Although Casey Keller loves his life as a YMCA counselor, making a difference in the lives of inner-city kids, his personal life is a mess. He loves Adam, his live-in boyfriend, but he can't deal with him. He misses Nathan, an old lover...
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- Author:Gala, LynSummary:
- Author:Ifkovic, EdSummary:
It’s 1955, and Edna Ferber is basking in the success of her blockbuster novel Giant. Headed to Los Angeles, where director George Stevens and Warner Brothers Studio are in the final days of filming her Texas oil epic, she is looking...
- Author:Aoki, RykaSummary:
Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars , a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed violins, Faustian bargains, and queer alien...
- Author:Singleton, Linda JoySummary:
Sabine can't wait to show off her new boyfriend at the upcoming school dance, but she's also worried about her grandmother, Nona, who's suffering from a fatal hereditary illness. The only cure lies within a remedy book, lost long ago....
- Author:Denton, Shannon EricSummary:
Drawn together in a scheme to fake the legendary Zorro's death, the outlaws Lady Rawhide and Lady Zorro leap to action when they discover a far-reaching plot to abduct female villagers, children and adults alike, and sell them into...
- Author:Crais, RobertSummary:
A gripping novel that envelopes L.A. detectives Cole and Pike in an ever-tightening web of conspiracies, secrets and murder.
- Author:Carr, RobynSummary:
Dr. June Hudson keeps her passionate visits with undercover DEA agent Jim Post a secret from her community, but an old flame's return to town after twenty years makes things complicated.
- Author:McDonald, MeganSummary:
After her parents divorce, fun-loving San Francisco girl Julie moves away from her best friend Ivy to start over again in a new house and school. But before long, she learns to create a few changes of her own--from saving endangered...
- Author:Garcia, Amanda YatesSummary:
Traditionally, Wiccans are initiated through a ceremony with a High Priestess. But even though Amanda Yates Garcia's mother, a practicing witch herself, initiated her into the earth-centered practice of witchcraft when she was...
- Author:Lopez, JackSummary:
Surfing is Juan Barrela's life but when his best friend Jamie faces a violent home situation, the tenth-grader steals his mother's car and drives with Jamie's sister Amber to Mexico to help her brother hide until tragedy strikes the...
- Author:Grace, HannahSummary:
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Over 1 million copies sold! A TikTok sensation! Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink. Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team...
- Author:McNamara, MichelleSummary:
For more than 10 years, a mysterious and violent predator committed 50 sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated 10 sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces...
- Author:Ridgway, ChristieSummary:
The beachside knitting shop Malibu & Ewe becomes a refuge for personal chef Nikki Carmichael, who has taken a job working for magazine editor Jay Buchanan, a sexy man with a picky palate and a few bizarre conditions to his offer of...
- Author:Kaiser, DavidSummary:
Describes how a quirky band of misfit science students at Berkeley in the 1970s altered the course of modern physics while studying quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading while lounging in hot tubs and...
- Author:Kaiser, DavidSummary:
In the 1970s, a small group of physicists in Berkeley decided to explore the wilder side of science, pursuing a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Unlikely as it may seem, this quirky band of misfits altered the course of...
- Author:Liparulo, RobertSummary:
When the Kings move to a secluded small town, fifteen-year-old Xander and his siblings discover portals to far-off places in long-ago times, and Xander wonders if this is a teen's dream come true--or his worst nightmare.
- Author:Kalteis, DietrichSummary:
Levi Hayes is out for gold — and blood — in this high-magnitude historical tear through the mean streets of San Francisco
In the days before the great earthquake and fire of 1906, Levi Hayes returns from San Quentin...
- Author:Selvin, JoelSummary:
'Hollywood Edenbrings the lost humanity of the record business vividly back to life ... [Selvin's] style is blunt, unpretentious and brisk; he knows how to move things along entertainingly ... Songs about surfboards and...
- Author:Ross, Steven JosephSummary:
The little-known story of the rise of Nazism in Los Angeles, and the Jewish leaders and spies they recruited who stopped it.
- Author:Andersen, KurtSummary:
During one monumental month in 1848, gold is discovered in California, the United States wins its first foreign war, rebellion erupts throughout Europe, and an eager English gentleman named Benjamin Knowles plunges into love with the...