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Experience a year in Los Angeles County, in all its glitter and grit, through a unique anthology that pairs essays by acclaimed writers and historians with custom maps.

When many of us picture Los Angeles, we’re actually thinking of LA County. Home to roughly ten million people, the county alone is...

The first transcontinental railroads brought fashionable easterners to the American West. In the 1880s and 1890s they traveled in sumptuous “palace cars” and stayed at luxury hotels. Westerners with an eye on promotion turned to what they took to be their own traditions. After 1900 a wilder West...

Cold Canadian Crime takes us on a cross-country tour of murder, abduction, blackmail, and the many faces of retribution. We find ourselves dealing with family secrets and lies in present day Toronto, in a raging blizzard on a Quebec highway, pursuing a cold case with an amateur sleuth in Vancouver...

Terminal Island tells the story of a small island in the Los Angeles harbor and the communities that called it home.

“The book offers a rich record of that community and more. As is true of just about everything in Los Angeles, peeling back the layers of a place leads to unexpected discoveries.”—The...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...

Complex, fascinating, and fun … Kill All the Judges is a classic crime work, from an author heralded as one of Canada’s best, and with good reason.” — Shelf Life

Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Prize

Is someone systematically killing the judges called to the British Columbian bar? At least...

In Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation historian William Deverell tells the heartbreaking story of a girl trapped in a well—a story that transfixed the nation in what would become the first live TV spectacle.

Kathy Fiscus tells the story of the first live, breaking-news TV spectacle in...

Now in paperback!

Montreal journalist Lou Sabatino, under witness protection after nearly being gunned down by the Mafia, is sucked into the quirky world of a conniving Russian dominatrix who has secretly recorded herself putting the whip to the bare bottom of a high-ranking federal cabinet minister...

Arthur Ellis award–winning William Deverell’s 1983 bestseller

An extremist warlord is about to unleash the world’s deadliest shock troops. The Rotkommando — an army of expert terrorists, political fanatics, and psychotic killers — is armed with a failsafe masterplan. Codeword … Mecca.

Now the...