Books by Bruins Library

Books by Bruins Library

Check in each month as we release a new category to our library. If would like to read more, see our articles where we feature select books in our articles below.

Los Angeles

Native Shrubs of Southern California

Peter H. Raven, Ph.D. ’60

Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles (2024);

Neil Gong, M.A. '13, Ph.D. '19

Conservation of California Walnut in the Eastern Santa Monica Mountains (2022)

Travis Longcore, M.A. '95, Ph.D. '99

Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles (2020)

Rocío Rosales, M.A. '08, Ph.D. '12

Los Angeles Residential Architecture: Modernism Meets Eclecticism (2015)

Ruth Wallach '86, M.L.S. '88

Imagining Los Angeles: A City in Fiction (2004)

David Fine '83

Saltine (2021)

Rachel Hoffman, Ph.D. '97

Little Tokyo: One hundred Years in Pictures (1983)

Ichiro Mike Murase '70

East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio (2022)

Ricardo Romo, Ph.D. '75

Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality (2024)

Albert Camarillo ’70, Ph.D. ’75

From Watts to the World: A Chronicle of Service (2021)

Rosalyn Cain King, M.P.H. '72

Zev's Los Angeles: From Boyle Heights to the Halls of Power (2023)

Zev Yaroslavsky ’71, M.A. ’72

Ethnopolitical Entrepreneurs: Outsiders Inside Armenian Los Angeles (2023)

Daniel Fittante ’05, Ph.D. ’18, M.A. '19

Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities (2010)

Darnell Hunt, M.A. '91, Ph.D. '94

Chican@ Artivistas: Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles (2020)

Martha Gonzalez ’99

City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (2017)

Kelly Lytle Hernández, Ph.D. '02

Helter Skelter (2001)

Vincent Bugliosi

Goal Dust: The Warm and Candid Memoirs of a Pioneer Black Athlete and Actor (1993)

Woody Strode (1937-39)

90210 Photobook (2016)

Priscilla Mars '14

Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture (2024)

Eric Nakamura '83

Women

Lessons Learned: Stories from Women Leaders in STEM (2023)

Deborah Shlian, M.B.A. ’88

The Assertive Woman: A New Look (1975)

Nancy Austin '71, M.B.A. '77

We Are Inspiring: The Stories of 32 Inspirational Asian American Women (2019)

Angel Trazo, M.A. '20

Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique (2016)

Kathleen Sheldon, M.A. ’77, Ph.D. ’88

Bold & Brave: Ten Heroes Who Won Women the Right to Vote (2018)

Kirsten Gillibrand, J.D. ’91

In a Heartbeat: Military Women WWII to Present (2015)

Therese Agnes Hughes, M.A. ’99

Before Amelia (2003)

Eileen (Fitzpatrick) Lebow ’47, M.A. ’49

Entry Lessons: The Stories of Women Fighting for their Place, their Children and their Futures after Incarceration (2022)

Jorja Leap '78, M.S.W. '80, Ph.D. '88

Uta Barth: To Draw with Light (2012)

Uta Barth, M.F.A. ’85

She Damn Near Ran the Studio: The Extraordinary Lives of Ida R. Koverman (2020)

Jacqueline R. Braitman ’79, M.A. ’81, Ph.D. ’88

Brava: A Latina Lawyer’s Path to Empowerment (2023)

Adriana Palomares ’04

Heart Matters - A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon (2010)

Kathy E. Magliato, M.B.A. '06

Gertrude Stein and the Essence of What Happens (2005)

Dana Cairns Watson '89, M.A.'93, Ph.D. '96

Edith Heath: Philosophies (2021)

Jennifer M. Volland, M.A. '06, Cert. '03

Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets, One Helping Hand at a Time (2013)

Carissa Phelps, M.B.A. ’07, J.D. ’07

War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina (2018)

Marie Berry, M.A. '10, Ph.D. '15

The Women Who Made Early Disneyland: Artists, Entertainers, and Guest Relations (2024)

Kelsey Knox ’12 and Cindy Mediavilla MLS ’77, Ph.D. ’00

Five Women of Byzantium (2020)

Robert Englekirk, M.S. ’65, Ph.D. ’70

The Ziegfelds' Girl: Confessions of an Abnormally Happy Childhood (1964)

Patricia Burke Ziegfeld Stephenson

Noushin, a Memoir: The Making of a Woman Architect (2022)

Noushin Ehsan, M.Arch. '72

A Daughter's Journey: A Memoir (2024)

Susan M. Chung '77, M.S.W. '79

Humanizing the Sacred: Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia (2015)

Azza Basarudin, Ph.D. '09

Martha: The Life and Work of Martha Graham (1992)

Agnes De Mille '26

There's Cake in My Future (2024)

Kim Gruenenfelder '89

Trophies (2008)

Heather Anne Thomas '80