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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping...
2) Our fault
Author
Series
Culpable volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nick and Noah's rocky relationship is struggling through its worst moment, and it seems that nothing can go back to the way it was before. They will have to surmount a new and frightening set of challenges to finally understand if they are really made for each other or if being apart is their only chance to be happy. Love is not always enough, and forgiveness sometimes doesn't fix what's been broken. But can you forget such a strong connection? How...
3) My fault
Author
Series
Culpable volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan loves her quiet, normal life in Toronto. But when her mother returns from a cruise unexpectedly married to a billionaire and announces they are moving to L.A., Noah is suddenly shoved out of her comfort zone and into a glittering world of illegal street races, lavish pool parties, and spoiled rich kids. And her new stepbrother Nicholas is the most spoiled of them all. Arrogant, aloof, and viciously attractive, Nick is...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In an isolated lighthouse on the California coast, Rowan Winterbourne lives a solitary life with only her secrets for company. For she has a mission that drives her—to avenge herself against Gregory Torval, the powerful drug and arms dealer who murdered her mother and vowed to eliminate everyone in her family. Then Joe Grantham arrives at her door and, for the first time, Rowan lets her guard down—a dangerous mistake when he blackmails her to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lonely-hearted waitress Katie Smith has nowhere to go for Christmas, and a huge crush on her gorgeous diner patron Juan Martinez. So when Juan asks Katie to pose as his girlfriend for holiday festivities at his family's winery, Katie leaps at the chance... that is, until an accident lands Juan in a coma right after giving his folks the "news." Katie knows she should tell the Martinezes the truth, but when they immediately embrace her, Katie is reluctant...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
As a wildfire threatens Berkeley, the city's inhabitants are forced to reckon with the cracks in the lives they've built. Abigail, a wealthy white woman, decides to throw a lavish birthday in a hillside mansion to raise money for the city's newest affordable housing project-and prove to her family that she's made something worthwhile of her life. Sunny, a construction worker who sleeps in a van along the bay's shore, is in the running for an apartment...
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A luxurious family wedding at a California vineyard estate turns deadly when a body is discovered. As the clues are pieced together and secrets are revealed, everyone is a suspect from the groom's celebrity mother and the bride's deceitful father to the sommelier with an impeccable nose and the questionable pastor. Twists and turns abound until the very end as they attempt to uncover the truth.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox star in this high speed series as California highway patrol officers Frank, Ponch, Poncharello and Jonathan, Jon, Baker, friends and partners who ride the Los Angeles freeways on their choppers chasing down criminals and sharing a few good natured laughs along the way.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Black Bart is widely regarded today as not only the most notorious stage robber of the Old West but also the best behaved. Over his lifetime, Black Bart held up at least twenty-nine stagecoaches in California and Oregon with mild, polite commands, stealing from Wells Fargo and the US mail but never robbing a passenger. Such behavior earned him the title of a true 'gentleman bandit.' His real name was Charles E. Boles, and in the public eye, Charles...
12) Zombie Season
Author
Series
Zombie season volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Summer is zombie season in California and there are some kids who do not evacuate: Joule searches for her missing father, Regina worries about the secrecy surrounding the new anti-zombie technology her parents are developing, and Oliver is trying to convince the grownups that the zombies are becoming stronger.
13) Chato's kitchen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
To get the "ratoncitos," little mice, who have moved into the barrio to come to his house, Chato the cat prepares all kinds of good food: fajitas, frijoles, salsa, enchiladas, and more.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother's legacy. On the night of Maren's annual New Year's Eve party, a line is crossed, and word of a humiliating family meltdown spreads like a Northern California wildfire through the culinary elite. It's a golden opportunity for one of them to step into power-and a trigger...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Swearing off New York, theater, actors-all of it-49-year-old Margot Hughes is thrown back into the theater world when she is tapped to take over a troubled summer production and finds unexpected love with her lead actor even though he represents everything she left behind.
16) Up in flames
Author
Publisher
Viking Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
At eighteen, Ruby Ortega is an unapologetic flirt who balances her natural aptitude for economics with her skill in partying hard. But she couldn't care less about those messy college boys it's her intense, brooding neighbor Ashton who she wants, and even followed to school. Even the fact that he has a girlfriend doesn't deter her . . . whatever Ruby wants, she eventually gets. Her ruthless determination is tested when wildfires devastate her California...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads, an escape from the chaos of the everyday—running a business, raising a family, juggling a hundred to-dos. Even the dog is demanding (but the bestest boy). Since Laurel’s divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Her skepticism of men may have scarred her vulnerable daughters. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 23
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Dawn enjoys her visit to California so much that she considers staying there with her father, as her brother, Jeff, has done.
19) Double indemnity
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A smalltime insurance agent falls in love with the wife of a wealthy client and helps her plot the accidental death of her husband.
Author
Series
In the beautiful country volume 2
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After a rocky first year, Anna's family have settled into life in California--their small restaurant is even turning a profit. Then her parents make a shattering discovery: their visas have expired. Anna's world is quickly overwhelmed by unfamiliar wordslike "undocumented" and "inequality." She longs to share the towering secret that looms over every aspect of her life with a friend, but her parents strictly forbid her from telling anyone. As Anna...
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