Fiction/Biographies
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Agave Sunsets: Treasured Tales of Baja
Agave Sunsets is a collection of 50 treasured Baja California tales that will transport you to magical places south of the border and introduce you characters you will never forget.
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 212
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780965322331
- Year Published: 2011
- Publisher: Renegade Enterprises
$ 19.95 Add to cart -
American Cream
The absurd mixes with the real in a vision of the American landscape as both murderous and comic. This is a funny, angry and passionate history of our county. “Imagine …
- Categories: All Regions, Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
- ISBN: 9780976580188
- Year Published: 2017
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 14.95 Add to cart -
Atacama Poems
Long before maquiladoras and transnational migrations, there were pampinos who worked mines owned by American companies in Latin America. Their lives are inspirations, their toils directions of where the spirit …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 92
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780976580171
- Year Published: 2007
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 12.95 Add to cart -
Baja Legends: The Historic Characters, Events and Locations That Put Baja California on the Map
The author of Baja Fever shares his extensive knowledge of the peninsula its colorful past and booming present in this easy to read reference book. History, lore, and amazing stories …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 272
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653475
- Year Published: 2002
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 17.95 Add to cart -
Chasing the Heat: 50 Years & A Million Meals
Experience a chef’s fifty-year journey. Beginning as a dishwasher, on to the Army mess tents, through a “day from hell” at one of his successful restaurants, to his thriving charter …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, Home/Garden/Cookbooks, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 160
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9781631100697
- Year Published: 2014
- Publisher: Sandcat Publishing
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Commuters: A Novel of Intersections
The Commuters is a novel composed of intersecting stories about people who live in Los Angeles. From an immigrant garment worker, struggling to exist in an often cruel city, to …
- Categories: California: Los Angeles/Orange County, Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 202
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780976580126
- Year Published: 2006
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 12.95 Add to cart -
Consignments To El Dorado: A Record of the Voyage of the Sutton by Thomas Whaley
A record of the voyage of the Sutton by Thomas Whaley. Compiled and edited from the original manuscript, with journal and letters of 1848-49, includes notes and original illustrations, by …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 274
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780682474443
- Year Published: 1972
- Publisher: Save Our Heritage Organization
$ 10.00 Add to cart -
Courage To Heal: Original Edition
Kaiser Permanente began at the height of the Great Depression with a 12 bed hospital in the Mojave Desert. When Sidney R. Garfield, MD, saw thousands of men building the …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 248
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780932653857
- Year Published: 2007
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Courage To Heal: Anniversary Edition
This anniversary edition has a new cover and contains new photos. Kaiser Permanente began at the height of the Great Depression with a 12 bed hospital in the Mojave Desert. …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 248
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780932653857
- Year Published: 2007
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 14.95 Add to cart -
Drift *Limited Quantity*
Joe Blake is searching for something real in a seemingly depthless world. An alienated, underemployed professor and aspiring poet, Joe roams San Diego in his own personal disquiet and discovers …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 9780806138077
- Year Published: 2007
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 24.94 Add to cart -
Dynamite and Dreams: A Novel Based on the Life of Job Harrman
This novel is based on the life of Job Harriman and is a fictional account of life in the utopian, turn-of-the-century Llano Colony north of Los Angeles. Robert Hine is …
- Categories: California: Los Angeles/Orange County, Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 220
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780981602011
- Year Published: 2008
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 12.95 Add to cart -
Endless Blue Sky
Endless Blue Sky is an irreverent take on family, the different ways we self-medicate and the limits of sunshine. Jeff Ashby is trying to get through each day. Between a …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 236
- Dimensions: 5.5
- ISBN: 9780981602073
- Year Published: 2018
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Gateway To Alta California: The Expedition to San Diego, 1769
The story of the Spanish expedition to found San Diego is told through diary excerpts and the author’s comments, taking the reader day-by-day on the journey through the unexplored, desolate …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 244
- Dimensions: 9 x 11
- ISBN: 9780932653574
- Year Published: 2002
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 39.95 Add to cart -
Gods of Rapture: Poems in the Erotic Mood
Kowit is one of the best-known poets in San Diego with an enormous following. The poems are based on the ancient amatory poems of India written in Sanskrit. Art—drawings, portraits, …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 106
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780976580133
- Year Published: 2006
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 12.95 Add to cart -
Guacamole Dip: From Baja… Tales of Love, Faith—and Magic
Daniel Reveles brings another helping of stories to the table smooth yet spicy, and bursting with colorful characters. Against a backdrop of life in the border town of Tecate, Reveles …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 296
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780932653833
- Year Published: 2007
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 15.95 Add to cart -
Indians of the Oaks
A delightfully written fictional, but historically accurate account of life among the Kumeyaay Indians whose villages were in the mountains, foothills, and valleys of San Diego County among oak groves. …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Children/Young Adult, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 196
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780937808504
- Year Published: 1989
- Publisher: San Diego Museum Of Man
$ 12.95 Add to cart