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Family Drama

Family Drama
  • Author(s): Rebecca Fallon
  • Location(s): California, New England
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Turn of 21st Century

It’s the 1990s. Susan Bliss is trying to make it all work. In L.A., she’s a burgeoning star with big hair and tight jeans, smouldering on the nation’s favourite TV drama. But in quiet New England, she’s wife to...

Far Out

Far Out
  • Author(s): Khaled Talib
  • Location(s): Southern California
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Present and the Sixties

Hollywood movie star Goldie Saint Helen comes out of a coma after a car accident with an altered identity. She now believes she is a hippie detective living in the Sixties, hired to find a missing teenage girl who...

Find Me In California

Find Me In California
  • Author(s): Kerry Lonsdale
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Raised by her fiercely passionate and free-spirited grandmother, Julia Hope has never gone without love. But as she tends to her only living relative during her final days, Julia struggles to overcome her fear of being alone. A thousand...

Firestorm

Firestorm
  • Author(s): Nevada Barr
  • 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...

Fly Me

Fly Me
  • Author(s): Daniel Riley
  • 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...

Foam on the Crest of Waves

Foam on the Crest of Waves
  • Author(s): Silke Stein
  • 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...

Followives

Followives
  • Author(s): Irene Perali
  • 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...

Frankly in Love

Frankly in Love
  • Author(s): David Yoon
  • 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...

Freaks I’ve Met

Freaks I’ve Met
  • Author(s): Donald Jans
  • 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...

Frog Music

Frog Music
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • 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...

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