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All Fours

All Fours
  • Author(s): Miranda July
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a...

All the Breaking Waves

All the Breaking Waves
  • Author(s): Kerry Lonsdale
  • Location(s): Pacific Grove
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Magical Realism, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the bestselling author of Everything We Keep comes a gripping tale of long-buried secrets, the strength of forgiveness, and the healing power of returning home for good. After a harrowing accident tore her family apart, Molly Brennan fled...

All the Little Liars

All the Little Liars
  • Author(s): Victoria Selman
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

California, 2003 A thirteen-year-old girl disappears from a party at Carlsbad’s Turtle Lake. Discovered on the trunk of a nearby cottonwood tree is the word ‘LIAR’ graffitied in blood. What you know . . . Three teenagers went to...

All the Little Live Things

All the Little Live Things
  • Author(s): Wallace Stegner
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

The early life of Joe Allston, the retired literary agent of Stegner’s National Book Award-winning novel, The Spectator Bird, features in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the...

Almost

Almost
  • Author(s): Dan McNay
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): contemporary

A raw and tender novel with a powerful jaw-dropping narrative climax that will stay with you forever. The Los Angeles university campus where Violet works is undergoing restructuring. Her friend Sandy has lost her job and the atmosphere has...

Arabesque: Dancing on the Edge in Los Angeles

Arabesque: Dancing on the Edge in Los Angeles
  • Author(s): Cherie Magnus
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1950s-1963

A memoir detailing the author’s experiences growing up as a dancer in 1960s Los Angeles, exploring themes of ambition, love, challenges, and societal change, as she navigated a path between dreams and harsh realities, even featuring ballet and other...

At the Edge of the Orchard

At the Edge of the Orchard
  • Author(s): Tracy Chevalier
  • Location(s): California, Ohio
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1800s

In the inhospitable Black Swamp of Ohio, the Goodenough family are barely scratching out a living. Life there is harsh, tempered only by the apples they grow for eating and for the cider that dulls their pain. Hot-headed Sadie...

Back on Track

Back on Track
  • Author(s): Donna Cummings
  • Location(s): Napa Valley
  • Genre(s): Novella, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Allie Whittaker is in a dating slump, too busy getting her fledgling marketing company off the ground to have a personal life. All that could change, though, if she can get baseball superstar Matt Kearns on the cover of...

Bad Bones

Bad Bones
  • Author(s): Graham Marks
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Gabe is feeling the pressure. His family has money troubles, he’s hardly talking to his dad, plus lowlife Benny is on his case. Needing some space to think, he heads off into the hills surrounding LA. And he suddenly...

Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher 11)

Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher 11)
  • Author(s): Lee Child
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

You do not mess with Jack Reacher. He is as close to untraceable as a person can get. A loner comfortable in his anonymity and solitude. So when a member of his old Army unit finds a way to...

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