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- Location(s): The Philippines, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Unfolding traces the return from Los Angeles of Benjamin, the son of an indigent farm worker, who escaped the poverty of his hometown, San Jacinto, with the help of the seemingly benevolent Don Rafael. Drawn back to his...
- Location(s): Big Sur
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
THE JUNE 2024 REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK! #destinationthriller Ellery Wainwright is alone at the edge of the world. She and her husband, Luke, were supposed to spend their twentieth wedding anniversary together at the luxurious Resort at Broken...
- Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
- Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Longlisted for the 2022 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, The Vacation is a compulsive, holiday-set thriller from John Marrs, the author of The One, now a Netflix Original Series. How far would you run to escape your past? Venice...
- Location(s): Yosemite, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1934
1934. Isabel longs to escape her squalid San Francisco neighborhood. While her mother struggles to make ends meet and her older brother serves with the CCC at Yosemite, she manages the household and comforts her younger sister with stories...
- Location(s): Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, LGBTQIA+
- Era(s): Mid-2010s
Thomas Haller has achieved the kind of fame that most artists only dream of: shows in London and New York, paintings sold for a fortune. The vision he presents to the world is one of an untouchable genius at...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s/1940s
The Wayward Bus travels through the backroads of the lush California countryside, transporting the lost and the lonely to new destinations. Juan Chicoy is at the wheel, a man of the land, hot-blooded and uninhibited. His passengers include Ernest,...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1960s and 1970s
Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties. ‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess is caged in the consulate. The man with...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Oregon
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1870s, 1940s and the present day
Cast adrift in 1870s San Francisco after the death of her mother, a girl named Olive disguises herself as a boy and works as a lighthouse keeper’s assistant on the Farallon Islands to escape the dangers of a world...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 2000s
An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife–in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela...
- Location(s): California, Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
A young woman A family secret A devastating truth that could destroy the man she loves Many years ago, the Rosetta family s hard-won dreams of staking their claim in the vineyards of California came to fruition. Now high-spirited,...
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