Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach
Author: Kathy Passero
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2008-06-16
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1439103828

Welcome to Paradise. Otherwise known as Laguna Beach. You've seen the backstabbing, betrayal, and small-town gossip set against the wealthy beachside paradise that is Laguna Beach, California. You've seen hook-ups, break-ups, screw-ups and make-ups -- and all just during two years of school. Now find out what life was like for the stars of Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County before the hit MTV series. Think you know Kristin, Talan, Stephen, Taylor, LC, and their friends? Think again. You'll find out: • How and when Stephen and LC hooked up and the "drama" that followed • How Stephen and Kristin started dating • Why Trey got interested in activism and politics • How Lo learns that it's better to go to a party in Laguna Beach than to give one • Talan's life as a pre-teen football star • Taylor and Alex M.'s early fights over boys • What their lives were like growing up • What they all thought of each other when they first met, how their friendships formed, and more Packed with tons of exclusive material from embarrassing baby photos to first-kiss stories, here is everything you ever wanted to know about Laguna Beach's teen royalty.

Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach
Author: Foster J. Eubank
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0738599603

Everyone loves Laguna Beach; at least authors Foster J. Eubank and Gene Felder do, as well as everyone they know. It has long been an art colony, as indicated by city signs that read "Home of the Festival of Arts and Pageant of the Masters." The city's 23,000 residents work to protect its small-town atmosphere. Laguna Beach is now surrounded by 22,000 acres of protected natural open space that was originally part of Mexican land grants. In this volume, the authors show that much has changed, while much remains the same.

A Thousand Steps

A Thousand Steps
Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher: Forge Books
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250793548

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller! A Thousand Steps is a beguiling thriller, an incisive coming-of-age story, and a vivid portrait of a turbulent time and place by three-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author T. Jefferson Parker. Laguna Beach, California, 1968. The Age of Aquarius is in full swing. Timothy Leary is a rock star. LSD is God. Folks from all over are flocking to Laguna, seeking peace, love, and enlightenment. Matt Anthony is just trying get by. Matt is sixteen, broke, and never sure where his next meal is coming from. Mom’s a stoner, his deadbeat dad is a no-show, his brother’s fighting in Nam . . . and his big sister Jazz has just gone missing. The cops figure she’s just another runaway hippie chick, enjoying a summer of love, but Matt doesn’t believe it. Not after another missing girl turns up dead on the beach. All Matt really wants to do is get his driver’s license and ask out the girl he’s been crushing on since fourth grade, yet it’s up to him to find his sister. But in a town where the cops don’t trust the hippies and the hippies don’t trust the cops, uncovering what’s really happened to Jazz is going to force him to grow up fast. If it’s not already too late. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Laguna Beach

Laguna Beach
Author: Claire Marie Vogel
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738569970

As one of the West Coast's most unique and beautiful resort cities, Laguna Beach has thrived as an enduring enclave of art culture, a destination of hidden beaches, and a coastline rich in natural wonders, which its officials and residents strive to maintain. Settlers arrived in the 1870s, and by the summer of 1918 Laguna's first art gallery opened, featuring works by a growing collective of local artists. Hundreds of visitors came on opening day and, in the next month, 2,000 more visited the small art gallery. In 1932, Laguna started what would become a world-renowned event called the Festival of the Arts and later added the equally famous Pageant of the Masters. Since its simple beginnings as a small village situated where Laguna Canyon opens onto the Pacific shoreline to the reason there are traffic jams on Coast Highway during hot-month weekends, this southern Orange County jewel has continued to be a great draw for beachgoers, painters, and nature lovers the world over.

Loving Laguna

Loving Laguna
Author: Robert L Hellewell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9780965844956

Loving Laguna, A Local s Guide to Laguna Beach is a thoughtful look into the unique and historic origins of Southern California s most visited art colony and beach destination. It s a guide to beaches, historic walks and drives, art galleries, restaurants, and things to do a must-have for residents and visitors.

Laguna Heat

Laguna Heat
Author: T. Jefferson Parker
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780312357078

Once by the Pacific

Once by the Pacific
Author: Sarah Koops Vanderveen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: California
ISBN: 9780615556536

Laguna Beach became famous as an artists' colony in the 1920s, infamous as a mecca for hippies and surfers in the 1960s, and it still attracts free spirits and seekers of beauty. Among those inspired by its light, landscape, and people is poet Sarah Koops Vanderveen. In Once by the Pacific, she captures the rhythms of real life in a much-mythologized place that is ultimately, in her words, quirky, lovely, and authentic. Includes work by world-renowned photographer John Van Hamersveld.

Laguna Niguel

Laguna Niguel
Author: Ted Wells
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1467125911

"Laguna Niguel is one of America's earliest master-planned communities. In 1958, the Boston-based real estate firm of Cabot, Cabot & Forbes began acquiring over 7,000 acres of sheep-grazing land in south Orange County that had been owned by ranchers, including the French Basque Daguerra family and the Moulton family. Prior to that, the property was the Rancho Niguel Mexican land grant and, earlier, a part of a Niguili Native American village. The Boston firm hired noted architect Victor Gruen as the master planner and brought in investors through the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange. In 1959, the Laguna Niguel Corporation was formed, and the development began. Ansel Adams was hired to provide the original photographs of the property; Ladd & Kelsey, William Pereira, and other noted mid-century modern architects designed the housing, schools, offices, and retail centers. This development's interesting and groundbreaking concepts set the stage for how communities were created in the last half of the 20th century."--Amazon.com

101 Things to Love about Laguna Beach

101 Things to Love about Laguna Beach
Author: Sally Eastwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2013-12-09
Genre: Laguna Beach (Calif.)
ISBN: 9780615870519

In 101 Things to Love About Laguna Beach, British transplants Sally Eastwood and Helen Polins-Jones have collaborated to create an illustrated love letter to their adopted hometown. Eastwood's prose and Polins-Jones's watercolor landscapes and motifs capture the beauty of Laguna Beach's coastline, canyons and wildlife, as well as its cultural heritage and community spirit. This whimsical guidebook is, in the words of the authors, "both for Laguna locals and all the visitors who come for a day, a week, or longer, who have also fallen in love with this unique town."