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Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions

Jerusalem Ablaze: Stories of Love and Other Obsessions
  • Author(s): Orlando Ortega-Medina
  • 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...

Liberty Silk

Liberty Silk
  • Author(s): Kate Beaufoy
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, Paris
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1919, 1945, 1965

One beautiful dress is the key to three brave women’s destinies… France 1919: Jessie is celebrating the last heady days of her honeymoon. But when her husband suddenly disappears she finds herself bereft. Until a chance encounter thrusts her...

ROUGE

ROUGE
  • Author(s): Mona Awad
  • Location(s): La Jolla, Southern California
  • Genre(s): Horror, Fiction, Gothic
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her...

Somewhere in Time

Somewhere in Time
  • Author(s): Richard Matheson
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fantasy
  • Era(s): 1970s looking back a century

Matheson’s classic novel tells the moving, romantic story of a modern man whose love for a woman he has never met draws him back in time to a luxury hotel in San Diego in 1896, where he finds his...

The Confession

The Confession
  • Author(s): Jessie Burton
  • Location(s): Hampstead, Los Angeles, Mexico, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s / 2000s

One winter’s afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly falls under her spell. Connie is bold and alluring, a successful writer whose novel is being turned into a major Hollywood film. Elise follows...

The Man in the Seventh Row

The Man in the Seventh Row
  • Author(s): Brian Pendreigh
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, East Lothian, Edinburgh
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Moving from North Berwick in East Lothian, Scotland, to Edinburgh and off to the States, Roy tells of his lifelong obsession with film. Roy is a film fan. He loves the cinema. What happened that turned his world inside...

The Pictures

The Pictures
  • Author(s): Guy Bolton
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1939

World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio ‘fixer’, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the...

Amazing Grace Adams

Amazing Grace Adams
  • Author(s): Fran Littlewood
  • Location(s): London, Cornwall, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. One hot summer day, stuck in traffic on her way to pick up the cake for her daughter’s sixteenth birthday party, Grace Adams snaps. She doesn’t scream or...

Between Boyfriends

Between Boyfriends
  • Author(s): Sarka-Jonae
  • Location(s): San Diego
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

At first glance, twenty-one-year-old Jan Weston has it all: a gorgeous boyfriend, fun friends, and wealthy parents who take care of all those pesky credit card bills. Then her boyfriend dumps her, her friendships fall apart, and her parents...

Dog Soldiers

Dog Soldiers
  • Author(s): Robert Stone
  • Location(s): Los Angeles, New Mexico, Vietnam
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1970s

In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he’ll find action – and profit – by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go...

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