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- Location(s): China, Los Angeles, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s onwards
Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two sisters from a bourgeois family. Though their personalities are very different – Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid – they are...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
On his own turf in L.A., PI Elvis Cole is embroiled in a controversial, high-profile murder case. A wealthy restaurateur is accused of murdering his wife, and his hot-shot defence lawyer hires Cole to find proof that the detective...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Tara Sweet is a sensible young woman whose life is turned upside when her mother marries a younger man, and Tara’s boyfriend ends their relationship. Finding herself at Otter Bay, on the Californian coast she falls for a young...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry,...
- Location(s): California, France, Italy
- Genre(s): Food and Drink, Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
An irreverent journey through the wine world, indeed it is. Encompassing some historical detail, he visits several wineries and has some wry observations.
- Location(s): San Diego, The Salton Sea
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Hye-yang is a dutiful daughter in a Korean village where the women are ocean divers. But prostitution awaits her until an American takes her over to live in the States. Here she becomes Helen, and has a daughter –...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern (looking back to 1990s)
In the LAPD’s Open-Unsolved Unit, not many murder victims die almost a decade after the crime. So when a man succumbs to complications from being shot by a stray bullet ten years earlier, Bosch catches a case in which...
- Location(s): Hollywood, San Diego, Yosemite
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
When Lara Richards jets off to glamorous California, the last thing she’s expecting is to find her old friend Helen transformed from a clipboard-clasping frump into a shimmering surf goddess. The secret of her blissful new life? The mysterious...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Santa Monica Mountains
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Contemporary
Based on a true story with an imaginative retelling for young readers; P22 mountain lion is born in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains outside Los Angeles, California. But he is forced out of the mountains by Prime, a fierce...
- Location(s): Tijuana, Jerusalem, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1973; 1982
Former Little League champion Kimitake “Clyde” Koba finds strength in the belief that he is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe as he struggles to escape the ghost of his brother and his alcoholic father. Born on Yom Kippur, teen...
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