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- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Gold Rush (mid 19th century)
This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty-niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1880s
At the height of California’s Gold Rush, men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now, some thirty years after its peak, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance, a poor Pennsylvanian who...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
Frank and Chrissy meet a few days into ’70. Frank has been travelling around California for a while with friends, when someone tells him about a house in the desert two hours east of LA where the walls are...
- Location(s): Malibu, Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70s
Southern California, 1960s: endless sunny days surfing in Malibu, followed by glittering neon nights at Whisky a Go Go. In an era when women are expected to be housewives, Carol Donnelly breaks the mold as a legendary female surfer...
- Location(s): Queensland, California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s/ 2000s
A time-split novel. In the 1930’s two sisters’, Vivien and Rose Blake grow up in a castle in the far north Queensland rainforest. During the Pacific War they both fall in love with the same American serviceman. In the...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Present day
A magnetic, provocative debut novel chronicling a young woman’s downward spiral following the end of an affair Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that’s her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his true gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920
Alla Nazimova has reached the pinnacle of success. She is the highest-paid actress in town, with a luxurious estate, the respect of her peers, adoration of her fans, and a series of lovers that has included the first wife...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A whirlwind is coming to Angel Sands… Take a vacation from taking vacations. That’s Lydia Paxton’s plan when she arrives in Angel Sands to celebrate her baby niece’s christening. Organizing trips of a lifetime for her exclusive New York...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s
The Roaring Twenties, Chinatown, San Francisco: back-street blues and bathtub gin… hardball mobsters and hardheaded cops… seductive speakeasies and sizzling scandals. As the young Louis Armstrong blows his horn in the infamous Blue Canary, impetuous Nob Hill Socialite Elizabeth...
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