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MAILBOX: A Scattershot Novel of Racing, Dares and Danger, Occasional Nakedness, and Faith
- Location(s): California, Kansas City, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1970s
The Drue family moves from New York to Small Town, USA in the ’70s, and they may never fully fit in. Thirteen-year-old Sandy’s parents encourage her curiosity, her imagination, and her challenge of social conventions – but not without...
- Location(s): Malibu
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70s/80s
Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a...
- Location(s): California, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Cassie Blake is the heiress to Fenton’s, San Francisco’s most exclusive department store. After the revelation of her husband Aidan’s affair with a student, she searches out her friend Alexis at Presidio Heights mansion, and has some soul searching...
Melting the Snow on Hester Street
- Location(s): Hollywood, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First three decades of 20th Century
Sumptuously evoking the Golden Age of Hollywood, a time when money is built on greed and love can be a trick of the light, Daisy Waugh’s stunning new novel is a compelling portrait of love, fame, and survival. It...
- Location(s): Berkeley, Pune (Poona)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Jasmine (Jazz) lives in Berkeley, CA and is the child of an Indian Mother and a white Father. At 15 she is already running a small business with Steve, taking photos of tourists in front of Landmarks. Jazz’ Mum...
- Location(s): California, Saurashtra
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 20th Century, Early 21st
In a lyrical memoir spiced with mouth-watering Indian recipes and old family photographs, Mira Kamdar takes us back to the ancient world into which her grandmother was born: a tiny village in Kathiawar, India. Kamdar traces the Indian diaspora,...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Europe
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern back to 1970s
In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for...
- Location(s): Mendocino
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But...
- Location(s): Sierra Nevada (United States)
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): 1850s, 2008
2008: Deep in the mountain forests, Julian Cooke stumbles across the rotting remains of a wooden wagon. He’s discovered what’s left of the Preston Group, a convoy of settlers that vanished in the winter of 1856. It’s clear that...
- Location(s): London, Los Angeles, New York City (NYC)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s
1966: In London, Jackie Collins‘s racy The World is Full of Married Men hits bookshops and launches her career. In New York, Jacqueline Susann‘s debut novel Valley of the Dolls is published, and she’s desperate for it to be...
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