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The Immigrants
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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.
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Charmed
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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… |
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Be Cool
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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 … |
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DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries)
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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… |
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A red death
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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… |
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Twenty boy summer
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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… |
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Locke 1928
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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, … |
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The Secret Valley
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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. |
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When the Bough Breaks
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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 … |
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Sucks to be me
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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 … |
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I Am Lavina Cumming
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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. |
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"G" is for gumshoe
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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… |
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There will never be another you
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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… |
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Perils of Certain English Prisoners
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Wilkie Collins,Charles Dickens |
A monologue about English soldiers protecting a village against pirates. |
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Wolf in the shadows
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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… |
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Breaking through
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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. |
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Blood vines
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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… |
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The blue nowhere
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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… |
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Unfinished Symphony
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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… |
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Fault lines
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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… |
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