𝔖 Bobbio Scriptorium
✦   LIBER   ✦

Cover of The Valley of the Giants: Californian Story of the Gilded Age

The Valley of the Giants: Californian Story of the Gilded Age

✍ Scribed by Kyne, Peter Bernard


Publisher
e-artnow
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
214 KB
Category
Fiction
City
California,California.

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


The Valley of the Giants is set on the edge of Humboldt Bay in the fictional town of Sequoia, California. Starting in 1850s, with John Cardigan founding the logging company to build a life for him and his son Bryce, the novel follows the ups and downs of the Cardigan family and the on-going rivalry with Colonel Pennington over logging rights and other business matters. When Bryce Cardigan returns home from the college he finds out that his father's company is in trouble and that Pennington is pushing them out of business. He must try to save the company and screw Colonel Pennington, while juggling a secret relationship with Shirley, Pennington's niece.

✦ Subjects


California


πŸ“œ SIMILAR VOLUMES


cover
✍ Peter B. Kyne πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2017 πŸ› e-artnow 🌐 English βš– 214 KB πŸ‘ 1 views

The Valley of the Giants is set on the edge of Humboldt Bay in the fictional town of Sequoia, California. Starting in 1850s, with John Cardigan founding the logging company to build a life for him and his son Bryce, the novel follows the ups and downs of the Cardigan family and the on-going rivalry

The Gilded Age
✍ Mark Twain πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2007;2006 πŸ› Random House Publishing Group;Modern Library 🌐 English βš– 2 MB πŸ‘ 2 views

A poor Tennessee family to get rich by finding the right time to sell the 75,000 acres of unimproved land acquired by their patriarch, Silas "Si" Hawkins. Meanwhile in a parallel story two young upper-class men, Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly, seek their fortunes in land a different way.

The Golden Cage aka The Gilded Cage
✍ Camilla LΓ€ckberg; Neil Smith πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2020 πŸ› Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 🌐 en-US βš– 199 KB πŸ‘ 2 views

****A**** _CrimeReads_****Most Anticipated Book of 2020** **** **"L ackberg outdoes herself with this delectable tale of revenge... Sexy... exquisite... scorching."** ** --****_Publishers Weekly,_****starred** An exhilarating new novel from a global superstar--a sexy, over-the-top psychologi

cover
✍ Camilla Lackberg πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2020 πŸ› HarperCollins Publishers 🌐 English βš– 301 KB πŸ‘ 3 views

A gripping new psychological thriller from No. 1 international bestseller and Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg 'A sexy, sensational novel with intoxicating vengeance and an unexpected tenderness' Karin Slaughter All that glitters... People would kill to have Faye von Essen's life. She lives

cover
✍ Frank Norris πŸ“‚ Fiction πŸ“… 2014 πŸ› Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 English βš– 413 KB πŸ‘ 2 views

Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, *The Octopus* is a stunning novel of the waning days of the