los angeles

Text and photographs look at some of the different players who have played for the Los Angeles Clippers.

"Follow along with our narrator as he passes through his busy neighborhood in search of the Paletero Man. But when he finally catches up with him, our narrator's pockets are empty. Oh no! What happened to his dinero? It will take the help of the community to get the tasty treat now"--Provided by publisher.

Private investigator Easy Rawlins is hired to find Elizabeth Eady, aka "Black Betty", who has left chaos and mayhem in her wake.

Paul is the top high school basketball player coming out of Los Angeles, but the pressure of leading his team through his senior season and choosing a college may be enough to break him.

Highlights the life and career of Chef Roy Choi who used his passion for his mother's Korean food to create a successful food truck business in Los Angeles that serves a remix of Korean and Mexican foods.

"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"-- Provided by publisher.

With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.

Growing up under the care of a loving aunt, an orphaned judo student with a mixed heritage reevaluates her perspectives on happy endings while searching for evidence proving that she is related to a famous rom-com celebrity.

A memoir in which the author, a writer of crime fiction, tells of his experiences after teaming up with a homicide detective in 1994 to finally unravel the mystery of his mother's murder in a Los Angeles suburb thirty-six years earlier.

Los Angeles homicide detective Alex Brandon, investigating the murder of a notorious drug dealer, soon comes to the realization that the killing was just the first in a rash of crimes committed against felons on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and that the deaths are somehow related to Kit Logan, a young man who murdered his stepfather--an abusive serial murderer.