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A Whisper and a Wish

A Whisper and a Wish
  • Author(s): Robin Jones Gunn
  • Location(s): California, Wisconsin
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Teens across the nation have made this series from Robin Jones Gunn a bestseller! Readers can find out for themselves why the series is so popular as they, too, become friends with Christy Miller. She becomes the perfect role...

Accidental Heroes

Accidental Heroes
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): San Francisco, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

On a beautiful May morning at New York’s JFK Airport, a routine plane departs for San Francisco. Security agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous message. Who left the postcard behind, which...

Actress

Actress
  • Author(s): Anne Enright
  • 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...

Admission

Admission
  • Author(s): Julie Buxbaum
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the New York Times bestselling author of ‘Tell Me Three Things’ comes an of-the-moment novel that peeks inside the private lives of the hypercompetitive and the hyperprivileged and takes on the college admissions bribery scandal that rocked the...

Afternoon

Afternoon
  • Author(s): Nidhi Dalmia
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kashmir, New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in the late ’60s, intertwined with the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around that time, Afternoon is the story of a young...

Afterparties

Afterparties
  • Author(s): Anthony Veasna So
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Seamlessly transitioning between the absurd and the tender-hearted, balancing acerbic humour with sharp emotional depth, Afterparties offers an expansive portrait of the lives of Cambodian Americans. As the children of refugees carve out radical new paths for themselves in...

Aftershock

Aftershock
  • Author(s): Judy Melinek, T J Mitchell
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Crime, Coming of Age, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When an earthquake strikes San Francisco, forensics expert Jessie Teska faces her biggest threat yet in this explosive new mystery from the New York Times bestselling duo There’s a body crushed under a load of pipes on a San...

Airport Stalking: Jack’s Game

Airport Stalking:  Jack’s Game
  • Author(s): Blair London
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern Day

Jack is at the airport observing Jonathan who was talking on his cell phone and giving out too much information for all around him to hear. Jonathan, Jack learned was a salesman for a water purifier company in California....

Alcatraz: The Last Escape

Alcatraz:  The Last Escape
  • Author(s): Ken Widner, Mike Lynch
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Brazil, Florida
  • Genre(s): Crime, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s

When Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin boldly escaped from Alcatraz prison on June 11, 1962, it is widely believed that they succumbed to the waters of San Francisco Bay, though no trace of the men has...

Alchemy of Secrets

Alchemy of Secrets
  • Author(s): Stephanie Garber
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It starts with a class in an old movie theatre. Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by a woman called the Professor. Most students believe the Professor’s stories are just fiction, but Holland St. James has always...

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