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Godshot

Godshot
  • Author(s): Chelsea Bieker
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen-year-old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it’s an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth...

Going Back

Going Back
  • Author(s): Rachael English
  • Location(s): Dublin, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

How do you know where you belong? In June 1988, Elizabeth Kelly’s parents think she belongs at home in Ireland. Her boyfriend is certain of it. Unwilling to settle down just yet, she decides to spend the summer in...

Golden Gate (City Spies)

Golden Gate (City Spies)
  • Author(s): James Ponti
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Bondi Beach, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this second installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies returns for another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for...

Gun Kiss

Gun Kiss
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present

When the Deringer pistol that shot Abraham Lincoln is stolen and ends up in the hands of a Russian military general, covert agent Blake Deco is tasked by the FBI to head to the Balkans to recover the historical...

Happy Little Bluebirds

Happy Little Bluebirds
  • Author(s): Louise Levene
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit...

He Who Pays The Piper

He Who Pays The Piper
  • Author(s): Alex Breck
  • Location(s): Northern California, Belize, Guatemala, Mexico, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ridge Walker is a hedonistic young Scot in a desperate race with the devil across Central America. He is consumed by guilt at his inability to save Orla, his beautiful and wild Irish wife, after their turbulent marriage went...

Hi Five

Hi Five
  • Author(s): Joe Ide
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Christiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She’s also the sole witness and number-one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend – found dead inside her Newport Beach boutique. Angus will...

Hot Snow

Hot Snow
  • Author(s): Suellen Ocean
  • Location(s): California, Israel
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): 1980's

After her assignment in Australia goes sour, Israeli Intelligence agent Hannah Chaya joins her boyfriend Rudy in the sleepy town of Wolf, California. But she brings with her, demons from Munich that Rudy’s trying to get away from. When...

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days

How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days
  • Author(s): K M Jackson
  • Location(s): United States (USA), Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

USA Today bestselling author K.M. Jackson delivers a hilarious road-trip rom-com perfect for fans of Meet Cute and When Harry Met Sally. Bethany Lu Carlisle is devastated when the tabloids report actor Keanu Reeves is about to tie the knot....

I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018

I Survived the California Wildfires, 2018
  • Author(s): Lauren Tarshis
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 21st century

California continues to be ravaged by devastating wildfires. Lauren Tarshis’s heart pounding story tells of two children who battle the terrifying flames and — despite the destruction — find hope in the ashes. The people of Northern California were...

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