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- Location(s): Salinas Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back – and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they...
- Location(s): San Diego, Las Vegas, Tijuana
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th century
A breathtakingly beautiful debut novel of revolution, chance and the gambles we take with the human heart. Muriel, newly married and newly orphaned, works as a waitress in a San Diego diner. As she pours coffee and empties ashtrays,...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1968
In One Crazy Summer, eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She’s had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile, left them seven years ago for a radical new life in California....
- Location(s): St Lucia, Australia, Guatemala, Mallorca, San Francisco, The Philippines
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Present Day
Thirty years ago, as teenagers, lawyer, Bobby McLean and travel writer, Sicora Clarke shared an intense love affair and had a happy future planned. But when Sicora ended it with no explanation and Bobby never heard from her again,...
- Location(s): California, Cannes, Rome
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
P.I. Mac Reilly and assistant Sunny are involved in Hollywood mogul intrigues. A woman holds a gun, and shoots, then goes missing. Allie Ray, star of the big screen also goes missing. The trail takes the investigators from Malibu...
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
- Location(s): Palm Springs
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Sometimes a broken heart is all you need to set you free… Reiko loves the endless sky and electric colours of the Californian desert. It is a refuge from an increasingly claustrophobic life of family pressures and her own...
- Location(s): Mexico, California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The year is 1988. The place, Baja California. Private Investigator Philip Marlowe – now in his seventy-second year – has been living out his retirement in the terrace bar of the La Fonda hotel. Sipping margaritas, playing cards, his...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
These noir stories take readers on a hard-boiled tour behind the Orange curtain where a reclusive rock star has lived way too long in his own head, a crooked judge uses the court for illicit means, a cab driver...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1906
From the author of the critically acclaimed Under a Painted Sky, an unforgettable story of determination set against a backdrop of devastating tragedy. Perfect for fans of Code Name Verity. Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for...
- Location(s): Budapest, Hollywood, Hungary, Kansas
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Suspense
- Era(s): 1938
From the Best-selling Author… Lights! Camera! Hollywood! In 1938, nineteen-year-old Vivian Harris’s mother wants her to get married and have a family, but Vivian’s seduced by someone else entirely: Hollywood. Yearning to trade in farm dust for stardust, she...
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