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1741) The enchanters: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Los Angeles. August 4, 1962. The city broils through a mid-summer heat wave. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. The overhyped LAPD overreacts. Chief Bill Parker's looking for some getback. The Monroe deal looks like a moneymaker. He calls in Freddy Otash. The freewheeling Freddy O. Tainted ex-cop, defrocked private eye, dope fiend, and freelance extortionist. A man who lives by the maxim "Opportunity is Love." Freddy gets to work....
1742) Predator 2
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Predator is a savage alien, invisible and armed with advanced weapons. On this, his second visit to Earth, he lands in Los Angeles and begins a series of ghastly murders. It's up to a determined police lieutenant to learn what is going on, even when he is warned off by a mysterious government agent.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
v, 266 pages : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm
Description
In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos. Lauren Olamina, a preacher's daughter living in Los Angeles, is protected from danger by the walls of her gated community. However, in a night of fire and death, what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: a startling vision of human destiny . . . and the birth of a new faith.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
233 pages : color illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Description
Now a powerful graphic novel, this award-winning memoir is an honest and evocative account of a family's journey from Mexico to the fields of California as seen through the eyes of a boy who longs for education and the right to call one place home.
1745) The bell in the fog
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job...
1746) The Frisco Kid
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A Polish rabbi sets out to lead a synagogue in California and must make it through the Wild West to get there.
1747) Bagdad Cafe
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An off-beat comedy about a greasy spoon and a rusty gas pump in the Mojave desert, and mismatched characters who find paradise off the beaten track.
1749) Zombieland
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a world that has become overrun with zombies, two men must figure out how to survive. Wimpy Columbus is afraid of his own shadow, while Tallahassee is the biggest, baddest, gun-toting zombie-slayer who ever lived. When they meet two sisters, Wichita and Little Rock, the four strike out for an amusement park that is said to be zombie-free. This mismatched group will have to rely on each other to survive, which could be worse than surrendering to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12.5 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
Ia Moua enters the world at the bottom of the social order, both because she is part of the Hmong minority and because she is a daughter, not a son. When, at thirteen, she is promised in marriage to a man three times her age, it appears that Ia's future has been decided for her. But after brutal communist rule upends her life, this intrepid girl resolves to chart her own defiant path.
1751) To a God unknown
Author
Pub. Date
p2013
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (8 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Soon after Joseph Wayne follows his dead father's dream of starting a farm, he begins to believe his father's spirit occupies a massive tree on the property. But when the tree is destroyed and drought descends on the land, Joseph finds himself spiritually adrift.
1752) Love, Penelope
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Fifth-grader Penny writes a series of letters to her future sibling, including facts about their Oakland, California, home, questions about whether their moms will ever marry, and especially that he or she is loved.
1753) Donner dinner party
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
123 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Description
The Reed family struggles to survive the wagon train journey from Illinois to California as members of the ill-fated Donner Party.
1754) The Lincoln lawyer
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael 'Mick' Haller is a slick, charismatic Los Angeles criminal defense attorney who operates out of the back of his Lincoln Town Car. Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter-variety criminals, Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime. However, what initially appears to be a straightforward case with a big money payoff swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of conscience for Haller....
1755) The high desert
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The one silver lining--new school, new you, right? But the few Black kids at school seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of micro-aggressors to future Neo-Nazis. Mixed race, acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty,...
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