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My Dirty California
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Jason Mosberg (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 323 ratings
score: 300,
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Luna (Mist Riders, #1)
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Stella Fitzsimons (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 353 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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One of Us Is Next (One of Us Is Lying, #2)
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Karen M. McManus (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 277,923 ratings
score: 200,
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Ramona
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3.76 avg rating — 2,485 ratings
score: 198,
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The Torrey Pines Hermit
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 198,
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One of Us Is Lying (One of Us is Lying, #1)
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Karen M. McManus (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,028,376 ratings
score: 198,
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I Cover the Waterfront
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4.27 avg rating — 94 ratings
score: 192,
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Suds in Your Eye (Suds, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 256 ratings
score: 185,
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2 people voted
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The Man From Buzzard Roost: Priceless Dirt
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David Powers (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 100,
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Disturbed in Their Nests: A Journey from Sudan’s Dinkaland to San Diego’s City Heights
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4.44 avg rating — 407 ratings
score: 100,
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The Spaceman of Ocean Beach, Vol. Two
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score: 100,
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Protecting Kiera (SEAL of Protection, #9)
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Susan Stoker (Goodreads Author)
4.39 avg rating — 3,625 ratings
score: 100,
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The House of Broken Angels
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Luis Alberto Urrea (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 18,935 ratings
score: 100,
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Poison Pen
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score: 100,
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Mystery at The Blue Sea Cottage: A True Story of Murder in San Diego's Jazz Age
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James Stewart (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 110 ratings
score: 100,
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Preparation for the Landing
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 99,
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The Age of Miracles
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Karen Thompson Walker (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 94,337 ratings
score: 99,
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My Life in a Man-Made Jungle
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4.14 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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Swear on This Life
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Renee Carlino (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 58,744 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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My wild world
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 98,
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Secret of the Old Books
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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Which One?
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 97,
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My Seven Years in Captivity: Tails And Misadventures in the San Diego Zoo
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3.38 avg rating — 26 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Jesse Shepard & the Villa Montezuma: Tracing the Man and His Signature Creation Though San Diego's Print Media:: The Golden Era, 1887 through 1889
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 96,
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Point Loma Community in California, 1897-1942
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
score: 95,
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Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday?
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3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 94,
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Beach Town: Early Days in Ocean Beach
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 93,
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The Giant Dipper San Diego, California: A Pictorial History
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 91,
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The Argonauts of 1769: A Narrative of the Occupation of San Diego and Monterey by Don Gaspar de Portola
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 90,
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Frontiers of Time: Retrocausation - Experiment and Theory (AIP Conference Proceedings, 863)
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Daniel P. Sheehan (Editor)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 89,
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Freemasonry & Old Town San Diego: The Herald and the Union, 1851-1901
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 87,
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San Diego's Sunset Cliffs Park: A History
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 86,
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Star of India: The Log of an Iron Ship
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 85,
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Floaters: A Novel
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3.65 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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The Sundance Kid Died of Old Age in San Diego: The Diary of Etta Place
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 83,
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The Dawn of the New Cycle: Point Loma Theosophists and American Culture
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score: 82,
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The Lily White Marina, Volume 1
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 81,
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Stranger Than Fiction: Vignettes of San Diego History
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Richard W. Crawford (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 80,
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Stories of Old San Diego Over Two Centuries
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M.M. Sugg (editor)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 79,
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The San Diego World's Fairs and Southwestern Memory, 1880-1940
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score: 78,
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Wyatt Earp in San Diego: Life After Tombstone
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score: 77,
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The Haunted Whaley House, Old Town, San Diego, California: A History and Guide to the Most Haunted House in America
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 76,
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The Romance of Balboa Park
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 75,
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100 Years of Stories, Voices and Images From Point Loma Nazarene University's First Century
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 74,
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Earthquakes & Faults in San Diego
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 73,
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Glimpses of San Diego, Historic and Prophetic (Classic Reprint): A Poem
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 72,
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