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The Show : The Inside Story of the Spectacular Los Angeles Lakers in the Words of Those Who Lived It 9780071430340 Used / Pre-owned

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American Chronicles: Westside Chronicles:: Historic Stories of West Los Angeles (Paperback)

Los Angeles sprawled westward toward the sand and sea of Santa Monica Bay throughout the twentieth century as land-grant ranchos gave way to capitalists and promoters. Developers subdivided the coastal land into neighborhoods and communities: Santa... more

People versus Lugo; story of a famous Los Angeles murder case and its amazing aftermath. 1962 [Leather Bound]

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Pre-Owned The Urban Challenge in Education: The Story of Charter School Successes in Los Angeles (Paperback 9781475814446) by Joseph Scollo Dona Stevens Ellen Pomella

9781475814446. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 160. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. With the advent of charter schools in the United States the face of public... more

Darren Criss Penelope Cruz Edgar Ramirez Ricky Martin At Arrivals For Fx�S The Assassination Of Gianni Versace American Crime Story Series Premiere Arclight Hollywood Los Angeles Ca January 8 2018 Pho

Darren Criss Penelope Cruz Edgar Ramirez Ricky Martin At Arrivals For Fx�S The Assassination Of Gianni Versace would make the perfect addition to your home or office or gift recipient. This licensed Fine Art Print was reproduced on Premium Heavy... more

Chavez Ravine: 1949: A Los Angeles Story (Paperback 9780811840576) by Don Normark

9780811840576. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 144. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 144 p. Contains: Illustrations. In 1949 photographer Don Normark walked up into the hills of Los Angeles looking for a good... more

Pre-Owned Darrows Nightmare: The Forgotten Story of Americas Most Famous Trial Lawyer: Los Angeles 19111913 Hardcover Nelson Johnson

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Men of Achievement in the Great Southwest Illustrated. A Story of Pioneer Struggles during Early Days in Los Angeles and Southern California. With Biographies Heretofore (1904) [Leather Bound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1904 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr d reprint. Illustrations Index if any are... more

Brushes With Death: An Autobiography by Stating Facts Johnson Surviving the Streets and Relationship Struggles of South-Central Los Angeles: Based on a true story (Paperback)

Born against all odds near death premature at two pounds thirteen ounces and breached feet first I was determined to stand on my ten toes through the struggle. I was early and missed the call to go that was God. Sometimes you have to dance with the... more

Men of achievement in the great Southwest. Illustrated. A story of pioneer struggles during early days in Los Angeles and Southern California. With biographies heretofore unpublis

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Forever Blue : The True Story of Walter O Malley Baseball s Most Controversial Owner and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles 9781594488566 Used / Pre-owned

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The Gambler and the Bug Boy : 1939 Los Angeles and the Untold Story of a Horse Racing Fix (Paperback)

Scandal on the Turf! the Los Angeles Times proclaimed. It was October 1940 a mere few months after Seabiscuit had won the Santa Anita Derby and now this bombshell: Six Jockeys Admit Horse Races Fixed. The Gambler and the Bug Boy recounts this dark... more

Pre-Owned Tales from the Los Angeles Kings Locker Room: A Collection of the Greatest Kings Stories Ever Told (Tales from the Team) Paperback

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Men of Achievement in the Great Southwest Illustrated. A Story of Pioneer Struggles During Early Days in Los Angeles and Southern California. With Biographies Heretofore Unpublished Facts Anecdotes

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Dear Los Angeles : The City in Diaries and Letters 1542 to 2018 (Paperback)

A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe Cesar Chavez Susan Sontag Albert Einstein and many more this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals transplants and some just passing through. Los Angeles is refracted in all its... more

Swingin on Central Avenue : African American Jazz in Los Angeles (Paperback)

Through their own words Vacher tells their story in Los Angeles offering along the way a close look at the role the black musicians union played in their lives while also taking on jazz historiography’s comparative neglect of these West Coast players. more

Pre-Owned Dear Los Angeles: The City in Diaries and Letters 1542 to 2018 (Hardcover) 0812993985 9780812993981

A rich mosaic of diary entries and letters from Marilyn Monroe Cesar Chavez Susan Sontag Albert Einstein and many more this is the story of Los Angeles as told by locals transplants and some just passing through. The City of Angels has played a... more

Rebirth : Mexican Los Angeles from the Great Migration to the Great Depression (Edition 1) (Paperback)

This sweeping vibrant narrative chronicles the history of the Mexican community in Los Angeles. Douglas Monroy unravels the dramatic complex story of Mexican immigration to Los Angeles during the early decades of the twentieth century and shows how... more

Sunshine Was Never Enough : Los Angeles Workers 1880–2010

Delving beneath Southern California s popular image as a sunny frontier of leisure and ease this book tells the dynamic story of the life and labor of Los Angeles s large working class. In a sweeping narrative that takes into account more than a... more

Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper Brooke Hayward and 1960s Los Angeles (Hardcover)

National Bestseller A landmark and long-overdue cultural history. --Vogue The stylish wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--a tale of love art Hollywood and heartbreak Those years in the sixties when I was married to Dennis... more

Modern Jewish History: Songs of Sonderling: Commissioning Jewish Émigré Composers in Los Angeles 1938-1945 (Hardcover)

Songs of Sonderling is the story of Jacob Sonderling s unique contributions to Jewish liturgical music. Rabbi Sonderling was many things: a descendant of Chassidic rebbes a rationalist a Reform rabbi a Zionist an army chaplain a celebrated orator an... more

Pre-Owned Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles (Hardcover) 1620409151 9781620409152

Just before midnight on March 12 1928 the St. Francis Dam a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles suddenly collapsed releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean destroying... more

Pre-Owned Forever L.A.: A Field Guide to Los Angeles Area Cemeteries & Their Residents (Paperback) 1423605225 9781423605225

In fascinating stories and images Douglas Keister talks about cemetery symbols funerary architecture and secret societies and clubs. He provides GPS coordinates to pinpoint each cemetery and most gravesites featured in the book. more

Pre-Owned The Bad City in the Good War : San Francisco Los Angeles Oakland and San Diego 9780253215468

The Bad City in the Good War is a comprehensive local history of the California home front that restores a little-known part of the story of the Second World War. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition:... more

Major Harold Ferguson: Citizen-Soldier Meets Roaring 20s Los Angeles (Hardcover)

This is a true story from Maj. Harold Ferguson s personal diary and letters describing his experiences during World War I and his life as a citizen of Los Angeles during the formative years of the 1920s. Maj. Harold Ferguson was a Stanford graduate... more

Major Harold Ferguson : Citizen-Soldier Meets Roaring 20S Los Angeles (Hardcover)

This is a true story from Major Harold Ferguson s personal diary and letters describing his experiences during World War I and his life as a citizen of Los Angeles during the formative years of the 1920s. Major Harold Ferguson was a Stanford graduate... more

Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk A Caseworker s Story (Paperback)

An absorbing piece of narrative nonfiction . . . A rare glimpse of what it is like to man these front lines of the war on child abuse--and what it does to a person s soul. . . . Devastating [and] mesmerizing. --The Los Angeles Times Featuring a new... more

Pantheon Graphic Library Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Hardcover)

The fascinating continuation of the best-selling Persepolis one of the freshest and most original memoirs of our day (Los Angeles Times). Marjane Satrapi dazzles with her heartrending graphic memoir about growing up in Iran during the Islamic... more

Pre-Owned Mosby s Memoirs And Other Stories: Leaving the Yellow House; the Old System; Looking For Mr.Green; the Gonzaga Manuscripts; a Father-to-be; Mosby s Memoirs Paperback

What Henry James did for the geographically disoriented Bellow does for the culturally traumatized in the six stories gathered in this collection. Truly Bellow is one of God s spies. - Los Angeles Times A Penguin Classic In six darkly comic tales Saul... more

Pre-Owned Always a Song: Singers Songwriters Sinners and Saints: My Story of the Folk Music Revival Paperback

Folk matriarch and mother to Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper singer and songwriter Ellen Harper crafts a vivid image of the folk music revival coming of age in Los Angeles during the 60s and the historic Folk Music Center. CONDITION – USED:... more

Pre-Owned Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize -A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.---Alex Kotlowitz award-winning author of There Are No Children Here As a child in 1950s segregated Virginia Gregory Howard Williams grew... more

The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones America and the Story of Golf Paperback - USED - VERY GOOD Condition

Now in paperback the Los Angeles Times bestseller that takes a riveting look at the life and times of golf legend Bobby Jones In the wake of the stock market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression a ray of light emerged from the world of sports in... more

Pre-Owned Scoundrel : The True Story of the Murderer Who Charmed His Way to Fame and Freedom 9780062899774

A Recommended Read from: The Los Angeles Times * Town and Country * The Seattle Times * Publishers Weekly * Lit Hub * Crime Reads * Alma From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts the astonishing story of a murderer who conned... more

Hacks : The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House (Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Explosive... A blistering tell-all. ---Washington Post People should sit up take notes and change things. ---Ace Smith Los Angeles Times Brazile most certainly has a story to tell.... Vivid. ---The Guardian From Donna Brazile... more

Classic 20th-Century Penguin Mosby s Memoirs and Other Stories (Paperback)

What Henry James did for the geographically disoriented Bellow does for the culturally traumatized in the six stories gathered in this collection. Truly Bellow is one of God s spies. -Los Angeles Times A Penguin Classic In six darkly comic tales Saul... more

Pre-Owned Born to Play: The Eric Davis Story Life Lessons in Overcoming Adversity on and Off the Field (Hardcover) 0670885118 9780670885114

The motivation behind most sports biographies is more inspiration than revelation but in Davis s case the two fit like hand in the outsized fielder s glove he s wielded so brilliantly in Cincinnati Los Angeles Detroit Baltimore and now St. Louis.... more

Why Fish Don t Exist: A Story of Loss Love and the Hidden Order of Life (Paperback)

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A remarkable (Los Angeles Times) seductive (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab Why Fish Don t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love chaos... more

Nerd Girl Rocks Paradise City : A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A. (Paperback)

Offers a peek into the early years of the hair-band era revealing the hierarchy of fishnets bustiers and chicks with the Holy Grail. This book tells the story of Anne Thomas Soffee who after college journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock... more