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- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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)
- 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
- 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...
- Location(s): California, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Decisions were made: I made them. Violence was done: I did it. Crime scenes were fled: I fled them. People were hurt: I hurt them. Someone was loved: I loved them. Not everything I did was bad. Just most...
- 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...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
An electrifying novel about the complicated friendship between two ambitious writers and the ultimate artistic betrayal: one writes a book based upon the other’s life, revealing everything…from the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick Before We Were Innocent. After...
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