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Crescent

Crescent
  • Author(s): Diana Abu-Jaber
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Thirty-nine-year-old Sitine, never married, lives with a devoted Iraqi-immigrant uncle and an adoring dog named King Babar. She works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, her passions aroused only by the preparation of food—until an unbearably handsome Arabic...

Daisy Jones and The Six

Daisy Jones and The Six
  • Author(s): Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): The 1960s & 1970s

‘For a while, Daisy Jones & The Six were everywhere. Their albums were on every turntable, they sold out arenas from coast to coast, their sound defined an era. And then, on 12 July 1979, they split.’ ‘Nobody ever...

Damnation Spring

Damnation Spring
  • Author(s): Ash Davidson
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

For generations, Rich Gundersen’s family has made a living felling giant redwoods on California’s rugged coast. It’s treacherous work, and though his son, Chub, wants nothing more than to step into his father’s boots, Rich longs for a bigger...

Dante’s Numbers

Dante’s Numbers
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Allan Prime looked ready to die of fright, even before the bright, shining spear with the blood-soaked tip reached his head . . . The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of...

Daughters of the Sun and Moon

Daughters of the Sun and Moon
  • Author(s): Lisa See
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entrancing and innocent. These characteristics should bring her great rewards, beginning with her arranged...

Daughters of the Sun and Moon

Daughters of the Sun and Moon
  • Author(s): Lisa See
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entrancing and innocent. These characteristics should bring her great rewards, beginning with her arranged...

Days of Distraction

Days of Distraction
  • Author(s): Alexandra Chang
  • Location(s): San Francisco, New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wry, tender portrait of a young woman–finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely–from a captivating new literary voice The plan is to leave. As for how, when,...

Dead Lawyers Don’t Lie

Dead Lawyers Don’t Lie
  • Author(s): Mark Nolan
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

A mysterious killer who calls himself The Artist is assassinating wealthy lawyers in San Francisco. When photo-journalist Jake Wolfe accidentally takes his picture during a murder, The Artist adds Jake to his kill list and he becomes a target...

Devil in a Blue Dress

Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Author(s): Walter Mosley
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s

‘I need to find somebody and I might need a little help looking…’ The summer of ’48 in the city of Angels and there’s heat on the streets when Daphne Monet hits the sidewalk. Heat when she disappears with...

Double Blind

Double Blind
  • Author(s): Edward St Aubyn
  • Location(s): London, Antibes, California, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Double Blind follows three close friends and their circle through a year of extraordinary transformation. Set between London, Cap d’Antibes, Big Sur and a rewilded corner of Sussex, this thrilling, ambitious novel is as compelling about ecology, psychoanalysis, genetics...

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