Fiction
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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, 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, 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 and the Ghost Mountain Chronicles **Shelfworn**: 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, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 336
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780932653666
- Year Published: 2004
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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, 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, 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 **Out of Stock**: 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, 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, 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
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
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
- ISBN: 9780983783770
- Year Published: 2024
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
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Privilege and Passion: The Novel
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, Vol 3: 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
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 **TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK**: The Events, People, and Places That Made History, 2nd Edition
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 **Out of Stock**: Indians of San Diego County from Prehistory to the New Deal
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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Tequila, Lemon & Salt: From Baja… Tales of Love, Faith - and Magic
The border town of Tecate comes to colorful life and the lives of its inhabitants unfold, full of surprises and a few broken dreams in this new collection of stories …
- Categories: Fiction, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780932653659
- Year Published: 2004
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
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The Encyclopedia of Rebels
In The Encyclopedia of Rebels, Mel Freilicher continues his lifelong engagement with the intersections between history, fantasy, and memoir. The narrator throughout is a college teacher and community activist struggling …
- Categories: All Regions, Fiction, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 116
- ISBN: 9780983783725
- Year Published: 2013
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 13.95 Add to cart