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Sugar Bear Story: A Barbareno Chumash Tale
Author: Mary J. Yee
Illustrator: Ernestine Ygnacio-De Soto
This children’s tale is based on a Chumash oral legend about how to be a good host. Brightly illustrated by the author, the book incorporates Chumash words and traditional designs, …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Children/Young Adult, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 32
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 11
- ISBN: 9780932653703
- Year Published: 2005
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 9.95 Add to cart -
Sunshine/Noir: Writing From San Diego and Tijuana
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
$ 12.95 Add to cart -
Sunshine/Noir II: Writing From San Diego and Tijuana
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/Biographies, Mexico/Baja California.
- Format: SC
- Pages: 376
- Dimensions: 6x9
- ISBN: 9780976580140
- Year Published: October 2015
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 15.95 Add to cart -
Tequila Cookbook
Author: Lynn Nusom
Enjoy the More than 150 recipes featuring tequila as an ingredient that brings zesty new taste to meals.
- Categories: All Regions, Home/Garden/Cookbooks.
- Format: Softcover Comb
- ISBN: 9780914846895
- Year Published: 1993
- Language: English
- Publisher: Golden West Publishers
$ 10.95 Add to cart -
Tequila, Lemon & Salt: From Baja… Tales of Love, Faith - and Magic
Author: Daniel Reveles
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/Biographies, 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.
$ 14.95 Add to cart -
The ABC’s of Fish Cooking
Author: Virginia Clark
Delicious Recipes for all types of fish! This book brings together two family hobbies — fishing and cooking! Recipes for the catch – grilled, fried, stuffed and stewed. Try these …
- Categories: All Regions, Home/Garden/Cookbooks, Outdoor/Travel/Trail Maps.
- Format: Softcover Comb
- ISBN: 9780931532306
- Year Published: 2007
- Language: English
- Publisher: Golden West Publishers
$ 10.95 Add to cart -
The Bat Book: Afraid of a Bat? What's up with That?
Author: Conrad J. Storad
Illustrator: Nate and Tristan Jensen
Bats are NOT scary! Little Boy Bat lives under the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin, Texas. One day he overhears some human kids saying mean, nasty things about bats. “Bats …
- Categories: Children/Young Adult, Deserts: California and Southwest.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 30
- Dimensions: 9 x 10.5
- ISBN: 9781891795664
- Year Published: 2015
- Publisher: Bobolink Media, Inc.
$ 7.95 Add to cart -
The Cuyamacas: The Story of San Diego's High Country
Author: Leland Fetzer
An informal and engaging history of San Diego’s own mountain district, from the late 1700s and the founding of the first permanent settlements in the Cuyamacas, up to the 2003 …
- Categories: California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 384
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653949
- Year Published: 2008
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 19.95 Add to cart -
The Encyclopedia of Rebels
Author: Mel Freilicher
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/Biographies, 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 -
The Franciscan Missions of California, 1769-1823: A New Look at the 22 Franciscan Missions
Author: Max Kurillo
The California Franciscan missions comprise of a series of 22 religious missions (outposts) founded between 769 and 1832. The Franciscan missions examined in this book are located in the land …
- Categories: California: General, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 124
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
- ISBN: 9781532332531
- Year Published: 2017
- Language: English
- Publisher: M & E Books
$ 18.95 Add to cart -
The History & Mystery of the Whaley House: Old Town, San Diego
Author: Dean Glass
Built in 1858, the Whaley House is one of the oldest structures in San Diego, and is considered to be one of the most haunted houses in America. The story …
- Categories: California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780980095036
- Year Published: 2016
- Language: English
- Publisher: Save Our Heritage Organization
$ 18.99 Add to cart -
The Outlaw’s Violin: Or Farewell, Old West
Author: Nicholas Clapp
A battered and broken homemade violin, discovered at a Mojave Desert swap meet, was to provide an insight into the life of Billy “Kid” Fraser. Born on the planks of …
- Categories: California: Central and Northern, California: General, Deserts: California and Southwest, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, United States: Western.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 152
- Dimensions: 7 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384497
- Year Published: 2019
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 16.95 Add to cart -
The Scorpion’s Mineral Eye
Author: J. Medina
At once magical and searing, Medina’s poetry chronicles the sweet, sad music of humanity. Here is a moving, innovative collection of poetry by a long-time writing instructor at Grossmont College, …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 58
- Dimensions: 5.5
- ISBN: 9780981602028
- Year Published: 2018
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
$ 13.95 Add to cart -
The Wooden Bells of Mission San Buenaventura
Author: Max Kurillo
While the intrigue and romance of bells have, for centuries, captured the imagination of people from all walks of life, the bells found in the museum of the mission in …
- Categories: California: Los Angeles/Orange County, History/Lore/Native Americans.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 126
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5
- ISBN: 9781532327605
- Year Published: 2016
- Language: English
- Publisher: M & E Books
$ 18.95 Add to cart -
Thirst For Independence: The San Diego Water Story
Author: Dan Walker (1922-2015)
A combination of history and current events coverage, this book depicts dramatically San Diego’s long and desperate search for an independent and reliable water supply source. Modern water distribution is …
- Categories: California: San Diego, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors, Natural History/Ecology.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9780932653628
- Year Published: 2004
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 9.95 Add to cart -
Tom Hom: Rabbit On A Bumpy Road
Author: Tom Hom
RABBIT ON A BUMPY ROAD is Tom Hom’s memoir—a story of courage and endurance in meeting life’s challenges to achieve “The American Dream.” Tom was born into a Chinese family in …
- Categories: California: San Diego, Fiction/Biographies, History/Lore/Native Americans, Local Authors.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 392
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- ISBN: 9781941384114
- Year Published: 2015
- Language: English
- Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
$ 14.95 Add to cart