Fiction
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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.
- 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, 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, 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
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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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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Paradise and Other Lost Places: Poetry by Jim Miller
Author: Jim Miller
In this collection of poems, Jim Miller asks: “How much pain and sweetness can fit into one man’s life?” Miller’s Paradise and Other Lost Places looks at subjects as diverse …
- Categories: Fiction, Local Authors.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 143
- Dimensions: 5.25" x 8.25" x .5"
- ISBN: 9780983783770
- Year Published: 2024
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Privilege and Passion: The Novel
Author: Mel Freilicher
Privilege and Passion mines the cultural, historical, and literary terrain of the 1930s-1960, mashing up actual historical figures with fictional characters. One part parody and the other tragedy, this novel …
- Category: Fiction.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 227
- Dimensions: 5.25
- ISBN: 9780983783763
- Year Published: 2024
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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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, 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.
- 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
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, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 304
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384015
- Year Published: 2015
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Strangers In A Stolen Land: Indians of San Diego County from Prehistory to the New Deal
Author: Richard Carrico
The story of the Native Americans of San Diego County from 1850 through the 1930’s is told from their prehistoric origins through the Spanish, Mexican, and American periods. The history …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 216
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653826
- Year Published: 2008
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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Sunshine/Noir II: Writing From San Diego and Tijuana *Out of Print*
Like the first edition of Sunshine/Noir this anthology presents the reader with a wide range of contemporary San Diego writers of fiction and nonfiction alike as well as poets, artists …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 376
- Dimensions: 6x9
- ISBN: 9780976580140
- Year Published: October 2015
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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