Cultural Region/Southern California
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A People’s Guide to Los Angeles
$31.18 Add to cartA People’s Guide to Los Angeles offers an assortment of eye-opening alternatives to L.A.’s usual tourist destinations. It documents 115 little-known sites in the City of Angels where struggles related… [more below]
- Series: People’s Guide
- Author: Pulido, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0520270819
- Language: English
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Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood
$31.95 Add to cartCari Beauchamp masterfully combines biography with social and cultural history to examine the lives of Frances Marion and her many female colleagues who shaped filmmaking from 1912 through the 1940s. … [more below]
- Author: Beauchamp, Cari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 475
- Publish Date: April 23 1998
- ISBN10: 0520214927
- Language: English
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The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise
$17.95 Add to cartFrederick and May Rindge, the unlikely couple whose love story propelled Malibu’s transformation from an untamed ranch in the middle of nowhere to a paradise seeded with movie stars, are at the heart
- Author: Randall, David K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 039335394X
- Language: English
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The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History
$35.00 Add to cartBefore the film industry arrived, Hollywood was filled with quaint bungalows, and churches dedicated to teetotalism. Movies shattered Hollywood’s tranquillity, and brought wealth and glamorous movie s… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Gregory Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0977629929
- Language: English
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L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America’s Most Seductive City
$17.00 Add to cartNow the TNT Original Series MOB CITY
Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the world as “the white spot of America,” a land of sunshine and orange groves, wholesome Midwestern values and Hollywood sta… [more below]- Author: Buntin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0307352080
- Language: English
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Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder: The True Story
$17.95 Add to cartA New York Times Bestseller For viewers of the hit Series I Am the Night and fans of the Root of Evil Podcast, the book that finally revealed the shocking identity of the Black Dahlia Killer–and the… [more below]
- Author: Hodel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 550
- Publish Date: February 17 2015
- ISBN10: 1628724390
- Language: English
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Afoot & Afield: San Diego County: 282 Spectacular Outings Along the Coast, Foothills, Mountains, and Desert
$24.95 Add to cartSan Diego County’s premier trail guide for hikers, backpackers, and mountain bikers, this book presents 282 trips, from short and easy to challenging.
- Series: Afoot & Afield
- Author: Schad, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0899978010
- Language: English
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Once Anillos/ Eleven Rings
$12.95 Read moreDurante su exitosa carrera como entrenador de los Chicago Bulls y Los Angeles Lakers, Phil Jackson conquistó más campeonatos que ningún otro entrenador en la historia profesional del deporte.
Jackso… [more below]- Author: Jackson, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 30 2016
- ISBN10: 8416240574
- Language: Spanish
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974–The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics
$19.99 Add to cart“An electric story filled with gripping personalities, compelling backstage histories, and a clear message for the divided America of today: the forces that fear change can win for a time, but in Amer
- Author: Brownstein, Ronald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0062899228
- Language: English
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The Onion Field
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A fascinating account of a double tragedy: one physical, the other psychological.”–Truman Capote
This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robb- Author: Wambaugh, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 385341598
- Language: English
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G-Dog and the Homeboys: Father Greg Boyle and the Gangs of East Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartFather Gregory J. Boyle, SJ, is a native of Los Angeles, a Jesuit priest, and founder of Homeboy Industries, an economic development and jobs program begun in 1988 for at-risk and gang-involved youth.
- Author: Fremon, Celeste
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: January 09 2009
- ISBN10: 0826344852
- Language: English
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Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
$14.95 Read moreThe intersection of advocacy, city planning, and racism
Bicycle / Race paints an unforgettable picture of Los Angeles–and the United States–from the perspective of two wheels. This is a book of bord- Series: Bicycle Revolution
- Author: Lugo Phd Adonia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1621067645
- Language: English
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Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures
$16.00 Read moreA Bookpage Best Books of 2012 pick
“At once a delicious depiction of Hollywood’s golden age and a sweet, fulfilling story about one woman’s journey through fame, love, and loss.”–Boston Globe In 192- Author: Straub, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 02 2013
- ISBN10: 1594631824
- Language: English
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Summer of the Big Bachi
$20.00 Add to cartIn the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese-American gardener, his lawnmower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But while Mas keeps lawns neatly trimmed, his own li… [more below]
- Series: Mas Arai #1
- Author: Hirahara, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0385337590
- Language: English
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Much Ado about Nauticaling
$15.95 Add to cartThe bubbly fun of a rom-com meets the irresistible quirkiness of a cozy mystery in this buoyant new series set off the coast of Southern California, where 30-something Whitney Dagner has moved home to… [more below]
- Series: A Whit and Whiskers Mystery
- Author: Allan, Gabby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1496731069
- Language: English
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Who Asked You?
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author…”Remember Getting to Happy, Waiting to Exhale, and How Stella Got Her Groove Back? Well, you won’t likely forget Terry McMillan’s Who Asked You? either… [more below]
- Author: McMillan, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 01 2014
- ISBN10: 045141702X
- Language: English
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One Tuesday Morning / Beyond Tuesday Morning Compilation Limited Edition
$17.99 Add to cartBased on the tragedy of the Twin Towers . . . two powerful novels of heroism, loss, and redemption by New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury
ONE TUESDAY MORNING
The last thing Jake Bryan kne
- Author: Kingsbury, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: July 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0310606519
- Language: English
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Remember Tuesday Morning: (Previously Published as Every Now and Then)
$18.99 Add to cartA wall went up around Alex Brady’s heart when his father, a New York firefighter, died in the Twin Towers. Turning his back on the only woman he ever loved, Alex shut out all the people who cared abou
- Series: 9/11 #3
- Author: Kingsbury, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0310334144
- Language: English
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The Barbarian Nurseries (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartTenth Anniversary Edition
Winner of the California Book Award for Fiction
A Los Angeles Times bestseller
Named a best book of the year by The New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco- Author: Tobar, Héctor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 125082401X
- Language: English
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The Lady in the Lake, the Little Sister, the Long Goodbye, Playback: Introduction by Tom Hiney
$35.00 Add to cartCreator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. Chandler’s last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportun… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Chandler, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1016
- Publish Date: October 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0375415025
- Language: English
