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Printed Matter -- Genre Listings
Elisabeth Sherwin

Genre Listings Structure

Genre
- Author "Title of the Author's Work"

Action Thriller
- Pavone, Chris "Two Nights in Lisbon"
- Rollins, James "Deep Fathom"

Animal and Pet Non-Fiction
- Beagle, Peter S. "In The Presence of Elephants"
- Brock, Alice M. "How to Massage Your Cat"
- Eckstein, Warren "Memoirs of a Pet Therapist"
- Gonzalez, Philip & Fleischer, Leonore "The Dog Who Rescues Cats: The True Story of Ginny"
- Herriott, James "Cat Stories"
- Mooney, Samanth "A Snowflake in My Hand"
- Morris, Willie "My Cat Spit McGee" 10/31/99
- Morris, Willie "My Dog Skip" 8/22/99
- Morris, Willie "My Dog Skip"
- Morris, Desmond "Cat World: A Feline Encyclopedia"
- Pope, Raphaela "Wisdom of Animals: Communication Between Animals and the People Who Love Them"
- Reinhold, Margaret "Watchers by the Pool"
- Rosen, Michael J. "Purr...Children's Book Illustrators Brag About Their Cats."
- Schields, Gretchen "Cantsee: The Cat Who Was the Color of the Carpet"
- Sherwin Comments; -- Why can't anyone write a good book about cats
- Sternlicht, Stanford "All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom"
- Taber, Gladys "Amber: A Very Personal Cat"
- Treadwell, Timothy "Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears in Alaska" 03/21/99
- Treadwell, Timothy "Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears in Alaska" 10/16/06
- Young, Robert Clark "One of the Guys"

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Art
- Davis, Christi, publisher, "100 Paintings Series."

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Children's Literature
- Alarcon, Francisco"Animal Poems of the Iguazu Paradise," (5/08)
- Alarcon, Francisco "Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems" (8/29/99)
- Alarcon, Francisco "Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems"
- Baker, Keith "Cat Tricks"
- Bang, Molly "Chattanooga Sludge"
- Bechtold, Lisze "Buster the Very Shy Dog"
- Bunting, Eve "A Picnic in October" 10/10/99
- Bunting, Eve "Down to Earth"
- Charlton, Nancy Lee "Derek's Dog Days"
- Davis, Katie "I Hate to Go to Bed"
- Duquennoy, Jacque "Operation Ghost"
- Giff, Patricia Reilly "Lily’s Crossing"
- Gliori, Debi "No Matter What"
- Hall, Donald "When Willard Met Babe Ruth"
- Hall, Donald "Old Home Day" 9/15/96
- Hesse, Karen "Out of the Dust"
- Holman, Sandy Lynne "Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?" 2/21/99
- Holman, Sandy Lynne "Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?"
- Keller, Holly "A Bed Full of Cats"
- Kleven, Elisa "Monster in the House"
- Levine, Gail Carson "Ella Enchanted"
- MacDonald, Mary "The Apple Lady"
- McNaughton, Colin "Boo!"
- McNaughton, Colin "Oops!" 9/7/97
- Mathis, Sharon Bell "Running Girl: The Diary of Ebonee Rose"
- Miranda, Anne "Monster Math"
- Moss, Marissa "Emma’s Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl"
- Nascimbene, Yan "The Beautiful Christmas Tree" (10/17/99)
- Nascimbene, Yan "Antibes" (12/28/97)
- Nascimbene, Yan "A Day in September"
- Notrog, Bryna "The Little Wooden Table"
- O'Dell, Scott "The Island of the Blue Dolphins"
- Pinkney, Andrea "Bill Pickett, Rodeo-Ridin' Cowboy"
- Polacco, Patricia "Baby Doll"
- Rosen, Michael "Down to Earth"
- Rosen, Michael J. "Purr...Children's Book Illustrators Brag About Their Cats."
- Rosenberg, Liz "Grandmother and the Runaway Shadow"
- Ross, Tony "I Want a Cat."
- Ross, Tony "I Want My Dinner"
- Ryan, Pam Munoz "California Here We Come!"
- Rylant, Cynthia "The Old Woman Who Named Things"
- Schields, Gretchen "Cantsee: The Cat Who Was the Color of the Carpet"
- Shane, Sam "Rocky the Mudhen: We’re Talking Baseball"
- Shane, Sam "Rocky the Mudhen: Baseball and Humble Pie"
- Spinelli, Jerry "Wringer"
- Tabor, Nancy Maria Grande "El Gusto del Mercado Mexicano"
- van Kampen, Vlasta "Beetle Bedlam"
- Wahl, Jan "I Met a Dinosaur"
- Wayland, April Halprin "It's Not My Turn to Look for Grandma!"
- Williams, Sherley Anne "Girls Together"
- Williams, Suzanne "Made in China: Ideas and Inventions from Ancient China"

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Contemporary Fiction
- Asher, Marty "The Boomer: A Novel"
- Backer, Sara "American Fuji"
- Berg, Elizabeth "Open House" 2002b
- Berg, Elizabeth "Open House"
- Cheever, John Fall River and Other Uncollected Stories
- Crittenden, Lindsey "The View from Below"
- Fitch, Janet "White Oleander"
- Freeman, Charlotte McGuinn "Place Last Seen"
- Hamilton, Jane "A Map of the World"
- Houston, Pam "Cowboys Are My Weakness" "Waltzing the Cat"
- Houston, Pam "Waltzing the Cat"
- Jin, Ha "Waiting"
- Lipman, Elinor "The Ladies' Man"
- Meallet, Sandro "Edgewater Angels"
- Owens, Loius D. "Nightland"
- Pieper, Bill "So Trust Me: Four Decades of Love and Deceit"
- Rollins, James "Deep Fathom"
- Samuel, Barbara "No Place Like Home"
- Shreve, Anita "The Pilot’s Wife"
- Styron, William Lie Down in Darkness
- Wisniewski, Mark "All Weekend With the Lights On"

Cookbook
- Applegate, Liz "Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart"
- Brennan, Georgeanne "Green Eggs and Ham Cookbook" 01/21/07
- Brennan, Georgeanne "Apertifs: Spirited Recipes in the French Style" 03/09/97
- Brennan, Georgeanne "Down to Earth: Great Recipes for Root Vegetables." 03/09/97
- Jordan, Michele Anna "Salt and Pepper" [7/4/99]
- Jordan, Michele Anna "California Home Cooking"
- Kennedy, Dan -- "The Cooking School at Z"
- Madison, Deborah "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone"
- Reichl, Ruth "Tender at the Bone" [04/04/99]
- Steingarten, Jeffrey "The Man Who Ate Everything"
- Tribole, Evelyn "Stealth Health: How to Sneak Nutrition Painlessly into Your Diet"

Crime
- Ellroy, James "The Big Nowhere"
- Finkel, Michael "The Art Thief" (9/30/24)
- Finkel, Michael "True Story" (9/30/24)
- Finkel, Michael "Christopher Knight" (9/30/24)
- Kijewski, Karen -- Conference participant and critic (12/10/95)
- Lescroart, John -- Conference participant and critic (12/10/95)
- Mosley, Walter "Black Betty"
- Muller, Marcia "Edwin of the Iron Shoes"
- Nava, Michael "Hidden Law"
- Parker, T. Jefferson "Laguna Heat,'' "Little Saigon," "Pacific Beat," "Summer of Fear"
- Phillips, Scott "The Ice Harvest"
- Rivlin, Gary "Drive-By"
- Ward, Robert "The Cactus Garden" (1995)
- Wood, Bill -- Conference participant and critic (12/10/95)

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Environment
- Bang, Molly "Chattanooga Sludge"
- Baker, Will "Tony and the Cows: A True Story from the Range Wars"
- Bass, Rick "The Lost Grizzlies."
- Francis, Mark "The California Landscape Garden: Ecology, Culture and Design"
- Kane, Joe "Savages"
- Kreissman, Bern "California: An Environmental Atlas & Guide"
- Mount, Jeff "California Rivers and Streams,"
- Simon, Ted "The River Stops Here"

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Essays
- Baker, Will "Paris Journal: A Posthumous Anti-War Polemic by a Redneck Gallophile"
- Boe, John "The Gambler's God"
- Boe, John "Life Itself"
- Dionisi, David J. "American Hiroshima"
- Hoagland, Edward "Balancing Acts"
- Langewiesche, William "A Meditation on Flight"
- Sherwin, Frank "The Human Body and Intelligent Design"
- Sierra Club (The) -- Anthology
- Tsui, Bonnie, editor; "A Leaky Tent is a Piece of Paradise" -- essay anthology
- Verrill, Chris "Is For Good Men to do Nothing"

Ethnic
- African
  - Ngbatana, Tongele -- "From Congo to Zaire to Congo"
- African-American
  - Banks, Jacqueline Turner "Maid in the Shade" (6/21/98)
  - Banks, Jacqueline Turner "Egg-Drop Blues"
  - Butler, Octavia "Kindred"
  - Due, Tananarive "The Black Rose"
  - Grimes, Terris McMahan "Blood Will Tell"
  - Grimes, Terris McMahan "Somebody Else's Child"
  - Hardwick, Gary "Double Dead"
  - Henry, Neil "Pearl's Secret"
  - Holman, Sandy Lynne "Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?" [2017]
  - Holman, Sandy Lynne "Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad?"
  - Johnson, Guy "Standing at the Scratch Line"
  - Major, Clarence "Dirty Bird Blues"
  - McBride, James "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother"
  - Meallet, Sandro "Edgewater Angels"
  - Verdelle, A.J. "The Good Negress"
  - Walker, Clarence E. "We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism"
  - Young, Al -- "Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990"
- Asian
  - Backer, Sara "American Fuji"
  - Jin, Ha "Waiting"
  - Levy, JoAnn "Daughter of Joy"
  - Mah, Adeline Yen "Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter" (1/24/99)
  - Tsukiyama, Gail "Night of Many Dreams"
  - Tsukiyama, Gail "The Samurai's Garden"
  - Wong, Jan -- "Red China Blues" ES' best book list
- Asian American
  - Lee, Gus "Tiger's Tail"
  - Lee, Gus "China Boy" 7/18/99
  - Lee, Gus "No Physical Evidence" 7/18/99
  - Mah, Adeline Yen "Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Abandoned Chinese Daughter."
  - Masumoto, David Mas "Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm"
  - Masumoto, David Mas "Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil"
  - Nguyen, Qui Duc "Where the Ashes Are"
  - See, Lisa "Flower Net"
- East Indian-American
  - Divakaruni, Chitra "The Mistress of Spices"
- European
  - Calvino, Italo "Difficult Loves"
- Hispanic
  - Grandbois, Peter "The Gravedigger"
  - Alarcon, Francisco"Animal Poems of the Iguazu Paradise," (5/08)
  - Alarcon, Francisco "Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems"
  - Jimenez, Francisco "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" (10/01/97)
  - Johnson, Kevin "How Did You Get to be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity"
  - Frank del Olmo "Frank Del Olmo: Commentaries on His Times"
  - Serros, Michele "Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity and Oxnard."
  - Serros, Michele "How to be a Chicana Role Model"
- Native American
  - Hogan, Linda "Mean Spirits"
  - Owens, Loius D. "Nightland"
  - Penn, William "The Absence of Angels"

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Fantasy
- Beagle, Peter S. "The Last Unicorn" (12/28/01)
- Beagle, Peter S. "Tamsin" (10/17/99)
- Beagle, Peter S. "Friends in the Night" (10/18/98)
- Beagle, Peter S. "Giant Bones" (9/21/97) ES' best book list
- Beagle, Peter S. "The Last Unicorn" (2/25/95)
- Clemens, James "Wit'ch War" (With'ch fantasy series)

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Feminist
- Ajmera, Maya; et al "Extraordinary Girls"
- Allison, Dorothy "Bastard Out of Carolina"
- Blakeley, Mary Kay "American Mom"
- Grant, Linda "A Woman's Place"
- Lamott, Anne "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life"
- Lipsett, Suzanne "Surviving A Writer's Life"
- Pincus, Elizabeth "The Solitary Twist"
- Williams, Terry Tempest "Refuge"

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Geography and International Sociology
- Africa
  - Lotter, Jane B. "To Africa With Spatula"
- Australia
  - Blackburn, Julia "Daisy Bates in the Desert"
- China
  - Checkoway, Julie "Little Sister"
  - Holm, Bill "Coming Home Crazy"
  - Sherwin Comments -- "Red China Blues," book discussion causes tempest at Peking University (11/10/96) ES' best book list
  - Sherwin, Elisabeth --"Something about Thurber makes him perfect for China"
  - Wong, Jan -- "Red China Blues" ES' best book list
- England
  - Bryson, Bill "Notes from a Small Island"
  - Malcolm-Davies, Jane "The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing the 16th Century Dress"
  - Sherwin Comments; -- The south of England... 8/15/99
- Europe
  - Bryson, Bill "Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe"
- France
  - Baxter, John "The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris"
  - Child, Julia "My Life in France"
  - Gershman, Suzy "C'est La Vie"
  - Gershman, Suzy "C'est La Vie" (2024)
  - Mah, Ann "Mastering the Art of French Eating"
  - Sciolino, Elaine "The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs"
  - Sherwin, Elisabeth "10 Days in Paris -- C'est Magnifique"
  - Trillin, Calvin "Travels With Alice"
- India
  - Bajwa, Rupa "The Sari Shop"
  - Meht, Suketu "Maximum City"
  - Payne, Peggy "Sister India"
- Japan
  - Miyamoto, Masao "Straitjacket Society"
- Latin America
  - Bauer, Arnold J. "Goods, Power, History: Latin America's Material Culture"
- Russia
  - Susan Hardwick "Russian Refuge"
- Ukraine
  - Sherwin, Elisabeth "Thoughts on L'viv, Ukraine, and a very long flight home"
- United States
  - Horwitz, Tony "Confederates in the Attic"
  - Portello, Alison "Emigrant Trails West: A Guide to the California Trail from the Raft River to the Humboldt Sink and the Greenhorn Cutoff"
- Vietnam
  - Heinemann, Larry "Paco's Story"
  - Mulligan, John "Shopping Cart Soldiers"
  - Nguyen, Qui Duc "Where the Ashes Are"
  - Pratt, John Clark "The Laotian Fragments"
  - Sherwin, Elisabeth comments: "Kaleidoscopic Vietnam voyage uses history, lit, film, oral interviews"
  - Thai, Ho Anh "Red Mist"
  - Wolff, Tobias "In Pharaoh's Army"
- World
  - Greenwald, Jeff "The Size of the World"
  - Hoagland, Edward "Tigers & Ice" 2/14/99
- Zaire
  - Ngbatana, Tongele -- "From Congo to Zaire to Congo"
  - Sherwin Comments -- Reflections on path chosen by an absent friend (12/24/95)
  - Sherwin Comments -- More news from faraway friend in a strange land (2/18/96)

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Health and Fitness
- Applegate, Liz "Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart"
- Applegate, Liz "Eat Smart, Play Hard" 10/23/01b
- Kurson, Robert "Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See"

Historic Fiction
- Allende, Isabel "The House of the Spirits"
- Cross, Donna Woolfolk "Pope Joan" ES' best book list
- Dath, J.B. "Olympia 420: The Quest for Peace"
- Due, Tananarive "The Black Rose"
- Frazier, Charles "Cold Mountain" ES' best book list
- Frazier, Charles "Cold Mountain" 9/2011
- Gandesbery, Jean "Seven Mile Lake"
- Gregory, Phillipa "The Taming of the Queen" by Phillipa Gregory (2015)
- Hall, Oakley "Separations"
- Hall, Oakley "Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades" 7/25/99
- Hicks, Jack, et al [Editor] "Literature of California"
- Johnson, Guy "Standing at the Scratch Line"
- McPhearson, Adair "The Devil's Footpath"
- Moss, Marissa "Emma’s Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl"
- Pieper, Bill "So Trust Me: Four Decades of Love and Deceit"
- Shreve, Anita "Fortune’s Rocks"
- Young, Robert Clark "One of the Guys"
- Young, Robert Clark "The Richest Girl in the World" 08/01/05c

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History
- Ajmera, Maya; et al "Extraordinary Girls"
- Bain, David H. "Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad"
- Buderi, Robert and Gregory T. Huang "Guanxi: Microsoft, China and Bill Gates’
- Checkoway, Julie "Little Sister"
- Cooper, Bob "Midnight Serenade" (6/27/99)
- Cooper, Bob "Serenade to the Blue Lady" [Published 1993]
- Delaplane, Kristin "Solano's Gold: The People and Their Orchards"
- Diemer, Bill "Davis From the Inside Out: A Municipal Almanac"
- Driesbach, Jan "Art of the Gold Rush"
- Egan, Ferol "Last Bonanza Kings: The Bourns of San Francisco"
- Erickson, Carolly "Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria"
- Feeney, Robert "Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Explorations"
- Feldman, Jay "When the Mississippi Ran Backwards: Empire, Intrigue, Murder and the New Madrid Earthquakes"
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns "Wait Till Next Year" 6/6/99
- Goodwin, Doris Kearns "No Ordinary Time" ES' best book list
- Hance, Ann "The Book of Science Days"
- Hoeper, George "Black Bart, Boulevardier Bandit: The Saga of California's Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him."
- Horwitz, Tony "Confederates in the Attic"
- Israel, David "The Day the Thunderbird Cried: Untold Stories of World War II"
- Jacobs, John "A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton"
- Jones, Pirkle "Berryessa Valley: The Last Year"
- Kruckewitt, Joan "Death of Ben Linder"
- Larson, Erik "Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time and the Deadliest Hurricane in History"
- Leland, Dorothy Kupcha "The Balloon Boy of San Francisco"
- Lesy, Michael "Wisconsin Death Trip"
- Levy, JoAnn "Daughter of Joy"
- Liberatore, Paul "The Road to Hell"
- Liberatore, Paul "The Road to Hell" (1/12/97)
- Lofland, John "Streets of Old North Davis"
- Lofland, John "Davis, California 1910s - 1940s" (4/23/00)
- March, Jeff "Echoes of the Sixties"
- Olmsted, Kathryn "Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI"
- Portello, Alison "Emigrant Trails West: A Guide to the California Trail from the Raft River to the Humboldt Sink and the Greenhorn Cutoff"
- Ryan, Cornelius "The Longest Day"
- Shaara, Michael "Gods and Generals"
- Shaara, Michael "The Killer Angels"
- Shaara, Michael "The Last Full Measure"
- Siegel, Robert, editor; "The NPR Interviews, 1996"
- Stiles, Bert "Serenade to the Big Bird"
- Toobin, Jeffrey. "American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst"
- Vaught, David "After the Gold Rush: Tarnished Dreams in the Sacramento Valley"
- Walsh, James P. "The Irish in California"
- Walters, Shipley "Woodland, City of Trees"
- Weir, Alison "The Children of Henry VIII"
- Winik, Jay"1944: FDR and the Year That Changed History"
- Wong, Jan -- "Red China Blues" ES' best book list
- Woodham-Smith, Cecil "The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849" [ Published 1962]
- Zinn, Howard "A People's History of the United States From 1492 to Present"
Horror
- Hambly, Barbara -- "Traveling With the Dead"
- Various Authors -- List of Vampire Books

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Humor
- Blakeley, Mary Kay "American Mom"
- Boe, John "Life Itself"
- Bombeck, Erma "At Wit's End"
- Ephron, Delia "Hanging Up"
- Horwitz, Tony "Confederates in the Attic"
- Lamott, Anne "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life"
- Lipman, Elinor "The Ladies' Man"
- Morris, Willie "My Dog Skip" 8/22/99
- Sinclair, April -- reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- Thurber, James "People Have More Fun Than Anybody"
- Trillin, Calvin "Messages From My Father"
- Trillin, Calvin "Travels With Alice"
- Young, Robert Clark "One of the Guys"

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Juvenile Literature
- Banks, Jacqueline Turner "Maid in the Shade" (6/21/98)
- Banks, Jacqueline Turner "Egg-Drop Blues"
- Bunting, Eve "SOS Titanic"
- Meyer, Carolyn "Mary, Bloody Mary"

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Memoir or Biography
- Baker, Will "Tony and the Cows: A True Story from the Range Wars"
- Ball, Kevin "Heart of a Stuntman: From Hollywood to Humanity"
- Barnes, Andrew L. "Frederick Douglass: Narrative of an American Slave"
- Blackburn, Julia "The Book of Color"
- Blakinger, Keri "Corrections in Ink"
- Blume, Lesley M M Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece ‘The Sun Also Rises’
- Caroli, Betty Boyd "Lady Bird and Lyndon: The Hidden Story of a Marriage That Made a President"
- Campisi, Charles “Blue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops”
- Childs, Marti Smiley; editor, "Echoes of the Sixties"
- Cohen, Edward "The Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi"
- Cohen, Morton N. "Lewis Carroll: A Biography"
- Cooper, Bob "Midnight Serenade" (6/27/99)
- Cooper, Bob "Serenade to the Blue Lady" [Published 1993]
- Delaplane, Kristin "A Gold Hunter: Memoirs of John Berry Hill"
- Dimbleby, Jonathan "Taking another look at England's Prince Charles"
- Erickson, Carolly "Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria"
- Freeman, Charlotte McGuinn "Place Last Seen"
- Finkel, Michael "The Art Thief"
- Gilligan, Judy "Sandy My Name": A Sad and Important Memoir about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
- Hassan, Allen "Failure to Atone: The True Story of a Jungle Surgeon in Vietnam"
- Hays, Peter "Ernest Hemmingway"
- Hejmadi, Padma "Room to Fly: A Transcultural Memoir"
- Henry, Neil "Pearl's Secret"
- Hoeper, George "Black Bart, Boulevardier Bandit: The Saga of California's Most Mysterious Stagecoach Robber and the Men Who Sought to Capture Him."
- Hongo, Garrett "Volcano"
- Houston, Pam "A Little More About Me"
- Jacobs, John "A Rage for Justice" (11/23/97)
- Jacobs, John "A Rage for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton"
- Jimenez, Francisco "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" (10/01/97)
- Jung, Jim "My Life Behind Bars"
- Karr, Mary "The Liar's Club"
- Kauffman, Jean -- Oral presentation
- Khouri, Nabil "The Young Terrorist: Journey from Arab Militant to Proud American"
- Kozinn, Allan "The Beatles"
- Kurson, Robert "Crashing Through: A True Story of Risk, Adventure, and the Man Who Dared to See"
- Lee, Gus "China Boy" 7/18/99
- Lee, Gus "No Physical Evidence" 7/18/99
- Letersky, Paul “The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover”
- Lipsett, Suzanne "Surviving A Writer's Life"
- Lotter, Jane B. "To Africa With Spatula"
- Mah, Adeline Yen "Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter" (1/24/99)
- Maraniss, David "First in His Class"
- March, Jeff "Echoes of the Sixties"
- Masumoto, David Mas "Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm"
- Masumoto, David Mas "Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil"
- Maynard, Joyce "At Home in the World"
- McBride, James "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother"
- McFadden, Cyra -- reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- Morris, Willie "My Dog Skip" 8/22/99
- Morris, Willie "My Dog Skip"
- Nascimbene, Yan '"Antibes"
- Orlove, Ben "In My Father's Study"
- Pai, Ann "My Other Body"
- Parker, Clifton "Fouled Away: The Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson"
- Rodriguez, Richard "Hunger of Memory"
- Salzman, Mark "Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia"
- Shea, Suzanne Strempek "Hoopi Shoopi Donna"
- Shea, Suzanne Strempek "Selling the Lite of Heaven"
- Shields, Charles "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee"
- Smith, Sally Bedell "Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life"
- Sternlicht, Stanford "All Things Herriot: James Herriot and His Peaceable Kingdom"
- Stiles, Bert "Serenade to the Big Bird"
- Thai, Ho Anh "Red Mist"
- Vaz, Katherine "Mariana"
- Ward, Robert "Shedding Skin" (1972)
- Williams, Sherley Anne "Girls Together"
- Wolff, Tobias "This Boy's Life"

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Mystery
- Backer, Sara "American Fuji"
- Banks, Jacqueline Turner "Maid in the Shade"
- Block, Lawrence "Burglar in the Library"
- Collins, Michael "Cadillac Cowboy"
- Crawford, Louise "Blaize of Glory"
- Crawford, Louise "Hat Trick"
- Dibdin, Michael "Dead Lagoon"
- Du Maurier, Daphne "Rebecca"
- Elkjer, Thom "Hook, Line and Murder"
- Evanovich, Janet "High Five"
- French, Tana "In The Woods"
- Gearino, Dan "What the Deaf-Mute Heard"
- Gentry, Anita "Night Summons"
- Grant, Linda "A Woman's Place"
- Grimes, Terris McMahan "Blood Will Tell"
- Grimes, Terris McMahan "Somebody Else's Child"
- Guterson, David "Snow Falling on Cedars"
- Hall, Oakley "Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades"
- Hardwick, Gary "Double Dead"
- Harman, John "Dangerous Assets"
- Hartzmark, Gini "Fatal Reaction"
- Hawkins, Paula "The Girl On The Train"
- Kijewski, Karen -- Mystery writer panel
- Lescroart, John "Certain Justice"
- Lescroart, John "Guilt"
- Lescroart, John "The Mercy Rule"
- Lescroart, John -- Mystery writer panel
- Lescroart, John "Nothing But the Truth"
- Macdonald, Hector "The Mind Game"
- Moore, Susanna "In the Cut"
- Mosley, Walter "The Long Fall"
- Pavone, Chris "Two Nights in Lisbon"
- Perry, Anne "Ashworth Hall"
- Peters, Ray "The Lafitte Case"
- Pincus, Elizabeth "The Solitary Twist"
- Reese, Laura "Panic Snap"
- Reese, Laura "Topping From Below"
- Riordan, Rick "Big Red Tequila"
- Roberts, Gillian -- Mystery writer panel
- See, Lisa "Flower Net"
- See, Lisa "The Interior" (11/14/99)
- Sharrow, Marilyn -- Oral presentation
- Smiley, Jane -- "Duplicate Keys"
- Smith, Julie "Crescent City Kill"
- Smith, Julie "New Orleans Mourning"
- Smith, Martin Cruz "Havana Bay"
- Smith, Sarah "A Citizen of the Country"
- Snyder, Keith "Show Control"
- Smith, Martin J. "Shadow Image"
- Sylvester, Tom -- Mystery writer panel
- Dave Torgerson -- Oral presentation
- Treadwell, Timothy

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Nature and Natural History
- John Muir
  - Hoagland, Edward "Balancing Acts"
  - Hoagland, Edward Oral presentation
  - Muir, John "Steep Trails"
- Other
  - Brice, Ann "Exploring Putah Creek: From Monticello Dam to the Yolo Wildlife Area"
  - Buell, Lawrence "The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Culture"
  - Chotzinoff, Robin "People With Dirty Hands: The Passion for Gardening"
  - Francis, Mark "The California Landscape Garden: Ecology, Culture and Design"
  - Kemper, John "Birding Northern California" 6/13/99
  - Kemper, John "Discovering Yolo County Wildlife"
  - Larson, Erik "Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time and the Deadliest Hurricane in History"
  - McLean, Scott "Poetry and the Land"
  - Orlean, Susan "The Orchid Thief"
  - Phillips, Kathryn "Trailing the Vanishing Frogs"
  - Reisner, Marc "Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water"
  - Reisner, Marc "Game Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers"
  - Robertson, David "Narrow Way to Nearby" 10/17/99
  - Robertson, David "Real Matter"
  - Rosen, Michael "Down to Earth"
  - Rundquist, Tim "How Heavy is The Mountain,"
  - Sierra Club (The) -- Anthology
  - Snyder, Gary "Mountains and Rivers Without End"
  - Treadwell, Timothy "Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears in Alaska" 03/21/99
  - Treadwell, Timothy "Among Grizzlies: Living With Wild Bears in Alaska" 10/16/06
  - Tsui, Bonnie, editor; "A Leaky Tent is a Piece of Paradise" -- essay anthology
  - Wicinas, David "Sagebrush and Cappuccino: Confessions of an L.A. Naturalist"
  - Williams, Terry Tempest "Refuge"

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New Age
- Andrews, Cecile "The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life" (1997)
- Bowman, Carol "Children's Past Lives: How Past Life Memories Affect Your Child"
- Harrison, Albert "After Contact: The Human Response to Extraterrestrial Life"
- Pope, Raphaela "Wisdom of Animals: Communication Between Animals and the People Who Love Them"

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Photography
- Beagle, Peter S. "In The Presence of Elephants"
- Gibbs, Don "China 1979"
- Drager, Kerry "Golden Dream"
- Lofland, John "Davis, California 1910s - 1940s" (4/23/00)

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Poetry
- Alarcon, Francisco"Animal Poems of the Iguazu Paradise," (5/08)
- Alarcon, Francisco "Angels Ride Bikes and Other Fall Poems" (8/29/99)
- Alarcon, Francisco "Laughing Tomatoes and Other Spring Poems"
- Bei Dao "Unlock" (2000)
- Clark, Gary "Bone Sprockets"
- Fisk, Molly "Terrain"
- Frost, Robert "A Boy's Will" and "North of Boston"
- Hays, Peter. 1981. "Frost and the Critics: More Revelation on 'All Revelation,''" English Language Notes 18:283-290
- Hays, Peter "Two Landscapes: Frost's and Eliot's" Univ. Press of Mississippi. (1974), PP. 256-264.
- Herbert, George "For the want of a nail..."
- Hirshfield, Jane "The Lives of the Heart"
- Kelly-DeWitt, Susan "Feather's Hand"
- Major, Clarence "Configurations: New and Selected Poems 1958-1998"
- Margolin, Malcolm comments from ES on a poetry reading by MM
- Mbanugo, Nwando "The Spices of Our Sky"
- McPherson, Sandra -- Poetry reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- Pavlich, Walter "Running Near the End of the World"
- Quintin, Christian "Poemes"
- Shaffer, Eric Paul "Portable Planet"
- Snyder, Gary "Mountains and Rivers Without End"
- Smith, Eric Todd "Reading Gary Snyder's 'Mountains and Rivers Without End'"
- Stein, Hannah "Earthlight"
- Vig, Wendy "Fountains of Gold"
- Vig, Wendy "Fountains of Gold" CD 9/6/98b
- Villanueva, Alma Luz "Planet"
- Young, Al "Heaven: Collected Poems 1956-1990"

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Political Thriller
- Herman, Richard "Edge of Honor"
- Herman, Richard "Power Curve"

[Index]

Psychology
- Elms, Alan "Uncovering Lies"
- MacKenzie, Rob -- "Setting Limits in the Classroom"
- Nemeth, Maria "The Energy of Money"

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Religious or Inspirational
- Reardon, Patrick "Daily Meditations (with Scripture) for Busy Dads"
- Reardon, Patrick "Starting Out: Reflections for Young People"

Romance
- Coulter, Catherine "The Cove"
- Coulter, Catherine -- reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- Goolrick, Robert "A Reliable Wife"
- Grijalva, Lucy "Undercover Love"
- O'Nan, Stewart "A Prayer for the Dying"
- Sherwin, Elisabeth Top 11 Romance Novels

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Science and Math
- Bang, Molly "Chattanooga Sludge"
- Hance, Ann "The Book of Science Days"
- Hawley, Scott "The Human Genome: A User's Guide"
- Jennings, Mark "Trailing the Vanishing Frogs"
- Morse, Melvin "Parting Visions"
- Stein, Sherman "Strength in Numbers: Discovering the Joy and Power of Mathematics in Everyday Life"
- Stein, Sherman "How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning" 10/29/01b
Science Fiction
- Bradbury, Ray "Martian Chronicles"
- Butler, Octavia "Kindred"
- Dann, Jack "Nebula Awards 32"
- Dozois, Gardner; Editor, "The Year's Best Science Fiction: The 16th Annual Collection"
- Fowler, Karen Joy -- Juror for the 1997 Tiptree Award
- Fowler, Karen Joy -- Juror for the 1996 Tiptree Award
- Griffith, Nicola "Slow River"
- Hegland, Jean -- "Into the Forest" ES' best book list
- Hegland, Jean -- "Into the Forest" (3/23/97) ES' best book list
- Holt, Tim "On Higher Ground"
- LeGuin, Ursula "Always Coming Home"
- Robinson, Kim Stanley "Forty Signs of Rain," "50 Degrees Below," and "60 Days and Counting," (10/30/06)
- Robinson, Kim Stanley "The Martians" (10/17/99)
- Robinson, Kim Stanley "Icehenge" (7/26/98)
- Robinson, Kim Stanley (11/2/97)
- Robinson, Kim Stanley "Blue Mars"
- Russell, Mary Doria "Children of God"
- Russell, Mary Doria "Sparrow" ES' best book list
- Sargent, Pamela "Nebula Awards 30"
- Stewart, Sean "Mockingbird"
- Tiptree, James Jr. -- biographical review
- Williams, Paul "The Breaking Of Northwall"

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Self Help
- Laura du Priest "A Beautiful New You" (Three River Press, 2005, $16)
- Nemeth, Maria "The Energy of Money"
- Reardon, Patrick "Starting Out: Reflections for Young People"
- Rosenbaum, Adam "How to Remember Not to Forget,"
- Verrill, Chris "Is For Good Men to do Nothing"

Sherwin (Elisabeth) Comments or Reflects
- Sherwin Comments -- From out of the past come bittersweet memories of Dad (06/18/17)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Bilingual poet Francisco Alarcón takes his artform to talented next generation
- Sherwin Comments; -- Kaleidoscopic Vietnam voyage uses history, lit, film, oral interviews
- Sherwin Comments; -- Memoir writing in the mountains requires tissues and time (07/27/16)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Transplanted Californian puts down roots in Colorado mountains (01/24/16)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Remembering V-J Day and the pilots who flew in the Pacific (08/15/05)
- Sherwin Comments; -- What to do in The City with a Teen-ager? Everything (04/18/03)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Finding A Father: Father's Day Essay 2002 (06/16/02)
- Sherwin Comments; -- To generous people who donate books, many thanks (11/5/00)
- Sherwin Comments; -- The Sacramento Union rests in peace at Shields (9/17/00)
- Sherwin Comments; -- What do the cats do in hot weather? They chill (8/6/00)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Some of us have lots of talents, others only a few (4/30/00)
- Sherwin Comments; -- On three deadly sins: drinking, smoking, eating (2/13/00)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Life is too short anyway; don't drive yourself crazy (1/2/00)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Best Christmas present I ever received came at just the right time (12/12/99)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Have I ever told you about my daughter? She's a beauty (11/7/99)
- Sherwin Comments; -- The south of England has a lot of history to offer (8/15/99)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Unhappy cats maker their moods known only too well (5/9/99)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Thoughts on L'viv, Ukraine, and a very long flight home (9/27/98)
- Sherwin Comments; -- Why can't anyone write a good book about cats (1/11/98)
- Sherwin Comments; -- The exquisite pain of a Christmas Birthday (12/25/97)
- Sherwin Comments; -- The Tenth Anniversary of Printed Matter (5/25/97)
- Sherwin Comments; a tribute -- How columnist Mike Royko could have done better (5/18/97)
- Sherwin Comments -- "Red China Blues," book discussion causes tempest at Peking University (11/10/96)
- Sherwin Comments -- (Mystery) Writers meet at book festival, describe writing life (10/20/96)
- Sherwin Comments -- Books about art are good, but only second-best (9/8/96)
- Sherwin Comments -- Something about Thurber makes him perfect for China (8/25/96)
- Sherwin Comments -- More news from faraway friend in a strange land (2/18/96)
- Sherwin Comments -- Reflections on path chosen by an absent friend (12/24/95)

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Techno-Thriller
- Herman, Richard "The Warbirds"
- Macdonald, Hector "The Mind Game"
- Sylvester, Tom "The Hohmann Transfer" (9/12/99)
- Sylvester, Tom "The Hohmann Transfer"
- Sylvester, Tom "The Descent"

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Western
- Legg, John "Flintlock Trail"
- Hicks, Jack, et al [Editor] "Literature of California"

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Victorian
- Goolrick, Robert "A Reliable Wife"
- O'Nan, Stewart "A Prayer for the Dying"

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Women
- Adams, Alice "A Southern Exposure"
- Adams, Alice -- reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- Ajmera, Maya; et al "Extraordinary Girls"
- Allison, Dorothy "Bastard Out of Carolina"
- Berg, Elizabeth "Open House" 2002b
- Berg, Elizabeth "Open House"
- Blackburn, Julia "Daisy Bates in the Desert"
- Blakeley, Mary Kay "American Mom"
- Buchmann, Christina [Editor] "Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible"
- Coulter, Catherine "The Cove"
- Coulter, Catherine -- reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- Divakaruni, Chitra "The Mistress of Spices"
- Earnshaw, Doris [Publisher] "Women Speak" book series
- Earnshaw, Doris [editor] "Women Speak" book series
- Ephron, Delia "Hanging Up"
- Fitch, Janet "White Oleander"
- Fowler, Karen Joy 'Black Glass'
- Fowler, Karen Joy 'Sweetheart Season'
- Freeman, Charlotte McGuinn "Place Last Seen"
- Grant, Linda "A Woman's Place"
- Griffith, Nicola "Slow River"
- Grijalva, Lucy "Undercover Love"
- Hall, Sands "Catching Heaven"
- Hegland, Jean -- "Into the Forest" (3/23/97) ES' best book list
- Houston, Pam "A Little More About Me"
- Houston, Pam "Cowboys Are My Weakness" "Waltzing the Cat"
- Houston, Pam "Waltzing the Cat"
- Lamott, Anne "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life"
- Levin, Donna "California Street"
- Levin, Donna -- reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- Levy, JoAnn "Daughter of Joy"
- Lipsett, Suzanne "Surviving A Writer's Life" "Falling Leaves: The True Story of an Abandoned Chinese Daughter."
- McFadden, Cyra "Rain or Shine"
- McFadden, Cyra -- reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- McPherson, Sandra "The Spaces Between Birds"
- McPherson, Sandra -- Poetry reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- Newman, Leslea "Girls Will be Girls"
- Pincus, Elizabeth "The Solitary Twist"
- Perry, Anne "Ashworth Hall"
- Samuel, Barbara "No Place Like Home"
- Serros, Michele "Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity and Oxnard."
- Serros, Michele "How to be a Chicana Role Model"
- Shea, Suzanne Strempek "Hoopi Shoopi Donna"
- Shea, Suzanne Strempek "Selling the Lite of Heaven"
- Sheldon, Alice -- biographical review
- Sinclair, April "Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice"
- Sinclair, April -- reading for Literature of No. California lecture series.
- Smiley, Jane "Moo"
- Spiegel, Celina [Editor] "Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible"
- Tsukiyama, Gail "Night of Many Dreams"
- Tsukiyama, Gail "The Samurai's Garden"
- Verdelle, A.J. "The Good Negress"
- Williams, Terry Tempest "Refuge"

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