Printed Matter -- Date Index

                          1995 and Pre-1995

December 24, 1995 -- Reflections on path chosen by an absent friend

December 17, 1995 -- More suggestions for holiday reading and giving

December 10, 1995 -- Academics say California mysteries mirror society

December 3, 1995 -- Recommendations for holiday reading or gift-giving

November 26, 1995 -- 'Drive-By' describes life on mean streets of inner-city Oakland

November 19, 1995 -- Former hippie now writes fiction about DEA in Los Angeles

November 12, 1995 -- New writer thanks Harper Lee for leading way

November 5, 1995 -- Patrol officer gives SinC writers scoop on real crime

October 29, 1995 -- What to read during the spooky season? Vampire literature

October 22, 1995 -- UCD professor warns of human attempts to control rivers

October 15, 1995 -- Maraniss describes reasons for Clinton's duality of character

October 8, 1995 -- Mystery writers meet at Sacramento book fair

October 1, 1995 -- Sacramento woman writes juveniles and mysteries

September 24, 1995 -- Enter Blackburn's world and battle demons in Bedlam

September 17, 1995 -- Hoeper makes sure that 'Black Bart' strikes again

September 10, 1995 -- Burton gives 'political obsession' a good name

September 3, 1995 -- Want an easy job? Don't write books for children

August 27, 1995 -- Salzman describes his teen years 'Lost in Place'

August 20, 1995 -- International illustrator pours childhood soul into books

August 13, 1995 -- UCD Professor Orlove ushers readers into 'My Father's Study'

August 6, 1995 -- 'Certain Justice' breakthrough book for Davis writer Lescroart

July 30, 1995 -- Popular writer Lamott has skills of a stand-up comedian

June 25, 1995 -- 'Coming Home Crazy' describes adventures in China

May 28, 1995 -- This Mary Kay is outspoken, funny, acerbic, merciful

May 21, 1995 -- Vietnamese writer's odyssey continues at home, abroad

May 14, 1995 -- Davis Woman Publishes Hugely Successful First Novel

May 7, 1995 -- Moving legacies of Vietnam War found in fiction, poetry

April 30, 1995 -- Hogan exposes Native history in her storytelling fiction

April 23, 1995 -- Heinemann leaving fiction, but not Vietnam, behind

April 16, 1995 -- Hongo makes switch from poetry to prose for `Volcano'

April 2, 1995 -- Science fiction writer describes success, secrets of genre

February 25, 1995 -- Here's an insider's irreverent view of bureaucratic Japan

February 19, 1995 -- Dibdin's Italian cop, Aurelio Zen, is back on the case

February 5, 1995 -- Go back in time, join FDR, Eleanor at the White House

January 29, 1995 -- Mystery genre has history, legitimacy and fans galore

January 8, 1995 -- Writer's life, near death become her only truths to share

December 4, 1994 -- Elms uncovers secret lives of famous politicians, writers

November 20, 1994 -- Thesis turns into book about forgotten Russian neighbors

November 13, 1994 -- Doctor makes sense of inexplicable in `Parting Visions'

November 6, 1994 -- Jung, palm-reading and anecdotes make up `Life Itself

October 23, 1994 -- Kauffman teaches students to collect life's snapshots

October 2, 1994 -- British writer tells intriguing story of local water war

September 11, 1994 -- Loss of frog habitat statewide not a laughing matter

August 8, 1994 -- Meet fictitious female sleuths Nell Fury, Catherine Sayler

May 29, 1994 -- Sierra Club scores big with nature writing collection

May 1, 1994 -- `Refuge' author brings tears, vision to campus series

August 1, 1993 -- Hoagland to help reissue Muir's `Steep Trails' this spring