2018 Audie Award Finalist The thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa See explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter who has been abandoned and adopted by an American couple. Li-yan and her family...
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- Author:See, LisaSummary:
- Author:Reiss, KathrynSummary:
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
- Author:Freeman, MarthaSummary:
Eleven-year-old Dougie, living in California's Calaveras County, teams up with twelve-year-old Varloo, an emissary from a culture living in underground caves, and tries to help her people.
- Author:Fadiman, AnneSummary:
- Author:Fowler, EarleneSummary:
Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, with her brother Nash, hoping the fresh start will help him kick a debilitating drinking habit. And Ruby's not the only one with renewed hope, as saddlemaker Lucas McGavin redoubles his...
- Author:Chandler, RaymondSummary:
- Author:Davis, Steven L., Minutaglio, BillSummary:
Based on freshly uncovered primary sources and new firsthand interviews, this book takes readers along for the gonzo ride of a lifetime. Spanning twenty-eight months, President Nixon's careening, global manhunt for Dr. Timothy...
- Author:Frost, MarkSummary:
In 1956, a casual bet between two millionaires eventually pitted two of the greatest golfers of the era--Byron Nelson and Ben Hogan--against top amateurs Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi. Frost recounts this dramatic tale from start to...
- Author:Hallinan, TimothySummary:
Simeon Grist is drawn into the Asian underworld of Los Angeles when two children vanish in Chinatown and the parents refuse to inform police for fear that Vietnamese hit men will do them in.
- Author:Kuhlken, KenSummary:
The Loud Adios is set on the home front during World War II. Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German...
- Author:Coble, ColleenSummary:
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, Olivia Stewart, a member of a prestigous family, suspects her sister's fiance, Harrison Bennett, of being involved, but when she goes to California to investigate under an assumed...
- Author:Stevenson, Sarah JamilaSummary:
Hoping to raise money for a post-graduation trip to London, Asha Jamison and her best friend Carey decide to sell T-shirts promoting the Latte Rebellion, a club that raises awareness of mixed-race students. But seemingly overnight,...
- Author:Kim, Nancy JooyounSummary:
Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery...
- Author:Finney, JackSummary:
This classic thriller of human triumph over an alien threat inspired the acclaimed 1956 film directed by Don Siegel. This edition is read by Siegel's son, Kristoffer Tabori, and includes reminiscences of his father's work on the film....
- Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction spawn a multitude of sins. At the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel on the coast of California, rookie...
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
Abby Lovitt has been riding horses for as long as she can remember, but Daddy hasn't let her name a single one. He calls all their geldings George and their mares Jewel and warns her not to get attached. The horses are there on the...
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:
"The Englishman's Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West - the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe's rendering of the...
- Author:Grande, ReynaSummary:
In this memoir, award-winning writer Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years, capturing all the confusion and contradictions of childhood, especially one spent torn between two parents and two countries.
- Author:Ritter, John H.Summary:
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion...
- Author:Herron, RachaelSummary:
From international bestseller Rachael Herron, comes a book too delightful to put down:The saloon had always looked old-fashioned, but now it resembled a set in a ghost town. The problem was that Adele wasn't in an old western, or a...
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