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- 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...
- 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,...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary with historical flashback
After an abrupt move across the country to San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Livvy is shocked to find that her mother has lied to her. Instead of looking for work at a bakery, her mom is taking care of Adelle, Livvy’s...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Commencement meets The Graduate in this sparkling novel about a secret affair, the summer it all unravels, and the reunion a decade later that will be one woman’s happy ending or her biggest mistake. Becc was the good girl....
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Late 1960s
City Blues Quartet, 4 Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . . A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that...
Surf, Sweat & Tears: the Epic Life and Mysterious Death of Edward George William Omar Deerhurst
- Location(s): Australia, California, England, Hawai'i
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1957-now
What really happened to Ted, Viscount Deerhurst, surfing professional, the “Lord on a Board”? Lee Child said: “I don’t usually read books about surfers, but this is like Truman Capote with shorts.” When I met Ted, he was a...
- Location(s): Monterey
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s
In Monterey, on the California Coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday – one of those days that’s just bad from the start. But Sweet Thursday is sunny and clear, a day when anything...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Humour, Romance
- Era(s): Present
What a difference a day makes… Nell Sullivan has always been known as ‘Miss Five-Year Plan’. But when she finds herself jobless and newly single on the same day, Nell decides it is time to stop planning and start...
- Location(s): Oakland, California
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 2013, 21st century
Winner of the Stonewall Young Adult Literature Award One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both their lives forever. Two teenagers growing up in Oakland, California. One, Sasha, was born male but...
- Location(s): Carmel-by-the-Sea
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
July 1924. Sarah Cunningham, a young Modernist painter, arrives in Carmel-by-the-Sea from Paris to bury her older sister, Ada Belle. En route, she is shocked to learn that Ada Belle’s suspicious death is a suicide. But why kill herself?...
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