The literary image of Los Angeles has evolved since the 1880s from promotional literature that hyped the region as a New Eden to contemporary visions of the city as a perplexing, sometimes corrupt, even apocalyptic place that reflects all that is wrong with America. In Imagining Los Angeles, the first literary history of the city in more than fifty years, critic David Fine traces the history and mood of the place through the work of writers as diverse as Helen Hunt Jackson, Mary Austin, Norman Mailer, Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Carolyn See, and many others. His lively and engaging text focuses on the way these writers saw Los Angeles and used the image of the city as an element in their work, and on how that image has changed as the city itself became ever larger, more complex, and more socially and ethnically diverse. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the literature and changing image of Southern California.

Imagining Los Angeles: A City In Fiction (Western Literature and Fiction Series)

Literature & Fiction

Fine, David

United States

University of Nevada Press

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Business & Money

Wilder, Claudyne

Management & Leadership

Pfeiffer

The McKinsey Global Institute has compiled a comprehensive picture of Africa's employment landscape. This research includes quantitative analysis of available national employment data, a survey of more than 1,300 companies in five African countries, and interviews with dozens of business leaders and policy makers.

Africa at work: Job creation and inclusive growth

Leke, Acha

Lund, Susan

Global Institute, McKinsey

Roxburgh, Charles

van Wamelen, Arend

Cabral, Armando

Taoufiki, Mourad

Dorr, Norbert

Schubert, Jorg

Economics

McKinsey Global Institute

Aggie Boyle, a soon-to-be teenager, is going through the misery of being an unpopular and not-so-attractive girl in middle school. Her mother ignores her, and all she has left of her dead father is a ring with an unusual symbol on it. After another miserable day of school, Aggie falls asleep, feeling completely lost and alone. She awakens the next morning to an unexpected transformation and begins an adventure that leads her to a colonial village with surprising inhabitants. With the help of new friends, she must discover her own magical origins and rely on her inner strength and courage to find a way to save an entire town from evil before it is destroyed by magic. This is the first book in the Aggie Boyle series.

Aggie Boyle and The Lost Beauty

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Write Way Publishing Company, LLC

"Who am I?" is the question keeping Aggie Boyle up at night. On the surface, she's a seventh grader from a town near Salem where her family has lived for centuries. At school, she's an outcast because of her unconventional appearance, and has difficulties making new friends since her best friend disappeared three years prior. At home, her mother treats her with icy disregard for reasons Aggie doesn't understand, while all she has left of her father is his ring emblazoned with a strange design. With the horizons of her life shrinking, Aggie feels more lost and alone than ever. Until one day, she awakens to an unexpected transformation and begins an adventure that leads her to a colonial village with surprising inhabitants. With the help of some new friends, Aggie must discover her own magical origins, as well as her own destiny as a witch. If she can't find the inner strength and courage to save the town, it--and she--will be destroyed by a magic as ancient as it is evil.

Aggie Boyle & the Lost Beauty

Wisdom House Books

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