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- Location(s): Los Angeles, Malibu
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Hell comes to Southern California every October. It rides in on searing Santa Ana winds that blast at near hurricane force, igniting voracious wildfires. Master thief Danny Cole longs for the flames. A tsunami of fire is exactly what...
- Location(s): Japan, Southern California
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Postmodern present
Massage World is a crime thriller that concerns a massage therapist striving to open a straight, grandiose health spa against the wishes of a wild man from the shady side of the industry who takes her business over with...
- Location(s): Northern California
- Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
- Era(s): 1915
An ancient forest can be many things. A playground. A postcard. A sanctuary. But for Ruth Wescott, a grande dame of Gilded Age Philadelphia society scarred by a terrifying supernatural vision, the forest is a living, breathing enemy. A...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived in six different cities and held countless jobs since graduating college. On the heels of leaving another...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini’s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles-a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and sacrifice builds a successful business to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the acclaimed author of The Pisces and So Sad Today. Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By...
- Location(s): Arizona, California, Florida, Montana, New York State
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Gleah Powers began her adult life at age 14, not as a runaway, but as a “send away” in 1962. Known as Linda in those days, her strong-willed grandmother put her on a greyhound bus to travel alone, cross-country,...
- Location(s): Oakland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing… “More Like Wrestling” tells the story of Pinch and Paige, two sisters coming of age in Oakland, California, in the 1980s, a time when that beautiful, crumbling city is...
- Location(s): Sierra Foothills
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Mother-daughter real estate agents Autumn and Sierra have just found a dead body in their client’s kitchen. This will have to go in the disclosures!
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