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Photographs and text introduce the Los Angeles Lakers, and briefly describes the history of the professional basketball team, key players and personalities, victories and losses, their fans, and other topics.

After her mother dies, Josie becomes the force that holds her family together, but as she becomes aware of her father's dangerous hobbies and murderous friends, she realizes that her family is changing and there is nothing she can do about it.

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.

Philip Marlowe, a private detective in Los Angeles in the 1930s, takes a case involving a paralyzed California millionaire, two psychotic daughters, blackmail, and murder.

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

Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too, and he's certain he's on the right trail.

Private Investigator Quinn is invited by Alex Krapp, a Hollywood screenwriter, to help prove the existence of fifteen-year-old Danny Timpkins, an abuse survivor whose story is being adapted into a screenplay, while a "Vanity Fair" reporter sheds doubt on the story's veracity.

Stanley "Tookie" Williams, founder of the notorious L.A. gang the Crips, recounts his involvement with the gang, his experiences in prison, and his efforts to discourage others from following in his violent path.

The author recalls his experiences with Zamba, a young lion rescued from the Zambezi River in Zambia and brought to the U.S. for treatment, and describes how he raised the animal from a cub and worked with him in motion pictures.

Explores the dreams of realities of seven young African-American men who are struggling to find entry to the world of gangsta rap and hip hop music in Southcentral Los Angeles.