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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): Los Angeles, New York City (NYC), Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
The book is set among Jewish-Americans in the early 1950’s, the McCarthy years of loyalty oaths. Bea Nightingale,in her 50s is divorced in NYC where she teaches English and has put her life on hold since her divorce. She...
- Location(s): San Diego
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s onwards
The novel begins in 1942, when nine-year-old Lark and her newly separated mother and aunt Betty travel by train from southern Minnesota to San Diego. Eager to obtain war work and as much distance as possible from her estranged...
- 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...
Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Israel, Québec, Tokyo
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Contemporary
In Jerusalem’s Old City a young priest and a dominatrix converse in the dying light; on Oregon’s windswept coast a fragile woman discovers a body washed up on the beach after a storm; and in Postwar Japan a young...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Meg’s life has taken a turn for the perfect. She is the envy of millions with her drop dead gorgeous husband, their two beautiful sons and her new mansion in Henley. Her celebrity PA days are over. But desperate...
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