything but laugh. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Maybe we wouldn't be here now, and I would be in California in her parents' orange-walled living room, sipping hot chocolate by the Christmas tree. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z At the California Labor School a forceful and perceptive teacher quickly and unceremoniously separated me from melodrama. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Yellowstone eruption of two million years ago put out enough ash to bury New York State to a depth of sixty-seven feet or California to a depth of twenty. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The boys now had open water between them and the California Clipper, and in the last half mile they accelerated in a way that no shell had ever accelerated on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In my writing, there is a stepfather now who lives in California but meets us wherever we go. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “Once we cross la frontera, we’ll make a good living in California,” he would say, standing up straight and sticking out his chest. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Adam,” he said, “I don’t know whether you notice it, but it seems like every other word you say is California. Do you really want to go?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to learn more about the Joad family, who had to leave their home in Oklahoma to look for work and a better life in California. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “Miss California. Don’t be such a douche nozzle. Miss Rhode Island?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She said she did not want to go to California and he did not listen, because his Cathy took his arm and started first. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At the first train stop I asked Papa, “Is this California?” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Our clothes were washed, ironed and packed, so for an immobile time we wore those things not good enough to glow under the California sun. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never seen the California sea, but I imagined it was very pretty. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “There is some very nice conditioner in this bag. Teen Dreamers, it’s time to represent. Your platform is Personal Arsenal. Miss Montana, Miss Ohio, Miss California. Are you ready?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Since it was less than halfway down Baja California, he decided the fastest way to get there would be to drive. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “And the remaining six are here in Northern California?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It would be the middle of the night in California. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When we pulled into the student lot at Burnt Mill Creek High School on Monday morning, the campus had been made over, decorated with California flags and colorful banners. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Her daughter Diana quickly masters English, something she hadn’t done surrounded by Spanish speakers in California. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In 1987 Saul Perlmutter at the Lawrence Berkeley lab in California, needing more la supernovae than visual sightings were providing, set out to find a more systematic method of searching for them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Christopher, a graduate ,of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though it’s only 5:30 a.m. in California where she is, Bev’s texted a string of question marks. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z We had walked down the steep hill from my parents’ flat, which was actually the first floor of a six-unit building they owned on Leavenworth near California. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Since beating California, they appeared to have lost all focus. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Picture this: We lived in a small cabin in the Sierras of northern California, at a place called Wheelerville, which is located on the Salmon Creek. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He signed on for three years and was sent for basic training to Fort Ord, California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Living by the sea in California was what she looked forward to second most in life, after going to college. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The cheeses hardening at the edges, the sulfur- drenched grapes, luscious and shiny as wax, plumped with blood from the dying field workers of California. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Another hundred would get her all the way to California—all the way to Courtney Rutherford Hopkins, all the way home. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I sat in the bus that went from California to Arizona, just watching the miles go by. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And a long, sustained roar went up from the tens of thousands standing along Sheridan Beach as the Husky Clipper crossed the line three lengths ahead of the California Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the wealthy and influential personages of Northern California, many of whom had been educated at Berkeley and supported the university generously, began to eye a new, high-profile candidate for their philanthropy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There was Chad Payne with his hands on his hips and his chiseled California surfer good looks, the hard jaw, the opaque eyes, the blond hair. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z One day she disappeared, and the story was that she had run off to California to be a movie star. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z So quiet that in the previous year’s race against California he’d rowed the whole two miles with his thumb cut to the bone and never mentioned it to anyone. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, I recognized it: the palace of the Titans on top of Mount Othrys, otherwise known as Mount Tamalpais, in California. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Finally, the justices of the Supreme Court rendered their judgment in the case of Bakke u University of California. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean to tell me you drove all the way to California without telling Jamie how miserable you think your life is?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There’s a map of southern California, a circle around it, like the highlighted path of a hurricane. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I want to go with them to California. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He remembered the day he’d opened his eyes at the Wolf House in California, his memory wiped clean by Hera. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The presidential commission noted that the research in California and New York was conducted in 2010. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We dream of running away to California to join the Black Panthers the organization Angela is a part of. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Lucky break—the Beach Boys were singing “California Girls,” and we sang along with them because, after all, we were California girls. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z By 1970 five states had made abortion entirely legal and broadly available: New York, California, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But Linus knew better than to expect more than confused anger from the self- made California millionaires whose knowledge of foreign policy was formed largely by the Los Angeles Times. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z It was exactly as Aimee’s mother had promised, mild and dry, perfect Southern California weather. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z “I have a problem. I don’t have any snow pants. I didn’t need them in California.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Compared to the diffident, incoherent speaker I had seen six months earlier in Southern California, he was unrecognizable. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The driver drops him off outside the city, near its airport, just past the Motel California. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But by the mile-and- a-half mark, California had answered the move and powered back past Columbia and Penn into second again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Green went from bust to boom in weeks, buying up whatever tobacco was available from his neighbors and shipping it off to New York, Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine, California. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When autumn touched the trees he had got as far as Omaha, and without question or reason or thought he hurried west and south, fled through the mountains and arrived with relief in Southern California. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Several natural enemies of the spotted alfalfa aphid, an accidental import from the Middle East, are credited with saving the California alfalfa industry. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Immigration. affirmative action, multilingualism, ethnic diversity—my state of California was among the pioneers of these controversial policies and is now pioneering a backlash against them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As usual, after the strawberry season was over in Santa Maria, Papa decided to move to the San Joaquin Valley in Central California to pick grapes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He felt trapped and depressed, since the job would separate him from his young daughter, who would remain in California with her mother. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I laughed and we hung up and I called Zig in California. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “We owe you, Jake. Both of the Shaffer brothers are now behind bars for that bank robbery in California thanks to your brilliant work.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The nose of the California boat had indeed passed under the bridge first, but by then the first six feet of the Washington boat was already well over the line. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Charles Howard had agreed to pick them up and bring them to California with his own horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in a strange driveway, and even before I got out of the car he was on the steps of a typical southern California ranch-type house. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z So I went back to school, something I had never expected to do again, to learn how to be a test pilot, at the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Father moved wife’s entire family from China to California to form support system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” I said, “but do you know if our parents have arrived yet from California?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Although still angry over Woolf’s suspension, Howard didn’t want to court more trouble with California racing officials by hiring Woolf for the Mexican race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In coming days, trenches were dug along the California coast, and schools in Oakland were closed. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Wergin planned to get off in California, but a couple of days into the journey, he found out the freighter was heading directly to Japan. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z But I also had another reason—I like pork, and since moving to California I’d often heard how tasty wild pigs are. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He had moved to West Texas in 1949 from California when the Snyder boom was on and had settled two years later in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to a picture of the actress walking down a California beach with an unidentified friend who held the baby against her chest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The California data included not only each baby’s vital statistics but information about the mother’s level of education, in come, and, most significantly, her own date of birth. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Finally something comes up: California water crisis deepens. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I was born right here in California. My old man had a chicken ranch, ‘bout ten acres. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z There was an intriguing discrimination case in California several years ago which had the same formal structure as this batting-average puzzle. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And mixed with these were splashes of California poppies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Approaching the bend in the course, Washington slowly nosed out ahead of the California boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After he ran away from his southern California group home, he took up with other, more dangerous friends. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Dad calls to ask how I’m doing in California. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Then you have the runway, Miss California. Take your promenade.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He had been manning an observation post 5.7 miles from the mountain, but he had a college placement interview on May 18 in California, and so had left the site the day before the eruption. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Lolo used to tell us stories of the manongs, thousands of men who came from the Philippines to California way before Mom and I were ever born. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The trouble with record breaking is that it can lead to Narrow Squeaks, and while we were still in California we had our first one. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He sprinted to the campus of the University of California, where he taught, and ran from lab to lab with the news, soon bumping into one of his fellow professors, Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He also printed a photograph of Japanese-Americans in Fresno, California, standing in line to get citizen registration cards. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Maybe they had traveled from Spain and California and the tears would freeze on their cheeks. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But within a year, California probation authorities ordered him to return to Los Angeles because he was on probation following his adjudication as a ward of the court for a prior offense. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He hadn’t come on vacation, as he was leaving for his freshman year at California University of Pennsylvania, which was four hours west of Hatfield. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They took the lead easily at the start, widened it at each quarter-mile buoy, and crossed the line almost six lengths ahead of California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z What he didn’t know was whether California had something even more exceptional, as Ky Ebright seemed to be hinting in the press. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z John Faulkner, of the Lick Observatory in California, has suggested an interpretation of these remarks which flies in the face of the Newton legend, but closely matches Newton’s known character. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Six crews were competing for the right to go to Berlin: Washington, California, Penn, Navy, Princeton, and the New York Athletic Club. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There is one in Spain, one in the Mojave Desert of Southern California and one in Australia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since more Japanese people lived in California than in Iowa, when he and my mother eventually opened a grocery store, it would have stayed in business. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z California Native American hunter-gatherers traded with Native American farmers in the Colorado River valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It was much easier, and more pleasant, to understand round-faced young Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California tell how he transmuted elements with ‘deuton’ bullets.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The war interferes with the oranges from California, and even Florida isn’t dependable, when there are roadblocks or when the train tracks have been blown up. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “St. Louis. From there the trail to California. Us, and some people we going to meet in Missouri.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Planning to visit relatives in California, they took a truckload of potatoes to sell along the way to help pay expenses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Place bronze statues beneath the southern California sun, and of course they're going to get hot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The sole claim to fame of Livermore, California, was as the former home of a onetime heavyweight champ who had moved there in the 1920s. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He also knew that, given the way things were going, it might very well land in California instead. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At the end of every recess, he was always ready to run away to California. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Mother was the only one in her family who had moved from California. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Southern California is warm and grand and beautiful. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z True, he would have preferred living on the beach in California, but it was still kind of cool to have someone in your family robbed by a famous outlaw. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “Look, I want to ask you something, but don’t get mad. Did you take some money out of my purse to pay for California?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “I wonder how it got out there in the desolate part of California like that. Somebody must have put it there. No way to tell what for.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The California oars bent like bows with the strain, and for those ten strokes the boys from Cal held their position. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Back in April, moments after his varsity boys had beaten California on Lake Washington, the Associated Press had put out a story that was picked up all over the country the next morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I'm going to spend a year in California, working in the café, working on my art, and saving up for school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Raised in northern California, graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently in Berlin on a grant from the Kiinsderhaus Bethanien. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I was fascinated with California missions and how the priests did such nice things for the Indians, civilizing them and all. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z His dad is in from California, freshly tanned from a recent trek through Yosemite, grinning and proud. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When the U.S. government gave teenage Dung a chance, she had left home and gone halfway around the world to California. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Most of them are from one of the most notorious gangs in California. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He lost his entire fortune when he was moving from New York to California. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He asked the plant foreman about the underground river that flowed from the Gulf of California hundreds of miles away. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in California, they had known it all along. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the only way to sail it from the East Coast to California. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “The Inka were largely ignored because the entire continent of South America was largely ignored,” Patricia Lyon, an anthropologist at the Institute for Andean Studies, in Berkeley, California, explained to me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "I got doctors call me from California ask what's in it." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z If her students do well enough, she might find herself praised, promoted, and even richer: the state of California at one point introduced bonuses of $25,000 for teachers who produced big test-score gains. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Wait, Leo. Can a satellite show me the flight path from New York to California?” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Even though they’d only just moved to California and she and James weren’t talking, she wouldn’t trade these last few weeks away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But it was World War II that transformed southern California into the most important economic region in the West. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z In California, people like us could even attend the beautiful schools that white people also attended without threats and ugliness. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Even once they were released, California youths seemed unable to escape from the prisons’ grasp. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Luckily, in the winter of 1957, Roberto found a part-time job working year-round as a janitor at Main Street Elementary School in Santa Maria, California. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z “I go to California School of the Arts.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z After he got out, Gerald moved to a reservation in California and nobody ever saw him again. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z All of Southern California is blanketed in wildfire smoke. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z After their three-week hiatus, the young players borrowed an old automobile from the editor of the California Chess Reporter, Guthrie McClain. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Washington and California bounded out ahead of the field. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Barring some kind of miracle, the older boys would race as the varsity crew at Poughkeepsie; the sophomores would almost certainly be demoted to junior varsity status, despite winning in California. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In his six years as freshman coach, Bolles had never coached a crew that had lost a race to California, or anyone else, on Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I think of my brother sitting at the top of a tree, in California. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On one such evening Papa made the announcement: We were going to make the long-awaited trip across la frontera to California. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She was blond and tan and too tall—almost my height—and without even asking I knew she was from California. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She had not wanted to go to California either, but other plans were denied her for the time being. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The University of California was a logical beneficiary of his own patent rights, since Cottrell’s work had been done in its laboratories. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Endeavour, the last shuttle built to journey into space, journeyed on land to the California Science Center in Los Angeles. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Later that year, the panel issued a plan for the complete restructuring of California’s juvenile facilities. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z My father got me a geography coloring book when he found out that the asinine California school system decided they didn’t need to teach geography anymore. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Talking to the New York Times, he claimed flat out, “California has a chance, but I think Washington will win.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Together they had swept California from its home water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the ensuing national hysteria Congress funneled millions upon millions of dollars into the California- based aerospace industry, and the boom was on. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked Todd Dawson, a biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, to run a McDonald’s meal through his spectrometer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Look,” Pauley said, “Billy is tracking down your family in California to call them. Do you live in California? Do you remember how to reach them?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Mabel's shoes are thin leather boots, made for city streets in California. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Sleep had evaded me; my aching eyes strained open even though the night finally ended and dawn broke over a low peak somewhere in California. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z After stints in North Carolina, New York, Florida, Virginia, California, and a handful of other states, he returned home to southern Maryland and started work at a job that would change his life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “But this Indio must be north of here. Everything in California is north of here. We will take a northbound train ourselves. Come with us.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z In one of those races, California would be sitting in an adjoining lane, with one last chance to finally get even and send themselves to Germany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In 2008, people consumed three times the amount of information they did in 1960, according to researchers at the University of California at San Diego. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It occurred to him for the first time that Grog, who was supposed to be in California, hadn’t made an appearance out there in a good long time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Working plumbing was scarce, and the lack of air-conditioning tormented scientists and engineers trying to function in the baking heat of California’s Central Valley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In California, the O. J. Simpson trial was heading toward a conclusion, and the whole country seemed to be obsessed. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Both boats were state- of-the-art shells—Pocock’s latest and greatest, sleek splinters of cedar, the Husky Clipper and the California Clipper. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z These sentences were imposed pursuant to California’s controversial three strikes law, which mandates a sentence of twenty-five years to life for recidivists convicted of a third felony, no matter how minor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The first one says Greetings from California in big, bold letters. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Good. Best not to tell anyone else about us now either. Nothing about California or nineteen seventy-six.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Huge re-sources are diverted as a result: California, where prisons are already at double capacity, must build a new prison every year to keep up with the flood of new inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All Southern California waterways have become like phantom limbs. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Instead, he was a fairly successful doctor in California who later lived in Asia. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z When he arrived in Oakland, California, Allen walked off the plane and dropped to his knees. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She said quietly, “I don’t want to go to California.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z You can be a fisherman in Maine or a farmer in California. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At the heart of the story is southern California, whose cities became prototypes for the rest of the nation, whose love of the automobile changed what America looks like and what Americans eat. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “After all, California is one of the largest work economies. They need us, and I don’t think they would be so stupid as to neglect us.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z |
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