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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

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Spring Street; a Story of Los Angeles / Richardson James Hugh (1922) (1922) [Leather Bound]

Leatherbound edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Reprinted from 1922 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

Pre-Owned Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories (Paperback 9780060084615) by Dorothy L Sayers James Sandoe

9780060084615. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 816. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 816 p. All of the short stories by one of the greatest mystery story writers ( Los Angeles Times ) is collected for the first... more

Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories (Paperback) by Dorothy L Sayers James Sandoe

9780060084615. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 816. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 816 p. All of the short stories by one of the greatest mystery story writers ( Los Angeles Times ) is collected for the first time in one... more

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 Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories (Paperback) 0982338295 9780982338292

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD PEN/MALAMUD AWARD NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST THE STORY PRIZE FINALIST LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FINALIST In this sumptuous offering one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction... 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

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories (Paperback)

Available in one volume all the short stories by legendary Golden Age mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers one of the greatest mystery-story writers of the [twentieth] century. (Los Angeles Times) A sure treat for Dorothy L. Sayers s legions of fans The... more

Year of the Hare / N M C a Th (Paperback)

A collection of short non-fiction stories and poems by Teresa Mei Chuc in English with Vietnamese translations. A dual-language edition: English and Vietnamese. Joyful to heart-wrenching. Short non-fiction stories about moving to Los Angeles from... more

Year of the Hare Paperback 0985315156 9780985315153 Teresa Mei Chuc

Joyful to heart-wrenching. Short non-fiction stories about moving to Los Angeles from Vietnam and a dream-like childhood that s turned into a nightmare when the author s father returns to the family after spending years in a re-education camp. It s a... more

Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Whose Body? (Paperback)

From Dorothy L. Sayers one of the greatest mystery story writers of the [twentieth] century (Los Angeles Times) the first mystery featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. A corpse has been found in the bath of an architect s flat wearing nothing but a pair of... more

Pre-Owned On the Case with Lord Peter Wimsey : Three Complete Novels 9780517072431

She s one of the greatest mystery story writers of this century says the Los Angeles Times and one of the bestselling too Three outstanding detective novels featuring the deft and debonair Lord Peter Wimsey and the inimitable Harriet Vane: Strong... more

Pre-Owned Dorothy L. Sayers : On the Case with Lord Peter Wimsey: Three Complete Novels

She s one of the greatest mystery story writers of this century says the Los Angeles Times and one of the bestselling too! Three outstanding detective novels featuring the deft and debonair Lord Peter Wimsey and the inimitable Harriet Vane: Strong... more

Pre-Owned Sins of the Father: The Landmark Franklin Case - a Daughter Memory and Murder

Haunting and heroic...SINS OF THE FATHER sets itself apart from other true-crime thrillers....A story of the paraylyzing power of memories. LOS ANGELES TIMES On a lovely fall day in 1969 a peaceful middle-class suburb Eileen Franklin s father raped and... more

When It Happens to You : A Novel in Stories

Ringwald mines the complexities of modern relationships in this gripping and nuanced collection of interlinked stories. Writing with a deep compassion for human imperfection Ringwald follows a Los Angeles family while they negotiate the hazardous... more

Pre-Owned To Cut a Long Story Short (Hardcover 9780060185527) by Jeffrey Archer

9780060185527. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 272. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 272 p. One of the top ten storytellers in the world ( Los Angeles Times ) offers his first collection of all-new... more

Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories on Love (Paperback)

Ivan Klima has been called a Czech genius by the Los Angeles Times Book Review. In these stories spanning his long career from the 1960s to the present he gives us a gallery of people searching in love for escape: factory girls on their day off and... more

Pre-Owned Madmen s Ball: The Inside Story of the Lakers Dysfunctional Dynasties (Paperback 9781572438668) by Mark Heisler Jerry West

9781572438668. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 275. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 275 p. The Los Angeles Lakers three championship dynasty teams--the Jerry West-led teams of the 1960s Magic Johnson-led teams... more

Pre-Owned Make Me (with Bonus Short Story Small Wars): A Jack Reacher Novel (Mass Market Paperback) 0804178798 9780804178792

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Don t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Los Angeles Times The Guardian Suspense magazine - Stephen King calls Jack Reacher the coolest continuing series character --and now he s... more

Raoul Sonny Balcaen: My Exciting True-Life Story in Motor Racing from Top-Fuel Drag-Racing Pioneer to Jim Hall Reventlow Scarab Carroll Shelby and Beyond (Hardcover)

Raoul Sonny Balcaen grew up in Los Angeles at a time when it became the epicentre of American motor racing nurturing a vast talent pool of people whose influence has echoed through to today. As a teenager he successfully competed with his home-built... more

Pre-Owned Hurricane Season: The Unforgettable Story of the 2017 Houston Astros and the Resilience of (Hardcover 9780316485241) by Joe Holley

9780316485241. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 272. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. Contains: Unspecified. On November 1 2017 the Houston Astros defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in an epic seven game battle to... more

You Are Not a Stranger Here (Paperback)

Nine stories of surpassing maturity poise and intelligence that dramatize sometimes harrowing psychological situations with astonishing emotional effect. Nine stories make up Haslett s first collection. They are set in Los Angeles the Midwest New... more

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell : A Novel (Paperback)

Anything we take for granted Mr. Everett means to show us may turn out to be a lie. --Wall Street Journal * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction * A story inside a story inside a story. A man... more

Pre-Owned The Onion Field (Mass Market Paperback) 0440173507 9780440173502

This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field. more

Pre-Owned The Last Good Season: Brooklyn the Dodgers and Their Final Pennant Race Together (Hardcover) 0385501528 9780385501521

In the bestselling tradition ofThe Boys of SummerandWait Til Next Year The Last Good Seasonis the poignant and dramatic story of the Brooklyn Dodgers last pennant and the forces that led to their heartbreaking departure to Los Angeles. The 1956... more

Pre-Owned Stones from the River (Oprah s Book Club) Paperback

Pre-Owned - From the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother s Palm and Children and Fire a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times--epic daring magnificent the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision (Los Angeles... more

Pre-Owned The Burning Girl : A Novel 9780393635027

A New York Times BestsellerA Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistA bracing hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor s Children. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or... more

Pre-Owned The Amityville Horror (Mass Market Paperback) 0553116606 9780553116601

A fascinating and frightening book ( Los Angeles Times )--the bestselling true story about a house possessed by evil spirits haunted by psychic phenomena almost too terrible to describe. In December 1975 the Lutz family moved into their new home on... more

Underground Zealot (Hardcover): Silenced : The Wrath of God Descends (Series #2) (Hardcover)

The story of double agent Paul Stepola continues as he works to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate them. The underground church is in mortal peril following the apocalyptic events in Los Angeles which only... more

Life of Pi (Paperback)

NOW ON BROADWAY The international bestseller and modern classic of adventure survival and the power of storytelling is now an award-winning play. A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction. --Los Angeles Times Book Review After... more

Pre-Owned Mr. Penumbra s 24-Hour Bookstore (10th Anniversary Edition) (Paperback) 1250870291 9781250870292

The 10th Anniversary Edition of Robin Sloan s New York Times bestseller Mr. Penumbra s 24-Hour Bookstore with a new foreword by Paul Yamazaki and featuring the story Ajax Penumbra 1969. A winner of the Alex Award and a finalist for the Los Angeles... more

East Into Upper East : Plain Tales from New York and New Delhi (Paperback)

Hailed as one of the best books of 1998 by the Los Angeles Times this group of twelve short stories was written over the past twenty years. From the steamy streets of New Delhi to New York s tony Upper East Side Jhabvala s characters grapple with the... more

The Great Gatsby (LARGE PRINT) (Paperback)

*LARGE PRINT EDITION* Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder . . . A revelation of life . . . A work of art. --Los Angeles Times Set in during the Roaring Twenties this masterful story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is told through the eyes of Nick... more

Septuagenarian Stew (Paperback)

The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles. --Joyce Carol Oates bestselling author He brought everybody down to earth even the angels. --Leonard Cohen songwriter Septuagenarian Stew is a combination of poetry and stories written by Charles Bukowski that delve... more

Pre-Owned The Lady in the Lake (Mass Market Paperback) 0345022041 9780345022042

Crime fiction master Raymond Chandler s fourth novel featuring Philip Marlowe the quintessential urban private eye ( Los Angeles Times ). In The Lady in the Lake hardboiled crime fiction master Raymond Chandler brings us the story of a couple of... more

The Distant Land of My Father. Bo Caldwell (Paperback)

Anna Schoene s father Joseph had been a millionaire in 1930s Shanghai. The Japanese invasion had separated him from his family. Anna grows up in Los Angeles and over the years begins to learn the real story of her father. more

Gilded Mountain : A Novel (Hardcover)

Immersive...awe-inspiring. --The New York Times An epic story of love hope and perseverance. -- #1 New York Times bestselling author Christina Baker Kline This stellar read (Los Angeles Times) is an exhilarating tale of an unforgettable young woman who... 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 leave... more