One Book, One San Diego


	Learn More About Enrique's Journey WEB EXTRA \| Beneath the Story» Enrique's Journey author Sonia Nazario takes us inside Latin American migration: the poverty, dangerous travels, glimmer of hope, and family bonds. WEB EXTRA \| Behind the Lens» Photographer Don Bartletti followed Enrique's route atop the trains of Mexico. He shares his experience documenting migrant stories. WEB EXTRA \| Over the Border» KPBS border reporter Amy Isackson and online content producer Nathan Gibbs document the story of a 17-year-old boy deported to Tijuana.

One Book, One San Diego

'One Book' Winner Announced

You voted, and the results are in! The next One Book, One San Diego selection is The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman. This is the remarkable true-story of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, who, with extraordinary courage, compassion, and calm under pressure, managed to save hundreds of people from Nazi hands.

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Joining Together

KPBS and the San Diego Public Library have joined together for One Book, One San Diego, a community-wide initiative designed to encourage all San Diegans to read the same book at the same time.

KPBS is also partnering with San Diego State University’s Common Experience, a reading initiative created to stimulate an ongoing conversation around a common theme inside and outside the classroom. Now we will have two books per year for you to read and talk about.

What We're Reading Now

In Three Cups of Tea, author Greg Mortenson, and acclaimed journalist David Oliver Relin, recount the unlikely journey that led Mortenson from a failed attempt to climb Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, to successfully building schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world—one school at a time.

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Previous One Book Selections

In the astonishing story Enrique's Journey, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to find his mother in theUnited States. With gritty determination and a deep longing to be by his mother’s side, Enrique travels through hostile, unknown worlds. It is an epic journey -- one thousands of immigrant children make each year to find their mothers.
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*Major Funding for One Book, One San Diego is provided by the Linden Root Dickinson Foundation.

*Radio promotion provided by Morrison & Foerster Foundation.

*Funding for the One Book, One San Diego partnership with San Diego State University’s Common Experience comes from the President’s Leadership Fund, established by SDSU to support academic opportunities, innovative and strategic initiatives and increased involvement in community partnerships.

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