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Greenopia (The Urban Dweller's Guide To Green Living Los Angeles)

Greenopia (The Urban Dweller's Guide To Green Living Los Angeles)

This consumer guide is filled with more than 800 listings of green retailers, service providers, and organizations throughout Los Angeles. The businesses are divided into categories and have a minimum green requirement. Some the categories are further recognized with a "green leaf" award, which gauges green businesses on a scale of one to four leaves, four being the greenest. The award is based on a measure of a... (more)

No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel

No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel

by Janice Dickinson

Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights

by Susan Straight

As his friends embrace California's street life, Darnell Tucker, a young black firefighter and handyman, tries to support his fledgling family and keep himself honest, even while he finds himself drawn to the forces of destruction. Reprint.

How to talk dirty and influence people;: An autobiography

How to talk dirty and influence people;: An autobiography

by Lenny Bruce

Castigated in his time for breaching such American conversational taboos as religion, sex, censorship, and racism, Lenny Bruce proved to be a pioneer in exposing hypocrisies, the impact of which still echoes on both sides of censorship controversies. This book and soon-to-be-released private tapes are sure to bring the extent of Bruce's influence into sharp focus. Photo insert.

North of Montana

by April Smith

"POWERFUL...A PAGE-TURNER OF SUBSTANCE... When <F.B.I. agent> Ana Grey is given a high-profile case involving a Hollywood actress who claims that her doctor has hooked her on illegal drugs, Ana's own puzzling history collides with her investigation and she must face an uncomfortable truth about her family and herself." --People "COMPULSIVELY READABLE... A notably literate crime novel about all manner of... (more)

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

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

by Anne Thomas Soffee

This hilarious peek into the early years of the hair-band era reveals the hierarchy of fishnets, bustiers, and chicks with the Holy Grail—a backstage pass. After college, Anne Thomas Soffee journeyed to Los Angeles to start a career as a rock journalist and small-time heavy-metal flack. A taste for other people’s prescriptions and too much beer edges her freelance journalism work right off her schedule. She... (more)

The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show BusinessFrank Rose

The Agency: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business

by Frank Rose

The story of the William Morris Agency is the story of show business itself. Founded at the turn of the century, it stood as the premier agency in Hollywood for 80 years. Practically all the major names in the industry started in its mailroom. Then, in the last 10 years, it went from the most powerful agency in the movie business to an also-ran, even as it made megastars out of Mel Gibson, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts... (more)

Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World

by David Rieff

In "Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World," David Rieff looks at a city that was long the epitome of the American Dream and is now, for many, the emblem of the American urban nightmare. Writing before the riots of 1992, Rieff found not a city of dreams but a city of bitter contradictions. A city that, like the United States itself, was being transformed by immigrants and refugees from Latin America and East Asia... (more)

Sad Movies

by Mark Lindquist

Education of a Felon: A Memoir

by Edward Bunker

In Education of a Felon, the reigning champion of prison novelists finally tells his own story.The son of an alcoholic stagehand father and a Busby Berkley chorus girl, Bunker was--at seventeen--the youngest inmate ever in St. Quentin.His hard-won experiences on L.A.'s meanest streets and in and out of prison gave him the material to write some of the grittiest and most affecting novels of our time. From smoking a... (more)

When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence

When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent into Power and Influence

by Connie Bruck

In When Hollywood Had a King, the distinguished journalist Connie Bruck tells the sweeping story of MCA and its brilliant leader, a man who transformed the entertainment industry— businessman, politician, tactician, and visionary Lew Wasserman. The Music Corporation of America was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Dr. Jules Stein, an ophthalmologist with a gift for booking bands. Twelve years later, Stein moved... (more)

City of Angels

by Julie Jaskol

A gorgeous, informative look at one of this country's most fascinating and complex cities Here is Los Angeles in all its many forms and guises, beautifully illustrated by collage artist Elisa Kleven--a native of L.A.--and narrated by L.A. journalists Julie Jaskol and Brian Lewis. From Hollywood and the La Brea Tar Pits to Watts Towers and the Getty Museum, twenty sites of interest are explored in large,... (more)

Lightning Field: A Novel

by Dana Spiotta

The Los Angeles Dana Spiotta evokes in her bold and strangely lyrical first novel is a land of Spirit Gyms and Miracle Miles, a great centerless place where chains of reference get lost, or finally don't matter. Mina lives with her screenwriter husband and works at her best friend Lorene's highly successful concept restaurants, which exploit the often unconscious desires and idiosyncrasies of a rich, chic... (more)

Frommer's 2003 Los Angeles With Disneyland & Palm Springs (Frommer's)

Frommer's 2003 Los Angeles With Disneyland & Palm Springs (Frommer's)

by Matthew Richard Poole

This Pen For Hire: A Jaine Austen Mystery (Jaine Austen Mysteries)

This Pen For Hire: A Jaine Austen Mystery (Jaine Austen Mysteries)

by Laura Levine

Jaine Austen is a hip, jack-of-all-trades writer who spends her days penning steamy personal ads. No one needs her help more than geeky Howard Murdoch, whom Jaine successfully sets up on a date. All goes well until Valentine's Day, when Howard finds his new love has been bludgeoned to death.

Britney: The Unauthorized Biography of Britney Spears

Britney: The Unauthorized Biography of Britney Spears

by Sean Smith

Having amassed a fortune of over $100 million and record sales of forty million at the age of twenty-two, Britney Spears is the worlds biggest female star. This is the first biography to chronicle how the little girl, with a crucifix in each ear, has become the ultimate in tabloid fodder. Britney will follow her roller coaster life from her time on the Mickey Mouse Club, where she first met Justin Timberlake, to... (more)

What We Do Is Secret

by Kief Hillsbery

“Why am I a punk? Because I wasn’t anything before, except different. And now it’s like I’m different, but with a vengeance.” It’s been months since the suicide of Darby Crash, L.A. punk rock icon and lead singer of the Germs. He checked out on the same day John Lennon was shot: December 8, 1980. But for Rockets Redglare, it feels like yesterday. Darby was the hot-as-sun center of Rockets’s world. Part... (more)

Cold Shoulder

by Lynda LA Plante

Follows the disturbing tale of a down-on-her-luck Los Angeles Police Department officer and the serial killer who could save her career. By the author of Prime Suspect. Reprint. NYT. "

Southland

by Nina Revoyr

"<A>n absolutely compelling story of family and racial tragedy. Revoyr's novel is honest in detailing southern California's brutal history, and honorable in showing how families survived with love and tenacity and dignity." -- Susan Straight, author of Highwire Moon Southland brings us a fascinating story of race, love, murder and history, against the backdrop of an ever-changing Los Angeles. A young... (more)

Skin Deep

by Nora Roberts

The high price of fame meant learning to deal with obsessive fans. But this one was different. He was watching and waiting, and Chantwel O'Hurley was afraid. She needed help, and it came with a $500-a-day price tag--Quinn Doran, a P.I. with the kind of tough, go-to-hell looks that made a woman's pulse race. Chantel didn't need his arrogant insinuations. She needed to stay alive. Reissue.

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