books by James D. Houston

books by James D. Houston

books:

James D. Houston

Where Light takes its Color From the Sea

James D. Houston

Heyday Books, 2008

California, a brief introduction
Santa Cruz writer James D. Houston has collected a wonderful set of essays, short stories, vignettes and reflections about the Golden State in this just-released volume from Heyday Books in Berkeley. Known for his recent historical fiction about the Donner Party (Snow ...

Eldorado: Adventures in the Path of Empire (California Legacy Book)

Bayard Taylor

Heyday Books, 2000

superb and engaging
I stumbled across this book by accident one day and it has turned out to be my find of 2001 -- one of the most enjoyable books I have read in ages. Taylor, a youthful New York journalist and poet, was sent out to California to file back dispatches on this wild, ...

Bird of Another Heaven

James D. Houston

Anchor, 2008

powerful character study
In 1980s Northern California radio host Sheridan "Dan" Brody has always wondered about his roots, but did nothing to learn more about the identity of his father. However, when he sees his birth certificate, it includes the name of his sire. He wants to know more ...

Surfing: A History of the Ancient Hawaiian Sport

Ben R. Finney, James D. Houston

Pomegranate Communications, 1996

Good
This is a great book with lots of awesome pictures, this book is great, I really recommend it!

Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II ...

James D. Houston

Bantam Books, 1974

Great book
The book was very well written and you could actually put yourself in some of the incidents that happened through her life. It is very hard to belief that this discrimination happened in our country less that 75 years ago. Great read.

Farewell to Manzanar with Connections

Jeanne D. Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston

Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1998

Review of Farewell to Manzanar
I enjoyed reading this book. This book went through and discussed life for a Japanese Americans during World War 11. I find it hard to believe that the Americans were over in Europe fighting to help the Europeans and save the Jews within the concentration camps yet ...

Snow Mountain Passage

James D. Houston

Harvest Books, 2002

One of the finest books ever written about the West
This is simply an awesome display of storytelling, combining historical "fiction" with non-fiction (the latter derived from the actual notes and writings of a real survivor of the incident), and illustrating the incredible power of James D. Houston's mind and writing ...

The Literature of California, Volume 1: Native American Beginnings to 1945

University of California Press, 2000

California, End of the earth
I'm taking a class from one of the guys who compiled the book, and for starters let me say twenty bucks is a damn good deal for a textbook. This one is meaty too. Very interesting prefaces for each selection of writing, as well as essays about each period. A must ...

The Act of Bible Reading: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Biblical Interpretation

Gordon D. Fee, Craig M. Gay, ...

InterVarsity Press, 1996

A Great Book Demands Great Readers
Amongst numerous hermeneutics Books in stores, this one is quite different from others. Using the multidisciplinary approach, it starts with the historical perspective and canonical approach in the first two chapters. Each chapter also spends a good length for a ...

Hawaiian Son

James D. Houston

Hawaiian Legacy, 2004

Brought back great childhood memories from my native Hawaii
A fascinating read into the creative processes used by Hawaiian music legend Eddie Kamae throughout his career. Sons of Hawaii fans will appreciate Mr. Kamae's genuine and honest accounts of his life-changing journey during the renaissance period of Hawaiian music and ...

In the Ring of Fire: A Pacific Basin Journey

James D. Houston

Mercury House, 1997

Wonderful--Speaks to the future of our humanity!
This is kind of a joyful, thoughtful, updated FAREWELL TO MANZANAR, a modern journey around the Pacific Basin to see the context of our oneness as a people, the future of how we will coexist as Americans and Asians and Amerasians. Examines in a playful way the ...