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Second edition with a new essay on the late Mike Davis, legendary author of City of Quartz, a new essay on local history of time and space, and a teaching guide to help educators incorporate the book into their curriculum.The poems and essays in Letters to My City combine two decades of field experience, research, personal observations, and stories told to the author, Mike Sonksen, a third-generation Los Angeles native, by his grandfather and other family members, to interrogate all sides of Los Angeles, its streets, its people, its neighborhoods, as a means to examine the postmodern metropolis.

Da Genevieve skal hjem til Avalon Bay, beslutter hun på forhånd at holde sig langt væk fra sin ekskæreste, Evan. Deres forhold var turbulent og dramatisk – og hvis hun for alvor gerne vil starte på en frisk, må det være uden ham.I så lille en by er det dog umuligt at undgå hinanden, og da de står ansigt til ansigt, er det klart, at Evan er lige så uimodståelig som altid. Men Genevieve er fast besluttet: ikke flere fester. Ikke flere hovedløse handlinger. Ikke mere flirten med Evan.Evan, derimod, har andre planer. Men Genevieve opfatter ham som uforbederlig. Så hvordan kan han overbevise hende om, at han faktisk har forandret sig, og at det skal være de to igen?Sej pige-problemet er anden bog i den sexede og sjove Avalon Bay-serie af bestsellerforfatteren bag Off-campus-serien.Pressen skriver:”Kennedy løfter bad boy/bad girl-tropen til et nyt niveau … Den helt rigtige balance mellem dybtfølt og sexet. En dampende hed fortælling om at give den første kærlighed en chance til.” – Kirkus Reviews”Kennedys anden bog i Avalon Bay-serien, Sej pige-problemet, er skøn læsning til seriens fans eller som fritstående bog.” – Library Journal”Parrets åbenlyse tiltrækning og mærkbare kemi lyser ud af bogens sider. Parrets skal/skal ikke giver bogen en skøn balance mellem livslektioner og sitrende sexscener.” – Publishers Weekly

Dix Steele is back in town, and 'town' is post-war LA. His best friend Brub is on the force of the LAPD, and as the two meet in country clubs and beach bars, they discuss the latest case: a strangler is preying on young women in the dark. Dix listens with interest as Brub describes their top suspect, as yet unnamed. Dix loves the dark and women in equal measure, so he knows enough to watch his step, though when he meets the luscious Laurel Gray, something begins to crack. The American Dream is showing its seamy underside.

'A triumph... tender and gut-wrenching, honest and riveting. A book of astonishing accomplishment and bravery' Guardian A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break one Iranian-American familyThree young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an ancestral home they barely recognize. They return to the Valley months later, spit back into American life and changed in inexorable ways.Under the dazzling light of the California sun, our protagonist, the youngest brother, begins to piece together a childhood shattered by his father's violence, a queer adolescence marked by a shy, secret love affair with a boy he meets on the basketball court, and his ever-changing status as a Muslim in America at the turn of the new millennium.Lyrical and open-hearted, I WILL GREET THE SUN AGAIN is an unforgettable portrait of a family being torn apart, and a boy emerging from its ashes.'Exquisite, heart-breaking, incredibly beautiful. The whole narrative thrums with a bright, warm longing' Caleb Azumah Nelson, award-winning, bestselling author of OPEN WATER and SMALL WORLDS'This is a book I've dreamt of reading my whole life... I am jealous of the generation of people who will grow up in a world with I Will Greet the Sun Again in it. I will be thinking about these characters for the rest of my life' Kaveh Akbar, author of MARTYR! 'Life-affirming... Khabushani is a talented writer' Sunday Times'This is a novel of survival and longing and love, and in many ways a modern portrait of an artist as a young man. It is now one of my favourite books' Washington Post'A heartbreaking debut' New York Times

'Such a charming read' CURTIS SITTENFELD'Smart, fresh and romantic . . . I loved this book with my whole heart' BETH O'LEARY'Absolutely irresistible - funny, addictive and deliciously romantic' ROSIE WALSH*****Nora's life is about to get a rewrite . . .Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than anyone. As a romance channel screenwriter, it's her job. But when her husband leaves her and their two kids, Nora turns the collapse of her marriage into the best script of her life. When it's picked up for the big screen and set to film on location at her picturesque Hudson Valley home, Nora's life will never be the same - especially after world-famous Hollywood actor and former 'Sexiest Man Alive' Leo Vance is cast as her ex-husband.The morning after the crew leaves, Nora finds Leo on her porch with a half-empty bottle of tequila and a proposition. He'll pay a thousand dollars a day to stay for an extra week. Seven days: it's the blink of an eye or an eternity, depending on how you look at it. It's enough time to fall in love. Enough time to break your heart . . .Filled with warmth, wit, and wisdom, Nora Goes Off Script is the best kind of love story - the real kind where love is complicated by work, kids, and the emotional baggage that comes with life. For Nora and Leo, this kind of love is bigger than the big screen.*****Readers love Nora Goes Off Script!'You will want to read this in one sitting! Gorgeous!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review'A perfect beach read'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review'A five-star rom com!'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review'This book will have you laughing one minute and shedding a tear the next'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review'A lovely treat of a read'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review

Dette er historien om to kinesiske søstres skæbne og drømmen om Amerika.Den 21-årige Pearl og hendes yngre søster May lever et ubekymret liv i 1930’ernes Shanghai – Asiens Paris. De har tilegnet sig en vestlig moderne livsstil, hvor det er slut med indsnørede fødder. Men selv om pigerne lever et frit liv, er Kina stadig et patriarkalsk samfund.tDa faren mister sin rickshaw forretning pga. spillegæld, er det slut med det sorgløse liv. For at kunne indfri spillegælden "sælges" pigerne til ægteskab med tilsyneladende velstående kinesiske udvandrere i Los Angeles, men snart falder de japanske bomber over Shanghai, og alt er kaos. Søstrene og deres mor begiver sig ud på de støvede landeveje på flugt fra ægteskab og undertrykkelse, men kun for at møde en værre skæbne. Søstrene beslutter sig til sidst for at rejse til Amerika over til ægtemændene. Men vel ankommet til Angel Island – San Franciscos modtagelsessted for immigranter – venter nye prøvelser. Da søstrene endelig genforenes med deres mænd og svigerfamilie i filmbyen, er skuffelsen stor. Pigerne må kæmpe for deres plads i familien, arbejde hårdt i byens Chinatown og samtidig stå imod diskriminationen, der hersker uden for hjemmets fire vægge. Anden Verdenskrig, angrebet mod Pearl Harbor og den amerikanske modstand mod det kommunistiske styre i Kina gør ikke livet nemmere for de kinesiske immigranter i USA.Lisa See har skrevet en velresearchet historisk roman, hvor hun endnu en gang formår at omskrive fakta til en interessant fortælling om søskendekærlighed og familieskæbner."Historiske fakta og en gribende historie går op i en højere enhed i denne roman om to kinesiske søstres flugt fra Shanghai og deres møde med USA." - Litteratursidenidden /title /head body center h1 403 Forbidden /h1 /center /body /htmlLisa See er opvokset i Chinatown i Los Angeles sammen med sin store kinesiske indvandrerfamilie, og det kinesiske tema går igen i alle hendes bøger. På dansk er tidligere udkommet "Sneblomst og den hemmelige vifte" (2006) og "Pæonpavillonen" (2009).

The Fire of Heaven presents the work of world-renowned artist Enrique Martínez Celaya in conversation with the life and work of the influential twentieth-century California poet Robinson Jeffers. Despite existing in different lifetimes, Jeffers's approach to life as art and his reverence for the natural beauty of the California coastline inextricably link the uncompromising poet to Martínez Celaya. The artist's multi-faceted practice explores the map of a territory shaped by self, memory, ideations of home, exile, myth, and identity. His practice presumes art should be an ethical effort that aims to understand better and engage with the world and ourselves. Beyond these threads of commonality, Martínez Celaya draws directly from Jeffers's writings, such as the 1928 poem The Summit Redwood, which serves as the exhibition's namesake and describes "the fire from heaven" as a force untamed and ignited at whim. Martínez Celaya's work created during his stay at the poet's landmark home in Carmel-by-the-Sea is complemented by Jeffers's handwritten poems, notes, and photographs.ENRIQUE MARTINEZ CELAYA (*1964) was born in Cuba and raised in Spain and Puerto Rico. He has realized exhibitions, interventions, and social and intellectual interactions worldwide with major museums, galleries, and institutions, including the Berliner Philharmonie, The State Hermitage Museum, and The Phillips Collection. A painter, sculptor, and writer, he lives in Los Angeles.

The square cloud, the portable tornado, and the Pirate are captured by a bungling psychotic cult. This is L.A. radio personality Earl Trout's hilarious transition to print. Includes a preview of "My First Three Years as an Idiot"

Taliban Beach Party dances with the muse of history on the streets of Los Angeles, leaping from parody to prophecy.

Jack Till, who has retired from the LAPD after a respected career as a homicide detective, now works as a private investigator, comfortable chasing down routine cases while visiting his 24-year-old daughter, Holly, who has Down Syndrome. But when the parents of a recently murdered young girl, about Holly's age, ask for his help when the police come up empty, Till reluctantly takes the case.It was discovered after her death that the victim had been working as a high-class prostitute, and the police are content to assume she was killed by a client, common in such a dangerous line of work. Yet as Till digs deeper, he realizes that the victim is just one of several young female escorts killed in different cities in the exact same way – all had strawberry blonde hair, and all were shot with a 9mm handgun in the sanctity of their apartments.Till must find his way around the tawdry and secretive online escort business, and decode ads placed by young women who all use false names, sometimes advertise using other women's pictures, and move from city to city every few months. Yet when Till is finally able to catch up with the killer, he finds that the man he's after is far more dangerous and volatile than he ever could have imagined. As the body count rises, Till must risk his life to find this seductive and ruthless killer whose murderous spree masks a far deadlier agenda.

A mirthful novella about a whimsical, hapless young Brooklyn writer who moves to Los Angeles to write for the movies.

This suburban California coming of age navigates Trinidad's personal history in the shadow of Hollywood, against the dramas of the 1960s and '70s.

Nogle siger, at enhver rejse begynder med det første skridt … Den her begynder med en kæmpe bommert.Efter en fatal 30-års fødselsdag med for mange kedelige kærestepar, stærke shots og upassende sms’er til chefen, beslutter Alice, at der skal ske noget. Hun skal væk fra sit kedelige liv og opleve mere af verden på bedste Spis bed elsk-manér.Alice rejser afsted med målet om at realisere sig selv og møde en fyr eller to på vejen. Bevæbnet med en veludviklet forestillingsevne forvandler hun selv de dårligste dates til en #blessed-oplevelse på rejsebloggen.Men Alice må indse, at selvom hun rejser halvvejs rundt om kloden, så følger hendes problemer med, og uanset hvor stor afstand hun lægger mellem sig selv og det, hun helst vil glemme, så er nogle ting umulige at løbe fra. Hvis svarene hverken findes hjemme i London, i det glamourøse LA eller på en strand i Thailand, hvor kan de så være gemt?

((Please scroll down for english version))Tausende Kilometer mit dem Auto und der Kamera durch Los Angeles - Traum oder Albtraum? In seinem seit 2010 entstandenen Langzeitprojekt L.A. CROSSING zeigt uns Jens Liebchen die Hauptstadt der bedingungslosen Mobilität so, wie sie von den meisten ihrer Bewohner bevorzugt wahrgenommen wird: durch die Fenster ihrer Autos. Aus dem fahrenden Auto heraus blickt Liebchen auf eine Stadt die die Gegensätze von Utopie und Dystopie in sich vereint. Dabei klingt L.A. Crossing selbst wie der Titel eines Films und so wird die Strasse zur Bühne und die Fotografie zu einer Art Standbild. In das betörende kalifornisches Licht getaucht erscheint die Stadt dabei als fiktiv und real zugleich. Eine Ikone der Fotokunst, Stephen Shores Bild »La Brea/Beverly« dient als theoretischer Aufhänger Liebchens Arbeit. Ausgehend vom »La Brea Matrix Projekt«, in dessen Zentrum besagtes Foto stand, hat Liebchen den Blick umgekehrt und blickt nun von der Strasse zurück auf die Stadt. Weder hält er an, wie Lee Friedlander (in »America by Car«), noch ordnet er sich einer strengen Systematik unter, wie Ed Ruscha (in »Every Building on the Sunset Strip«). Liebchen fährt und fährt und fährt. Aus der privilegierten und klimatisierten Perspektive des Fahrersitzes offenbaren sich dabei Licht- und Schattenseiten der Traumfabrik. Großes Kino.Jens Liebchen (*1970) arbeitet seit seinem Studium der Ethnologie als freiberuflicher Fotograf. Seine Arbeiten und wurden weltweit ausgestellt und befinden sich unter anderem in der Sammlung der DZ BANK Kunstsammlung in Frankfurt a.M. und des Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Liebchen lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. Er wird von der Galerie Springer vertreten.Thousands of kilometers by car and camera through Los Angeles - dream or nightmare? In his long-term project L.A. CROSSING, which has been in the making since 2010, Jens Liebchen shows us the capital of unconditional automotive mobility like most of its inhabitants prefer to look at it: through the windows of their cars. Out of the moving car, Liebchen looks at a city that embodies the opposites of utopia and dystopia. L.A. Crossing itself sounds like the title of a movie, accordingly the street becomes a stage and the photography becomes a kind of still image. Bathed in the beguiling Californian light, the city appears fictitious and real at the same time. An icon of photographic art, Stephen Shore's image »La Brea/Beverly« serves as a theoretical starting point for Liebchen's work. Beginning with the »La Brea Matrix Project«, which was centered around said photo, Liebchen has reversed the common view and now looks back from the street to the city. Neither does he stop, like Lee Friedlander (in "America by Car"), nor does follow a strict gird like Ed Ruscha (in "Every Building on the Sunset Strip"). Liebchen drives and drives and drives. From the privileged and air-conditioned perspective of the driver's seat, the City of Angels lights and shadows are revealed.Jens Liebchen (*1970) has been working as a freelance photographer since his studies of ethnology. His works and have been exhibited worldwide and can be found, among others, in the collection of the DZ BANK Kunstsammlung in Frankfurt a.M. and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Liebchen lives and works in Berlin. He is represented by Springer Gallery.

In this illustrated early chapter book, Jolene travels with her long-haul trucker father to Los Angeles.

Acclaimed journalist Sullivan delivers an explosive investigation into the murder of the Notorious B.I.G., with exclusive material from the FBI investigation and his estate's wrongful death suit against the City of Los Angeles.