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Imperial Bedrooms

Imperial Bedrooms
  • Author(s): Bret Easton Ellis
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Clay is a successful screenwriter, middle-aged and disaffected; he’s in LA to cast his new movie. However, this trip is anything other than professional, and he’s soon drifting through a louche and long-familiar circle – a world largely populated...

In A quiet Town

In A quiet Town
  • Author(s): Amber Garza
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In this chilling new novel, a woman discovers that her estranged daughter is missing, but no one believes her, until she meets a man claiming to be her daughter’s fiancé. Tatum hasn’t seen her daughter, Adrienne, in years, not...

In Dubious Battle

In Dubious Battle
  • Author(s): John Steinbeck
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

At once a relentlessly fast-paced, admirably observed novel of social unrest and the story of a young man’s struggle for identity, In Dubious Battle is set in the California apple country, where a strike by migrant workers against rapacious...

Into the Forest

Into the Forest
  • Author(s): Jean Hegland
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): The near future

Eva, eighteen, and Nell, seventeen, are sisters, adolescents on the threshold of womanhood–and for them anything should be possible. But even as Eva prepares for an audition with the San Francisco Ballet and Nell dreams of her first semester...

Intrusion: A Novel

Intrusion: A Novel
  • Author(s): Mary McCluskey
  • Location(s): California, Sussex
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kat and Scott Hamilton are dealing with the hardest of losses: the death of their only child. While Scott throws himself back into his law practice in Los Angeles, Kat is hesitant to rejoin the workplace and instead spends...

Inventing TV News, Live and Local in Los Angeles

Inventing TV News, Live and Local in Los Angeles
  • Author(s): Terry Anzur
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Travel back in time to Southern California, where live TV coverage of breaking news was born. Everyone’s Child, 1949: Two rival stations in Los Angeles televise the attempted rescue of a toddler from an abandoned well pipe. For the...

IQ

IQ
  • Author(s): Joe Ide
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

East Long Beach. The LAPD is barely keeping up with the high crime rate. Murders go unsolved, the elderly are being mugged, children go missing. But word has spread: if you’ve got a case the police can’t – or...

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection: Box Set Books 1-3 (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery)

Jamie Quinn Mystery Collection: Box Set Books 1-3 (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery)
  • Author(s): Barbara Venkataraman
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Books 1-3 of the Jamie Quinn Mystery Series! Including: “Death by Didgeridoo”-Winner of the Indie Book of the Day award. Reluctant lawyer, Jamie Quinn, still reeling from the death of her mother, is pulled into a game of deception,...

Kidnap on the California Comet

Kidnap on the California Comet
  • Author(s): M G Leonard, Sam Sedgman
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): early 21st century

Board the California Comet and help Harrison Beck to solve another heart-stopping mystery in the second Adventures on Trains story, Kidnap on the California Comet, from bestselling authors M.G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman. After the excitement of his adventures...

Künstlers in Paradise

Künstlers in Paradise
  • Author(s): Cathleen Schine
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA), Vienna
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): From WW2 onwards

There was a time when the family Künstler lived in the fairy-tale city of Vienna. Circumstances transformed that fairy tale into a nightmare, and in 1939 the Künstlers found their way out of Vienna and into a new fairy...

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