Cultural Region/Southern California
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City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles
$24.95 Add to cartA vivid history of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform Los Angeles
When Walter O’Malley moved his Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 with plans to construct a- Author: Podair, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192790
- Language: English
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American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods
$18.99 Add to cartThe mystery of Chinatown as foreign yet familiar has been long established in the American imagination. Visitors come to expect this, looking for “something different” in its narrow lanes and fish mar… [more below]
- Author: Tsui, Bonnie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 15 2010
- ISBN10: 1416557245
- Language: English
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Early Warner Bros. Studios
$24.99 Read moreSince 1928, Warner Bros. has produced thousands of beloved films and television shows at the studio’s magical 110-acre film factory in Burbank. This collection of evocative images concentrates on the … [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Stephens, E. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0738580910
- Language: English
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Hollywoodland
$24.99 Read moreEstablished by real estate developers Tracy E. Shoults and S. H. Woodruff in 1923, Hollywoodland was one of the first hillside developments built in Hollywood. Touting its class and sophistication, th… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Mallory, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0738574783
- Language: English
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
$18.99 Read more“Excellent social history…an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism, joy and terror Los- Author: McKeen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1641605715
- Language: English
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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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Murder Over a Girl
$22.00 Add to cartIn February 2008, during first period English class at a junior high school in Oxnard, California, blue-eyed and blond fourteen-year-old Brandon McInerney shot and killed fifteen-year-old Larry King,
- Author: Corbett, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118158
- 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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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
$40.99 Add to cartLos 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 Read moreIn 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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Knott’s Berry Farm: The Early Years
$31.99 Add to cartBefore there was a Disneyland, there was Knott’s Berry Farm. What started out in the early 1920s as a small, roadside berry stand in Buena Park, California, grew over the next 60 years into one of the… [more below]
- Author: Jennings, Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: August 12 2009
- ISBN10: 1531645542
- 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 Read moreNew 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 Add to cartA 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
