In this well researched and amply illustrated book on the history of local wines and wineries, noted author and historian Richard L. Carrico takes the reader on a fascinating journey. From Baja California north to Vista and out east to Alpine, this book will satisfy the wine drinker and historian alike. This book fills an important void in local history who made the first wines, what was the first commercial winery, and is it true that at one time San Diego County rivaled Sonoma in wine production? From its start in 1769 wine has been an integral, although ignored part of San Diego County history. From the San Diego Mission to the Mexican Ranchos and then throughout the American period with its waves of wine drinking immigrants, vineyards and wineries rose and fell. Today we are experiencing a renaissance of wine making and once again San Diego County is poised to take its place among the wine growing regions of the United States. - Published by Recuerdos Press and distributed by Sunbelt Publications

Of Wine on the Lees Well Refined: A History of Wine and Wineries in San Diego County

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Carrico, Richard

Beverages & Wine

Sunbelt Pubns

Review\nGod & Mr. Gomez follows the hilarious (and often hazardous encounters between Mr. and Mrs. Smith and the eccentric, mysterious Mr. Gomez, as the Smith's build their escape-from-the-city house down in Baja California, Mexico. The variety of adventures conjured by Mr. Gomez, who may or may not own the land, keeps the Smith family on a wild ride throughout the construction and on-going "completion" of the project. The epilogue is derived from columns written by Smith in subsequent years, and chronicles the marriages, births and deaths in the Gomez and Smith families, as their lives have become intertwined and connected through love and respect. God & Mr. Gomez is a rollicking good read for anyone who has ever been (or contemplates being) engaged in the building of their very own "dream house". -- Midwest Book Review

God and Mr. Gomez: Building a Dream House in Baja

Humor & Entertainment

Smith, Jack Clifford

Humor

Clean, bright used copy with tight binding. NEVER a library book.

GANGS - A Guide to Understanding Street Gangs

Reference

Valdez, Al

Valdez, L.

Catalogs & Directories

Get to know the Mojave Desert Tortoise, a threatened species, through photographs and captions by students in the Tortoises Through the Lens program. Profits go to tortoise conservation.

Tortoises Through the Lens: A Visual Exploration of a Mojave Desert Icon

Science & Math

Lamfrom

DAVID

Biological Sciences

This new edition of the Baja California Plant Field Guide discusses or describes over 715 different plants in more than 350 genera in 111 families. Of these, approximately 32% are endemic to the region, 50% can also be found in southern California (e.g., San Diego County), and about 45% are new additions in this edition. In a field guide like this it is impossible to address all of the plant species in our region, but we have tried to compensate by discussing the overall diversity of the selected plant families and genera in introductory paragraphs preceding each species discussion. In this manner, we hope to give the reader a better understanding of the plant diversity that is not directly supplied by our book in photos and text.

Baja California Plant Field Guide

Rebman, Jon P.

Roberts, Norman C.

San Diego County

Travel

Lawson, Greg

United States

A chance encounter at a coffee shop door — a young woman of unusual promise and haunting problems, a widower grieving and lonely in the wake of a forty-year marriage — strange candidates for romance and adventure? Not necessarily. From this casual meeting springs a May-November odyssey into distant lands, dark corners of the soul, and high places of the human spirit.Exploring a man’s reactions, both base and noble, as the passion he feels conflicts with the path he knows he must take, Portrait of Paloma is a compelling story of lust and loyalty, friendship and survival, an intimate look at a woman’s quest to conquer her past, and an older man’s need to help her do so. 
“…I’d divided Paloma into alter egos. One I’d bought, and I was getting my money’s worth…But the other persona attracted me more, the friend with whom I shared so many enthusiasms. She was the one I was courting—and sighing over—even as I guiltily made love to the first…” 
An engaging debut novel that is at heart a love story, Portrait of Paloma is also a provocative tale of gender, generation, and what two people can learn when they trust each other enough to bridge the divides of both.

Portrait of Paloma

Crosby, Harry W.

Literature & Fiction

The coastal geology of the San Diego region is explored in this guidebook. Self-guiding road logs range throughout the coastal plain from San Ysidro to the Torrey Pines/La Jolla coastline. Technical papers focus on coastal processes and engineering geology.

Coastal Processes and Engineering Geology of San Diego, California

Earth Sciences

Will Thrall embraced the San Gabriel Mountains from the time of his arrival in the 1880s until his death in the 1960s. Thrall documented the tent camps of the Great Hiking Age, worked on the Mount Lowe railroad, organized hiking clubs, and promoted conservation of mountain resources. Thrall also edited "Trails Magazine" and authored a weekly column for the "Los Angeles Times". He photographed historic mountain cabins, identified geologic formations, and discovered lost pioneer routes and Indian Trails. Thrall's life is a study in southern California itself--and the lasting traditions that form the mountain backdrop to the valley below.

Will Thrall and the San Gabriels: A Man to Match the Mountains (Adventures in Cultural and Natural History)

Woolsey, Ronald C.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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