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Author : Jan Dennis
ISBN : 0738520896
Genre : History
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The small community of Manhattan Beach, located in the county of Los Angeles, is situated on the shore of the Santa Monica Bay. Late in the 1800s, there was little need for law enforcement: this unspoiled terrain along the ocean coastline with its shifting sands, scrub brush, and native wildflowers had yet to be cultivated. By 1912, the sparsely populated area had been incorporated and the city fathers appointed the first peace officer, Fred W. Petway, who was one of three marshals to serve the new town. In 1924, the position of police chief was created with the appointment of Fred Garvin. However, it would be many years before a first-class police department would oversee the safety and security of the growing community. This volume tracks a century of social change and dramatic episodes that challenged a long line of dedicated men and women in law enforcement. Each of these professionals raised the bar on the high standard of police department service that operates in this seaside municipality today.
Author : Jennifer Egan
ISBN : 9781501183775
Genre : Fiction
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* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * New York Times Bestseller * A San Francisco Chronicle Top 10 Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2017 * A Time magazine and USA Today Top 10 Novel of 2017 * Winner of the Booklist Top of the List for Fiction * Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction * Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Vogue, Esquire, Kirkus Reviews, Philadelphia Inquirer, BookPage, Bustle, Southern Living, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Immensely satisfying…an old-fashioned page-turner, tweaked by this witty and sophisticated writer…Egan is masterly at displaying mastery…she works a formidable kind of magic.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished. “A magnificent achievement, at once a suspenseful noir intrigue and a transporting work of lyrical beauty and emotional heft” (The Boston Globe), “Egan’s first foray into historical fiction makes you forget you’re reading historical fiction at all” (Elle). Manhattan Beach takes us into a world populated by gangsters, sailors, divers, bankers, and union men in a dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world.
Author : Peter Lefcourt
ISBN : 9780743271769
Genre : Fiction
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Barely four years after winning an Oscar, Charlie has sunk into the ranks of Hollywood bottom-feeders -- reduced to living in his nephew's pool house, kiting checks and taking the bus to his weekly Debtors Anonymous meeting, where he meets a mysterious ex-CIA agent who proposes to resuscitate Charlie's foundering career -- in the beyond surreal world of reality TV. Charlie puts his tap shoes on to sell a show about a ruthless Uzbek warlord and his family ("think The Osbournes meets The Sopranos") to a rogue division of ABC, known as ABCD, which operates out of a skunkworks in Manhattan Beach, California, and whose mandate is to develop, under top secret cover like that for the Manhattan Project, extreme reality TV shows to bolster the network's ratings. Warlord becomes a breakout hit and results not only in causing one of America's largest entertainment conglomerates to go into full damage-control mode but also in shifting the balance of power in Central Asia and in proving that in show business it's not over till the mouse sings.
Size: 6 x 9 inches 120 wide ruled pages Use it at home, work or school as a journal, notebook, composition book or diary Cool notebook for people who love this area or who are natives Fun, timeless Christmas gifts and birthday presents Perfect as a composition book for school assignments, meeting notes or as a personal journal for daily writing, to do lists and more
Author : Manhattan Beac State of Mind Collection
ISBN : 167051952X
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Sudoku Genius Mind Exercises, Volume 1: Manhattan Beach, California State of Mind Collection Description: 5x8 expertly bound book with 106 pages of simple to extreme Sudoku puzzles (solutions included!). All Book covers are designed by Coco Piracci -- they're collectable editions. Great for you or as a gift. Kids, teens, adults and seniors all love doing Sudoku. In Volume 1 of Sudoku Genius Mind Exercises: Manhattan Beach, California State of Mind Collection, you have enough Sudoku puzzles for a whole month - one Sudoku a day! When you're done, get Volume 2. Once you start doing Sudoku puzzles, you'll never want to stop. And there's a good reason why! Just like physical exercise, your mind requires training too! Here are the marvelous advantages of playing Sudoku: Improves your memory: Your memory and logic are fully activated when you are playing Sudoku. We use our memory to remember numbers we are considering, and we use logic to figure out the potential answer in the next blank. Stimulates your mind: Playing Sudoku trains your logical thinking processing. It also helps you improve your numeracy skills. Reduces your chances of developing neurodegenerative diseases: Playing Sudoku keeps your brain stimulated. Improves your decision-making skills: Not only is playing Sudoku exciting, but it helps you learn how to make a decision and take action with less hesitation. Increases your concentration skills: Sudoku requires players to evaluate strategically and solve obstacles creatively. If you get interrupted in the middle of solving a puzzle, you'll have to restart the whole thinking process again, which helps you to develop your concentration and re-focusing skills. Feel Satisfied! Sudoku gives you a sense of fulfillment when you can solve a puzzle, especially if the puzzle is a difficult one. By playing Sudoku daily, you'll learn how to solve puzzles faster and eventually advance to harder levels. Exercise your mind, and you will become more content and smarter too! From now on, play Sudoku every day. Note: We specialize in local publishing. We have many Sudoku Genius volumes available and other great books too! For additional Sudoku book editions, Search for: Sudoku Genius Mind Exercises: Manhattan Beach, California State of Mind Collection To view our full range of books for Manhattan Beach, California search for: Manhattan Beach, California State of Mind Collection
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Description: Addressed envelope to J. Robert Bund, Manhattan Beach, California. No letter, just postmarked envelope. Envelope front has illustration and text regarding Ex-Destroyers. Postal Cancel from the U.S.S. Little.
Author : Yves H.
ISBN : 1931724237
Genre : Comics & Graphic Novels
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John Reed is bored with his life and his uneventful police career in a sleepy town in Missouri, until a girl is found dead in the nearby forest. The event triggers John's suppressed memories of the summer of 1957, when he was on his way to Las Vegas and crossed paths with a girl that was on the run, trying to get to the resort at Manhattan beach. They traveled together for a few days by stealing cars, until the police and her uncle caught up to them, with tragic results. As he investigates the brutal murders of several young girls, the past and present begin to blur in his mind.
