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- 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): Washington State, California, Canada, Oregon
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
- Era(s): Current
You reach a certain age. You have a lifestyle many would envy. Still, something doesn’t feel right. Life has become routine. You sense there is more out there to experience and explore with an urge gnawing away inside to...
- Location(s): Sacramento, Lake Tahoe (Nevada)
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
I look around at the smiling faces of the family I never had. Growing up without one, I could never have imagined that this day would ever come. But all thanks to Family Ties DNA, I’ve finally found my...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Didi Monroe’s waited her whole life for the type of romance you see in the movies, so when Hollywood heartthrob Zac Ridgemont sweeps her off her feet, Didi believes she might finally have met the one. While Zac’s away...
The Three Weissmanns of Westport
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Palm Springs, Westport
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-five…He said the words ‘Irreconcilable differences’, and saw real confusion in his wife’s eyes. ‘Irreconcilable differences?’ she said. ‘Of course there are irreconcilable differences....
- Location(s): London, Cornwall, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter’s sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. She doesn’t scream or...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
At first glance, twenty-one-year-old Jan Weston has it all: a gorgeous boyfriend, fun friends, and wealthy parents who take care of all those pesky credit card bills. Then her boyfriend dumps her, her friendships fall apart, and her parents...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott’s new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys...
- Location(s): California, Kauai
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A Serial Killer Plagues an Island Paradise Vigilante detective Emily Stone continues her covert pursuits to find serial killers and child abductors, all under the radar while shadowing police investigations. Emily searches for an abducted nine-year-old girl taken by...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, New Mexico, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action – and profit – by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go...
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