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The 2012 One Book One San Diego program will for the first time feature all three top selections, one at a time (read the full press release). See more details about the three chosen books:
See a list of events connected with this year's One Book One San Diego program.
City Council declares January One Book One San Diego Month. Read the resolution and learn about the Library's 2012 One Book Partners
Please take a quick survey to help improve the One Book One San Diego program. 
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Mayor Sanders talks about the One Book, One San Diego program:
"Each year, in partnership with KPBS, the San Diego Public Library brings together our community and encourages residents to join others in the shared experience of reading the same book. The program encourages participation in related events, discussions of the ideas raised by One Book and examination of how these ideas connect with our daily lives..." Read the full message to learn more.
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The Gangster We Are All Looking For.
2011: A novel about a Vietnamese refugee family as it tries to adapt to life in San Diego. Loosely based on the author's own experiences, the story is narrated by the family's daughter and gives a young girl's perspective on coming to live in a new land as well as the death of her brother, her parent's marriage and her father's gangster past.
Visit the library's 2011 One Book, One San Diego web pages for additional resources and to learn more about this book.
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Outcasts United. 2010: The story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach and a small Southern town turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement. In the 1990s, that town, Clarkston, Georgia, became a resettlement center for refugees and a modern-day Ellis Island for scores of families from war zones in Liberia, Congo, Sudan, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to help keep Clarkstons boys off the streets.
Visit the library's 2010 One Book, One San Diego web pages for additional resources and to learn more about this book.
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The Zookeeper's Wife. 2009: A non-fiction account of events at the Warsaw Zoo during World War II; the animals and the resistance fighters who hide there. It's a tale of transcendence and subversive acts of compassion at the time of the Holocaust. "The Zookeeper's Wife" won the 2008 Orion Book Award, which is conferred annually to a book that deepens our connection to the natural world, presents new ideas about our relationship with nature, and achieves excellence in writing.
Visit the library's 2009 One Book, One San Diego web pages for additional resources and to learn more about this book.
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Three Cups of Tea.
2008: "In Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace. . . One School at a Time", Greg Mortenson and acclaimed journalist David Oliver Relin recount Mortenson's unlikely journey from a failed attempt to climb Pakistan's K2 (the world's second highest mountain) to successfully building schools in some of Afghanistan and Pakistan's most remote regions. By replacing guns with pencils, rhetoric with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his intimate knowledge of the third-world to fight terrorism with books, not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote villages in central Asia.
Visit the library's 2008 One Book, One San Diego web pages for additional resources and to learn more about this book.
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Enrique's Journey. 2007: An account of a 17-year-old boy's harrowing journey to find his mother in America which won two Pulitzer Prizes when it first came out as a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times. Greatly expanded with fresh research, the book vividly conveys the experience of illegal immigration from Central America. It is also a story about family and love that everyone can relate to.
Visit the library's 2007 One Book, One San Diego web pages for additional resources and to learn more about this book.
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Message from Mayor Jerry Sanders
I am pleased to support the One Book, One San Diego community reading campaign. Each year, in partnership with KPBS, the San Diego Public Library brings together our community and encourages residents to join others in the shared experience of reading the same book. The program encourages participation in related events, discussions of the ideas raised by One Book and examination of how these ideas connect with our daily lives.
The One Book selected each year is chosen by the community. A panel consisting of community members, librarians and KPBS representatives nominate possible books for consideration. The choices are narrowed to three compelling finalist books. The entire community then has the opportunity to vote online for the winner.
Please check the San Diego Public Library, and local book stores for copies of this years selection. Whether you participate in one of the organized community events listed on the Library's or KPBS' websites, plan a book discussion group in your home, or just share your thoughts with friends and neighbors, I encourage you to enjoy a great book and a great community conversation!
Jerry Sanders
Mayor
City of San Diego
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