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Saigon to San Diego: Memoir of a Boy Who Escaped from Communist Vietnam

10 reviews
Trinh Quang Do

McFarland & Company, 2004

Triumph of the spirit
I just finished reading Trinh Do's incredible tale of his life in the years after the fall of South Vietnam. It is a captivating, poignant read interspersed with moments of laugh-out-loud humor. Besides giving a candid account of life under communist rule and the insidious infiltration of propaganda into every aspect of society, Trinh Do's book is also an account of a Vietnamese adolescence ...

Classic Guitar Technique, Volume 1

16 reviews
Aaron Shearer

Alfred Publishing Company, 1987

Great book for bebinners
This book offers enough exercises to obtain a well practiced hand before moving into harder pieces. Other books seem to offer you building blocks, then show you the pyramide, but miss connecting the two. Shearer does an excellent job of helping all the pieces come together.

Afoot & Afield in San Diego (Afoot & Afield)

20 reviews
Jerry Schad

Wilderness Press, 1998

Afoot and a Feel for San Diego County
Exhaustively researched, comprehensive, with good descriptions of why you'd want to pick a certain hike, so you'll know what you've got to look forward to. This may be the only book you'll ever need on the subject, but it's not the only thing to take on a hike: you'll need that most uncommon of things, common sense" -- and that means you'll also need to bring a MAP and water, and the rest of ...

Welcome to California

10 reviews

Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc., 2008

Story of a risk taker! Well written, funny and thoughtful!
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R333AIEHUTY4IO Writer is a risk taker, who is able to overcome being a foreign born, accented and is still able to assimilate at different places and befriend natives.

Fool on the Hill: A Tess Camillo Mystery

10 reviews
Morgan Hunt

Alyson Books, 2008

fans will appreciate this enjoyable whodunit
Between being a breast cancer survivor and the serpentine murder attempt on her life (see STICKY FINGERS), Tess Camillo knows she has come a long way baby. The San Diego resident vows to live her life to the fullest and not let her fears get in her way. Tess and her roommate Lana Maki attend the Gabrielle Leatheross concert; though they are more interested in hearing the opening act, 1980s ...

California Sol Food Casual Cooking from the Junior League of San Diego: Food photography by Frankie Frankeny

11 reviews

Favorite Recipes Press (FRP), 2004

Awesome!
California Sol Food is my favorite cookbook with easy to follow recipes, beautiful photos, delicious results!!! I have a huge collection of cookbooks but I have found this book to be perfect for casual but elegant entertaining, San Diego style.

Frida's Fiestas: Recipes and Reminiscences of Life with Frida Kahlo

24 reviews
Marie Pierre Colle, Guadalupe Rivera

Clarkson Potter, 1994

Frida's Fiestas
This is a fascinating book with gorgeous photographs of fiestas which would have been prepared by Frida for parties at home in Mexico. We all know that Frida was an extraordinary artist, but it's quite an eye-opener to find out that she was also an outstanding cook!

The Last Days of the Incas

27 reviews
Kim MacQuarrie

Simon & Schuster, 2007

Page-turning history
12 years ago, motivated by a pictorial in National Geographic, I traveled to distant Peru. It was a fascinating journey, but after reading this book, I wished that I had it before I went (impossible, of course). I took it as a reverse travelogue, making sense of the places I had gone to and where they figured into the historical and exploratory narrative. This book reads like a novel. In ...

Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist

12 reviews
Charles Rosen

Free Press, 2002

Confessions of a pianist
As a pianist I stand in awe of Charles Rosen's phenomenal analysis and exposure of the life, status, mind, intellect and passion of one of our most celebrated pianists. If there were ever any doubt about why one plays the piano, here is the answer. This is another MUST HAVE for any honest and serious pianist, either amateur or professional.

Artificial Imagination

19 reviews

Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc., 2008

Refreshing, unexpected, humorous and meaningful
ReKalpanik S. takes us through his arrival in USA as a student and subsequent travel to several places - San Francisco, Seattle, Nashville, and San Diego. In each places, he focuses on similar aspect of his life as a technologist and an immigrant - acceptance by local people, standing out as a ethnic minority and foreign born, life as a technology execuitve and family life. In addition, he covers ...

Los Anos Con Laura Diaz

7 reviews
Carlos Fuentes

Alfaguara Ediciones, S.A. (Spain), 2000

La gran dama Laura Diaz
Este es uno de los mejores libros que Carlos Fuentes ha escrito. Digo que es uno de los mejores pero no el mejor que a esrito. Si te gusta la historia entonces te va guster mucho. Si tienes interes en la historia de Mexico te va gustar mas porque es una novela inolvidable que puedes ver por los ojos de Laura Diaz, una mujer fuerte y sensilla que tiene que luchar para los derechos que hoy en dia ...

Artificial Imagination: A humorous photo story of a journey through California, Seattle and Nashville

8 reviews
Kalpanik S

CreateSpace, 2008

Entertaining and engaging
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2K9BD305H2ISE Very entertaining and engaging. Author is able to take a relatively mundane topic and make it interesting. Excellent for busy professionals looking for light reading since you can read it a chapter at a time and not lose the thread.

The Serpent's Kiss : A Novel

9 reviews
Mark T. Sullivan

Atria, 2003

A KISS TO BUILD A SERIES ON
Having read Sullivan's previous works including PURIFICATION CEREMONY, I was pleasantly surprised at this genre-changing work. Sullivan should definitely consider more Seamus Moynihan novels. This one is a firecracker from start to finish. The terrible deaths of these men are graphically depicted, and make the flesh crawl. Sullivan throws several suspects at you, and then saves the best for ...

Charging Through the AFL: Los Angeles and San Diego Chargers' Football in the 1960s

8 reviews

Turner Publishing Company (KY), 2004

A book for fans of Charger history
Until this book came out, I hadn't had any luck finding a quality book on the history of the San Diego Chargers. This book covers the first ten seasons of the San Diego Chargers- the American Football League years. With its glossy pages and dimensions of just over 12 inches tall and over 9 inches wide, the book is well-suited for presenting photographs. Just about every page has at least one ...

Rattlesnakes,: Their habits, life histories, and influence on mankind

7 reviews
Laurence Monroe Klauber

Published for the Zoological Society of San Diego by the University of California Press, 1956

Klauber rules!
Anything and everything you need to know about these great reptiles! Status, morphology, the rattle, bodily functions, behavior, population and ecology, food, reproduction, venom apparatus, envenomation and its effects, treatment and prevention of envenomation, control an utilization, enemies of rattlesnakes, Indians and rattlesnakes, post-Columbian knowledge of rattlesnakes, myths, folklore and ...

I Met a Greek Goddess in Nashville: Full Color Interior Version

9 reviews
Kalpanik S

CreateSpace, 2008

Superb!
Wonderful! Reading this book was an adventurous experience by itself, very real. Nashville seems like a very romantic, historic place. I feel like visiting it right away. Very nice photographs!! Loved it!!

Welcome to the USA: A humorous photostory describing an immigrant's journey through California, Seattle, and ...

9 reviews
Kalpanik S.

CreateSpace, 2008

Very engaging, light and entertaining!
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R167JUBPRPS0DJ Entertaining and interesting!

Artificial Imagination (Special Edition): A humorous Photostory of a journey through Washington, California ...

8 reviews
Kalpanik S.

Center of Artificial Imagination, Inc., 2008

Entertaining and engaging
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3T5IX83S8N7DX Light reading, but very engaging! Entertaining and excellent for busy professionals since you can read it chapter at a time and still enjoy it!

All That You Can't Leave Behind: A Rookie Missionary's Life in Africa

9 reviews

Father's Press, 2007

Cross Cultural Encouragement
My husband and I have been volunteering an American missionary school last two months. It has been an interesting adjustment to the culture. We have gone through all sorts of emotions, but the most disturbing emotions have been ones of discouragement and questioning God's hand in bringing us here. Living here has been tough. Praise God that Ryan Murphy's book "ALL THAT YOU CAN'T LEAVE BEHIND" ...

The Giant Rat of Sumatra: or Pirates Galore

7 reviews
Sid Fleischman

HarperTrophy, 2006

Grand Adventure With Great Characters
Only twelve years old, Edmund Amos Peters has already lived a life filled with incredible adventures. He and his father went down in a ship after leaving New England. Edmund was saved by Captain Gallows, one of the fiercest pirates still taking prizes in 1846. Nicknamed Shipwreck, for obvious reasons, he stays on as a cabin boy for the pirates. I've read several of Siddhartha Fleishman's ...

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