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Unravel

Unravel
  • Author(s): Sarah Salisbury
  • 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...

Unscripted

Unscripted
  • Author(s): Claire Handscombe
  • 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...

Vagablonde

Vagablonde
  • Author(s): Anna Dorn
  • 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...

Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls
  • Author(s): Jacqueline Susann
  • 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...

Valley Verified

Valley Verified
  • Author(s): Kyla Zhao
  • Location(s): Silicon Valley, New York City (NYC)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

War and Millie McGonigle

War and Millie McGonigle
  • Author(s): Karen Cushman
  • 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...

Watch Him Die

Watch Him Die
  • Author(s): Craig Robertson
  • Location(s): Glasgow, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
  • Era(s): Modn

ONLY ONE PERSON CAN SAVE YOU. AND HE WANTS YOU DEAD.  The LAPD find a man dead at home. Nothing suggests foul-play but elements of the victim’s house show that something is deeply wrong. Meanwhile, in Glasgow, DI Rachel...

Watch Me Disappear

Watch Me Disappear
  • Author(s): Janelle Brown
  • Location(s): Desolation Wilderness
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

It’s been a year since Billie Flanagan–a Berkeley mom with an enviable life–went on a solo hike in Desolation Wilderness and vanished from the trail. Her body was never found, just a shattered cellphone and a solitary hiking boot....

Watch Over Me

Watch Over Me
  • Author(s): Nina Lacour
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

Mila is used to being alone. Maybe that’s why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. But she hadn’t known about...

We Begin at the End

We Begin at the End
  • Author(s): Chris Whitaker
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

With the staggering intensity of James Lee Burke and the absorbing narrative of Jane Harper’s The Dry, We Begin at the End is a powerful novel about absolute love and the lengths we will go to keep our family...

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