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"Nothing brings an estranged family together like a murder next door. High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage - and hoping...
82) Saving the team
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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[2013]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After moving to California, seventh-grader Devin is afraid she will not make the soccer team but finds, instead, a team is so bad that she is compelled to take the lead and turn it into something the players and coach can all be proud of.
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Kathryn Dance novels volume 1
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English
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Lincoln Rhyme is back! The brilliant criminologist returns with his partner and paramour Amelia Sachs, in a blistering bestseller that tests forensic detective work in a brave new world.
When Special Agent Kathryn Dance—a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation—is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels...
When Special Agent Kathryn Dance—a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation—is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels...
84) The ivory grin
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Lew Archer novels volume 4
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2007, c1952
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English
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English
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Set in contemporary Northern California, The Harder They Come explores the volatile connections between three damaged people -- an aging ex-Marine and Vietnam veteran, his psychologically unstable son, and the son's paranoid, much older lover -- as they careen towards an explosive confrontation.
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Nicole's husband quit his job and won't help take care of their son, leaving Nicole to run the house and work full-time. Can she say enough is enough without losing the man she loves? Sacrificing a personal life for her career is how Shannon Rigg rose to become vice president in her firm, but she wonders now whether she made the right choice. Although Pam Eiland has a beautiful house and a husband she adores. When unexpected change turns her life...
91) Scot & soda
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Midnight Ink
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2019.
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English
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Now settled in her little houseboat, moored in the slough at the back of the Last Ditch Motel, Lexy Campbell wants nothing more than to build her counseling business, avoid her mother's phone calls and--who knows?--meet a nice guy. But when she throws a Halloween party for her motley crew of motel pals, the only single man is too old for her, too wrapped up in the case of beer chilling in the slough, and--oh, yes--too dead. The smart choice is to...
92) A gambling man
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Aloysius Archer novels volume 2
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English
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Aloysius Archer travels to 1950s California to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent but immediately finds himself involved in a scandal.
The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made for someone who's hard-working, lucky, a criminal, or...
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2014.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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A story of first love and family loss follows the estrangement between daredevil Jude and her loner twin brother, Noah, as a result of a mysterious event that is brought to light by a beautiful, broken boy and a new mentor.
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Decades ago, after the death of his wife, Texas ranch hand JT Tucker took his three small daughters to California to start a new life. With almost no money, a will of iron, and hard work, he eventually built the biggest ranch in California. But when he dies suddenly at the age of sixty-four, the ranch is inherited by his three daughters--each of them finding it impossible to believe that this larger-than-life figure is gone from their lives. JT's...
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c2012
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English
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As the nation grapples with Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, who has found a source of income outside the federal purview. Mother of eight, Rosa mourns four who succumbed to a disease that now afflicts young Ana and Miguel. Only two daughters born to another father are healthy. And when an act of violence shatters Rosa's resolve, she flees with the children and her precious heirloom quilts...
97) Gone
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatric and ruthless Mexican strongman, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suits. Detective Michael Bennett is the only US official ever to succeed at putting Perrine behind bars -- but now Perrine is out, vowing to find and kill Bennett and everyone dear to him. Bennett and his ten adopted children are living on a secluded California farm, guarded...
98) Mecca
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Johnny Fr̕as has California in his blood. A descendant of the state's Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California's forgotten towns and canyons in his soul. He spends his days as a highway patrolman pulling over speeders, ignoring their racist insults, and pushing past the trauma of his rookie year, when he killed a man assaulting a young woman named Bunny, who ran from the scene, leaving Johnny without a witness. But like...
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"Billie is a beautiful Berkeley mom with a radical past--a teenage runaway from Northern California who took up with a group of environmental activists wanted by the FBI, lived dangerously, but when she meets Jonathan, a tech magazine editor and all around good guy, she settles easily into the life of an eco-conscious, stay-at-home suburban yoga mom. Their daughter Olive, under her mother's watchful gaze, becomes a lovely, introverted, slightly eccentric...
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