Linden Publishing: 95 books
by James A. Ardaiz
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
When investigators are called to a meticulously staged crime scene on a canal bank in rural Central California―the latest in a series of murders that have killed three young women in one month―they realize a dangerous serial killer is on the loose, someone who is highly adept at hiding his tracks....
Crossing California
A Cultural Topography of a Land of Wonder and Weirdness
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Sacramento Bee journalist Sam McManis spent five years on the road trying to find the real California. He discovered that there is more than one California, but every different California is equally weird and wonderful. Worlds collide and commingle: the neo-hippies with the rednecked farmers; the...
Secrets of Social Media Marketing
How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business!
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
""Secrets of Social Media Marketing"" is a handbook for marketers and business owners to use in deciding how to employ the new social media for online marketing. Social media has quickly moved from the periphery of marketing into the forefront, but this is a new and quickly-evolving field and there are...
The New Influencers
A Marketer’s Guide to the New Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Exploring how and why online forums such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogs have gained such popularity--and credibility--with consumers, this practical guide offers proven strategies for organizations to leverage these new internet-based social media outlets. The differences between traditional and new...
Stories of Service, Volume 2
Valley Veterans Remember World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Perfectly blending a vast historical scope with intensely individual viewpoints, this stirring collection of stories brings a man-on-the-ground perspective to a huge range of military history, with stories of a quarter-century of war from nearly every corner of the earth, including Europe; the Pacific;...
1939
The Making of Six Great Films from Hollywood’s Greatest Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Film critics and historians are virtually unanimous in considering 1939 the greatest year in the history of motion pictures. This one year produced many of the greatest films of all time, including “Gone with the Wind,” “The Wizard of Oz,” and “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” and marketed...
Behind San Quentin's Walls
The History of California’s Legendary Prison and Its Inmates, 1851-1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
San Quentin is one of the most famous prisons in American history, featured in countless movies and novels, yet few know its colorful early history. In Behind San Quentin’s Walls, noted Old West historian William B. Secrest reveals the beginning of San Quentin, from its unlikely start as a real...
California Fruits, Flakes & Nuts
True Tales of California Crazies, Crackpots and Creeps
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
They call California the Granola State — a place where every inhabitant is a fruit, a flake, or a nut. They don’t get any fruitier, flakier, or nuttier than the deviants, crackpots, and losers profiled in “California Fruits, Flakes, and Nuts.” A freewheeling catalog of misfits, eccentrics, creeps,...
Here's to My Sweet Satan
How the Occult Haunted Music, Movies and Pop Culture, 1966-1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A sweeping and masterful cultural history, “Here’s to My Sweet Satan” tells how the Occult conquered the American imagination, weaving together topics as diverse as the birth of heavy metal, 1970s horror films, the New Age movement, Count Chocula cereal, the serial killer Son of Sam, and more....
Folsom's 93
The Lives and Crimes of Folsom Prison's Executed Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
From 1895 to 1937, 93 men were hanged at California's Folsom State Prison, and this book is the first to tell all of their stories, recounting long-forgotten tales of murder and swift justice, or sometimes, swift injustice that hanged an innocent man. Based on a treasury of historical information that...
A Cross of Thorns
The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
A Cross of Thorns challenges this mythologized history and presents the facts of the Spanish occupation of California, describing the dark and cruel reality of Mission life. Beginning in 1769, California Indians were enticed into the missions, where they and their descendents were imprisoned for 60...
Using the Power of Hope to Cope with Dying
The Four Stages of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Introducing Cathleen Fanslow's ""Hope System,"" which incorporates the four stages of hope (hope for cure, for treatment, for prolongation of life, and for peaceful death), this book shows both the living and the dying how to use the power of hope to cope with the inevitable. This powerful and simple...
Grief Sucks ... But Love Bears All Things
How Grief Tore Me Apart and Put Me Back Together
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Gayle Taylor Davis had it all — a husband she adored, two successful daughters, and a career she enjoyed. Then one phone call took it all away, when a policeman called to tell her that her husband of 32 years had suddenly died of a heart attack. Plunged into the strange new world of grief, Davis began...
Signature for Success
How to Analyze Handwriting and Improve Your Career, Your Relationships, and Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In Signature for Success, New Updated Edition, Arlyn J. Imberman shares her handwriting-analysis techniques to help you better understand yourself, your coworkers, and your friends and family, thus improving your relationships.
The way people form letters, the size of their script, the pressure...