san diego

Provides a brief overview of the San Diego Padres baseball team with information on its history, statistics, successes, and players.

This book is unlike any memoir you'll ever read. Moving in its frankness, it is a relentless tale of a resilient spirit who took on the worst of contemporary urban life and survived it with a furious wit and unyielding determination. Cupcake Brown is a dynamic and original storyteller who will guide you on the most satisfying, startlingly funny, and genuinely affecting tour through hell you'll ever take.--From publisher description.

Biography of horticulturalist and landscape architect Katherine "Kate" Sessions, who in the late 1800s and early 1900s was instrumental in transforming San Diego from a treeless desert to a city of beautiful parks and lush greenery.

Profiles two compelling portraits of the Krocs: Ray, the struggling salesman with a vision that later became the fast food chain, McDonald's, and Joan, the philanthrop ist, activist, and proponent of the peace movement who later became his wife.

Tells the story of Japanese American children who corresponded with their librarian, Clara Breed, while they were imprisoned in World War II internment camps for three years.

A biography of Charles Mallory Hatfield, who is best remembered as the rainmaker who may have been responsible for a flood that devastated San Diego, California, in January of 1916. The author uses personal recollections from growing up in San Diego as well as extensive research to examine Hatfield's life and the validity of his rainmaking skills.

A guide to the culture and interesting sights of San Diego and the surrounding area.

Explains how twin polar bear cubs, Kalluk and Tatqiq, discovered orphaned on the Alaskan wilderness, grow and learn at their new home at the San Diego Zoo.