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  • Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Desert Counties

    Includes Imperial, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
         • The name Rancho Cucamonga, derived from an Indian word, suffered a number of bizarre spellings by early Americans including, Coco Mongo Ranch, Cocomouga’s Ranch, Qui-qual-mun-go Ranch, Kikal Mungo ranch and Rancho Cocoa-Mungo.      • A place called Indian Wells, about eight miles south and a little west of Seeley was a station on the Butterfield Overland stage route. It was destroyed by the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Gold Country

    Including Yosemite National Park, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Amador, El Dorado, Placer, Sierra & Nevada Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
         • Above-ground graves resembling small, outdoor ovens furnished the name for the Mariposa County village of Hornitos. Hornitos is a Spanish word that means “little ovens.”      • In 1885, Alexander Kirkwood founded a hotel called Rattlesnake House in Tuolumne County. After his death, Mrs. Kirkwood remarried a fellow named William Priest. The hotel was generally called Priest’s Station after ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Durham’s Place Names of California’s North Coast

    Includes Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Mendocino & Trinity Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place Names of California
    • Wounded Knee Mountain in Del Norte County got its name from an incident suffered by an Unites States Geological Survey employee who was working in the neighborhood in 1915. The mountain sits just one and a half miles west of Broken Rib Mountain, another sore spot in California’s place-name history.• Hell to Find Lake isn’t all that hard to find; it is five and a half miles southwest of the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Durham’s Place-Names of Greater Los Angeles

    Includes Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
    • The pueblo that became the city was established in 1781 as “El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula.” A hill located less than 1,000 feet from Los Angeles city hall was used as a base during the first American occupation of Los Angeles in 1846. Lieutenant Davidson built Fort Moore there in 1847 and named it to honor Captain Benjamin D. Moore, who was killed in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Durham’s Place-Names of Central California

    Includes Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings & Kern Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names
    • Steven Barton founded the town of Isabella near the Kern River and named it for Queen Isabella of Spain in 1893, the year of the Columbian Exposition celebrating the quadricentennial of the discovery of America. Sixty years later, a dam was built on the river and the original community was moved to a site one and a half miles south below the dam. The water of Isabella Lake now covers the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Eastern Sierra

    Including Death Valley, Alpine, Inyo & Mono Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
    • The Federal Writers’ Project named an area three miles south-southeast of Stovepipe Wells in Death Valley the Devil’s Cornfield because the arrowweed growing there resembled shocks of corn tied about the middle.• The Devil’s Golf Course got its name because it was thought that only a fiend could play golf on the rough surface of crystallized salt at the place.• Lost Cannon Creek owes its name to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Durham’s Place-Names of California’s Central Coast

    Includes Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, San Benito, Monterey & Santa Cruz Counties

    by David L. Durham ...
    Series series Durham’s Place-Names of California
         • Sutil Island, a 1,250 foot-long island, 1,900 feet off the southwest end of Santa Barbara Island was named after one of merchant-explorer Sebastian Vizcaino’s ships.      • Gaspar de Portola founded Presidio of San Carlos Borromeo de Monterey, at present day Monterey in 1770. In 1822, the Mexicans built a fort about one mile northwest of the original presidio. After American occupation of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Acacia

    The Acacia Trilogy, Book One

    by David Anthony Durham ...
    Series Book 1 - Acacia Trilogy
    “David Anthony Durham has serious chops. I can’t wait to read whatever he writes next."—George R. R. MartinWelcome to Acacia . . .Born into generations of prosperity, the four royal children of the Akaran dynasty know little of the world outside their opulent island paradise. But when an assassin strikes at the heart of their power, their lives are changed forever.Forced to flee to distant corners ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Other Lands

    The Acacia Trilogy, Book Two

    by David Anthony Durham ...
    Series Book 2 - Acacia Trilogy
    “David Anthony Durham has serious chops. I can’t wait to read whatever he writes next."—George R. R. MartinDavid Anthony Durham’s gripping Acacia Trilogy continues with an epic novel where loyalties are tested, new worlds are discovered, and battle lines are being drawn.A few years have passed since Queen Corinn has usurped control of the Known World—and she now rules with an iron fist. With plans ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Breakout: Pilgrim in the Microworld

    by David Sudnow ...
    Series series Boss Fight Books
    Just as the video game console market was about to crash into the New Mexico desert in 1983, professor and sociologist David Sudnow was unearthing the secrets of “eye, mind, and the essence of video skill” through an exploration of Atari’s Breakout, one of the earliest hits of the arcade world. Originally released under the title Pilgrim in the Microworld, Sudnow’s groundbreaking longform ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A New Mechanics Of Physics

    A unification of the physics of the universe

    by Nathaniel David Durham ...
    The universe from a stoner 's potgoggles. An attempt to answer some of my own personal questions about existence and with as little prolixity as I could. Also, some of it while being stored with friends, but most of it, asked from childhood, As an asperger syndrome and other disability statistic, this is the world we not which I withdraw... ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sacred Band

    The Acacia Trilogy, Book Three

    by David Anthony Durham ...
    Series Book 3 - Acacia Trilogy
    With the first two books in the Acacia Trilogy, Acacia and The Other Lands, David Anthony Durham has created a vast and engrossing canvas of a world in turmoil, where the surviving children of a royal dynasty are on a quest to realize their fates—and perhaps right ancient wrongs once and for all. As The Sacred Band begins, one of them, Queen Corinn, bestrides the world as a result of her mastery ... Read more

    $7.99 USD