Fiction/Biographies
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Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment
Author: Ella deCastro Baron
Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment is an ironic Curriculum Vitae where life and work experiences one wouldn’t want a potential employer to know are highlighted using vulnerability, wit, observation, and …
- Category: Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 219
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780981602059
- Year Published: 2003
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Lantern Tree **Temporarily Out of Stock**: 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...
Author: Greg Niemann
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
Author: Jim Miller
Illustrator: Perry Vasquez
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
Editor: Donna Watson
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
Author: Donald H. Harrison
The life of Louis Rose, who came to San Diego in 1850 and helped shape the city’s government, development, and planning. Click here to watch a Sunbelt Spotlight Lecture …
- 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
Author: Alys Masek
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
Author: Marshal South
Editor: Diana Lindsay
A free copy of Marshal South Rides Again will be included with all orders. For 17 years, from 1930 to 1947, poet, artist, and author Marshal South and his family …
- 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
Author: Marshal South
Editor: Diana Lindsay
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
Author: Tamara Johnson
Photographer: Rachael Wenban
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
Author: Nicholas Clapp
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
Author: Judy Goldstein Botello
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: Creation of a Desert Oasis
Author: Greg Niemann
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: In the Time of Covid and Uprising
This special edition of Reclaiming Our Stories, unlike our previous two volumes, is a theme-based collection focusing on the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the massive …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 120
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 7.5
- ISBN: 9780983783749
- Year Published: 2021
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Rita and Julia *Out of Print*
Author: Jimmy Santiago Baca
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
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San Diego Legends: The Events, People, and Places That Made History, 2nd Edition *Free copy of San Diego County Place Names with all orders*
Author: Jack Scheffler Innis
San Diego journalist Jack Innis describes the many fascinating people and events that influenced the development of San Diego, plus the colorful characters and groups that made headlines in the …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 304
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384015
- Year Published: 2015
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 17.95 Add to cart