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Anderson, John
             The Newhall Incident—America’s Worst Uniformed Cop Massacre
Anderson, Marsha J. (Editor)
             Scicon Memories—An Anecdotal History of the Clemmie Gill School of Science
   
            and Conservation
Austin, Mary
             The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales
   
         Beyond Borders: The Selected Essays of Mary Austin
   
         Cactus Thorn: A Novella
   
         Earth Horizon: Autobiography
   
         The Ford
             The Land of Little Rain
   
         The Mary Austin Reader
   
         Stories from the Country of Lost Borders (The Land of Little Rain, Lost Borders)
             Writing the Western Landscape (with John Muir)
Bailey, Richard C.
   
         Explorations in Kern
Barbour, Michael G
             California's Changing Landscapes--Diversity and Conservation of
   
            California Vegetation
Barich, Bill
             Carson Valley
   
         Crazy for Rivers
   
         Laughing in the Hills
   
         The Sporting Life—Horses, Boxers, Rivers and a Russian Ballclub
   
         Traveling Light
Barker, Lorie
             The Self-Identified Woman (Spinster, Old Maid, Single, Nevermarried)
Beers, Terry (Editor)
             Unfolding Beauty—Celebrating California’s Landscapes
Benander, Kathryn
             The Writing Kaleidoscope—Reading, Writing, and Grammar
Benham, Herb
             First Kisses and other Miracles
   
         Sitting on my Fat Wallet
Berry, Ray
            Mountain Boy--A Series of Short Stories about Growing Up in the Sierra Nevada
               Mountains of Early California
Bezayiff, David
             Spitball—The Literary Baseball Magazine
Bidart, Frank
             Desire
   
         In the Western Night--Collected Poems, 1965-90
Black, Matthew
             In This Land
Black, Melissa
             Coracle—Millennium Issue
Borofka, David
            Hints of his Mortality
            The Island
Bouldry, Brian (Editor)
             Writing Home—Award-Winning Literature from the New West
Boyd, William Harland
             Land of Havilah—1854-1874
Brewer, Chris
             Bakersfield’s Photographic Past—A Photographic Album (Compiled)
   
         Exeter’s Photographic Past—A Photographic Album (Compiled)
   
         Southern San Joaquin Valley Scenes—Images of America
Bringhurst, Newell G.
             Fawn McKay Brodie—A Biographer’s Life
   
         Visalia's Fabulous Fox--A Theater Story
Brock, Joan
             More than Meets the Eye—The Story of a Remarkable Life and a
               Transcending Love
Brown, Henry McLauren
             Mineral King Country—Visalia to Mount Whitney
Brown, J. L.
             The Mussel Slough Tragedy
Browning, Peter (Editor)
            Bright Gem of the Western Seas--California 1846 – 1852
Bryant, Mildred Crofutt
             Sister—A Family’s Story of Homesteading and Survival
Buckley, Christopher (Editor)
            The Geography of Home--California's Poetry of Place
             How Much Earth—The Fresno Poets
Bulbulian, Berge
             The Fresno Armenians—History of a Diaspora Community
Bulosan, Carlos
             America Is in the Heart—A Personal History
            The Cry and the Dedication
   
         On Becoming Filipino
Buyer, Laurie Wagner
             Blue Heron

Carson, James H.
             Bright Gem of the Western Seas—California 1846-1852
Call, Wilson
   
         The Summer Sun
Chamberlain, R. H.
            Early Loading Tools and Bullet Molds
Chan, Jeffery Paul (Editor)
             The Big Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American
   
            Literature
Chandler, David
             Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars
   
         First Light—Astronomy Kit
Chandler, David and Billie
             Sky Atlas—For Small Telescopes and Binoculars
Christman, Henry M. (Editor)
             The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren
Clearman, Lee
             Porterville College--The First Fifty Years
Clerc, Charles
             The Y and Other Stories
Clough, Charles W.
             Fresno County in the 20th Century—From 1900 to the 1980s, Vol. II
Corser, Caroline
             Three Cheers for the Good Years!—You’re not an Antique, but that
               Rocking Chair Is.
Coyle, Helen Richardson
             Road to Montevideo: A Single Woman’s one-year Bicycle Adventure in
   
            South America—1941-1942
Cruz, Victor H. (Editor)
             Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets

Dale, Dan
             Peace Officer's Guide to Criminal Law
Dawson, Robert
             The Great Central Valley—California’s Heartland
Delis, Leftare P.
             The Inside Passage
Derby, Lieutenant George H.
             Bright Gem of the Western Seas—California 1846-1852
Didion, Joan
             Democracy—A Novel
   
         The Last Thing He Wanted
   
         Play it as it Lays—A Novel
   
         Salvador
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
            Arranged Marriage
   
         Black Candle
   
         Leaving Yuba City—New and Selected Poems
   
         The Mistress of Spices
   
         Sister of my Heart
   
         We, Too, Sing America—A Reader for Writers
Doctor, Joseph E.
             Shotguns on Sunday—The True Story of the West’s Last Badman
Dodd, Barbara
   
         Full-Body Reflexology—An Illustrated Guide
Dokey, Richard
             The Hollow Man
Donnels, Achsa Barnwell Peacock Holfelder
             Achsa: An Autobiography
Drury, Allen
             Advise and Consent
   
         Come Nineveh, Come Tyre—The Presidency of Edward M. Jason
   
         Decision
   
         A God Against the Gods
   
         The Promise of Joy
   
         Public Men
Dubin, Margaret (Editor)
             The Dirt is Red Here:  Art and Poetry from Native California
Drysdale, Frank
             California’s Changing Landscapes—Diversity and Conservation of
   
            California Vegetation
Duerr, Catherine
             Hold me Tightly—Devotions on a Mother’s Love

Edwards, Jeff
             Main Street, Porterville
   
         Names and Places of Tulare County (Edited)
   
         100 Year History of the Tule River Mountain Country
   
         Porterville--Facts, Legends and Fires
   
         Porterville--Main Street, Book I
   
         Terra Bella, California--A Town before its Time
   
         20 Year History of Dr. Samuel Gregg George Chapter No. 1855--
               E Clampus Vitus
   
         Zaluds of Porterville
Edwards, Harold L.
             The Killing of Jim McKinney
Espada, Martín (Editor)
             El Coro—A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry
Everson, William (Brother Antoninus)
             Naked Heart: Talking on Poetry, Mysticism, and the Erotic
   
         The Residual Years: Poems 1934-1948
   
         The Veritable Years: Poems 1949-1966
Everwine, Peter
             Collecting the Animals
Finney, Ernest J.
             Birds Landing
   
         California Time
   
         Flights in the Heavenlies
   
         Lady with the Alligator Purse
   
         Winterchill
   
         Words of my Roaring
Forbes, Jack D.
             Africans and Native Americans--The Language of Race and the
                Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
            Apache, Navaho, and Spaniard
   
         The Indian in America’s Past (Edited)
   
         Native Americans of California and Nevada
   
         Only Approved Indians—Stories
   
         Warriors of the Colorado—The Yumas of the Quechan Nation and their Neighbors
Franklin, Lynn
             The Beverly Hills Murder File
Frazier, Jo Frances
             Second Chance

Gardner, Leonard
             Fat City
Galarza, Ernesto
             Barrio Boy
             Merchants of Labor:  The Mexican Bracero Story--An Account of the Managed
                Migration of Mexican Farm Workers in California, 1942-1960
   
         Mexican-Americans in the Southwest
   
         Spiders in the House and Workers in the Field
García, Diana
             When Living was a Labor Camp
Gates, Doris
             Blue Willow
Gilbar, Steven (Editor)
             Natural State—A Literary Anthology of California Nature Writing
   
         California Shorts
Gilpin, Tom
            Me and Zot and other Stories
Goldberg, Leonard
             Deadly Exposure
Gotanda, Philip Kan
             Fish Head Soup and Other Plays
González, Ray (Editor)
             Touching the Fire—Fifteen Poets of Today’s Latino Renaissance
Gottlieb, Joe
             "Come Down from the Pole, Joey"—or, From Rags to Denim
Geshuri, Yosef
            Balance of Power in the Family:  Behavior Problems with Children--
                Who is Really in Control at Home

Halo, Mimi
   
         Shadow Tracks—A Love Story
Handley, Pegi
             What’s a Birthday, Mama?
Hanson, Victor Davis
             In This Land
   
         The Land was Everything—Letters from an American Farmer
Hanzlicek, C. G.
             Against Dreaming
   
         The Cave—Selected and New Poems
Haslam, Gerald W.
             Coming of Age in California—Personal Essays
   
         Condor Dreams and Other Fictions
   
         Forgotten Pages of American Literature
   
         The Great Central Valley—California’s Heartland
   
         Great Tejon Club Jubilee—Stories by Gerald W. Haslam
   
         Jack London's Golden State--Selected California Writings (Editor)
   
         Manual and the Madman
            Many Californias--Literature from the Golden State (Editor)
   
         The Other California--The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters
   
         Straight White Male
   
         That Constant Coyote—California Stories
   
         Where Coyotes Howl and Wind Blows Free—Growing up in the West
   
         Workin' Man Blues--Country Music in California
Hauck, Philip E.
             A Timeless Journey told by Mr. Walnut
   
         Plum Full of Prunes
Heiken, Grant
             Volcanoes—Crucibles of Change
Herrera, Juan Felipe
             Thunderweavers/Tejedoras de Rayos
Hickman, Shirley Skufca
             "Don't Be Give Up."
            School Success:  500 Ways Busy Parents Can Help their Children 
               Succeed in School
Hicks, Jack
             The Literature of California, Vol. 1—Native American Beginnings to 1945
Homer, Rodney Prestage
             Pioneer Communities of Porterville, Vandalia and Plano, Vol. I & II
Houston, James D.
             Californians--Searching for the Golden State
   
         Farewell to Manzanar
   
         The Literature of California, Vol. 1—Native American Beginnings to 1945

Iger, Gregory
   
         Buena Vista II: Kern County Landscapes
Ignacio, Debbie
             The Medicine Bag—Spiritual Healing of Native American Poetry
Imel, James
             My Life after Death—Merilyn, Rochelle, and Me
Inada, Lawson Fusao
             The Big Aiiieeeee! An anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American
   
             Literature (Editor)
   
         Drawing the Line
   
         Legends from Camp
   
         Only What We Could Carry—The Japanese American Internment
                Experience (Editor)

Janzen, Jean
             Snake in the Parsonage
   
         Tasting the Dust
   
         The Upside-down Tree
Janzen, Rod
             The Prairie People:  Forgotten Anabaptists
Jenkins, J.C.
             Exploring the Southern Sierra: West Side
Jenkins, Ruby Johnson
             Exploring the Southern Sierra: West Side
Jerome, Tony
             Memories of a Portuguese Immigrant to the San Joaquin Valley
Johnson, Stephen
             The Great Central Valley--California's Heartland
Johnstone, Peter (Editor)
            Giants in the Earth--The California Redwoods

Kasiner, Dorothy
             Delano Area, 1776-1930—Images of America
   
         Delano Area, 1930-2000—Images of America
Keithley, George
             The Donner Party
   
         Earth’s Eye
Kern County Wool Growers Auxiliary, "The Bo-Peeps"
         From the Sheepcamp to the Kitchen
Kherdian, David 
   
         Beat Voices--An Anthology of Beat Poetry (Editor)
   
         The Golden Bracelet (Retold)
   
         Monkey—A Journey to the West (Retold)
   
         On a Spaceship with Beelzebub
   
         The Road from Home - The Story of an Armenian Girl
Kimble, Socorro Muñoz
             Mexican Desserts and Drinks
Kingston, Maxine Hong
             China Men
   
         The Literature of California, Vol. 1—Native American Beginnings to 1945
   
         Tripmaster Monkey—His Fake Book
   
         Woman Warrior--Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
Kitzmiller, Chelley
             Embrace the Wind
   
         Touch the Wind
Kopper, Dorothy Louise
             Assignment: Zaire
Kowalewski, Michael (Editor)
             Gold Rush—A Literary Exploration
Krekorian, Michael
             Channel Zero
Kurutz, Gary F.
             California Calls You—The Art of Promoting the Golden State, 1870-1940
Kurutz, KD
             California Calls You—The Art of Promoting the Golden State, 1870-1940
Kyker-Jameson, Vicki
             The Killer Kern

LaPena, Frank
            The Dirt is Red Here:  Art and Poetry from Native California
Larson, Odette
             Flying Sparks—Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas
Latta, Frank F.
             Black Gold in the Joaquin
   
         Californian Indian Folklore
             Dalton Gang Days:  From California to Coffeeville
            Death Valley '49ers
             Handbook of Yokuts Indians
   
         Joaquín Murrieta and his Horse Gangs
   
         Tailholt Tales
Lau, Alan Chong
             Blues and Greens—A Produce Worker’s Journal
   
         They Painted from their Hearts—Pioneer Asian American Artists
Laval, Jerome D.
             As "Pop" Saw It, V. I--Photographs of the San Joaquin Valley from
                 the Files of Claude C. "Pop" Laval

            As "Pop" Saw It, V. II—A Continuing View of the Great Central Valley
               of California as seen through the Lens of a Camera
Lawton,Stephen
             Santa Barbara's Flying A Studio
Levine, Philip
             Don’t Ask
            The Mercy
   
         New Selected Poems
   
         One for the Rose
   
         7 Years from Somewhere
   
         The Simple Truth
   
         They Feed the Lions and the Names of the Lost
   
         What Work Is
Levis, Larry
             The Afterlife
   
         Elegy
   
         The Gazer Within
   
         The Selected Levis
Lindstrom, Susan
             California’s Changing Landscapes—Diversity and Conservation of
   
            California Vegetation
Litherland, Donna
             The Great California Flood
Lopez, Phil
             The Inheritance

Magruder, Genevieve Kratka
             The Upper San Joaquin Valley, 1772-1870
Mandelaris, William M.
             A Clash of Values—Are the Media and other Outside Influences Undermining
               our Family Principles?
Marschner, Janice
             California 1850—A Snapshot in Time
Martin, Kat
             Midnight Rider
   
         Night Secrets
   
         Nothing but Velvet
   
         Perfect Sin
Martin, Larry Jay
             Condor Canyon
   
         Last Stand
   
         Rush to Destiny
Martinez, Victor
             Parrot in the Oven—Mi Vida
Masumoto, David Mas
             Epitaph for a Peach—Four Seasons on my Family Farm
   
         Country Voices—The Oral History of a Japanese American Family
   
            Farm Community
            Four Seasons in Five Senses:  Things Worth Savoring
   
         Harvest Son--Planting Roots in American Soil
Mayfield, Thomas Jefferson
             Adopted by Indians--A True Story
   
         Indian Summer--Traditional Life Among the Choinumne Indians of
   
            California's San Joaquin Valley
Maynard, John Arthur
             Bakersfield—A Centennial Portrait
McClurg, Sue
             Water and the Shaping of California
McCracken, Aliza
             The Dance of Love—A Personal Collection of Artwork & Poetry
             Pure Grace:  Art and Inspiration
   
         Spirit of Joy—A Creative Devotional
McDaniel, Wilma Elizabeth
             A Bowl of Sopas
   
         Getting Love Down Right
   
         Hanging Out at the Avalon Cafe
             The Last Dust Storm
   
          A Primer for Buford
   
         A Prince Albert Wind
             The Red Coffee Can:  Poems and Stories of the Unique Spirit of a
                San Joaquin Valley People
   
         Shirtwaist Women
McEntyre, Marilyn Chandler
             In Quiet Light—Poems on Vermeer’s Women
McGregor, Ann (Compiled)
             Remembering Cesar-- The Legacy of Cesar Chavez
McWilliams, Cary
             Factories in the Field—The Story of Migratory Farm Labor in California
Meredith, Marilyn
   
         Crabtree Tule River Patriarchs—Early Springville History
   
         Deadly Omen
   
         Trail of Glory
   
         Two Ways West
   
         Unequally Yoked
Mezey, Robert
             Collected Poems, 1952-1999
Milman, Barbara
             Light in the Shadows
Minton, Linda
             Tales Told under a Toadstool
Mitchell, Annie R.
             Land of the Tules—The Early Years of Tulare County
   
         A Modern History of Tulare County
   
         Sites to See—Historical Landmarks in Tulare County
   
         The Way it Was—The Colorful History of Tulare County
Moody, Warren
             Know your Way in the Backcountry
Montoya, José
             In Formation—20 Years of Joda
Moraga, Cherríe
             Heroes and Saints & Other Plays
   
         The Last Generation—Prose and Poetry
   
         Loving in the War Years
   
         The Sexuality of Latinas (Editor)
   
         Waiting in the Wings—Portrait of a Queer Motherhood
Muir, John
             America’s Wilderness—The Photographs of Ansel Adams with the
               Writings of John Muir
   
         Gentle Wilderness—The Sierra Nevada
   
         The Mountains of California
   
         My First Summer in the Sierra
   
         Stickeen
   
         The Yosemite
Muller, Jane Guthrie
             The Guthrie’s of White River

Noriega, Irma Serrano
            Mexican Desserts and Drinks
Norris, Frank
             At Last to Kiss Amanda
   
         The Best Short Stories of Frank Norris
   
         McTeague—A Story of San Francisco
   
         The Octopus
   
         The Pit
Norris, Norman L. (Eleanor Norris)
             The Magic of my Mountains—Memories from California’s
                Sequoia National Forest, 1919-1926

O’Connell, Jay
             Co-operative Dreams—A History of the Kaweah Colony
O’Hara-Kelly, Katie
             What are you Looking at?
O'Neill, Bill
              A Mountain Never Too High:  The Story of J. E. O'Neill
Orozco, Samuel
             In This Land
Otter, Floyd L.
             The Men of Mammoth Forest


Palance, Jack
             Forest of Love—A Love Story in Blank Verse
Pape, Greg
             Storm Pattern
   
         Sunflower Facing the Sun
Pavlik, Bruce M.
             California’s Changing Landscapes—Diversity and Conservation of
   
            California Vegetation
   
         Oaks of California
Pittman, Ruth
             Roadside History of California
Porter, Milly Hunt
             The Horse Gods
Porterville:  A Century of People, Places and Events
Powers, Bob
             Indian Country of the Tubatulabal
Preston, Scott
             Letters from Elko
Pryor, Alton
             Classic Tales in California History
   
         Little Known Tales in California History
   
         Outlaws and Gunslingers—Tales of the West’s Most Notorious Outlaws

Rail, Dewayne 
             Writing Inside and Out - A Content-Centered Approach to Writing
Ramming, Cindy
             All Mothers Work—A Guilt-free Guide for the Stay-at-home Mom
Rao, Raghavendra A. N.
             Bugs, Hugs and Drugs—True Stories about Diseases,
               Health and Happiness
Rehart, Catherine M.
             The Valley’s Legends & Legacies, Vol. 1-IV
Rice, Doris M. (Compiler)
             Royal Porter Putnam—The Founder of Porterville, California
Rintoul, William
             Drilling Through Time—75 Years with California’s Division of
   
            Oil and Gas
   
         Oildorado—Boom Times on the West Side
   
         Spudding In—Recollections of Pioneer Days in the California Oil Fields
Rodriquez, Richard
             Brown:  The Last Discovery of America 
             Hunger of Memory--The Education of Richard Rodriquez
Rose, Gene
             Reflections of Shaver Lake—Center of Activities on Pine Ridge for more than
   
            One Hundred Years
   
         The San Joaquín—A River Betrayed
   
         Sierra Centennial—100 Years of Pioneering on the Sierra National Forest
Rose, Wendy
             Bone Dance--New and Selected Poems, 1965 – 1993
            The Dirt is Red Here:  Art and Poetry from Native California
   
         The Halfbreed Chronicles and Other Poems
   
         Now Poof She is Gone
Ross, Michael Elshon
             Flower Watching with Alice Eastwood
Ross, Sylvia
             The Dirt is Red Here:  Art and Poetry from Native California
Rothenberg, Rebecca
              The Bulrush Murders:  A Botanical Mystery
             The Dandelion Murders:  A Botanical Mystery
             The Shy Tulip Murders:  A Botanical Mystery
             The Tumbleweed Murders:  A Claire Sharples Botanical Mystery
Roundy, Ferrel Glade
             Tragedy and Triumph in Schweinfurt—Memoirs of a Jewish Pig Farmer 
               in the Third Reich
   
         Up from the Ashes—The Story of Jim, Miss Watson’s Former Slave
Rudy, Lynn Hay
             Old Bakersfield: Sites & Landmarks, 1875-1915
Ruettgers, Ken
             Home Field Advantage—A Dad’s Guide to the Power of Role Modeling
Ryan, Pam Muñoz
             Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride
   
         ¡California, Aquí Vamos!
   
         The Crayon Counting Book
   
         Esperanza Rising
   
         The Flag We Love
   
         One Hundred Is a Family
   
         A Pinky is a Baby Mouse—And other Baby Animal Names
   
         Riding Freedom

Salazar, Dixie
             Limbo
St. John, David
             In the Pines—Lost Poems, 1972-1997
   
         The Red Leaves of Night
   
         Study for the World’s Body—New and Selected Poems
San Joaquin Valley Senior Writers Staff
             Flights of Fantasy
   
         We Remember When—Childhood Memories 1913 to 1953
Sanford, Bill
             The San Joaquin, The Sierra, and Beyond
Saroyan, William
             Births
   
         Boys and Girls Together
   
         The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze and Other Stories
   
         Fresno Stories
   
         Here Comes, There Goes, You Know Who—An Autobiography
   
         The Human Comedy
   
         Madness in the Family
   
         The Man with the Heart in the Highlands and other Early Stories
   
         My Name is Aram
   
         Not Dying—A Memoir
   
         Obituaries
   
         The Saroyan Special
   
         Warsaw Visitor, Tales from the Vienna Streets
   
         The William Saroyan Reader
Scanlan, Nicholas Patrick (Editor)
             Kern County Pioneer Recollections
Schenker, Heath (Editor)
             Picturing California's Other Landscape--The Great Central Valley
Schmitz, Dennis
             About Night--Selected and New Poetry
Schmollinger, Steve
             Tehachapi—Railroading on a Desert Mountain
Schrag, Peter
             Paradise Lost—California’s Experience, America’s Future
Secrest, William B.
             California Desperadoes—Stories of Early California Outlaws in their own Words
            Perilous Trails, Dangerous Men--Early California Stagecoach Robbers
               and their Desperate Careers, 1856-1900
            When the Great Spirit Died: The Destruction of the California Indians,
               1850--1860
Seibert, Roberta
             The Leafing Page
Shaffer, Frank "Buck"
             "Buck"—It’s all about Bands!
Shellenberger, Robert
             Wagons West—Trail Tales, 1848
Simental, Jesús G.
             Yo Labré mi Destino
Small, Kathleen Edwards
             Early History of Tulare County, California
Snyder, Gary
             The Back Country
   
         Earth House Hold—Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow
               Dharma Revolutionaries
   
         The Gary Snyder Reader--Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952 – 1998
             The High Sierra of California
   
         Left Out in the Rain—New Poems, 1947-1985
            Mountains and Rivers Without End
   
         Myths & Texts
            No Nature--New and Selected Poems
   
         A Place in Space--Ethics, Aesthetics, and Watersheds
   
         The Practice of the Wild
   
         The Real Work--Interviews & Talks, 1964-1979
   
         Regarding Wave
   
         Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems
   
         Turtle Island
Soto, Gary
             Baseball in April and Other Stories
            Black Hair
   
         Buried Onions
   
         Canto Familiar
   
         The Cat’s Meow
   
         Chato and the Party Animals
            Chato y su Cena
   
         Chato’s Kitchen
            Cruzando el Pacífico
   
         The Effects of Knut Hamsun on a Fresno Boy—Recollections and
               Short Essays
            The Elements of the San Joaquin
            Jesse
   
         Jessie de la Cruz—A Profile of a United Farm Worker
   
         Junior College
   
         Living up the Street—Narrative Recollections
   
         Local News
   
         A Natural Man
   
         Neighborhood Odes
   
         NerdLandia—A Play
   
         Nickel and Dime
   
         The Old Man and his Door
   
         Pacific Crossing
   
         Petty Crimes
   
         Pieces of the Heart—New Chicano Fiction (Edited)
   
         ¡Qué Montón de Tamales!
   
         The Skirt
   
         Snapshots from the Wedding
   
         Taking Sides
   
         Tomando Partido
   
         Too Many Tamales
   
         El Viejo y su Puerta
Spear, Roberta
            The Pilgrim Among Us
Sporer, René
             Data Analysis—An Applied Approach to Statistics with Technology
Stanley, Jerry
             Big Annie of Calumet—A True Story of the Industrial Revolution
   
         Children of the Dustbowl—The True Story of the School at
               Weedpatch Camp
   
         Hurry Freedom—African Americans in Gold Rush California
            I Am an American:  A True Story of Japanese Internment
Starr, Kevin
             Americans and the California Dream—1850-1915
   
         The Dream Endures--California enters the 1940s
   
         Endangered Dreams--The Great Depression in California
   
         Inventing the Dream—California through the Progressive Era
   
         Material Dreams—Southern California through the 1920s
   
         Rooted in Barbarous Soil—People, Culture, and Community in
               Gold Rush California (Editor)
Steinbeck, John
             Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights
   
         Burning Bright—A Play in Story Form
   
         Cannery Row
   
         Conversations with John Steinbeck (Edited)
   
         Cup of Gold—A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, with Occasional
               Reference to History
   
         East of Eden
   
         The Grapes of Wrath
   
         The Grapes of Wrath & Other Writings, 1936-1941
   
         The Grapes of Wrath—Text and Criticism
   
         The Harvest Gypsies—On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
   
         In Dubious Battle
   
         John Steinbeck—Novels and Stories, 1932 – 1937
   
         John Steinbeck—The Grapes of Wrath and other Writings, 1936-1941
   
         Journal of a Novel—The East of Eden Letters
   
         The Log from the Sea of Cortez
   
         The Long Valley
   
         The Moon is Down
   
         Of Mice and Men
   
         Once there was a War
            The Pastures of Heaven
   
         The Pearl
   
         The Red Pony
   
         The Short Reign of Pippin IV
   
         Steinbeck—A Life in Letters
   
         Sweet Thursday
   
         Tortilla Flat
   
         Travels with Charley—In Search of America
            The Wayward Bus
   
         The Winter of our Discontent
   
         Zapata
Strickland, Elizabeth
            Route 66 to the Fields in California
Sugimoto, Henry (Chapter from his memoirs in this book by Kristine Kim)
             Henry Sugimoto—Painting an American Experience
Sunkel, Walter (Researcher)
             Names and Places of Tulare County

Terrence, Chris
             Bob Mathias—Across the Fields of Gold—Stories and Photographs of
               an American Hero
Thoene, Bodie
             The Gates of Zion—Zion Chronicles
Thoene, Bodie and Brock
             Only the River Runs Free--The Galway Chronicles
   
         Jerusalem Vigil—A Novel
Thoene, Brock and Bodie
             Cannons of the Comstock—Saga of the Sierras
Thomas, Joyce Carol
             The Bowlegged Rooster—And other Tales that Signify
   
         Brown Honey in Broomwheat Tea
   
         Cherish Me
   
         A Gathering of Flowers—Stories about Being Young in America (Editor)
   
         House of Light—A Novel
   
         Hush Songs—African American Lullabies
            I Have Heard of a Land
   
         Marked by Fire
Treadwell, Edward Francis
             The Cattle King—The Biography of Henry Miller, Founder of the
               Miller & Lux Cattle Empire
Trejo, Ernesto (Editor)
             Piecework—19 Fresno Poets
Treviño, Elizabeth Borton de
             I, Juan de Pareja
   
         My Heart Lies South--The Story of my Mexican Marriage
            Yo, Juan de Pareja
Trujillo, Charley B.
             Dogs from Illusion
   
         Soldados—Chicanos in Viet Nam—Narratives of the Viet Nam War 

Valdez, Luis
             Actos y El Teatro Campesino
   
         Luis Valdez--Early Works: Actos, Bernabé and
               Pensamiento Serpentino
   
         Zoot Suit and Other Plays
Varni, Steven
             The Inland Sea
Vasquez, Robert
             At the Rainbow—Poems
Vega, Miles G.
             How to Screw Up your Parents—Positive and Negative Ways to
               Get Back at your Mom and Dad
Velazquez, Angelica
             Spectrum—Young Writers Conference 2001
Vella, Bob
             300 Incredible Things for Pet Lovers on the Internet
Veinberg, Jon
             An Owl's Landscape
   
         Piecework—19 Fresno Poets (Editor)
Vossler, T. S.
             Five Shorts on Line

Wall, Chuck
             Selling Lemonade for Free
Walston, Sandra Ford
             Courage—The Heart and Spirit of Every Woman—Reclaiming the
               Forgotten Virtue
Walton, Kimberly
             Selling Lemonade for Free
Warloe, Constance
             The Legend of Olivia Cosmos Montevideo
Warren, Earl
             The Memoirs of Chief Justice Earl Warren
Webster, Catherine (Editor)
             Over this Soil-- An Anthology of World Farm Poems
Weinberger, Gay
             New Americans: The Hmong in Tulare County
West, Charles
             The Sacred Disc—A San Joaquin Mystery
Wheeler, Gardner
             Our Town—Seasons in the San Joaquin
Wieland, Liza
             The Names of the Lost
   
         You Can Sleep while I Drive--Stories
Williams, Sherley Anne
             Dessa Rose
   
         Girls Together
   
         Working Cotton
Wilson, Darryl
             The Dirt is Red Here:  Art and Poetry from Native California
Wise, Jessie M.
             Season of the Heart
Writers of Kern, WOK
             Anthology 2001—Collected Works of the Writers of Kern

Yanes, Audrey
             Shaking Loose
Yarbrough, Steve
             The Oxygen Man
   
         Veneer
Yogi, Stan (Editor)
             Highway 99--A Literary Journey Through California's Great Central Valley

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