Lawrence Coates: 3 books
by Lawrence Coates
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In the aftermath of the early 2000s dot-com bust, the people of San Jose, California face a changing landscape of lost dreams and careers gone awry. It’s in this setting that Katherine Watson, a forty-seven-year-old event planner and mother of two, moves back into her childhood home with her teenage...
by Lawrence Coates
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
California’s Santa Clara Valley was once home to a vigorous wine industry. The Garden of the World is the tale of a pioneer winemaking family headed by Paul Tourneau, a fiercely ambitious vintner determined to make the finest wines in California. His plans are disrupted by a phylloxera epidemic...
The Master Of Monterey
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This comic novel, by the author of The Blossom Festival, is set in Mexican California in 1842 and is based on a true story of mistaken conquest. When Commodore Jones and the crew of the National Intention land in Monterey believing themselves to be bringing freedom and democracy to the benighted Californios,...