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- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death.’ In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Hollywood loves a dead girl. She’s always so photogenic. Salma Lowe understands better than anyone how Hollywood chews up and spits out starlets. She is the offspring of Hollywood royalty, a former child-star turned guide on a true crime...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Berkeley, Vietnam
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Isabel Allende’s powerful tale of one boy’s escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As a boy, Gregory accepts the endless journeying and...
- Location(s): Hollywood, Egypt, London, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s and 1930s
1921: a boy, a girl, a moonlit midnight kiss. A terrible, repulsive kiss. Bettina and Bart have grown up as best friends, so surely they will end up together? After all, Bettina is young, rich, headstrong…. and gay. Bart...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Contemporary
On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, and no family looking for them. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, the police and FBI reach...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE MOST IMPORTANT CASE OF HIS LIFE. ONLY THIS TIME THE DEFENDANT IS HIMSELF “The law of innocence is unwritten. It will not be found in a leather-bound code book. It will never be argued in a courtroom. In...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Looking back to 1980s
After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean became fascinated by a mysterious local crime that has gone unsolved since it was carried out on the morning of 29 April 1986: who set fire to the Los Angeles Public Library,...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1940s
Private Investigator Philip Marlowe’s latest client is Orfamay Quest. She’s come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or at least that’s what she tells Marlowe, offering him just twenty dollars for his trouble....
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Satire
- Era(s): 1940s
Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy, Evelyn Waugh’s The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity and the British expat community in Hollywood. The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel’s story, set...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1950s
Shelly fells as if she’s living in a fantasyland. She’s spending the school year in southern California, where flowers bloom in November, oranges grow on trees, and lawns are mowed in winter. When the star of the basketball team...
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