Locality/Los Angeles-Long Beach
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Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood (Revised Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartOn the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966 an electrifying scene appeared out of nowhere, exploded into creativity, and then, just as suddenly, vanished. So much remarkable music, art, and so
- Author: Priore, Domenic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1908279907
- Language: English
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Greetings from Los Angeles
$30.00 Read moreA fascinating tour of Los Angeles told through vintage images.
The City of Angels’ story is told through a fun and colorful collection of old photos, picture postcards, brochures, ads, and other vintag
- Author: Moruzzi, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1423647254
- Language: English
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Drama High: Holidaze
$17.00 Add to cartIt’s almost Valentine’s Day at South Bay High, but romance is the last thing on Jayd Jackson’s mind. . .
If Cupid had his way, love would be in the air at South Bay High. But even though Valentine’s D
- Series: Drama High #9
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0758231091
- Language: English
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Rock Me on the Water: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television, and Politics
$0.00 Read moreNew York Times Bestseller
Editors’ Choice —New York Times Book Review
In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein–“one of America’s best political journalists“ (The
- Author: Brownstein, Ronald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 006289921X
- Language: English
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The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
$34.95 Add to cartAnalysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.
- Author: Klein, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 17 2008
- ISBN10: 1844672425
- Language: English
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Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles
$18.95 Read moreLos Angeles is a city founded on blood. Once a small Mexican pueblo teeming with Californios, Indians, and Americans, all armed with Bowie knives and Colt revolvers, it was among the most murderous lo
- Author: Faragher, John Mack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0393353656
- Language: English
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Theatres in Los Angeles
$24.99 Add to cartLos Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of the product–the biggest, best, and brightest theatres imaginable. The magn… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Cooper, Suzanne Tarbell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0738555797
- Language: English
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Drama High: Hustlin’
$15.00 Add to cartA YALSA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
Between Christmas, the annual Fall Festival, and baby-mama issues, South Bay High is vibrating with activity, excitement, and drama. . . The holida- Series: Drama High #07
- Author: Divine, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0758231059
- Language: English
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Location Filming in Los Angeles
$24.99 Read moreLos Angeles has reigned for more than a century as the world capital of the film industry, a unique and ever-changing city that has been molded and recast thousands of times through the artistic visio… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Bible, Karie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0738581321
- Language: English
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West by West: My Charmed, Tormented Life
$21.99 Add to cartThe honest and powerful autobiography from basketball legend Jerry West is a must-read for fans of the game.
He is one of basketball’s towering figures: “Mr. Clutch,” who mesmerized his opponents an- Author: Coleman, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0316053503
- Language: English
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Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
$21.18 Add to cartIn Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking … [more below]
- Author: Ulin, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 520273729
- Language: English
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Silver Screen Fiend: Learning about Life from an Addiction to Film
$17.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a “heartfelt and hilarious” (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obses… [more below]
- Author: Oswalt, Patton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1451673221
- Language: English
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Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
$21.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Edgar Award winner for Best Fact Crime
The Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood st
- Author: Mann, William J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0062242199
- Language: English
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Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles
$19.99 Add to cartThe author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created–William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct–a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one
- Author: Standiford, Les
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0062251457
- Language: English
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A People’s Guide to Los Angeles
$31.18 Read moreA 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
