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Literary L.A.: Expanded from the Original Classic and Featuring the Coffeehouse Scene Then and Now by Lionel Rolfe Publisher Comments Literary L.A. — the book and the city — is a rich blend of diverse strands and contrasting textures. Those who helped to weave this literary tapestry were — like many who wound up being representative of Los Angeles — often... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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City of Quartz (06 Edition) by Mike Davis Publisher Comments No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels by Paul Young Publisher Comments Every city has its urban legends, its tall tales, and even its outright lies, and Hollywood and Los Angeles have enough to fill a book--and Paul Young has done just that. L.A. Exposed includes the facts behind the myths surrounding everything from the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Commie Girl in the Oc (08 Edition) by Schoenkopf Publisher Comments From her operational-base-cum-family-home, Commie Girl brings you this brave and brilliant journal of daily life in a land where no liberal-humanist sentiment has been detected since the dawn of Reaganism. Whether working her way through a syphilis scare... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Los Angeles by Jackie Collins Publisher Comments "With more than 200 full-color photographs, this book conveys an L.A. that is vibrant and alive." --Country Inns "Visalli's strength lies not only in his ability to put a fresh look on familiar landscapes, but in his ability to capture the vibrant... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels by Paul Young Publisher Comments Every city has its urban legends, its tall tales, and even its outright lies, and Hollywood and Los Angeles have enough to fill a book--and Paul Young has done just that. L.A. Exposed includes the facts behind the myths surrounding everything from the... (read more) Your price: $6.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Los Angeles: Where Anything Is Possible by Larry Brownstein Publisher Comments A photographic exploration of Los Angeles depicting the avant-garde, creative capital of the world and all its zany energy. Presents well-known landmarks as well as hidden treasures. Includes pictures of downtown, Venice Beach, amusement parks, parades... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Picturing Los Angeles by Jon Wilkman Publisher Comments PICTURING LOS ANGELES ILLUSTRATES THE CREATION, evolution, and ever-changing face of Los Angeles. Through stunning photography, the city's intriguing, important, and unexpectedly influential past is revealed. These images function like frames from a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ethnic Los Angeles by Roger David Waldinger Publisher Comments Ethnic Los Angeles presents a multi-investigator study of Los Angeles's immigrant population. Using U.S. census data for the past three decades, essays on each of L.A.'s major ethnic groups tell us where these new Americans live and work, why they came... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $25.44 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Los Angeles and the Automobile by Scott L. Bottles Publisher Comments More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history.... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $28.36 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Unreal Estate: Money, Ambition, and the Lust for Land in Los Angeles by Michael Gross Publisher Comments Michael Gross is the preeminent chronicler of America’s rich and powerful, most recently in 740 Park and Rogues’ Gallery.Now, he goes west to uncover the very secret history of Los Angeles, specifically those wealthiest and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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A Year in Van Nuys by Sandra Tsing Loh Publisher Comments It’s no Provence . . . “Screamingly funny . . . enormously quick-witted . . . a delight.” -- USA Today “Smart and sardonic.” -- The New York Times Book Review “Loh writes movingly.” -- Los Angeles Times Book... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Paradise Promoted: The Booster Campaign That Created Los Angeles, 1870-1930 by Anna Sklar Synopsis The complex and often alarming history of the Los Angeles city sewer system is captured for the first time in Anna Sklar's Brown Acres: An Intimate History of the Los Angeles Sewers. With more than fifty photographs, diagrams and maps, Brown Acres is the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City by John Buntin Publisher Comments Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends. 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 stars, protected by the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rio L.A.: Tales from the Los Angeles River by Patt Morrison Publisher Comments Great cities have grown up because of their great rivers. Los Angeles grew up and disregarded hers.Still, the Los Angeles River is a dramatic waterway that rages with all the drama of life in its city. Once, the river meant life and death to those who... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Los Angeles 1939 . . . Street People and Friend by William Carroll Publisher Comments People and places of Los Angeles are shown at their best in this pictorial retrospective from historic files of photographer William Carroll. The street preacher precedes a Salvation Army band playing on Spring Street and the slightly mad street musician... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $17.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Sins of the City: The Real Los Angeles Noir by Jim Heimann Publisher Comments Los Angeles is recognized as much for its history of civic corruption, criminal excess, and common degeneracy as for its glamorous facade. From the days after the First World War to the dawn of the Cold War era, the transition from coarse rural outpost... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City by John Buntin Publisher Comments Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends. 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 stars, protected by the... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Los Angeles A to Z by Leonard Pitt Publisher Comments Few cities captivate the imagination as does Los Angeles. It is the locus of spectaculars: movies, earthquakes, freeways, riots, sunsets. In this fascinating desk reference, Leonard and Dale Pitt have gathered a sweeping array of information on the City... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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