Cultural Region/Southern California
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The Big Sleep
$18.00 Add to cartThe renowned novel from the crime fiction master, with the “quintessential urban private eye” (Los Angeles Times), Philip Marlowe. – Featuring the iconic character that inspired the film Marlowe, star… [more below]
- Series: Philip Marlowe Novel #1
- Author: Chandler, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0394758285
- Language: English
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Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk
$19.99 Add to cartUnder the Big Black Sun explores the nascent Los Angeles punk rock movement and its evolution to hardcore punk as it’s never been told before. John Doe of the legendary band X and co-author Tom DeSavi… [more below]
- Author: Doe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825333
- Language: English
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The Program
$8.99 Read moreThe series that started it all
In this powerful follow-up to his action-packed thriller The Kill Clause, Gregg Hurwitz, the new maestro of pulse-pounding suspense, ratchets up the excitement with anot
- Series: Tim Rackley Novels
- Author: Hurwitz, Gregg
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 30 2005
- ISBN10: 0060530413
- Language: English
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Let’s All Kill Constance
$9.99 Add to cartOn a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An a
- Author: Bradbury, Ray
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0060561785
- Language: English
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The Tree Lady: The True Story of How One Tree-Loving Woman Changed a City Forever
$18.99 Add to cartUnearth the true story of green-thumbed pioneer and activist Kate Sessions, who helped San Diego grow from a dry desert town into a lush, leafy city known for its gorgeous parks and gardens.
Katherine- Author: Hopkins, H. Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 1442414022
- Language: English
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Chato’s Kitchen
$8.99 Add to cartChato can’t believe his luck. Not only is he the coolest low-riding cat in East L.A., but his brand-new neighbors are the plumpest, juciest, tastiest-looking family of mice to move into the barrio in … [more below]
- Author: Soto, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0698116003
- Language: English
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The Black Ice
$19.99 Add to cartWhen an LAPD narcotics officer is found with a fatal bullet wound and a suicide note, Detective Harry Bosch follows a bloody trail of drug murders across the Mexico border.
Working the case, LAPD dete- Series: Harry Bosch Novel #2
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1538737965
- Language: English
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The Drop
$19.99 Add to cartIn his fierce search for a new case, Detective Harry Bosch discovers a killer hiding behind suspicious DNA evidence — and a political conspiracy that could destroy the Los Angeles Police Department. … [more below]
- Series: Harry Bosch Novel #15
- Author: Connelly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1538733404
- Language: English
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Less Than Zero
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The timeless classic from the acclaimed author of American Psycho about the lost generation of 1980s Los Angeles who experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ellis, Bret Easton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 30 1998
- ISBN10: 0679781498
- Language: English
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Three Keys (Front Desk #2)
$17.99 Add to cartThe story of Mia and her family and friends at the Calivista Motel continues in this powerful, hilarious, and resonant sequel to the award-winning novel Front Desk.
Mia Tang thinks she’s going to have … [more below]
- Series: Front Desk
- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 133859138X
- Language: English
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Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
$21.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness and Gunslinger delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports’ most-revered—and dominant—d… [more below]
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1592408877
- Language: English
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Troublemaker
$8.99 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller!
Troublemaker follows the events of the LA Riots through the eyes of 12-year
An Indiebound bestseller!
An Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book!- Author: Cho, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0759554463
- Language: English
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Paletero Man/?Que Paletero Tan Cool!: Bilingual English-Spanish
$19.99 Read moreWith the English and Spanish text side by side on the page, this bilingual edition of the vibrant picture book celebrating the strength of community and the tastes of summer is ideal for bilingual rea
- Author: Diaz, Lucky
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: 7-Jun-22
- ISBN10: 0063216353
- Language: Spanish
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Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
$20.00 Add to cart“Through candor and comprehensiveness, Jackson writes a convincing revisionist take, in which he emerges as an excellent coach . . . highly readable . . . reflects Jackson’s polymathy.” —The New York… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125346
- Language: English
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Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold)
$18.99 Add to cartFour starred reviews and over ten best-of-year lists!* “Many readers will recognize themselves or their neighbors in these pages.” — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Winner of the Asian / Pacific Americ… [more below]
- Series: Front Desk #1
- Author: Yang, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1338157795
- Language: English
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Ham on Rye
$17.99 Add to cart“Wordsworth, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and the Beats in their respective generations moved poetry toward a more natural language. Bukowski moved it a little farther.” –Los Angeles Times Book R
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 29, 2014
- ISBN10: 006117758X
- Language: English
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Indian No More
$18.95 Add to cartAmerican Indian Youth Literature Award Winner – American Indian Library Association
When Regina’s Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on
- Author: Willing McManis, Charlene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 1620148390
- Language: English
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Ask the Dust
$18.00 Add to cartAsk the Dust is a virtuoso performance by an influential master of the twentieth-century American novel. It is the story of Arturo Bandini, a young writer in 1930s Los Angeles who falls hard for the e
- Author: Fante, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 07, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060822554
- Language: English
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Post Office
$20.99 Add to cartCharles Bukowski’s classic roman ? clef, Post Office, captures the despair, drudgery, and happy dissolution of his alter ego, Henry Chinaski, as he enters middle age.
Post Office is an account of Bukow
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0061177571
- Language: English
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Paletero Man/¡Que Paletero Tan Cool!: Bilingual English-Spanish
$9.99 Add to cartWith the English and Spanish text side by side on the page, this bilingual edition of the vibrant picture book celebrating the strength of community and the tastes of summer is ideal for bilingual rea
- Author: Diaz, Lucky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 63216361
- Language: Spanish
