los angeles (calif.)

In Los Angeles, California's China City in 1942, twelve-year-old Mei Ling Lee helps her parents in their restaurant during the Moon Festival celebration, raises money for women and children refugees in China, and worries about her Japanese American friend, whose family was relocated to Manzanar.

Explores the grace and beauty of the Hollywood film by means of recorded interviews with the directors, writers, cinematographers, set designers, producers, and actors who were part of the studio process.

When Harry Bosch investigates the apparent suicide of a narcotics officer, he finds a string of corrupt cops linked to several murders and a drug dealing operation deep in Mexico.

Attorney Mickey Haller, tapped to take over when his former colleague Jerry Vincent is murdered while in the middle of defending Hollywood producer Walter Elliot against a charge of killing his wife and her lover, scrambles to prepare a case while also working with LAPD detective Harry Bosch to find Vincent's killer who has apparently targeted Haller as his next victim.

Los Angeles police officer Jack McGarvey, badly wounded in a shoot-out, decides to move his family to a Montana ranch that has been willed to him by the father of his former partner, only to have his son Toby become the target of the Givers, creatures from another dimension who want control of the child for their own evil purposes.

A biography of rapper Notorious B. I. G., born Christopher Wallace and also known as Biggie Smalls, that focuses on his shooting death and several theories about who killed him.

Examines Los Angeles's modern graffiti movement, presenting photos of the art, discussing styles, and interviewing several artists; and includes a CD-ROM containing audio interviews and over two hundred extra photos.

Chloe Parker's high-society life of star-studded parties, publicity, and drugs takes an unexpected turn when her long-lost birth father suddenly shows up.

An African-American woman is forced to choose between commitment to a white friend and loyalty to a person of her own race.

A Hollywood animal trainer recounts his adoption of a four-month-old African lion cub as part of a plan to institute more humane training practices, describing how his nurture-based program helped him forge a loving bond with the great cat and enabled better standards of care for performance animals.