Fiction/Biographies
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Lantern Tree: Four Books of Poems
Lantern Tree Four Books of Poems is a luminous collaboration that explores life’s spaces- the lantern of relation, journey, spirit, desire, loss, and home. At once disparate and entangled, the …
- Category: Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 373
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780983783718
- Year Published: 2012
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Las Vegas Legends: What Happened In Vegas...
Tells the stories behind the headlines and history of “The Entertainment Capital of the World” aka “Sin City”— Vegas! From the first explorers and early founders to the famed entrepreneurs …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, United States: Central and Eastern.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 320
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653987
- Year Published: 2011
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Last Days in Ocean Beach
Last Days in Ocean Beach is the story of William, a scientist working at the Center for Extinction Studies, a think tank at the College of the Sun funded by …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 124
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780976580195
- Year Published: 2018
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Lavanderia: A Mixed Load of Women, Wash, and Word
Lavanderia is an experience in written word and photography. It highlights the universal ritual and common interaction of people, places, and things found between loads of laundry. Lavanderia gives the …
- Category: Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 334
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780981602066
- Year Published: 2009
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Louis Rose: San Diego's First Jewish Settler and Entrepreneur
The life of Louis Rose, who came to San Diego in 1850 and helped shape the city’s government, development, and planning.
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 304
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653680
- Year Published: 2004
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Mamas and Papas: On the Sublime and Heartbreaking Art of Parenting
In this lively and engrossing collection, texts explore all aspects of parenthood from the first stirrings of desire for a baby to the bittersweet experience of watching your children go …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 322
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780981602080
- Year Published: 2010
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Marshal South and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles: An Experiment in Primitive Living
For 17 years, from 1930 to 1947, poet, artist, and author Marshal South and his family lived on Ghost Mountain—a remote, waterless mountaintop that is today within California’s Anza-Borrego Desert …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 336
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780932653666
- Year Published: 2004
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Marshal South Rides Again: His Anza-Borrego Novels
The enigmatic Marshal South of California’s Anza-Borrego desert region remains a controversial character. His descriptions in Desert Magazine of his family’s experiment in primitive living obscured the memory of this …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 336
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653123
- Year Published: 2013
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Not Far From Normal
Just steps away from sponsored fun runs, endurance challenges, and ultra-marathons, in Tamara Johnson’s Not Far From Normal, San Diego’s hidden residents play games of survival side-by-side with official city …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 130
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780976580119
- Year Published: 2014
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Old Magic: Lives of the Desert Shamans
For a thousand generations, desert shamans of the far West sought order in the stars and in the mysteries and wonder of their grand, if unforgiving landscape. When summoned, they …
- Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 232
- Dimensions: 7 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384053
- Year Published: 2015
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Other Side: Journeys In Baja California
In an increasingly multi-cultural society, The Other Side is a travel memoir for our times. It explores the world of the border where landscapes are both subjective and objective, and …
- Categories: Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California, Outdoor/Travel/Trail Maps.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780932653253
- Year Published: 1998
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Palm Springs Legends *Temporarily Out Of Stock*: Creation of a Desert Oasis
Palm Springs—for years a desert hideaway for celebrities—has a history as unique and varied as its residents. Nestled against lofty Mt. San Jacinto, the oasis of Palm Springs was the …
- Categories: Deserts: California and Southwest, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 304
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653741
- Year Published: 2005
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Reclaiming Our Stories *OUT OF STOCK*: Narratives of Identity, Resilience and Empowerment
Reclaiming Our Stories: Narratives of Identity, Resilience and Empowerment gathers 19 powerful narratives written by members of the Reclaiming Our Stories Community Writers Workshop located in Southeast San Diego. These …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 168
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
- ISBN: 9780976580157
- Year Published: 2016
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Reclaiming Our Stories 2
STUDENTS PLEASE READ: Due to postal service delays, we highly recommend that San Diego area students purchase their books at our warehouse in El Cajon. We are located at 1250 …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- ISBN: 9780578527901
- Year Published: 2020
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Ricardo Breceda **CALL FOR AVAILABILITY**: Accidental Artist
Over 125 life-size metallic sculptures are scattered over three non-contiguous square miles of Borrego Valley surrounded by the immense Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Sculptor Ricardo Breceda’s “Sky Art” is the …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 256
- Dimensions: 10 x 10
- ISBN: 9780932653994
- Year Published: 2011
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Rita and Julia
An extraordinary collection of poetry that takes the reader from the depths of despair through outrage, to transcendent joy. In this searingly intense collection of poems, Baca inhabits the subjects …
- Category: Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 110
- Dimensions: 5 x 8
- ISBN: 9780981602004
- Year Published: 2008
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 12.95 Add to cart