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Colossus : The Turbulent Thrilling Saga of the Building of Hoover Dam (Paperback)

Colossus : The Turbulent Thrilling Saga of the Building of Hoover Dam (Paperback)

As breathtaking today as when it was completed Hoover Dam ranks among America s most awe-inspiring if dubious achievements. This epic story of the dam--from conception to design to construction--by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Los Angeles... more

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Big City Cool: Short Stories about Urban Youth (Paperback)

Big City Cool: Short Stories about Urban Youth (Paperback)

In these fourteen authentic short stories young people growing up in Los Angeles Chicago Washington DC New York and elsewhere contend with city realities: a former child-star must resist her mother s dreams of Hollywood to pursue her own interest in... more

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Alone With You : Stories (Paperback)

Alone With You : Stories (Paperback)

Following her acclaimed Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated novel The God of War Marisa Silver s extraordinary book Alone With You is a starkly elegant and superbly rendered collection of short stories. Marisa Silver dazzled and inspired readers... more

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Land of the Cranes (paperback) - by Aida Salazar

Land of the Cranes (paperback) - by Aida Salazar

Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel wars in Mexico. The Aztecs came from a place called Aztlan, what is now the Southwest US, called the land... more

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Los Angeles Rams Ride with Rampage Hardcover Book

Los Angeles Rams Ride with Rampage Hardcover Book

Join the Los Angeles Rams mascot in visiting landmarks and historic locations across Southern California in this hardcover book. Ride with Rampage features an engaging story about taking the scenic route to the Los Angeles Rams game. Rampage picks... more

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Los Angeles Rams Ride with Rampage Hardcover Book

Los Angeles Rams Ride with Rampage Hardcover Book

Join the Los Angeles Rams mascot in visiting landmarks and historic locations across Southern California in this hardcover book. Ride with Rampage features an engaging story about taking the scenic route to the Los Angeles Rams game. Rampage picks... more

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Los Angeles Rams Ride with Rampage Hardcover Book

Los Angeles Rams Ride with Rampage Hardcover Book

Join the Los Angeles Rams mascot in visiting landmarks and historic locations across Southern California in this hardcover book. Ride with Rampage features an engaging story about taking the scenic route to the Los Angeles Rams game. Rampage picks... more

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86 d (Paperback)

86 d (Paperback)

In Los Angeles struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls... more

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Fatal Forecast : An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea (Paperback)

Fatal Forecast : An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea (Paperback)

Now in paperback a true story as spellbinding and harrowing as The Perfect Storm marvel- ous and terrifying (Los Angeles Times)--published to herald the arrival of Tougias s new hardcover The Finest Hours. On the morning of November 21 1980 two... more

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A Darker Domain (Paperback)

A Darker Domain (Paperback)

A New York Times Notable Crime Book of the Year - A Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize A thrilling story with heartbreaking questions of social justice and history. --Seattle Times The New York Times calls Val McDermid As smooth a practitioner... more

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The Southland (Paperback)

The Southland (Paperback)

THE SOUTHLAND tells the story of three unauthorized Mexican immigrants living in Los Angeles: Luz works multiple jobs to provide for herself and her teenage son Eliseo. Nadia a former journalist with PTSD fled Mexico and tries to stay hidden from... more

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Remembering: Remembering Los Angeles (Paperback)

Remembering: Remembering Los Angeles (Paperback)

Los Angeles attracts dreamers as well as schemers. Angelenos love their sunshine beaches movies celebrities cars and freeways. Through words and historic photos this book follows the story of Los Angeles from its origins through the phenomenal... more

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Bad Choices Make Good Stories: Finding Happiness in Los Angeles (Paperback) by Oliver Markus Malloy

Bad Choices Make Good Stories: Finding Happiness in Los Angeles (Paperback) by Oliver Markus Malloy

9781947258105. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 376. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 376 p. How the Great American Opioid Epidemic Began 3. A shocking glimpse into the crazy lives of drug addicted prostitutes. You ll... more

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The Galosh (Paperback)

The Galosh (Paperback)

The Galosh and Other Stories features 65 luminous satirical tales from a writer who recorded with unfailing style and wit an era s troubles and a people s voice (Los Angeles Times). Translated from the Russian by Jeremy Hicks In his prime satirist... more

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Tuesdays with Morrie : An Old Man A Young Man and Life s Greatest Lesson (Paperback)

Tuesdays with Morrie : An Old Man A Young Man and Life s Greatest Lesson (Paperback)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A special 20th anniversary edition of the beloved book that changed millions of lives--with a new afterword by the author A wonderful book a story of the heart told by a writer with soul. --Los Angeles Times Maybe it... more

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BLIND PONY As True A Story As I Can Tell (Hardcover)

BLIND PONY As True A Story As I Can Tell (Hardcover)

WINNER 2022 Publisher s Weekly BookLIfe Prize Quaterfinalist WINNER of the 2021 Los Angeles Book Festival Wild Card WINNER of the 2021 New York Book Festival Wild Card BLIND PONY is a memoir about overcoming-about facing up to and learning from one... more

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Sports and Entertainment: My Los Angeles in Black & (Almost) White (Hardcover)

Sports and Entertainment: My Los Angeles in Black & (Almost) White (Hardcover)

Growing up in Los Angeles in the 1980s roughly half of Furman s high school basketball teammates lived in the largely Anglo and increasingly Jewish San Fernando Valley while the other half were African Americans bused in from the inner city. Los... more

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Goldie and Me (Paperback)

Goldie and Me (Paperback)

Author Andrew Cruz s cautionary tale of loss and betrayal ends with events surrounding the death of his father Charles in 2009. But the story begins in Los Angeles California. It is the story of 5 brothers growing up with parents who were first... more

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Tucker & Me: Growing Up a Part-Time Southern Boy (Paperback)

Tucker & Me: Growing Up a Part-Time Southern Boy (Paperback)

This is the story of a child growing up in the Mad Men era of the 1960 s with a single mom in Los Angeles and a father in asmall town suburb of Atlanta Georgia known as Tucker. Tucker & Me: Growing Up A Part-Time Southern Boy is the story of a child... more

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Vintage Contemporaries The Invisible Bridge (Paperback)

Vintage Contemporaries The Invisible Bridge (Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The stunning debut novel (Los Angeles Times) from the bestselling author of The Flight Portfolio--the inspiration for the Netflix series Transatlantic--is a grand love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris... more

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I m Dying Up Here : Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy s Golden Era (Paperback)

I m Dying Up Here : Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy s Golden Era (Paperback)

In the mid-1970s Jay Leno David Letterman Andy Kaufman Richard Lewis Robin Williams Elayne Boosler Tom Dreesen and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles the new... more

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Culminating Family and Career in the 1990s (Paperback)

Culminating Family and Career in the 1990s (Paperback)

Summary: Culminating Family and Career in the 1990s includes 53 illustrated stories sprung from the pages of the author s diaries which she has kept since she was 10 years old. Most of the stories are based in the Los Angeles area of California... more

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Bums No More: The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers World Champions of Baseball (Paperback)

Bums No More: The 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers World Champions of Baseball (Paperback)

This is the story of the 1959 Dodgers a team that rose above its disastrous first season on the West Coast for an out-of-nowhere World Series title. One of baseball s greatest underdog champions the 59 Dodgers were a rag-tag team made of long shots... more

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Images of America: Lavender Los Angeles (Paperback)

Images of America: Lavender Los Angeles (Paperback)

Los Angeles has always been a city of possibilities and reinvention. A youthful and independent spirit permeates the culture and gives a sense of freedom found in few other places. This environment provided fertile ground for the growth of a lesbian... more

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del Amor Y Otros Demonios / Of Love and Other Demons (Paperback)

del Amor Y Otros Demonios / Of Love and Other Demons (Paperback)

Premio Nobel de Literatura Una obra atrevida y cautivadora... García Márquez retiene una voz admirable y vital y la pluma de un ángel . --Los Angeles Times Book Review El 26 de octubre de 1949 el reportero Gabriel García Márquez fue enviado al... more

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The Korean War : A View from the Rear (Paperback)

The Korean War : A View from the Rear (Paperback)

Grant Cole like thousands of other young Americans was drafted into the U. S. Army early in the Korean War. Grant grew up during the 1930s and 1940s in Los Angeles California. After school he entered the machinist trade. Because of this experience... more

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Kings of Vice: Kings of Vice (Paperback)

Kings of Vice: Kings of Vice (Paperback)

Ice-T s experience with crime and gangs in Los Angeles and his years on Law & Order: SVU make him the perfect person to tell this thrilling story of revenge and redemption. Kings of Vice marks a new entry into the type of urban fiction immortalized... more

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Empty the Sun (Other)

Empty the Sun (Other)

Here I was doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk. It had come time to leave Los Angeles... Thus begins the pre-apocalyptic cross-country race with death to bury the... more

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Coleccion Angelologia (Paperback): Consultalo Con Los Angeles (+ Cartas) (Other)

Coleccion Angelologia (Paperback): Consultalo Con Los Angeles (+ Cartas) (Other)

All of us have angels guiding and accompanying us; popularly they are known as guardian angels. Angels who are present in all aspects of our everyday life are beings made of light expressions of the divinity which hope to be sheltered in the... more

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F.W. Blanchard: First President of the Hollywood Bowl (Paperback)

F.W. Blanchard: First President of the Hollywood Bowl (Paperback)

This memoir is the story of our uncle Frederick Woodward Blanchard and of the family members who supported and cherished him. Fred a Boston native came to Los Angeles (population 40 000) in 1886. A visionary he quickly entered deeply into the life... more

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Postcards of America: Vanishing Orange County (Other merchandise)

Postcards of America: Vanishing Orange County (Other merchandise)

Orange County formally separated from Los Angeles County in 1889 and thereas been no looking back. Wilderness gave way to rich farmlands where oranges lemons avocados and walnuts made agriculture the new countyas most important industry; the region... more

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Spitting Off Tall Buildings (Paperback)

Spitting Off Tall Buildings (Paperback)

Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel 86 d Dan Fante s Spitting Off Tall Buildings is the story of aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante who leaves sunny Los Angeles for cold hard New York City. Falling into a... more

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Fightcard: Three Punch Combo (Paperback)

Fightcard: Three Punch Combo (Paperback)

Veteran LAPD detective and bestselling author Paul Bishop puts up his dukes to deliver a trio of knockout stories in Three Punch Combo. Intimately familiar with the mean streets of Los Angeles and the unforgiving brutality of the boxing ring Bishop... more

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Other Countries (Paperback)

Other Countries (Paperback)

Set in agricultural chicano neighborhoods of Modesto California where the poet grew up as well as in gritty Hollywood streets and hip downtown Los Angeles these poems are beautiful and moving telling the stories of real people each one of whom is an... more

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Addicted to Death Restored to Life: The Story of My Life and How the War Waged Against My Soul Was Defeated Paperback 1734938803 9781734938807 Lisa James

Addicted to Death Restored to Life: The Story of My Life and How the War Waged Against My Soul Was Defeated Paperback 1734938803 9781734938807 Lisa James

My story about how growing up in the Crack Cocaine era in South Central Los Angeles lead me to places beyond belief and how while God was always right there guarding me protecting me and providing for me the dangers of the streets haunted me to the... more

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Shades of Gray (Paperback)

Shades of Gray (Paperback)

Set in the heart of sprawling Los Angeles Shades of Gray is a depressingly intimate horrifically kaleidoscopic novel about two roommates-one trying desperately to secure a future she desires as the other dives into a gluttony of excess to avoid the... more

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Volume V: Lullaby (Paperback)

Volume V: Lullaby (Paperback)

The Altar Collective is a literary collective based in Los Angeles CA. We publish an anthology featuring work from accepted international writers. Volume V which is our first short story anthology includes stories written by: John Rockwell Heath... more

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Strength in What Remains (Paperback)

Strength in What Remains (Paperback)

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY: Los Angeles Times - San Francisco Chronicle -Chicago Tribune - The Christian Science Monitor - Publishers Weekly In Strength in What Remains Tracy Kidder gives us the story of one man s inspiring American... more

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So Too My Love (Paperback)

So Too My Love (Paperback)

A love story a true story an inspirational story. A boy and girl born a year apart in 1950 s Los Angeles grow up under much different circumstances before meeting as young teenagers and falling in love. Gaby becomes a child actress early on in life... more

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Images of Aviation: Edwards Air Force Base (Paperback)

Images of Aviation: Edwards Air Force Base (Paperback)

Known for more first flights and record flights than any other place Edwards Air Force Base is legendary. Centered around an ancient dry lakebed in the Mojave Desert 90 miles north of Los Angeles activity at Edwards has sharpened the cutting edge of... more

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