[PDF] Fresno Growing Up eBook

Author : Stephen H. Provost
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781949971422

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"Fresno Growing Up" is the first book to tell the story of Fresno during the times we remember, when the city was growing up and so were we. From Al Radka to Christmas Tree Lane, from Harpain's Dairy to Fresno State, Stephen H. Provost surveys the businesses, malls, restaurants, movie houses, personalities, athletes, musicians, and more that made Fresno fun. This new edition includes added and updated information on Fresno in the postwar era, along with, more than 80 additional images. It's a glorious look at Fresno's past and the times we shared.

Author : Stephen D. Gutierrez
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Fiction. Latin American Studies. "If you read one book of stories this year, make it this one. LIVE FROM FRESNO Y LOS kicks out the jams, and takes no prisoners. Enjoy, and tell a friend"--Virgil Suarez. "Stunning. Really, a lovely and loving collection of stories, nicely balanced between the vernacular and the literarily eloquent"--Lamar Herrin. "There is an ineradicable sweetness to these stories, accompanied by the crisp and happy bemusement of a genuine voice--the sound of one person speaking directly to another, and not from the head, but from that most mysterious of mouths, the human heart"--Jim Krusoe.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0307817431

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In a prose that is so beautiful it is poetry, we see the world of growing up and going somewhere through the dust and heat of Fresno's industrial side and beyond: It is a boy's coming of age in the barrio, parochial school, attending church, public summer school, and trying to fall out of love so he can join in a Little League baseball team. His is a clarity that rings constantly through the warmth and wry reality of these sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic, always human remembrances.

Author : Mike Rhodes
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2018-07-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781724466211

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This is a book about how a working class kid from Fresno grow up to find love and a meaningful life. This story is about building a progressive movement that supports immigrant rights, social, economic and environmental justice. It is also about how Mike and Pam raised two wonderful daughters and were able to integrate work, family life and politics into a great life in this Central California community.

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 1991-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0440210240

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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.

Author : William Saroyan
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212823

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Eleven of William Saroyan's most delightful tales, Fresno Stories springs straight from the source of the author's vision--"the archetypal Armenian families who inhabit Saroyan country, in and around Fresno, California." (Chicago Tribune)

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher :
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780892552542

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The Chicano writer presents forty-eight short essays and memoir pieces set in his hometown of Fresno, California, and in the San Francisco Bay area.