Valley Writers Collection Porterville Area Authors

Barker, Lorie
            The Self-Identified Woman (Spinster, Old Maid, Single, Nevermarried)
Benander, Kathryn
            The Writing Kaleidoscope—Writing, Reading, and Grammar  
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
Black, Melissa
            Coracle—Millennium Issue  
Brown, Henry McLauren
            Mineral King Country—Visalia to Mount Whitney

Chandler, Billie and David
            Sky Atlas—for Small Telescopes and Binoculars  
Chandler, David
            Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars  
            First Light—Astronomy Kit
Coyle, Helen Richardson
            Road to Montevideo—A Single Woman’s One-year Bicycle Adventure in  
               South America, 1941-1942

Dale, Dan
            Peace Officer’s Guide to Criminal Law  
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

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  

Geshuri, Yosef
            Balance of Power in the Family: Behavior Problems with Children--
               Who is Really in Control at Home

Hickman, Shirley Skufca
            "Don't Be Give Up."
            School Success:  500 Ways Busy Parents Can Help their Children 
               Succeed in School

Handley, Pegi
            What’s a Birthday, Mama?
Homer, Rodney Prestage
            The Pioneer Communities of Porterville, Vandalia and Plano, Vol. I and Vol. II

Ignacio, Debbie
            The Medicine Bag—Spiritual Healing of Native American Poetry

Larson, Odette
            Flying Sparks—Growing Up on the Edge of Las Vegas
Lopez, Phil
            The Inheritance

Meredith, Marilyn
            The Astral Gift
             Crabtree—Tule River Patriarchs—Early Springville History
             Deadly Omen
             Trail to Glory
             Two Ways West
             Unequally Yoked
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
Muller, Jane Guthrie
            The Guthrie’s of White River

Norris, Norman (Eleanor Norris)
    The Magic of my Mountains—Memories from California’s Sequoia National
    Forest, 1919-1926

Porter, Milly Hunt
            The Horse Gods

Rao, Raghavendra A. N
            Bugs, Drugs and Hugs—True Stories about Diseases, Health and Happiness
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

Sporer, René
            Data Analysis—An Applied Approach to Statistics with Technology
Shaffer, Frank “Buck” 
            “Buck”—It’s all about Bands!

Vega, Miles G
            How to Screw Up your Parents—Positive and Negative Ways to Get Back at
               Mom and Dad
Velazquez, Angelica
            Spectrum:  Young Writers conference 2001

Weinberger, Gay
            New Americans:  The Hmong in Tulare County
Wheeler, Gardner
            Our Town—Seasons in the San Joaquin
Wise, Jessie M
            Season of the Heart