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Sideways

Sideways
  • Author(s): Rex Pickett
  • Location(s): Santa Ynez
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

Sideways is the story of two friends-Miles and Jack-going away together for the last time to steep themselves in everything that makes it good to be young and single: pinot, putting, and prowling bars. In the week before Jack...

Sister of My Heart

Sister of My Heart
  • Author(s): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on...

Slow Days, Fast Company

Slow Days, Fast Company
  • Author(s): Eve Babitz
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1960s/70s

No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated “its own kind of moral laws,” spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for...

Sourdough

Sourdough
  • Author(s): Robin Sloan
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from...

Sourdough Dead

Sourdough Dead
  • Author(s): Carol E Ayer
  • Location(s): Central California
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Kayla Jeffries, home bakery owner and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), once more finds herself involved in a murder case when her boyfriend, restaurateur Jason Banks, is suspected of killing his longtime nemesis.

SOUTH AND WEST

SOUTH AND WEST
  • Author(s): Joan Didion
  • Location(s): California, The American South
  • Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

Spells and Oregano: Book II in The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy

Spells and Oregano: Book II in The Secret Spice Cafe Trilogy
  • Author(s): Patricia V Davis
  • Location(s): Long Beach
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s-2014

A mother desperate to save her twin sons, a war veteran in torment, a beautiful young psychic with a terrible secret, a powerful magician with a shattered soul, and a Queen steeped in history and glory. These extraordinary beings...

Stabbed in the Tart

Stabbed in the Tart
  • Author(s): Carol E Ayer
  • Location(s): Central California
  • Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Home bakery owner and Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) Kayla Jeffries has been hired for the Gourmet and Stay Valentine’s Weekend at the historic Countryside Inn in Los Robles, CA. When one of her fellow cooks is murdered during dinner...

Stardust

Stardust
  • Author(s): Joseph Kanon
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1945

Hollywood, 1945. Ben Collier returns from war to the news that his filmmaker brother Daniel has died in mysterious circumstances — the papers say it was an accident, but others suspect suicide. Daniel was a heroic figure who helped...

Still Lives

Still Lives
  • Author(s): Maria Hummel
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women–the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson,...

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