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The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
  • Author(s): Abbi Waxman
  • 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...

The California Dreamers

The California Dreamers
  • Author(s): Amy Mason Doan
  • 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...

The Catch

The Catch
  • Author(s): Ross King, Shari Low
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At a glittering after-party on the night of the Academy Awards, author Mirren McLean celebrates her win with her childhood friends Davie Johnston and Zander Leith by her side. Three kids from a tough street in Glasgow, the dazzling...

The Chateau on Sunset

The Chateau on Sunset
  • Author(s): Natasha Lester
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s onwards

A sheltered young woman living at the Chateau Marmont falls under the spell of a scandalous, secretive man as all of Hollywood’s glamour swirls around her–a stunning feminist reimagining of Jane Eyre from the New York Times bestselling author...

The Christmas Train

The Christmas Train
  • Author(s): David Baldacci
  • Location(s): Washington DC, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction

In equal parts hilarious, poignant, suspenseful and thrilling, The Christmas Train by David Baldacci is a delightful journey filled with memorable characters who have packed their bags with as much wisdom as mischief . . . Disillusioned journalist Tom...

The Close-Up

The Close-Up
  • Author(s): Pip Drysdale
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A struggling author discovers the dark side of fame when a stalker begins reenacting violent events from her thriller in this electrifying and twisty new novel. When Zoe Ann Weiss moves to Los Angeles to pursue her dream of...

The Cookbook Collector

The Cookbook Collector
  • Author(s): Allegra Goodman
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century

At the turn of the last century, two sisters are following very different paths. Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is a CEO of an internet start-up; twenty-three-year-old Jess is a grad student in philosophy, a vegan who rejects the rampant capitalism that...

The Crimson Shamrock

The Crimson Shamrock
  • Author(s): Michael Hughes
  • Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul, San Francisco, Washington DC
  • Genre(s): Humour, Suspense
  • Era(s): 2014

Young underemployed man in the East San Francisco Bay gets hired by mysterious tech company. Hilarity ensues. A scotch-swilling DUI attorney, a cynical congressional staffer, and a retired bomb- sniffing German Shepherd are just some of the characters Chuck...

The Dark Hours

The Dark Hours
  • Author(s): Michael Connelly
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year’s Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ballard and Harry Bosch team up to find justice for an innocent victim in the new thriller from #1 New York...

The Day of the Locust

The Day of the Locust
  • Author(s): Nathanael West
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s/1940s

The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West’s Hollywood is not the glamorous “home of the stars” but a seedy world...

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