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- Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s
Beau Rosenwald – overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic – arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most...
Melting the Snow on Hester Street
- Location(s): Hollywood, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First three decades of 20th Century
Sumptuously evoking the Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when money is built on greed and love can be a trick of the light, Daisy Waugh’s stunning new novel is a compelling portrait of love, fame, and survival. It...
- Location(s): Hollywood, San Diego, Yosemite
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Lara Richards jets off to glamorous California, the last thing she’s expecting is to find her old friend Helen transformed from a clipboard-clasping frump into a shimmering surf goddess. The secret of her blissful new life? The mysterious...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1939
World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio ‘fixer’, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the...
- Location(s): Hollywood, Naples
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s / WW2
The spellbinding new book from the USA Today bestselling author of The Schoolteacher of Saint Michel, perfect for fans of The Nightingale and The Paris Library. Naples 1943 Luisa Giordano has faced many losses: her mother to a deadly...
- Location(s): Hollywood, Santa Fe
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 1900s
Affluent Hollywood producer Wolf Willet has engine trouble with his small plane and lands by the Grand Canyon. He happens to read a report in the NYT that his wife Julia and his business partner and seemingly he himself...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Karly Cadieux is a teenage actress at the center of a hit television series. She lives a life of absurd luxury. Her shoes cost more than your car. Her car costs more than your apartment. When she takes a...
- Location(s): Hollywood, London
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s
PLAY THEIR GAME Hollywood, 1953. Young actress Ginny Watkins is turning heads. Even the legendary – and married – actor Max Whitman can’t resist the allure of the hottest new starlet. He promises Ginny the world, in return for...
- Location(s): Dublin, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Katherine’s life is...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
The sequel to Chili Palmer’s hit movie tanked and now Chili’s itching for a comeback. So when a power lunch with record-label executive and former associate Tommy Athens ends in a mob hit, he soon finds himself in an...
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