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Slouching Towards Los Angeles: Living and Writing by Joan Didion s Light (Hardcover)

In The White Album Joan Didion famously wrote that a place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest remembers it most obsessively...loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image. Cruising in her Daytona yellow Corvette Stingray taking it... more

Pre-Owned The White Boy Shuffle (Paperback 9780312280192) by Paul Beatty

A bombastic coming-of-age novel.... The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time. -- Los Angeles Times The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning... more

Pre-Owned Void Moon (Mass Market Paperback) 1407250299 9781407250298

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND THE LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES A RIVETING BREATHLESS THRILLER. -- LOS ANGELES TIMES In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still... more

Pre-Owned Queen of the Oddballs: And Other True Stories from a Life Unaccording to Plan (Paperback) 0060878835 9780060878832

A hilariously offbeat memoir about an adventurous young woman s escapades as she defies conventions and transforms an ordinary Los Angeles life into a star-studded extraordinary miracle of self-discovery. Queen of the Oddballs forms a chronology of... more

Female Sexual Slavery (Paperback)

A powerful work filled with disbelief outrage and documentation...sexual bondage shackles women as much today as it has for centures. --Los Angeles Times Exposes the dark side of sexuality and dares to ask the crucial question why do men do these... more

A history of California and an extended history of Los Angeles and environs also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present 1915 [Hardcover]

{Size: 18.78 x 25.13 cms} Lang: - English Pages 487 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2015 with the help of original edition published long back [1915]. This book is Printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated... more

Cellini Smith: Dog Eat Dog: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Cellini Smith Volume 2 (Paperback)

Cellini Smith returns! Los Angeles private detective Cellini Smith is hired by the pugs who frequent the Hangover Club to find the killer of Morton Miles ex-champ and manager of the club. The pugs hope Cellini can pin the kill on the Terrible Turk a... more

Stray - A Shelter Veterinarian s Reflection on Triumph and Tragedy: (Black and White Edition)

stray is a straightforward and sometimes hard hitting narrative of an animal shelter veterinarian in the late 1990 s in one of the largest animal control departments in the country the City of Los Angeles. Dr. Mangiamele relates her journey... more

Rock She Wrote (Paperback)

Originally published: New York: Delta 1995. From London to Los Angeles from the pages of New Musical Express to Rolling Stone women have been writing about rock and pop music for more than 30 years. Rock She Wrote collects the best of women s... more

Pre-Owned A Sin and a Shame (Mass Market Paperback) 1416547371 9781416547372

After fleeing Los Angeles when her attempt to break up her best friend s marriage fails Jasmine is now a changed woman...and a Christian. She vows to attend church every Sunday swears off married men and begins her search for the soul mate she is... more

A Lillian Frost and Edith Head Mystery: The Sharpest Needle (Paperback)

1939 Los Angeles. Marion Davies one of Hollywood s leading ladies has received poison pen letters highlighting an embarrassing event in her past from the mysterious Argus . Lillian Frost and her partner-in-crime Edith Head try to expose the writer... more

The Shadow King : A Novel 9780393083569 Used / Pre-owned

A Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in FictionA gripping novel set during Mussolini s 1935 invasion of Ethiopia The Shadow King takes us back to the first real conflict of World War II casting light on the women soldiers who were... more

White Racism : Causes Character and Cures 9780415909198 Used / Pre-owned

This book probes white racism in contemporary society. By focussing on cases such as the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles and its aftermath the authors carefully document key events which show the process of racial victimization. CONDITION –... more

Pre-Owned Break Any Woman Down (Paperback) 1400030463 9781400030460

A fresh award-winning exploration of the nuances of race class and gender. In one story Avery an eleven-year-old from South Central Los Angeles confronts the dislocation of moving to a white suburb. In another La Donna a black stripper decides to... more

Pre-Owned Black White Other : In Search of Nina Armstrong (Paperback) 9780310761518

Nina never thought about being biracial until her parents divorced. Now it feels like everyone is forcing her to choose her identity and in her hometown of Los Angeles racial tensions flare. Conflicted and alone Nina turns to the story of her... more

American Crossroads: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight : Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (Series #13) (Edition 1) (Paperback)

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of... more

Pre-Owned The White Boy Shuffle (Paperback) 031228019X 9780312280192

A bombastic coming-of-age novel....The White Boy Shuffle has the uncanny ability to make readers want to laugh and cry at the same time.--Los Angeles Times The first novel from National Book Critics Circle Award and Man Booker Prize-winning author... more

Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible (Paperback)

Essays of considerable literary erudition and sophistication that... dislodge dull stereotypes to enable both women and men readers to see the Bible with fresh eyes. --Los Angeles Times Book Review As the one work that has held moral and religious... more

The Friend of Women : And Other Stories (Hardcover)

The mysteries of character are at the heart of these six previously unpublished pieces from a 2005 recipient of the National Medal of Arts. The Los Angeles Times has lauded Louis Auchincloss as a novelist committed to examining the complicated... more

Pre-Owned Void Moon (Mass Market Paperback) 1478948272 9781478948278

FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND THE LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES A RIVETING BREATHLESS THRILLER. --LOS ANGELES TIMES In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still... more

The Bilko Athletic Club : The Story of the 1956 Los Angeles Angels (Hardcover)

The Bilko Athletic Club is the story of the 1956 Los Angeles Angels a team of castoffs and kids built around a bulky beer-loving basher of home runs named Steve Bilko. The Angels compiled a 107-61 won-loss record finishing sixteen games ahead of... more

Pre-Owned True Blue: The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers Told by the Men Who Lived It (Paperback) 0380806150 9780380806157

In 1957 the Dodgers broke the hearts of blue-collar Brooklyn for the embrace of booming Los Angeles. Thus began a new era for the fabled Bums whose exploits inside -- and outside -- the white lines have intrigued generations. A fascinating and... more

Cursed Bread : A Novel (Paperback)

WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION NOMINEE - Best Book of the Month: The Washington Post Los Angeles Times The Philadelphia Inquirer Book Riot CrimeReads - An elegant and hypnotic new novel of obsession that centers on the real unsolved mystery of the 1951... more

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An absorbing (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable powerful and captivating women in Russian history--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great Nicholas and Alexandra and The Romanovs... more

Mercury Pictures Presents : A Novel (Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Winner of the David J. Langum Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction - The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive moving from Mussolini s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles--a timeless story of love... more

One Sunday : A Novel (Paperback)

In this humorous and heartfelt novel a beleaguered young woman must shed her career identity and power persona to learn how to love and forgive herself others and God. Alice Ferguson is an A-list tabloid editor from Los Angeles who gets pregnant... more

Council on Foreign Relations Books (Random House): Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women Are Transforming the Middle East (Paperback)

Now with a new Preface and Afterword by the author Outstanding . . . [Isobel Coleman] takes us into remote villages and urban bureaucracies to find the brave men and women working to create change in the Middle East. --Los Angeles Times In this... more

Backlot Requiem : A Rick Walker Mystery (Hardcover)

When a long-buried corpse is unearthed at the National Pictures Studio in Los Angeles private investigator Rick Walker is called in to solve the thirty-year-old murder case. The white-haired chairman of the studio steps forward and commands everyone... more

Pre-Owned I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir (P.S.) Paperback

As a young child Lac Su made a harrowing escape from the Communists in Vietnam. With a price on his father s head Lac with his family was forced to immigrate in 1979 to seedy West Los Angeles where squalid living conditions and a cultural fabric... more

Los Angeles from the mountains to the sea with selected biography of actors and witnesses to the period of growth and achievement Volume 3rd 1921 [Hardcover]

{Size: 18.78 x 25.13 cms} Lang: - English Vol: - Volume 3rd Pages 787 Print on Demand. Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1921]. This book is printed in black & white Hardcover sewing binding for longer life... more

True Blue: The Dramatic History of the Los Angeles Dodgers Told by the Men Who Lived It (Paperback)

In 1957 the Dodgers broke the hearts of blue-collar Brooklyn for the embrace of booming Los Angeles. Thus began a new era for the fabled Bums whose exploits inside -- and outside -- the white lines have intrigued generations. A fascinating and... more

Pre-Owned In Search of Naunny s Grave: Age Class Gender and Ethnicity in an American Family (Paperback) 0759105006 9780759105003

Elsie Martinez Trujillo Alcaraz Naunny to her grandson and communication scholar Nick Trujillo was a working class woman daughter of New Mexico Hispanos and eventually the resident of a Los Angeles nursing home. She becomes the focal point for... more

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (Hardcover)

RECOMMENDED BY DOLLY PARTON IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER A PBS BOOK PICK The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson this is a novel following Cussy... more

My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles 1920-1965 0226583015 (Paperback - Used)

In the 1920s thousands of white migrants settled in the Los Angeles suburb of South Gate. Six miles from downtown and adjacent to Watts South Gate and its neighboring communities served as L.A. s Detroit an industrial belt for mass production of... more

Pre-Owned Moon Over Montana (Montana Mavericks 54) (Mass Market Paperback) 0373362404

Linda Fioretti was a grown woman. She d left Los Angeles and a lousy marriage to make a new life for herself in Rumor Montana. And that meant discovering just who she had become over the years. An artist? A teacher? Or the kind of woman who fell in... more

The Sunset Crowd : A Novel (Hardcover)

For fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid and Kevin Kwan The Sunset Crowd follows an enigmatic young woman who ingratiates herself with a tight-knit group of glamorous global friends in 1977 Los Angeles and upends their lives as she chases the blinding lights... more

Pre-Owned Self-Defense (Mass Market Paperback) 0553840029 9780553840025

Dr. Alex Delaware doesn t see many private patients anymore but the young woman called Lucy is an exception. So is her dream. Lucy Lowell is referred to Alex by Los Angeles police detective Milo Sturgis. A juror at the agonizing trial of a serial... more

Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles Volume 13 (Paperback - Used) 0520248112 9780520248113

Los Angeles pulsed with economic vitality and demographic growth in the decades following World War II. This vividly detailed cultural history of L.A. from 1940 to 1970 traces the rise of a new suburban consciousness adopted by a generation of... more