San Diego City Works Press
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment
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: 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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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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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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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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Reclaiming Our Stories: 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
Reclaiming Our Stories 2 continues the tradition of a literature—beginning with the slave narrative—that counters hegemony and white supremacy. These stories offer a glimpse into the lives of real people …
- 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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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
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Sunshine/Noir: Writing From San Diego and Tijuana
Sunshine/Noir Writing From San Diego and Tijuana is the inaugural book from San Diego’s only literary press, San Diego City Works Press. It contains an innovative mix of fiction, non-fiction, …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 220
- Dimensions: 5 x 8
- ISBN: 9780976580102
- Year Published: 2005
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 12.95 Add to cart