My Checkered Life

My Checkered Life
Author: Fern L. Henry
Publisher: Carl Mautz Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781887694520

My Checkered Life is Luzena Stanley Wilson's classic account of her family's 1849 overland journey and life in early California. Fern Henry draws upon her considerable skills as a researcher to bring to light intriguing details, following the Wilson family from their Quaker beginnings in North Carolina, to their experiences in Nevada City, Sacramento, and Vacaville. This compelling story is enriched with narratives of other gold seekers and settlers, and illustrated with rare photographs, documents, and engravings.

A Checkered Life

A Checkered Life
Author: John Alexander Joyce
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385104661

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Al Unser Jr: a Checkered Past

Al Unser Jr: a Checkered Past
Author: Al Unser
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781642341034

Winning came naturally for Al Unser, Jr. He had a gift for finding the fast line on the track and he possessed a boisterous and lovable personality. Fans and the press adored him. Behind this affable persona, an appetite for drugs and alcohol was destroying his private life. Unser's battle to climb out of that cave is one of the great stories in motorsports. A Checkered Past is an unblinking story of triumph, tragedy, and the road to recovery.

A Checkered Past

A Checkered Past
Author: William Van Poyck
Publisher: 1st Book Library
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-06-10
Genre: Criminals
ISBN: 9781410734396

Cataclysmic events set the stage for the formation of an unlikely partnership that will bend the course of history. In China a brutal attack by a rampaging warlord sends a rich young couple on a desperate voyage where they become targets of the Tong Of The Black Hand. Meanwhile, a half-dead Yankee officer escapes from a notorious Confederate prison and returns to his ranch and the arms of his raven haired wife, a beauty in bootpants. Fate, destiny, or maybe just pure accident will soon bring Malcolm and Steffi Frazier and Ben Wang and Su Chang together. Events unfold rapidly when copper prices skyrocket. Bank stock in an Arizona mining venture becomes available to Ben and his banker when the mine owners are gunned down. The bankers wife is murdered during a kidnapping in which Su Chang is captured by the Tong and taken to Colorado. Malcolm leads a high mountain rescue attempt and Steffi gains heroine status when forced into a gunbattle with rustlers, actions which endear them to Ben Wang who now controls the mining stock. In this fast paced thinking person's thriller, the reader is swept up in blazing action occurring in China, Kansas, Colorado, Mexico, and Arizona, and is treated to a rare look into the financial pressures and strategies to be dealt with as our heroes prepare to embark on the adventure of a lifetime: The quest for the untold riches of the Rose Pit Mine. It all welds a colorful cast of never-to-be-forgotten characters together in a saga which will enrich the reader from beginning to end. BLACK HAND OVER KANSAS-the first in a series of three books-stands alone. It can be enjoyed singly, or, if the reader is caught up in the adventure, THE JOURNADA DEL MUERTO and THE VICTORS will be available for publication soon.

Checkered Past

Checkered Past
Author: Peter Schlesinger
Publisher: Vendome Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2003-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Fascinated with the rich tradition and youthful creativity of London in the 1960s and longing to leave suburban America, a wide-eyed twenty-year-old Californian named Peter Schlesinger arrived in 1968 with his partner, David Hockney, to study painting at the Slade School of Art. He stayed on for ten years and moved in some of the city's most intriguing social and artistic circles. Manolo Blahnik, Paloma Picasso, Ossie Clark, Cecil Beaton, Bianca Jagger, Christopher Isherwood, and Bryan Ferry - all became friends of the bright and talented Schlesinger, along with other prominent figures in the worlds of art, ballet, music, photography, film, and society." "Schlesinger was one of Hockney's favorite models and he appears in many of his most important paintings of this period, but he was a gifted artist in his own right, with a tireless interest in documenting the amazing world of London bohemia in which he found himself. His privileged position during these extraordinary years resulted in literally thousands of intimate photographs of friends and acquaintances in everyday situations, taken both at home in London and on numerous trips to continental Europe. Featuring 180 of the most artful and revealing images, Checkered Past guides us with a wry eye through the artists' studios, fashion shows, grand country houses, and gay discos that made London such a magnet during the late 1960s and early 1970s."--BOOK JACKET.

Checkered Life. In the Old and New World

Checkered Life. In the Old and New World
Author: Jean Leonhard Henri Corneille Ver Mehr
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2024-08-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3385550483

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

A Checkered Life

A Checkered Life
Author: Malia Blake
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2017-05-11
Genre:
ISBN: 9781546331926

Have you ever wondered what stories your clothes could tell if given the chance? Blue Checkered Shorts shares her tale of a short but ultimately fulfilled life after she takes the chance at the risk of living. Experience her transformation from the bottom of the clothes pile to the top shelf by becoming the most valuable member of the wardrobe. Blue Checkered's story will inspire even the most timid of children to find the courage to conquer their greatest fear.

Life as a Poser

Life as a Poser
Author: Beth Killian
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2006-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1416520317

When she is invited to visit her super-cool aunt in Los Angeles, a young girl searches for fame--and her long lost mom--in the glamorous world of Hollywood.

Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life

Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life
Author: Laurence D. Cooper
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0271029889

The rise of modern science created a crisis for Western moral and political philosophy, which had theretofore relied either on Christian theology or Aristotelian natural teleology as guarantors of an objective standard for &"the good life.&" This book examines Rousseau's effort to show how and why, despite this challenge from science (which he himself intensified by equating our subhuman origins with our natural state), nature can remain a standard for human behavior. While recognizing an original goodness in human being in the state of nature, Rousseau knew this to be too low a standard and promoted the idea of &"the natural man living in the state of society,&" notably in Emile. Laurence Cooper shows how, for Rousseau, conscience&—understood as the &"love of order&"&—functions as the agent whereby simple savage sentiment is sublimated into a more refined &"civilized naturalness&" to which all people can aspire.

American Fiction, 1901-1925

American Fiction, 1901-1925
Author: Geoffrey D. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1064
Release: 1997-08-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521434690

A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.