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- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A legendary hotel on the Pacific becomes a haven where dreams, love, and a beguiling mystery come alive. 1958. Kate Morgan, tethered to her family’s failing San Francisco restaurant, is looking for an escape. She gets her chance by...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A startling panorama of Los Angeles in the fifties. New Year’s Eve as 1949 turns to 1950, Los Angeles: The City of Angels has becomes the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hunts and insanely violent killings are...
The Big Sleep (Phillip Marlowe)
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
Los Angeles Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is blackmailing him. A broken, weary old man, Sternwood just wants Marlowe to make the problem go away. However, with Sternwood’s two wild, devil-may-care...
- Location(s): Palm Springs
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Before she became a glamorous fashion designer, Ellie de Florent-Stinson was a trailer-park teen about to turn sixteen. But a night of birthday celebration doesn’t go exactly as planned and descends into a night she’ll never be able to...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1990s, 1992
Perfect for fans of The Hate U Give, this unforgettable coming-of-age debut novel is a unflinching exploration of race, class, and violence as well as the importance of being true to yourself. Los Angeles, 1992 Ashley Bennett and her...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, The Philippines
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1900s looking back
A quest for secrets in the blue afternoon . . . Los Angeles, 1936. Kay Fischer, a young and ambitious architect, is being followed by an old man. When confronted, he explains that his name is Salvador Carriscant –...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
In 1918, a young and bright-eyed Dorothea Lange steps off the train in San Francisco, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past, gives Dorothea entrée...
- Location(s): China, San Francisco
- Era(s): Modern and pre-war
LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): RomCom
- Era(s): Modern
Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, an excellent trivia team and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s forward
It’s 1980s California, and everyone’s dreaming of the endless summer: sun-drenched beaches, infinite waves, and most of all, beautiful, beautiful freedom. For the Merrick siblings, this idyllic vision is their reality, as they travel up and down the coast...
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