What better place than Los Angeles to satisfy your insatiable thirst? From Downtown to Santa Monica, Pasadena to Long Beach, Thirsty? Los Angeles is designed to guide you through the wide range of drinkeries of LA. Organized and cross-referenced by neighborhood, Thirsty takes you around town and shows you where to go. For the adventurous visitor looking for authentic and beloved places to drink, or the local who wants to get to know their city a little bit better, Thirsty? LAis the essential neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to the best watering holes.

Thirsty is the history of Los Angeles and its fraught relationship with water. As a city on the make since the early twentieth century, Los Angeles' resources fought hard to keep up with its unchecked growth. The city's water chief William Mulholland built an aqueduct to grab water over 200 miles away in Owens Valley, but it wasn't enough. Thirsty is the gripping tale of Los Angeles' epic battles for water, the larger-than-life characters that shaped a city's destiny, and the man-made tragedy that killed 400 and forever changed the way water would be harnessed and allocated.

"Entertaining, disturbing, memorable, and sophisticated, this mortality tale will continue to haunt after the last pages are turned." – School Library Journal All Chris really wants is to be a normal kid, to hang out with his friends, avoid his parents, and get a date with Rebecca Schwartz. Unfortunately, Chris appears to be turning into a vampire. So while his hometown performs an ancient ritual that keeps Tch’muchgar, the Vampire Lord, locked in another world, Chris desperately tries to save himself from his own vampiric fate. He needs help, but whom can he trust? A savagely funny tale of terror, teen angst, suspense, and satire from National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson.

A vampire turns Los Angeles into a city of the dead in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling and Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Swan Song. The Kronsteen castle, a gothic monstrosity, looms over Los Angeles. Built during Hollywood’s golden age for a long-dead screen idol with a taste for the macabre, it stands as a decaying reminder of the past. Since the owner’s murder, no living thing has ever again taken up residence. But it isn’t abandoned. Prince Conrad Vulkan, Hungarian master of the vampires, as old as the centuries, calls it home. His plan is to replace all humankind with his kind. And he’s starting with the psychotic dregs of society in the City of Angels. The number of victims is growing night after night, and so is Vulkan’s legion of the dead. As a glittering city bleeds into a necropolis, a band of vampire hunters takes action: an avenging young boy who saw his parents devoured; a television star whose lover has an affinity for the supernatural; a dying priest chosen by God to defend the world; a female reporter investigating a rash of cemetery desecrations; and LAPD homicide detective Andy Palatazin, an immigrant who survived a vampire attack in his native Hungary when he was child and has been hunting evil across the globe for decades. Palatazin knows that to stop the Prince of Darkness, one must invade his nest. He knows it’s also a suicide mission. But it’s the only way to save the city—and the world—from vampire domination. “Suspenseful, exciting, and visceral,” They Thirst is one of the earliest novels by the versatile author of such masterpieces as Boy’s Life, The Wolf’s Hour, and the Matthew Corbett series (Kirkus Reviews).

The companion debut title to hungry? in the Glove Box Series is thirsty?, an L.A. insider's road map to all the best places to caffeine up, cool down or sip a smart drink.thirsty? travels the streets and highways of this vast metropolis -- through downtown, the suburbs and outlying areas -- to explore the communities' best beverages. From guanabana juice and horchata to tantalizing chai teas to double-tall-nonfat soy lattes -- all that's worth knowing, and drinking, is in this book. Thirsty yet?thirsty? tells the reader where the drinks are good, where they're O.K. and what the best choices are at each bar. Can't tell the difference between a latte and a cappuccino? thirsty? knows -- and can tell you where to get the best.Categorized by neighborhood, thirsty? spans out across the city, exploring the variety of smoothies from East L.A., and whether Sex on the Beach is better in Manhattan Beach or Malibu.Filled with neighborhood types of places where the reader can buy a quality beverage and maybe linger awhile, thirsty? is a comprehensive directory of everything drinkable, but with all the insider attitude that characterizes Really Great Books' Glove Box Guides.With thirsty? 's insider tips and behind-the-scenes trivia, readers can transform themselves into regulars at the coolest watering holes in the city!

Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of Southern California's history. In the first full-length biography of the water and civil engineer, his granddaughter provides insights into the triumphant completion of the Owens Valley Aqueduct and the San Francisquito Dam tragedy that ended his career. Archival photos. 7 maps.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Los Angeles rose to significance in the first half of the twentieth century by way of its complex relationship to three rivers: the Los Angeles, the Owens, and the Colorado. The remarkable urban and suburban trajectory of southern California since then cannot be fully understood without reference to the ways in which each of these three river systems came to be connected to the future of the metropolitan region. This history of growth must be understood in full consideration of all three rivers and the challenges and opportunities they presented to those who would come to make Los Angeles a global power. Full of primary sources and original documents, Water and Los Angeles will be of interest to both students of Los Angeles and general readers interested in the origins of the city.