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41) Moondust Lake
Author
Series
Miramar Bay volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A disillusioned business executive seeking to escape from his tyrannical father's shadow and a psychotherapist with a tragic past discover unexpected healing, freedom, and love in the solitude of a Miramar Bay retreat.
42) When she dreams
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Maggie Lodge, assistant to the reclusive advice columnist known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia to her readers, hires down-but-not-quite-out private eye Sam Sage to help track down the person who is blackmailing her employer. Maggie and Sam are a mismatched pair. As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head. She is not what he had in mind for a client, but he can't afford to be choosy. Maggie, on the other hand, is convinced that...
43) A gambling man
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made for someone who's hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible, plus...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Set amid California's wildfire season, a vivid and magical novel following a family in crisis thrust on a collision course with the world around them that has an outcome beyond their wildest imaginings...When Lu and George Barnes drop their only daughter, Pippa, off at college, they return to their Sonoma home to find that their paths have diverged. Confronted with an empty nest, Lu's increasing dissatisfaction with their materialistic lives becomes...
45) Scary stuff
Author
Series
Jane Wheel mystery volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
While visiting California, antique picker and associate detective Jane Wheel becomes embroiled in two cases involving her family, one of eBay-related mistaken identity involving her brother, and an attack on a friend of her parents.
46) Trigger yappy
Author
Series
Roundup Crew mystery volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Instead of sailing away on a carefree cruise, Maggie Patterson is stuck in charge of her sister's pet-friendly bar, just in time to watch a murder turn the idyllic town upside down. --Publisher
47) Kailey
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Publications
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Kailey launches an art protest to keep a developer from spoiling the cove and its tide pools that are special to her and her family and friends.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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...
49) Wild sign
Author
Series
Alpha and Omega volume 6
Language
English
Description
"In the wilds of the Northern California mountains, all the inhabitants of a small town have gone missing. It's as if the people picked up and left everything they owned behind. Fearing something supernatural might be going on, the FBI taps a source they've consulted in the past: the werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Latham. But Charles and Anna soon find that a deserted town is the least of the mysteries they face. Death sings in the forest, and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Settling in the swamps of early-nineteenth-century Ohio, the Goodenough family establishes an apple orchard that begins a long family battle, and years later, as their youngest son wanders through Gold Rush California, his family's past makes an unexpected appearance.
Author
Series
Fool's Gold volume 19
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
To bridal boutique owner Madeline Krug, organizing a Christmas wedding sounds like a joy, until she finds out she'll be working closely with the gorgeous brother of the bride, movie star Jonny Blaze. How will a small-town girl like her keep from falling for the world's sexiest guy? Especially with mistletoe lurking around every corner. --Publisher
Author
Series
Fixer-upper mystery volume 8
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Plagued by strange events at a construction site, including the discovery of a dead body, Shannon wonders if someone wants to stop the renovations on an old asylum and vows to complete the project even if it kills her.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A diary account of fourteen-year-old Susanna Fairchild's life in 1849, when her father succumbs to gold fever on the way to establish his medical practice in Oregon after losing his wife and money on their steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Oak Knoll volume 2
Language
English
Description
Already in the midst of the See-No-Evil killer murder trial, the sleepy town of Oak Knoll is shocked at the murder of Marissa Fordham. Sheriff's detective Tony Mendez is perplexed by the case. The only witness to the crime, the victim's young daughter, implicates her own father. To assist him on the case, Tony calls on child advocate Anne Leone, who also happens to be the star witness in the See-No-Evil trial.
55) Katerina
Author
Publisher
Scout Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Katerina...is a sweeping love story alternating between 1992 Paris and Los Angeles in 2018. At its center are a young writer and a young model on the verge of fame, both reckless, impulsive, addicted, and deeply in love. Twenty-five years later, the writer is rich, famous, and numb, and he wants to drive his car into a tree, when he receives an anonymous message that draws him back to the life, and possibly the love, he abandoned years prior."--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nineteen-year-old Excel reluctantly makes the long trek back to the apartment where he grew up in Colma, Calif., from Hello City, a relaxed town of hippies and techies near the Mexican border, where he'd moved nine months earlier with his girlfriend, Sab. Excel has a debt in Hello City-$10,000, to be exact-and his only option is to ask for his old job at The Pie Who Loved Me, a restaurant where "pizza goes to die." His mother, Maxina, a former action...
Author
Series
Burning Cove California volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Being Madame Ariadne, Psychic Dream Consultant, wasn't Prudence Ryland's ideal gig, but it paid well which was reason enough to do the work--until she realizes that her latest client intends to kill her. But Prudence, a master at reinvention, finds a new job and home as far away as possible and is finally able to relax--which turns out to be a big mistake. Letting her guard down means being kidnapped and drugged and waking up in a bloodstained wedding...
58) Yappy hour
Author
Series
Roundup Crew mystery volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Every Friday night in the idyllic seaside town of Pacific Cove, the Roundup Crew, a group of dog-loving friends, meets at a neighborhood wine bar for Yappy Hour. When Rachel, the owner, mysteriously leaves town and asks her sister, Maggie, to run the bar in her absence, things get complicated fast. Maggie arrives to open up and finds a body sprawled on the floor, an incriminating letter with Rachel’s name on it nearby... When Rachel is declared...
59) Forget me knot
Author
Series
Quilting mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Martha and her besties Lucy and Birdie are set to expand their Quilty Tuesdays by inviting newcomer Claire Terry into their group. Though at forty Claire's a tad younger than their average age, her crafty reputation could perk up their patchwork proceedings, especially as they prepare for the fancy quilt show coming to town. But when they arrive at Claire's home and find her dead inside the front door, and her exquisite, prize-winning quilts soon...
60) Wings
Author
Publisher
Dell Publishing
Pub. Date
1995, c1994
Language
English
Description
From a house on the edge of her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, the child Cassie O'Malley would sneak into the night to look at the planes sitting shimmering in the moonlight. Her World War I veteran father, Pat, wanted his son to be a pilot, not his reckless, red-haired daughter. But it was Cassie who had the gift. Ever since she could remember, Cassie felt the pull of getting in a cockpit and taking to the skies. Observing all the...
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