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- Location(s): Oakland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Tilo, an immigrant from India, runs an Indian spice shop in Oakland, California. While she dispenses the classic ingredients for curries and kormas, she also helps her customers to gain a more precious commodity: whatever they most desire. For...
- Location(s): Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
It’s the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
ONE WILD PARTY. FOUR COUNTS OF MURDER. A mansion in Beverly Hills is leased out to host an event wild enough to herald the end of days. The next day there isn’t a living soul to be seen. But...
- Location(s): California, Santa Barbara
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Henry Travis inherits his uncle’s dilapidated houseboat, and a dog named Captain, after he drowned in a drunken spill. Nestled at the cheap end of Locando Lane near a cove once pillaged by pirates and known locally as Loco...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Crime, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
California. A beautiful night. A secluded house on a cliff-top … Where a wealthy businessman falls to his death onto the rocks below. A tragic accident? Or murder? His daughter Nora and her half-brother Sam determine to find out....
The Octopus: A Story of California
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1880s
Like the tentacles of an octopus, the tracks of the railroad reached out across California, as if to grasp everything of value in the state. Based on an actual, bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad...
- Location(s): California, Palm Desert
- Genre(s): Future
- Era(s): Contemporary
Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of his death bring together a diverse cast of characters, deeply divided...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Alberta, British Columbia
- Genre(s): Romance, Suspense
- Era(s): Present Day
Mistakes. We all make them. But when is a mistake too big to forgive? What happens when the consequences of our mistakes are so disastrous, they cause excruciating pain to everyone we hold near and dear? San Francisco’s Dr....
- Location(s): Monterey
- Genre(s): Fiction, Short Stories
- Era(s): 1930s
Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important literary traditions...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from the author of So Sad Today. Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she...
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