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American Dream Machine

American Dream Machine
  • Author(s): Matthew Specktor
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s, 1970s

Beau Rosenwald – overweight, not particularly handsome, and improbably charismatic – arrives in Los Angles in 1962 with nothing but an ill-fitting suit and a pair of expensive brogues. By the late 1970s he has helped found the most...

Melting the Snow on Hester Street

Melting the Snow on Hester Street
  • Author(s): Daisy Waugh
  • 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...

The California Club

The California Club
  • Author(s): Belinda Jones
  • 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...

The Pictures

The Pictures
  • Author(s): Guy Bolton
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1939

World-weary Jonathan Craine is a detective at the LAPD who has spent his entire career as a studio ‘fixer’, covering up crimes of the studio players to protect the billion-dollar industry that built Los Angeles. When one of the...

Santa Fe Rules

Santa Fe Rules
  • Author(s): Stuart Woods
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Santa Fe
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Late 1900s

Affluent Hollywood producer Wolf Willet has engine trouble with his small plane and lands by the Grand Canyon. He happens to read a report in the NYT that his wife Julia and his business partner and seemingly he himself...

Actress

Actress
  • Author(s): Anne Enright
  • Location(s): Dublin, Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London’s West End. Katherine’s life is...

Be Cool

Be Cool
  • Author(s): Elmore Leonard
  • 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...

Chasing Salomé

Chasing Salomé
  • Author(s): Martin Turnbull
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920

Alla Nazimova has reached the pinnacle of success. She is the highest-paid actress in town, with a luxurious estate, the respect of her peers, adoration of her fans, and a series of lovers that has included the first wife...

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)

Engaged in Danger: A Jamie Quinn Mystery (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mystery Book 4) (Jamie Quinn Cozy Mysteries) (Volume 4)
  • Author(s): Barbara Venkataraman
  • Location(s): Hollywood, Florida
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Present day

Finally, life is good for reluctant family law attorney, Jamie Quinn–her father may get his visa soon, her boyfriend is the bomb, and her law practice is growing like crazy–but when she agrees to take on a high-profile divorce...

Everybody Knows

Everybody Knows
  • Author(s): Jordan Harper
  • Location(s): Hollywood
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

n Hollywood, nobody talks. But everybody whispers. Welcome to Mae Pruett’s LA. A ‘black-bag’ publicist at one of Hollywood’s most powerful crisis PR firms, Mae’s job isn’t to get good news out, it’s to keep the bad news in...

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