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To Die For

To Die For
  • Author(s): Lisa Gray
  • Location(s): Malibu
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the elite world of luxury real estate, it is often kill or be killed, something agent Andi Hart knows all too well—and after recent events, she’s ready to set her own rules. So when her boss challenges the...

Tortilla Flat

Tortilla Flat
  • Author(s): John Steinbeck
  • Location(s): Monterey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Adopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a “Camelot” on a shabby hillside above the town of Monterey, California and peopled it with a colourful band of knights. At the center of the tale is...

Travels with George

Travels with George
  • Author(s): Vivien Fallows
  • Location(s): Australia, Los Angeles, New Zealand (Aotearoa), The Cook Islands
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2010's

In 2000, after her children set off for new lives on the other side of the globe, Vivien Fallows embarked on a solo travel mission. At the request of her husband, Vivien shared the stories in a diary, which...

Troubleshooter

Troubleshooter
  • Author(s): Gregg Hurwitz
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

The leader of one of the country’s most violent biker gangs, Den Laurey should have been behind bars. But thanks to a daring escape on an L.A. freeway, several deputy marshals are dead and Laurey is riding free. Deputy...

Trunk Music

Trunk Music
  • Author(s): Michael Connelly
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Harry Bosch Book 5 Harry Bosch is back at the LAPD in Homicide after disciplinary leave. But his first case proves to be one of the most difficult. In the wooded hills overlooking the Hollywood Bowl, he opens the...

Turning Point

Turning Point
  • Author(s): Danielle Steel
  • Location(s): Paris, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From San Francisco to Paris, four talented trauma doctors are given a life-changing opportunity in this gripping medical drama by Danielle Steel. Bill Browning heads the trauma unit at San Francisco’s busiest emergency room. With his ex-wife and daughters...

Uncanny Valley

Uncanny Valley
  • Author(s): Anna Wiener
  • Location(s): San Francisco, Silicon Valley
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s phone had worn thin. Within a year...

Under the Almond Trees

Under the Almond Trees
  • Author(s): Linda Ulleseit
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Three women. Three unprecedented dreams. One learns independence when she is widowed and must lead men. Another desires a career in a man’s field. The third wants only a traditional family—until her husband refuses to pay for their daughter’s...

Unravel

Unravel
  • Author(s): Sarah Salisbury
  • Location(s): Pacific Coast Highway
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age
  • Era(s): 2020s

Phoebe Cho has spent a lifetime trying to keep herself afloat in a family which has never been able to find anything but fault with her. But now that she’s finally finished with high school, escape is only a...

Unscripted

Unscripted
  • Author(s): Claire Handscombe
  • Location(s): London, Cambridge, Pasadena
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010s

Nobody is a bigger fan of actor Thomas Cassidy than Libby is. Nobody. That’s why she’s totally going to marry him. She is going to write a novel, name the main character after Thom, and find a way to...

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