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- Location(s): Carmel-by-the-Sea, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1957/2018
Set in Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, Typewriter Beach is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock’s new star. 1957. Isabella Giori is ten months into a standard...
- Location(s): San Francisco, Silicon Valley
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New York publishing. There was no room to grow, and the voyeuristic thrill of answering someone else’s phone had worn thin. Within a year...
- Location(s): Northern California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): early 20th century
Three women. Three unprecedented dreams. One learns independence when she is widowed and must lead men. Another desires a career in a man’s field. The third wants only a traditional family—until her husband refuses to pay for their daughter’s...
- Location(s): Laguna Beach
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
(The Kingsleys Book 2) During a weekend retreat, a powerful family plays a dangerous game of dark secrets and cold-blooded ambition in a novel by Kaira Rouda, USA Today bestselling author of Beneath the Surface. Under the direction of...
- Location(s): Pacific Coast Highway
- Genre(s): Coming of Age
- Era(s): 2020s
Phoebe Cho has spent a lifetime trying to keep herself afloat in a family which has never been able to find anything but fault with her. But now that she’s finally finished with high school, escape is only a...
- Location(s): London, Cambridge, Pasadena
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2010s
Nobody is a bigger fan of actor Thomas Cassidy than Libby is. Nobody. That’s why she’s totally going to marry him. She is going to write a novel, name the main character after Thom, and find a way to...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Prue is a 30-year-old attorney who wants two things, the first is to live without psychotropic medication, and the second is to experience success as a rap artist. Her life is good on paper: she has an easy government...
- Location(s): Hollywood, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1960s
Before Jackie Collins, Candace Bushnell and Lena Dunham, Jacqueline Susann held the world rapt with her tales of the private passions of Hollywood starlets, high-powered industrialists and the jet-set. Valley of the Dolls took the world by storm when...
- Location(s): Silicon Valley, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
- Era(s): Contemporary
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1941, WW2
The Newbery Award-winning author of Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife’s Apprentice tells a heartfelt and humorous story of WWII on the homefront. Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It...
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