Cultural Region/Southern California

  • Locals Only: California Skateboarding 1975-1978

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    One afternoon in 1975, a young photographer named Hugh Holland drove up Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Los Angeles and encountered skateboarders carving up the drainage ditches along the side of the canyo

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    • Author: Holland, Hugh
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 84
    • Publish Date: May 01 2012
    • ISBN10: 193442983X
    • Language: English
  • My Favorite Half-Night Stand

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    By the New York Times bestselling author who “hilariously depicts modern dating” (Us Weekly), My Favorite Half-Night Stand is a laugh-out-loud romp through online dating and its many, many fails.

    Mill

    • Author: Lauren, Christina
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: December 04, 2018
    • ISBN10: 1501197401
    • Language: English
  • The Library Book

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    Susan Orlean’s bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is “a sheer delight…as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library” (USA TODAY)–a dazzling[more below]

    • Author: Orlean, Susan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: October 01 2019
    • ISBN10: 1476740194
    • Language: English
  • Three Keys (Front Desk #2)

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    The 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: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 21, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1338591398
    • Language: English
  • Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

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    New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang is back with another heartwarming and inspiring story of Mia and friends!

    Mia Tang is going for her dreams!

    After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets t

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    • Series: Front Desk
    • Author: Yang, Kelly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 02, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1338621130
    • Language: English
  • Play It as It Lays

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    A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that bl

    • Series: FSG Classics
    • Author: Didion, Joan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: November 15, 2005
    • ISBN10: 0374529949
    • Language: English
  • Front Desk (Front Desk #1) (Scholastic Gold)

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    Four 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

    • Series: Front Desk
    • Author: Yang, Kelly
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: June 25, 2019
    • ISBN10: 1338157825
    • Language: English
  • The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Crime, Conspiracy and Cover-Up: A New Investigation

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    Longlisted for the People’s Book Prize 2018.

    At 12.16am on Wednesday, June 5, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded in the kitchen service pantry of the Ambassador Hotel, Los An

    • Author: Tate, Tim
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: March 04, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1839012730
    • Language: English
  • Malice

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    The gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring New Orleans detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson . . .

    The scent is unmistakable–gardeni

    • Series: Bentz/Montoya Novel
    • Author: Jackson, Lisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 512
    • Publish Date: October 24, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1496739116
    • Language: English
  • California: An American History

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    A concise and lively history of California, the most multicultural state in the nation

    • Author: Faragher, John Mack
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: September 19 2023
    • ISBN10: 0300274238
    • Language: English
  • Los Angeles. Portrait of a City

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    From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city’s cultural, pol

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    • Author: Ulin, David L.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 572
    • Publish Date: September 15 2009
    • ISBN10: 3836502917
    • Language: English
  • Kindred

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    Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS. (“You have to read them.”)

    The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery

    • Author: Butler, Octavia E.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 20, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0807006920
    • Language: English
  • Inherent Vice

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    “The funniest book Pynchon has written.” Rolling Stone

    “Entertainment of a high order.” – Time

    Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon–private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally

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    • Author: Pynchon, Thomas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: July 27 2010
    • ISBN10: 0143117564
    • Language: English
  • Troublemaker

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    An instant New York Times bestseller!
    An Indiebound bestseller!
    An Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Honor Book!

    Troublemaker follows the events of the LA Riots through the eyes of 12-year

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    • Author: Cho, John
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: March 22, 2022
    • ISBN10: 0759554471
    • Language: English
  • Room to Dream (Front Desk #3)

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    New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang is back with another heartwarming and inspiring story of Mia and friends!

    Mia Tang is going for her dreams!

    After years of hard work, Mia Tang finally gets t

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    • Series: Front Desk
    • Author: Yang, Kelly
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 21, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1338621122
    • Language: English
  • Little Man of Disneyland

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    This imaginative Little Golden Book, originally published in 1955, tells the story of the creation of Disneyland and the little man who lives there. Boys and girls ages 2 to 5 will love joining Mickey… [more below]

    • Series: Little Golden Book
    • Author: Random House Disney
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 24
    • Publish Date: July 28 2015
    • ISBN10: 0736434852
    • Language: English
  • Bones

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    When it comes to writing deftly layered, tightly coiled novels of suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Kellerman reigns supreme as “master of the psychological thriller” (People). K… [more below]

    • Series: Alex Delaware #23
    • Author: Kellerman, Jonathan
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: February 24 2009
    • ISBN10: 0345495179
    • Language: English
  • Obsession

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    #1 WASHINGTON POST BESTSELLER – “Jonathan Kellerman’s novels are an obsession; once started it is hard to quit.”–Orlando Sentinel

    Tanya Bigelow was a solemn little girl when Dr. Alex Delaware succe

    • Series: Alex Delaware Novels #21
    • Author: Kellerman, Jonathan
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: February 26, 2008
    • ISBN10: 034545264X
    • Language: English
  • Gone

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    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Missing acting students Dylan and Michaela are found in the remote mountains of Malibu, battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abduct… [more below]

    • Series: Alex Delaware #20
    • Author: Kellerman, Jonathan
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: May 28 2013
    • ISBN10: 0345540255
    • Language: English
  • Rage

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

    Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they murdered a younger child. While Troy died violently behind bars, the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive

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    • Series: Alex Delaware #19
    • Author: Kellerman, Jonathan
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: March 26 2013
    • ISBN10: 0345535146
    • Language: English
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