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- Location(s): California, The Basque Country
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
A Korean War widow’s difficult mother dies before revealing the identity of her daughter’s father and his cultural heritage. As Dee sorts through what little her mother left, she unearths puzzling clues that raise more questions: Why did Leora...
- Location(s): California
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 19th Century
Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. Across 1000 miles of Oregon desert his assassins, the notorious Eli and Charlies Sisters, ride – fighting, shooting, and drinking their way to Sacramento. But their prey isn’t an easy mark, the...
- Location(s): California, The American South
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Second half 20th Century
This one is sure to be one of 2020’s best and boldest by the author of The Mothers. Identical twin sisters Stella and Desiree are born in a small Southern community in the 1960s, when they decide to run away from...
- Location(s): Alaska, California, Shanghai
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Ranging from the wicked noir Shanghai of 1946, to the echo chambers of Hollywood, to remote, snow-covered mountains, This Is How it Really Sounds follows three men, each in search of a different life. Small-town Alaskan “Harry” Harrington is...
- Location(s): London, Los Angeles, Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
‘Move over Jackie Collins, there’s a new blockbuster star in town.’ New! Magazine ‘An addictive plot that is packed with twists and turns. Prepare for larger than life characters, fabulous locations and plenty of humour.’ The Sun When friends...
- Location(s): Palo Alto
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
One crazy dog—one awkward vet—one naked pool guy—and one life-changing month in California to make friends, fall in love, and twist fate. Who gets paid to walk a dog and recline by the pool all day? Sydney Montgomery, aspiring...
- Location(s): California, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl’s search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco’s Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there’s knife-wielding Marta, who...
- Location(s): California, Oregon, Washington State
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Era(s): 1800s and Modern
Looking for a better life, prostitute Nora Simms arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with a plan for success: to strike it rich by trading on her good looks. But when a string of murders claims several of her...
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