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Bright Shiny Morning

Bright Shiny Morning
  • Author(s): James Frey
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Welcome to LA. City of contradictions. It is home to movie stars and down-and-outs. Palm-lined beaches and gridlock. Shopping sprees and gun sprees. Bright Shiny Morning takes a wild ride through the ultimate metropolis, where glittering excess rubs shoulders...

California Dreamers

California Dreamers
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • Location(s): California, San Simeon
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Ever wished you could make-over your life? Make-up artist Stella is an expert at helping other people change their images, but when it comes to transforming herself, she doesn’t even know where to start. So when her new friend,...

Daisy

Daisy
  • Author(s): J P Henderson
  • Location(s): London, California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

MEET DAISY. A PICTURE OF GRACE AND DIGNITY. MEET HEROD. A… DISAPPOINTMENT. Written in his own words, and guided by a man who collects glasses in a local pub, this is the story of Herod ‘Rod’ Pinkney’s search for...

Dear Daughter

Dear Daughter
  • Author(s): Elizabeth Little
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 21st Century

‘As soon as they processed my release Noah and I hit the ground running. A change of clothes. A wig. An inconspicuous sedan. We doubled back once, twice, then drove south when we were really headed east. In San...

Drive

Drive
  • Author(s): James Sallis
  • Location(s): Arizona, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s...

Foreign Bodies

Foreign Bodies
  • Author(s): Cynthia Ozick
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s

The book is set among Jewish-Americans in the early 1950’s, the McCarthy years of loyalty oaths. Bea Nightingale,in her 50s is divorced in NYC where she teaches English and has put her life on hold since her divorce. She...

Gardenias

Gardenias
  • Author(s): Faith Sullivan
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s onwards

The novel begins in 1942, when nine-year-old Lark and her newly separated mother and aunt Betty travel by train from southern Minnesota to San Diego. Eager to obtain war work and as much distance as possible from her estranged...

Harbor Nocturne

Harbor Nocturne
  • Author(s): Joseph Wambaugh
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in San Pedro, a southern district of Los Angeles and one of the world’s busiest ports. Dinko Babich and Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from a local topless bar start building up a relationship, a life together fraught...

I Heart Hollywood

I Heart Hollywood
  • Author(s): Lindsey Kelk
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Celebs, sunshine and beautiful boys…enough to lead a girl astray? Angela Clark can’t believe her luck… she’s an English girl living in New York with a dream job at hip magazine The Look and a sexy boyfriend. Her latest...

Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions

Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
  • Author(s): Orlando Ortega-Medina
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Israel, Québec, Tokyo
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young...

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