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The Immigrants The Immigrants Howard Fast In this sweeping journey of love and fortune, master storyteller Howard Fast recounts the family saga of roughneck immigrants determined to make their way in America at the turn of the century. Qu… OL1067131W
Charmed Charmed Nora Roberts Boone Sawyer never expected to move next door to a woman who looked like one of the fairy princesses he often wrote about. Anastasia Donovan had a serene kind of femininity that would baffle and allu… OL111495W
Be Cool Be Cool Elmore Leonard After one triumph and one flop, Mafia loan-shark-turned-Hollywood producer Chili Palmer is desperate for another hit... of the celluloid sort. When a similarly relocated former mob associate takes a … OL111640W
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) Walter Mosley Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has few illusions about the world--at least not about the world of a young black veteran in the late 1940s in Southern California. His stint in the Army didn't do anythin… OL115528W
A red death A red death Walter Mosley It's 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles, a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of "the hurting business" and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS ag… OL115566W
Twenty boy summer Twenty boy summer Sarah Ockler "Don't worry, Anna. I'll tell her, okay? Just let me think about the best way to do it.""Okay.""Promise me? Promise you won't say anything?""Don't worry." I laughed. "It's our secret, right?"Accordin… OL11955245W
Locke 1928 Locke 1928 Shawna Yang Ryan A mesmerizing story of a community of Chinese immigrants in a small California town in 1928, weaving history and mythology around the lives of the townspeople and the ghosts who haunt themLocke, CA, … OL11989744W
The Secret Valley The Secret Valley Clyde Robert Bulla,Grace Paull A family that moves to California to look for gold fails to find it, but instead discovers a beautiful valley in which to build a farm. OL12627W
When the Bough Breaks When the Bough Breaks Jonathan Kellerman **In the first Alex Delaware novel, Dr. Morton Handler practiced a strange brand of psychiatry. Among his specialties were fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation.** Handler paid for his sins when … OL12723W
Sucks to be me Sucks to be me Kimberly Pauley When sixteen-year-old Mina is forced to take a class to help her decide whether or not to become a vampire like her parents, she also faces a choice between her life-long best friend and the boy she … OL13652223W
I Am Lavina Cumming I Am Lavina Cumming Susan Lowell While staying with relatives in California after the death of her mother, ten-year-old Lavina sees the arrival of the automobile and experiences the great San Francisco earthquake. OL14458W
"G" is for gumshoe "G" is for gumshoe Sue Grafton From Amazon: When Irene Gersh asks PI Kinsey Millhone to locate her elderly mother Agnes, whom she hasn't heard from in six months, it's not exactly the kind of case Kinsey jumps for. But a girl's go… OL14852180W
There will never be another you There will never be another you Carolyn See In the near future, the global threat of terror has cultivated rage, apathy, and panic. People fear that "anybody could be armed, or have a bomb. Or a disease. Or all three." For Phil, a dermatologis… OL14862122W
Perils of Certain English Prisoners Perils of Certain English Prisoners Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens A monologue about English soldiers protecting a village against pirates. OL14869468W
Wolf in the shadows Wolf in the shadows Marcia Muller Muller's popular heroine, San Francisco sleuth Sharon McCone, faces her greatest challenge when her boyfriend disappears while delivering a $2 million ransom for a kidnapped researcher. Each of Mulle… OL14870436W
Breaking through Breaking through Jiménez, Francisco,Francisco Jiménez Having come from Mexico to California ten years ago, fourteen-year-old Francisco is still working in the fields but fighting to improve his life and complete his education. OL14904055W
Blood vines Blood vines Erica Spindler "Alexandra Clarkson is having terrifying dreams filled with blood and ceremonial images. Her mother, Patsy, commits suicide after speaking with Detective Daniel Reed. Years earlier, Patsy was married… OL14909488W
The blue nowhere The blue nowhere Jeffery Deaver A sadistic computer hacker infiltrates people's computers and lures them to their deaths. The California State Police Computer Crimes Unit frees former hacker Wyatt Gillette to aid in their investiga… OL14927367W
Unfinished Symphony Unfinished Symphony V. C. Andrews **Melody Logan had only just found a safe harbor when a new storm set her adrift all over again....** Melody had always believed her mother, Haille, and dear stepdaddy had died in tragic accidents… OL15055208W
Fault lines Fault lines Anne Rivers Siddons Years of caring for her needy family have left Merritt Fowler exhausted and confused, uncertain of who she is or what she wants. When a family argument sends her lovely, fragile daughter, Glynn, runn… OL15139428W
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