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- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
A raging forest fire in California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park traps exhausted firefighters, including Ranger Anna Pigeon, in its midst. Afterward, Anna finds two from her group have been killed. One a victim of the flames. The other, stabbed...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, World
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1972
The year is 1972, and the Los Angeles beaches are the center of the world. Literally dropping into the embers of the drug and surfer scene is Suzy Larsen, who has dropped out of college and followed her mysterious...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): present
A troubled young girl tries to become a mermaid to cope with her mother’s drowning in this sparkly modern twist on the classic Little Mermaid tale that explores love, loss and second chances. In a small fishing town on...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2010s
Viola, Bianca, Luna, Giada, and Aurora have just started to discover their career paths in vibrant Milan. These five women don’t have a lot in common until the men in their lives decide to chase their dream jobs in...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Frank loves Joy. Joy loves Frank. At least, that’s what they tell their parents . . . Frank Li is caught between his parents’ expectations and his own California life. Frank’s parents emigrated from Korea, and have pretty much...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Spokane, Washington, is nearly perfect for most people, but Jack Fitzpatrick is not one of them. Hours after graduation and armed with his final paycheck from his nemesis, Mrs Pohlkiss, Jack heads for Southern California determined to prove that...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1870s
Frog Music is an atmospheric and gripping novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room, adapted as a major motion picture directed by Lenny Abrahamson. San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed...
- Location(s): Northern California
- Genre(s): Fantasy
- Era(s): Late twentieth century
When Father Michel Emeric and Dr. Ray Benson warn young widow Kate Jacobs of occult danger stalking her, she dismisses them as deranged fanatics. The eerie disappearance of her four-year-old daughter, Sara, changes her mind. Ray and Father Mike...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘Thirty-seven years in the force, and if I was allowed to choose just one thing to erase from my mind, what’s inside that room would be it.’ That’s what a LAPD Lieutenant tells Detectives Hunter and Garcia of the...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Miami loan shark Chili Palmer is ice-cool, whether he’s retrieving stolen property or collecting money for the mob. Chasing a bad debt leads him to the bright lights of Hollywood – and to a true story that would make...
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