Pasadena 1984

Pasadena 1984

Henry Rex Greene

16,79 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Strategic Book Group, LLC
Año de edición:
2023
ISBN:
9781682359075
16,79 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)

New Year’s 1984 brings big changes for 40-year-old Jerry O’Donnell. After a messy divorce, he quits his job as a teacher at Muir High School in Pasadena, California, to become a stockbroker. When he leases a car, he meets his fiancée, Kate Cleary. The two buy a small home and have ambitious plans for the future. It is then that the AIDS epidemic raises its ugly head. After a gay friend dies of AIDS, his lover, a retired doctor, asks Jerry, the fledgling stockbroker, to help earn money for AIDS victims, but they experience strong resistance. The Best and Worst of Times The remaking of Los Angeles for the Summer Olympics is a high point of the year. Jerry’s favorite baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, comes painfully close to making the World Series. At the same time, President Ronald Reagan remains silent in the face of the AIDS epidemic. He cuts taxes on the rich, causing the federal debt to soar. Kate worries about the collapse of the savings and loan industry. Jerry becomes disillusioned with his company’s economic philosophy of 'churn and burn,' selling marginal equities. When President Reagan wins an electoral landslide, it sets America’s course for the next four decades. His neglect of the AIDS epidemic motivates Jerry to apply to grad school in Public Policy.(About the Author)Says author Henry Rex Greene: 'My sixth novel, Life Could be a Dream, is a fictional version of my childhood in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles. I now live in Henderson, Nevada, after an exciting coast-to-coast journey through America. I’m a practicing physician, specializing in hematology and oncology. I had strong involvement in shaping the hospice movement and medical ethics.'

Artículos relacionados

  • Poetry Is Our Ministry to Touch the Heart
    Anelda Lukesia Ballard / Jean Anelda Scott
    Poetry is Our Ministry to Touch the Heart, was birthed when Anelda L. Ballard became ill. God spoke to her in a dream and said 'pick up a pen and write' by being obedient this book was written through the Holy Spirit. Anelda and her mother Jean A. Scott believes that God’s wants to heal a hurting heart. This book will inspire you and encourage you to never give up hope. Jesu...
    Disponible

    11,12 €

  • I soldati lunghi
    Pierluigi Romeo di Colloredo Mels
    Il 24 maggio 1915 il Regno d’Italia entrò nella Grande Guerra, che si sarebbe dimostrata il momento più alto e tragico della sua storia, a poco più di cinquant’anni dalla sua unificazione.In quella lotta tremenda durata quattro anni, la Brigata Granatieri di Sardegna , con i suoi due valorosi Reggimenti, i più antichi del Regio Esercito scrisse, nel grande quadro della guerra d...
    Disponible

    32,59 €

  • Five Beneath Philly
    Susan Bandy / Tom Richmond
    Allen Williams plans to make something of his life and escape South Philly and the work at Cross Brothers’ Meat Packing Plant. He prepares himself with excellent grades and an upcoming full-ride scholarship to climb out of South Philly forever. Then fate changes his whole world. An only son in a family of six, Allen suddenly finds himself responsible for his mother, grandmother...
    Disponible

    18,28 €

  • Forms
    Sharon Welch
    I am an award-winning artist and my works hang in private residences, community hospitals, businesses, and restaurants across the US and also abroad.  I live in Pierre, South Dakota. Since 2008 I have owned Sharon Welch Gallery and Studio where I paint and teach classes.  My theory is have fun, remove the fear of failure, experiment and let the child inside of you play.Very oft...
    Disponible

    60,20 €

  • Ricordi di una ausiliaria
    Andrea Lombardi / Raffaella Duelli
    Le memorie di Raffaella Duelli, Volontaria nel Battaglione Barbarigo della Decima Flottiglia Mas iniziano con la partenza del Barbarigo da Roma, narrando la lunga marcia del reparto verso il nord, sotto il mitragliamento degli aerei Alleati. Quindi, è descritta vividamente l'ultima battaglia del Barbarigo sul Fronte Sud, dal Senio a Comacchio: gli appunti di Raffaella, giov...
    Disponible

    28,08 €

  • Why Didn’t You Ask?
    Panya Dixon
    From an early occurrence in her childhood to a perilous thirteen-year relationship, Panya Dixon too often suffered from various forms of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Conflicted between love and the pain her loved ones brought on her, she consistently had to fight for her life and her will to move on. Why Didn’t You Ask? is an expression of Panya’s truth—her trials, pa...
    Disponible

    20,35 €

Otros libros del autor

  • Executive Justice
    Henry Rex Greene
    What will happen in this contemporary novel pitting America’s red, blue, and neutral states against each other?In 2026, America’s liberal blue states secede, dividing the former United States into three countries: the Confederation (red), the Coalition (blue), and the neutral (white) states.In retirement, Dr. Cal Boyd and his wife Carol learn that the Confederation has arrested...
    Disponible

    13,97 €

  • The Bookmen
    Henry Rex Greene
    The summer of 1965 is a pivotal time in American history. As the Vietnam War expands toward its ultimate heavy American involvement, the Watts Riots presage the urban unrest of the late 1960s. This insightful novel follows newlywed couple Max and Jan King, who have just graduated college and are both preparing to start med school at MCLA, a former osteopathic college in East Lo...
    Disponible

    13,05 €

  • Life Could be a Dream
    Henry Rex Greene
    The summer of 1954 begins a pivotal year in nine-year-old Robby Barnaby’s life. On the last day of school, he breaks his arm sliding into home plate while playing for the fifth graders in an all-star game against the sixth graders. Baseball is his passion, and Robby excels at it, though he is younger than his classmates. He lives in a new suburb of Los Angeles called Watertown,...
    Disponible

    15,49 €

  • Thirteen Months a Year
    Henry Rex Greene
    10SKU (if available)In Thirteen Months a Year, the second book of his fictional trilogy, real-life doctor Henry Rex Greene revisits two married physicians, Max and Jan King, as they start their internship at L.A. County Hospital in 1969.For the next year, their jobs and personal lives working in the busiest hospital in the country are highly stressed. Max is an anti-war activis...
    Disponible

    15,33 €

  • Stone Mother
    Henry Rex Greene
    The final installment of a medical trilogy, Stone Mother refers to the old Los Angeles County Hospital. On entering residency training, a married couple carry their 1960s activism into the '70s. They struggle to balance overwhelming responsibilities with their ideals, attempting to reform the 'system,' but ultimately it is their personal lives that suffer. Max King is driven ...
    Disponible

    14,53 €

  • The Class of 1969
    Henry Rex Greene
    It is 1965, and the Watts Riots have just ended when newlyweds Max and Jan King enter medical school. As Max and Jan converge with other students in the Los Angeles County medical complex, neither has any idea that their foray into the world of medicine is about to test their inner strength, perseverance, and activist views in more ways than they ever could have imagined.While ...
    Disponible

    24,56 €