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- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1960s
It is the Summer of Love, and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armoured car. it’s further outside the law than Easy has ever travelled, but his daughter needs medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can borrow...
- Location(s): California, Chile
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
A magnificent sweeping tale from the international bestselling author of ‘The House of the Spirits’. Set in Anglophile Chile and goldrush California during the middle years of the nineteenth century, this magnificent romance tells the story of English foundling...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Can Katie Solve a Case of Chateau Murdeaux? Katie Stillwell focuses on two things in her life: work and practicing for Sommelier Certification with her blind tasting group. The exam was supposed to be the hardest part of her...
- Location(s): Salinas Valley
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century onwards
Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this powerful, often brutal novel, follows the intertwined destinies of two families – the Trasks and the Hamiltons – whose generations hopelessly re-enact the fall of Adam and Eve...
Everyone Dies Famous in a Small Town
- Location(s): California, Alaska, Colorado, Washington State
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
The second, highly anticipated novel from Carnegie-shortlisted author Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock. Come on a journey across the rural American West . . . Meet the teenagers who live in the small towns across these states, separated by distance, but whose...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): From 1770s to late 2000s
This novel takes you through various times, from 1778 up to 2009, and a number of characters who all intersect through the ages and a place in the Californian desert. A four-year-old autistic boy, Raj Matharu, disappears in the...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Getting ahead in Hollywood poses a challenge for Raquel Azorian, a lowly marketing assistant at a major production company, and while she has ambition, energy, and smarts, the heroine of Candela’s wry latest doesn’t have a mentor or even...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century and early 2000s
Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon – private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A....
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Sri Lanka
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a...
- Location(s): Japan, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie receives a call one night from a friend at the SFPD: an entire family has been senselessly gunned down in the Japantown neighborhood of the bustling city. As an American born and raised...
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