1820s California, in a bygone era of sprawling haciendas and haughty caballeros, suffers beneath the whip of oppression. Missions are pillaged, native peasants are abused, and innocent men and women are persecuted by the corrupt...
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- Author:McCulley, JohnstonSummary:
- 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 sends Margot...
- Author:Roscoe, PatrickSummary:
A collection of stories set in Spain, Africa, California or British Columbia, all featuring family or romantic relationships at the core.
- 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:Snyder, LynsiSummary:
When Lynsi Snyder's grandparents founded In-N-Out Burger in 1948, they built it with a passion for quality and service that Lynsi embraced at a young age. After starting as a store associate at age seventeen, she then worked in...
- Author:Roberts, WilliamSummary:
When a young man is found dead near a remote northern California town, police label it an accident or suicide. But journalist Arnold Rednapp learns of suspicious circumstances and suspects a community-wide conspiracy.
- Author:Ide, JoeSummary:
Vividly re-imagined in present-day Los Angeles, Detective Philip Marlowe, against his better judgement, accepts two missing person cases while struggling through his confounding relationship with his father.
- 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:Johnstone, William W.Summary:
JOHNSTONE'S AMERICA. THE GOLD STANDARD. From the acclaimed chroniclers of the Old West comes a blazing new saga of the great American Gold Rush—and the boldhearted dreamers who made it all happen ... THEY CALLED THEM THE FORTY-...
- 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...
- Author:Thompson-Hernández, WalterSummary:
Inspired by a powerful New York Times article that went viral, this young readers' edition tells the uplifting true story of Black men and women from Compton, California, who found purpose through raising and riding horses.
- Author:Walker, AliceSummary:
Recounts the author's experiences caring for a flock of chickens on a farm north of San Francisco, documenting her personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals.
- Author:Kingsbury, KarenSummary:
Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith...
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