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The Sellout

The Sellout
  • Author(s): Paul Beatty
  • Location(s): California, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game....

The Seventh Veil of Salome

The Seventh Veil of Salome
  • Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century (Golden Age)

Golden Age Hollywood – a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and intrigue. Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary temptress. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an...

The Silent Fountain

The Silent Fountain
  • Author(s): Victoria Fox
  • Location(s): Tuscany, Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s and modern

Hollywood, 1975: Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti, and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister, and learns that dark shadows haunt her new husband’s past… Tuscany, Present...

The Soulmate Equation

The Soulmate Equation
  • Author(s): Christina Lauren
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Jess is a numbers genius, but when it comes to love she’s had to accept there is no magic formula. Juggling a career with raising her daughter, it’s not surprising that her love life is. . . non-existent. When...

The Spectator Bird

The Spectator Bird
  • Author(s): Wallace Stegner
  • Location(s): Copenhagen, California
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1954, 1974

This tour-de-force of American literature and a winner of the National Book Award is a profound, intimate, affecting novel from one of the most esteemed literary minds of the last century and a beloved chronicler of the West. Joe...

The Spring

The Spring
  • Author(s): Annie Connole
  • Location(s): Montana, California
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Traversing the wild landscapes of the American West, prose and photography combine to create a lucid, dream-like vision of visitations and allegorical animal encounters with Snake, Owl, and Dragonfly, among others. The Spring tells a stirring, elegiac tale of...

The Stylist

The Stylist
  • Author(s): Rosie Nixon
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Amber Green loves her job at Smith’s, the exclusive London boutique frequented by the rich, the famous and the stylish – and with stylist to the stars Mona Armstrong as a customer, there is never a dull moment. With...

The Summer I Met Jack

The Summer I Met Jack
  • Author(s): Michelle Gable
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Hyannis Port, Rome
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 20th Century

New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark – and the child they may have had. Based on a real story – in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in...

The Summer List

The Summer List
  • Author(s): Amy Mason Doan
  • Location(s): Lake Tahoe (California)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In the tradition of Judy Blume’s Summer Sisters, The Summer List is a tender yet tantalizing novel about two friends, the summer night they fell apart, and the scavenger hunt that reunites them decades later—until the clues expose a...

The Switch Up: L. A. Exchange

The Switch Up: L. A. Exchange
  • Author(s): Katy Cannon
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

WILLA Film director LA insider Impulsive Looks like Alice ALICE Eco warrior LA tourist Cautious Looks like Willa Alice can’t wait to visit Willa in LA – home of Hollywood, where dreams come true. Their plan is to explore...

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