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We Run the Tides

We Run the Tides
  • Author(s): Vendela Vida
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 20th century

Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, own the streets of Sea Cliff, their foggy oceanside San Francisco neighbourhood. They know Sea Cliff’s homes and beaches, its hidden corners and eccentric characters – as well as the...

What Still Burns

What Still Burns
  • Author(s): Elle Grawl
  • Location(s): Northern California
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Alexis “Lex” Blake swore she would never return to the town where she’d lost her home and her family in a devastating fire that only she survived and can barely remember. But when her aunt dies, leaving behind a...

When I was Alice

When I was Alice
  • Author(s): Jennifer Murgia
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Time Slip
  • Era(s): 1953 and present day.

Grace Brighton climbs up the top of the Hollywood Sign in Los Angeles to make an important wish but instead falls and, rendered unconscious, wakes up in 1953 where everyone believes that she is emerging film star, Alice Montgomery....

When the Stars Go Dark

When the Stars Go Dark
  • Author(s): Paula McLain
  • Location(s): California
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino to grieve. She lived there as a child with her beloved...

While We Were Dating

While We Were Dating
  • Author(s): Jasmine Guillory
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Can a Hollywood romance work in the real world? Ben Stephens has never been one to mix business and pleasure, but when he lands a huge ad campaign featuring movie star, Anna Gardiner, and it turns out she’s as...

Who Are We? ~ Venice

Who Are We? ~ Venice
  • Author(s): Michael Onofrey
  • Location(s): Venice Beach (LA)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): mid-1960s and on

Venice, California, 1965–Albert Zay, nineteen years old, has moved to Venice from the San Fernando Valley to pursue a penchant for drawing and watercolors, day job enlisted for reasons of necessity. In a mixture of circumstances that embrace a...

Whoever You Are, Honey

Whoever You Are, Honey
  • Author(s): Olivia Gatwood
  • Location(s): Santa Cruz
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

BEHIND THIS GLASS, EVERYTHING IS MORE BEAUTIFUL On the Santa Cruz waterfront, every house is as perfect as the people inside. Not so for Mitty and Bethel, the oddball pair in the dilapidated bungalow – they are the last...

Wonder Valley

Wonder Valley
  • Author(s): Ivy Pochoda
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles. From the acclaimed author...

Your House Will Pay

Your House Will Pay
  • Author(s): Steph Cha
  • Location(s): Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city, but seemingly little else. Coming from different generations and very different communities, their paths wouldn’t normally cross at all. As Grace battles confusion over her elder sister’s estrangement from their Korean-immigrant...

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