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From the San Joaquin

Author : Barry Kitterman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780870745690
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book From the San Joaquin written by Barry Kitterman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this collection of linked stories, Barry Kitterman brings the dusty, fertile San Joaquin Valley vividly to life--a land of orange groves and religious revivals, where the mountains rise high on either side, marking the limits of the characters' lives. Kitterman writes with a plainspoken grace, showing men and women who face poverty, disappointment, and loneliness with a quiet daily courage and goodwill."--Heidi Jon Schmidt, author of The House on Oyster Creek "Barry Kitterman has outwritten Sherwood Anderson, leaped past Winesburg to baking, shrouded, razory Ivanhoe, in California's lower central valley. Its people--sad, sweet, grotesque, flint-eyed--yearn and misstep with desperate dignity. Kitterman's sentences are stunning as the silence that follows a scream."--Bryan Di Salvatore, author of A Clever Base-Ballist "Dust and fog, Manzanita, redwoods and rabbit farms, the snow-capped peaks of the Sierra, which are occasionally visible on those rare days when the air isn't too filthy--these are palpable presences in Kitterman's stories. The San Joaquin Valley, especially the town of Ivanhoe, is rendered with the kind of attention that only comes from love. Nobody who knows the Valley will ever question the author's sense of place. Those who don't know the Valley will feel like they do after reading this book. These are sturdy, no-nonsense, character-driven stories that make turning the pages a necessity as well as a pleasure. Kitterman's book is superb."--Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe from the Neighbors

The Heart of California

Author : Aaron Gilbreath
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149622308X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Heart of California written by Aaron Gilbreath and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Oregon Book Award Finalist A vivid journey through California's vast rural interior, The Heart of California weaves the story of historian Frank Latta's forgotten 1938 boat trip from Bakersfield to San Francisco with Aaron Gilbreath's trip retracing Latta's route by car during the 2014 drought. Latta embarked on his journey to publicize the need for dams and levees to improve flood control. Gilbreath made his own trip to profile Latta and the productive agricultural world that damming has created in the San Joaquin Valley, to describe the region's nearly lost indigenous culture and ecosystems, and to bring this complex yet largely ignored landscape to life. The Valley is home to some of California's fastest growing cities and, by some estimates, produces 25 percent of America's food. The Valley feeds too many people, and is too unique, to be ignored. To understand California, you have to understand the Valley. Mixing travel writing, historical recreations, western history, natural history, and first-person reportage, The Heart of California is a road-trip narrative about this fascinating region and its most important early documentarian.

The Elements of San Joaquin

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452171955
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Elements of San Joaquin written by Gary Soto and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely new edition of a pioneering work in Latino literature, National Book Award nominee Gary Soto's first collection (originally published in 1977) draws on California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, the people, the place, and the hard agricultural work done there by immigrants. In these poems, joy and anger, violence and hope are placed in both the metaphorical and very real circumstances of the Valley. Rooted in personal experiences—of the poet as a young man, his friends, family, and neighbors—the poems are spare but expansive, with Soto's voice as important as ever. This welcome new edition has been expanded with a crucial selection of complementary poems (some previously unpublished) and a new introduction by the author.

Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes

Author : H. Scott Butterfield
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831263
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes written by H. Scott Butterfield and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world population grows, so does the demand for food, putting unprecedented pressure on agricultural lands. In many desert dryland regions, however, intensive cultivation is causing their productivity to decline precipitously. "Rewilding" the least productive of these landscapes offers a sensible way to reverse the damage, recover natural diversity, and ensure long-term sustainability of remaining farms and the communities they support. This accessibly written, groundbreaking contributed volume is the first to examine in detail what it would take to retire eligible farmland and restore functioning natural ecosystems. The lessons in Rewilding Agricultural Landscapes will be useful to conservation leaders, policymakers, groundwater agencies, and water managers looking for inspiration and practical advice for solving the complicated issues of agricultural sustainability and water management.

The Festival of San Joaquin

Author : Zee Edgell
Publisher : Macmillian Caribbean Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780230029910
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Festival of San Joaquin written by Zee Edgell and published by Macmillian Caribbean Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel, set among the mestizo Spanish communities of rural Belize, gives a sympathetic and moving portrait of peasant life.

The Southern San Joaquin Valley

Author : John F. Bergman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615251059
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Southern San Joaquin Valley written by John F. Bergman and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Backyard Roots

Author : Lori Eanes
Publisher : Skipstone Press
ISBN 13 : 9781594857119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Backyard Roots written by Lori Eanes and published by Skipstone Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Along the West coast, a range of people--from families with young children, to immigrants recapturing their homeland culture, to idealistic twenty-somethings seeking community--are turning their urban backyards into modern-day homesteads. Lori Eanes reveals the lives of 35 of these urban farmers through her photographs and stories"--P. [4] of cover.

The Boys of San Joaquin

Author : D. James Smith
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9781416916192
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Boys of San Joaquin written by D. James Smith and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paolo calls Rufus "a Mack truck with no one driving." Rufus is the O'Neil family dog, and he shows up one morning with part of a twenty-dollar bill in his teeth. Twelve-year-old Paolo figures that there must be more where that bill came from, and since his cousin Billy needs to repair a bent wheel on his bike, there's a reason for looking. Soon Paolo, his brother Georgie, and Billy end up in the monsignor's garden behind the Cathedral of San Joaquin, but it's not exactly treasure they find, it's a hand that shoots out of the undergrowth to grab Paolo's neck. The search for the stash leads the boys -- sometimes scared spitless -- on many a byway around Orange Grove City, California, in the summer of 1951. And onto the byway of conscience.

My San Joaquin

Author : Nels Hanson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781534808966
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book My San Joaquin written by Nels Hanson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two California Central Valley natives and former farmers have produced this vibrant book of poetry and art about the San Joaquin Valley they love, where they learned to accept both the bounties and the hazards of the changing seasons. Nels Hanson has received numerous awards for his writing, and Rees Nielsen's painting, poetry and fiction have been widely published in literary magazines.

Jessie's Grove

Author : Wanda Woock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975996409
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Jessie's Grove written by Wanda Woock and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Summer Life

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
ISBN 13 : 0440210240
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Summer Life written by Gary Soto and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1991-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Soto writes that when he was five "what I knew best was at ground level." In this lively collection of short essays, Soto takes his reader to a ground-level perspective, resreating in vivid detail the sights, sounds, smells, and textures he knew growing up in his Fresno, California, neighborhood. The "things" of his boyhood tie it all together: his Buddha "splotched with gold," the taps of his shoes and the "engines of sparks that lived beneath my soles," his worn tennies smelling of "summer grass, asphalt, the moist sock breathing the defeat of basesall." The child's world is made up of small things--small, very important things.

A Lady's Place

Author : Mary Jo Gohlke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692840665
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book A Lady's Place written by Mary Jo Gohlke and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic account of The Philomathean Club, a women's social and educational institution in Stockton, Ca.

Indian Summer

Author : Thomas Jefferson Mayfield
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9780930588649
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book Indian Summer written by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, six-year-old Thomas Jefferson Mayfield was adopted by the Choinumne Yokuts of California's San Joaquin Valley. For the next dozen years he slept in their houses, joined them on their daily rounds, and followed them on their annual expeditions by tule boat to Tulare Lake. He spoke their language, wore their style of dress, ate their foods, and in short, lived almost entirely like an Indian. The reminiscences he left behind are unique: the only known account by any outsider who lived among a California Indian people while they were still following their traditional ways. Rich in detail and anecdote, Indian Summer tells how the Choinumne built their houses, navigated their boats, hunted their game, and prepared their foods. It also provides a rare and welcome glimpse into the intimacies of daily life. Enlightening as well are descriptions of the natural landscape of the San Joaquin Valley in the 1850s--of the expansive flowery meadows, the lakes and sloughs, the great forests of valley oaks, the herds of antelope, the surge of salmon that fought their way up the rivers, the flight of geese and ducks that darkened the sky. Abounding in information that anthropologist John P. Harrington described as "rescued from oblivion," Indian Summer portrays with accuracy, zest, and insight the nearly lost and beautiful world of the Choinumne Yokuts and the valley in which they lived. --From publisher description.

Safe from the Neighbors

Author : Steve Yarbrough
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307472159
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Safe from the Neighbors written by Steve Yarbrough and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small town in the Mississippi Delta, Luke May teaches local history to students too young to remember the turmoil of the civil rights era. Luke himself was just a child in 1962 when James Meredith’s enrollment at Ole Miss provoked a bloody new battle in the old Civil War. But when a long-lost friend suddenly returns to town, bringing with her a reminder of the act of searing violence that ended her childhood, Luke begins to realize that his connection to the past runs deeper than he ever could have imagined. An intricate novel of family secrets, extramarital affairs, and political upheaval, Safe from the Neighbors is a magnificent achievement.

An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project

Author : Tim Stroshane
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 087417001X
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Drought, Water Law, and the Origins of California's Central Valley Project written by Tim Stroshane and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an account of how water rights were designed as a key part of the state’s largest public water system, the Central Valley Project. Along sixty miles of the San Joaquin River, from Gustine to Mendota, four corporate entities called “exchange contractors” retain paramount water rights to the river. Their rights descend from the days of the Miller & Lux Cattle Company, which amassed an empire of land and water from the 1850s through the 1920s and protected these assets through business deals and prolific litigation. Miller & Lux’s dominance of the river relied on what many in the San Joaquin Valley regarded as wasteful irrigation practices and unreasonable water usage. Economic and political power in California’s present water system was born of this monopoly on water control. Stroshane tells how drought and legal conflict shaped statewide economic development and how the grand bargain of a San Joaquin River water exchange was struck from this monopoly legacy, setting the stage for future water wars. His analysis will appeal to readers interested in environmental studies and public policy.

The House on Oyster Creek

Author : Heidi Jon Schmidt
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101429704
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The House on Oyster Creek written by Heidi Jon Schmidt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensitive but practical, Charlotte Tradescome has come to accept the reticence of her older, work-obsessed husband Henry. Still, she hopes to create a life for their three-year-old daughter. So when Henry inherits a home on Cape Cod, she, Henry, and little Fiona move from their Manhattan apartment to this seaside community. Charlotte sells off part of Tradescome Point, inadvertently fueling the conflict between newcomers and locals. Many townspeople easily dismiss Charlotte as a "washashore." A rare exception is Darryl Stead, an oyster farmer with modest dreams and an open heart, with whom Charlotte feels the connection she's been missing. Ultimately he transforms the way she sees herself, the town, and the people she loves...