Los Angeles

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 is many things....

I was twelve years old when I met him. I guess you could say opposites attract. We didn't know it then. Or, maybe we did, but we didn't care. It's not easy growing up in Los Angeles. Well, for me it was. But, not for him. I'm a Hollywood girl, born and raised in the business.

On December 6, 1993, a drug dealer called Scrappy is shot and left for dead outside her mother’s house in South Central Los Angeles. Augie, a heroin addict, witnesses the whole thing - before he steals all the drugs on her person as well as the gun that was dropped at the scene....

For years, Marianne Williamson has been offering weekly lectures based on A Course in Miracles. These lectures are profound, insightful, and compelling with an always-relevant message....

A string of murders involving women are making the residents of Los Angeles panic. They're calling the serial killer the "rabid wolf" because he tears his prey open by the throat....

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Booksbegan in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....

Are you for Christ or are you against him? You know you are either one or the other, for he says so. We learn in Matthew 12:30 in the words of Jesus himself: He that is not with me is against me....

Struggling actor Danny Kafka is about to see his dream come true—he’s been hired to play a key role in a big movie to be filmed in Chicago. But when Danny, a Medal of Honor war hero, arrives in the Windy City, he is immediately arrested for the murder of United States Senator Dana Shapiro. And the evidence against him is overwhelming....

Daily gunfights, daily murders, frequent public hangings. Welcome to Los Angeles, California in the 1850s. This amazing first-person account of adventures, revolution, history, and tales, Reminiscences of a Ranger, was written by Major Horace Bell, who was there when it happened....

A 30-year-old LAPD detective Fred McCallister was hoping to cruise quietly into retirement. Instead, he’s drawn into an investigation of a schizophrenic serial killer Jeffrey Dawson, who, as it turns out, only murders women who resemble his stepmother....

For years, Marianne Williamson has been offering weekly lectures based on A Course in Miracles. These lectures are profound, insightful, and compelling with an always-relevant message....

For years, Marianne Williamson has been offering weekly lectures based on A Course in Miracles. These lectures are profound, insightful, and compelling. BetterListen! is delighted to offer you the opportunity to partake in the wisdom of Marianne Williamson....

Ex-heiress Anna Blanc is precariously employed by the Los Angeles Police Department, reforming delinquent children and minding lady jailbirds. Badly. What she really wants is to trap criminals and be alone with the delicious Detective Joe Singer—both pursuits that could get her fired....

This third installment and the second volume of the groundbreaking Inside Metal series takes the listener on a journey into the evolution of thrash metal. The Rise of LA Thrash Metal explores the '80s metal counterculture with insight from the bands and artists that ruled the LA metal underground....

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them....

Do you want to try something new? Would you like some guidance from a local? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this Greater Than a Tourist book is for you. Greater Than A Tourist - Los Angeles, California by Moni Boyce offers the inside scoop on Los Angeles....

A nameless 15-year-old runs away to Los Angeles, seeking life beyond the harsh constraints of her evangelical upbringing....

At the tender age of 13, Darcy Preyer begins to question her belief system and the conventional Bible—believing adults who instilled it. Darcy’s mother, Lillie Preyer, marries Wilder Coles, a saintly man who knows all about the bible but not much about himself....

In post-NK3 Los Angeles, a 60-foot-tall fence surrounds the hills where the rich used to live, but the mansions have been taken over by those with the only power that matters: the power of memory....

For years, Marianne Williamson has been offering weekly lectures based on A Course in Miracles. These lectures are profound, insightful, and compelling. BetterListen! is delighted to offer you the opportunity to partake in the wisdom of Marianne Williamson....