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  • QUIXOTE’S ISLAND
    Sally Small
    Escolastica Rodriguez, grand daughter of the first Spanish expedition of 1776, grows up in a California that seems to be the mythical golden island Garci Rodriguez de Montalvo dreamed into existence three centuries before. A last frontier of Spanish chivalry and gracious hospitality, it is a civilization about to be trampled by the adventurer of the California Gold Rush. Escola...
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  • Pear Season
    Sally Small
    These beautiful short stories chronicle a family’s life in the Sacramento Delta, a flat expanse of tangled waterways and islands in California’s Central Valley. It is a farming life of hopeful springs, backbreaking summers in the orchards and golden autumns, a time for fishing, duck hunting and raising children. Pressures from urbanization and water users in more populated part...
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  • Two Sloughs
    Sally Small
    A young elementary school principal grapples with the problems of a small river town just after the Second World War. The Sacramento River plays a major role in this novel. The town’s inhabitants: a mixed bag of descendents of the Chinese who built the levees, itinerant 'Okies,' Japanese farmers just returned from relocation camps and local farmers, have all survived the war, m...
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