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- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel and immerses herself in a...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): contemporary
A raw and tender novel with a powerful jaw-dropping narrative climax that will stay with you forever. The Los Angeles university campus where Violet works is undergoing restructuring. Her friend Sandy has lost her job and the atmosphere has...
Arabesque: Dancing on the Edge in Los Angeles
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1950s-1963
A memoir detailing the author’s experiences growing up as a dancer in 1960s Los Angeles, exploring themes of ambition, love, challenges, and societal change, as she navigated a path between dreams and harsh realities, even featuring ballet and other...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): N/A
Gabe is feeling the pressure. His family has money troubles, he’s hardly talking to his dad, plus lowlife Benny is on his case. Needing some space to think, he heads off into the hills surrounding LA. And he suddenly...
- Location(s): Los Angeles, Hollywood
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
The sequel to Chili Palmer’s hit movie tanked and now Chili’s itching for a comeback. So when a power lunch with record-label executive and former associate Tommy Athens ends in a mob hit, he soon finds himself in an...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Victor Li and his sister Jules are devastated by their father’s murder in a botched burglary. Their dad was a well-loved owner of several popular Chinese restaurants outside Los Angeles. But when Victor finds a confessional letter from his...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a gripping and emotional novel about friendship, motherhood, and the journey toward finding a place to call home. Brooke is a divorced single mom, financially strapped, living with her...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century
Set against the smoldering embers of post-riot Los Angeles, Brothers and Sisters confirms Bebe Moore Campbell’s reputation for fiction that “cuts close to the bone of real life” (Atlanta Journal). Esther Jackson is a bank manager who’s worked hard...
- Location(s): California, Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
Frank and Chrissy meet a few days into ’70. Frank has been travelling around California for a while with friends, when someone tells him about a house in the desert two hours east of LA where the walls are...
- Location(s): Malibu, Southern California
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s/70s
Southern California, 1960s: endless sunny days surfing in Malibu, followed by glittering neon nights at Whisky a Go Go. In an era when women are expected to be housewives, Carol Donnelly breaks the mold as a legendary female surfer...
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