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- 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...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe’s mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A riotously funny yet difficult story of two women in opposite life stages but similar mental states, Pizza Girlfollows an 18-year-old pregnant protagonist floundering as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles. She encounters Jenny, a middle-aged stay-at-home...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking. ‘Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Suzanne Vale, formerly acclaimed actress, is in rehab, feeling like ‘something on the bottom of someone’s shoe, and not even someone interesting’. Immersed in the sometimes harrowing, often hilarious goings-on of the drug hospital and wondering how she’ll cope...
- Location(s): Lake Tahoe (California)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Two wildly different women–one a grifter, the other an heiress–are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a page-turner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear. Nina once bought into the idea that...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s
Charles Bukowski’s brilliant, fantastical pastiche of a detective story. Packed with wit, invention and Bukowski’s trademark lowlife adventures, it is the final novel of one of the most enjoyable and influential cult writers of the last century. Nicky Belane,...
- Location(s): California, India
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
In QUEEN OF DREAMS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing, with her family and her world...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Kentucky
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1976
Remembering takes place in a single day in 1976. Andy Catlett, at the bottom of a deep dark depression since losing his hand in a farming accident, is alone in San Francisco, and takes a long walk through the...
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