Books about Pasadena from Amazon.com

Jordan Blake and his sister, Nicole, are sick of the hot weather in Pasadena, California Just once they'd like to have a real winter. A real winter with real snow. And then, it happens The Blakes are taking a trip to Alaska! Mr. Blake has been asked to photograph a mysterious snow creature there. Poor Jordan and Nicole - they just wanted to see snow. But now, they're being chased by a monstrous creature. A big furry-faced Creature...known as the Abominable Snowman!.
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From the award-winning author of The Danish Girl and The Rose City, Pasadena tells the story of Linda Stamp, a fishergirl born in 1903 on a coastal onion farm, and the three men who change her life: her jealous brother, Edmund; Bruder, the orphan Linda’s father brings home from World War I; and a Pasadena orange rancher named Willis Poore. The novel spans Linda’s adventurous and romantic life, weaving the tales of her Mexican mother and her German-born father with those of the rural Pacific Coast of her youth and of the small, affluent city, Pasadena, that becomes her home. Pasadena is a novel of passion and history, about a woman and a place in perpetual transformation..
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California Mosaic celebrates the mosaic of life in Southern California with recipes and anecdotes that represent how we live, from everyday meals to elegant entertaining. The cultural mosaic of Southern California is reflected in recipes from around the world and highlights local places of interest..
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At sunset, the San Gabriel Mountains form a rosy sculptural

backdrop for Pasadena, a city of stately street trees and lush

gardens. Attracted by a paradisiacal climate, health seekers

and wealthy Easterners flocked to its resort hotels—the Green, the Maryland, the Huntington, the Painter, the Raymond—and built grand residences along Orange Grove and Grand Avenues. Scores of commercial and industrial buildings rose downtown, punctuated by public works, civic buildings, schools, and churches that doubled as works of art, like the Colorado Street Bridge, the Christian Science Church, and the California Mediterranean–style city hall. Preservation efforts have succeeded in putting Old Pasadena and the Pasadena Civic Center on the National Register of Historic Places, and continued restoration has made the city’s unique architectural treasures a major attraction in Southern California. .
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Built in lavish Victorian style in 1886 atop Bacon Hill, the Raymond Hotel was the most regal feature on the skyline in the San Gabriel River Valley a sundown silhouette of the wealth and prominence that had coalesced in the Pasadena area. It became the base of activities for Eastern tycoons' families enjoying the balmy Southern California climate, even fostering the development of the winter mansions on Orange Grove Avenue. After the original 200-room hotel with 80 chimneys burned down on Easter Sunday in 1895, the second 300-room Raymond Hotel opened in 1901. The pioneering orange groves on the sprawling grounds gave way to a golf course. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Chaplin are just two examples of the early-20th-century celebrities who stayed there. This visually stunning collection of images is a mere sample of the vintage professional photography that exists of South Pasadena's iconic landmark..
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