A boy finds himself alone with his first love in a toboggan stalled atop the Matterhorn at Disneyland. A woman, bitter about her marriage to a man turned blind, must decide if he lives or dies. A man
Uses historical narrative, personal memoir, and profiles based on interviews to describe the Arab American experience from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
In this work, third-generation Arab-American Orfalea (Pitzer College) combines conventional historical narrative, personal memoir, and individual profiles based on interviews into a portrait of the Ar
The fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra, the intrepid priest who led Spain and the Catholic Church into California in the 1700s and became a key figure in the making of the
In 1989, Gregory Orfalea received notice that the first reunion of his father's World War II infantry battalion, the 551st, would be held in France. Still mourning the death of his father the year bef
A remarkable biography of the brilliant and intrepid priest who led the Catholic Church into California in the eighteenth century—a fascinating and largely unknown story set in the pre-civilized Ameri
