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Polacco, Patricia

Summary: Soon after her beloved grandmother's death, Trisha's family moves to a diverse California neighborhood where she meets Stewart and his grandmother, Miss Eula, who brings people together to help a grieving neighbor.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Picture Polacco

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE POL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POL

Wiggins, Marianne

Summary: Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIG

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIG

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WIG

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIG

Fowler, Earlene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkeley Prime Crime 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOW

Fowler, Earlene.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beeler Large Print 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FOW

Quick, Amanda

Summary: A romance set in Burning Cove, California, an idyllic small town on the coast that has become a refuge for Hollywood moguls and stars seeking privacy for scandalous trysts and wild parties.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUI

Quick, Amanda

Summary: In 1930s Burning Cove, California, Maggie Lodge hires PI Sam Sage to find the person posing as her boss, known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia. As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head. Maggie, on the other hand, is convinced that Sam is badly in need of guidance and good advice. Sam is haunted by his past, which includes a marriage shattered by betrayal and violence....

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUI

Sheinmel, Courtney

Summary: Stella gets a chance to audition for her favorite television show when she meets a casting director who thinks she is perfect for the role, so she rehearses her lines until she know the part by heart, but the audition does not go as planned.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2015

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC SHE

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SHE

Steinbeck, John

Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC STE

Yoon, David

Summary: High school senior Frank Li is caught between his parents' traditional expectations and his own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance: 'Date Korean. But Frank falls for Brit Means, who is smart, beautiful-- and white. Joy Song is in a similar predicament, and they make a pact: they'll pretend to date each other in order to gain their freedom. It...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2019

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YOO

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC YOO

Patterson, James

Summary: Brainy twelve-year-old Bart attracts little attention at his new middle school near Hollywood, California, but whenever he can get around his gym-coach father, he secretly hunts electricity-guzzling aliens.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAT

Nelson, Jandy

Summary: "A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION NEL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NEL

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NEL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NEL

Pandian, Gigi

Summary: "Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business - known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls - is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAN

Bryant, Elise (Elise M.)

Summary: "A delightful, escapist romp that explores just how far parents will go to give their kids the very best, in this adult mystery debut. Mavis Miller is not a PTA mom. She has enough on her plate with her feisty seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, an exhausting job at a nonprofit, and the complexities of a multigenerational household. So no one is more surprised than Mavis when she caves to Trisha...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2024

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Quick, Amanda

Summary: When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool.The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Quick 2017

Shusterman, Neal

Summary: When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone in the hunt for water. And that's when her parents go missing.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHU

Torres, Jennifer

Summary: Twins Raquel and Lucinda Mendoza used to be inseparable, but since their parents divorced Raquel has become bossy and obsessive, while Lucinda has immersed herself in her ice skating lessons, and the pandemic and its enforced isolation has only made things worse; but then they are sent to their father's ranch in central California and while Raquel thinks that this is a chance to get their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOR

Whitaker, Chris

2 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "There are two kinds of families: the ones we are born into and the ones we create. Walk has never left the coastal California town where he grew up. He may have become the chief of police, but he's still trying to heal the old wound of having given the testimony that sent his best friend, Vincent King, to prison decades before. Now, thirty years later, Vincent is being released. Duchess is a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WHI

Reichardt, Marisa

Summary: Ever since the mass shooting at her California high school, junior Morgan Grant has become increasingly agoraphobic until even the idea of stepping outside her door can bring on a panic attack, a situation not made any easier by the fact that her parentsare divorced--but when Evan moves in next door she finds herself attracted to him and begins to find herself longing for the life she has been...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION REI

Shusterman, Neal

Summary: A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHU

Wiggs, Susan

Summary: Every town has its secrets... In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. At Thornton, the students are the worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves with spectacular views. But the class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer's daughter who is there on scholarship. To...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIG

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIG

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIG

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIIC WIG

Grafton, Sue.

Summary: PI Kinsey Millhone of California is hired by the widow of a policeman who refused to tell her what was on his mind. Kinsey learns he suspected some policemen of murder. When Kinsey opens an investigation, the town clams up.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS GRA

Quick, Amanda

Summary: When Hollywood moguls and stars want privacy, they head to an idyllic small town on the coast, where the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel caters to their every need. It's where reporter Irene Glasson finds herself staring down at a beautiful actress at the bottom of a pool.The dead woman had a red-hot secret about up-and-coming leading man Nick Tremayne, a scoop that Irene couldn't...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUI

Burke, Jan.

Summary: In California, a police officer is abducted by two men for publicity purposes. The pair want police to reopen the case of their murdered father, claiming a policeman was a party to the killing. Newspaper reporter Irene Kelly, the wife of the abducted policeman, tries to obtain his release.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

Grafton, Sue.

Summary: At the request of the Malek family, owners of a multi-million-dollar construction company, private detective Kinsey Millhone is hired to trace the missing brother of the troubled and embattled clan, eighteen years after he had vanished without a trace.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M GRA

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