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San Diego City Works Press

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  • American Cream

    American Cream

    Author: Mel Freilicher

    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
    $ 14.95 Add to cart
  • Atacama Poems

    Atacama Poems

    Author: Adrian Arancibia

    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
    $ 12.95 Add to cart
  • Commuters

    Commuters: A Novel of Intersections

    Author: Cheryl Klein

    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
    $ 12.95 Add to cart
  • Drift *Limited Quantity*

    Drift *Limited Quantity*

    Author: Jim Miller

    Joe Blake is searching for something real in a seemingly depthless world. An alienated, underemployed professor and aspiring poet, Joe roams San Diego in his own personal disquiet and discovers …

    • Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, Local Authors.
    • Format: Hardcover
    • ISBN: 9780806138077
    • Year Published: 2007
    • Language: English
    • Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
    $ 24.94 Add to cart
  • Dynamite and Dreams

    Dynamite and Dreams: A Novel Based on the Life of Job Harrman

    Author: Robert V. Hine

    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
    $ 12.95 Add to cart
  • Endless Blue Sky

    Endless Blue Sky

    Author: Josh Turner

    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
    $ 14.95 Add to cart
  • Gods of Rapture

    Gods of Rapture: Poems in the Erotic Mood

    Author: Steve Kowit

    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
    $ 12.95 Add to cart
  • Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment

    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
    $ 12.95 Add to cart
  • Lantern Tree **Temporarily Out of Stock**

    Lantern Tree **Temporarily Out of Stock**: Four Books of Poems

    Authors: Cali LinforChris BaronHeather EudySabrina Youmans

    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
    $ 14.95 Read more
  • Last Days in Ocean Beach

    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
    $ 14.95 Add to cart
  • Lavanderia

    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
    $ 12.95 Add to cart
  • Mamas and Papas

    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
    $ 12.95 Add to cart
  • Not Far From Normal

    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
    $ 13.95 Add to cart
  • Reclaiming Our Stories

    Reclaiming Our Stories: In the Time of Covid and Uprising

    Editors: Darius SpearmanEbony TyreeKhalid (Paul) AlexanderManuel Paul Lopez

    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
    $ 15.95 Add to cart
  • Rita and Julia *Out of Print*

    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
    $ 12.95 Read more
  • Sunshine/Noir

    Sunshine/Noir: Writing From San Diego and Tijuana *Out of Print*

    Author: Jim Miller

    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
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