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81) Stein, stung
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books/F+W Crime
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
256 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Former hippie Harry Stein investigates the connection between the collapse of honeybee colonies and shadowy corporation AGROBIZ's grab for all the water in Southern California, while his daughter stumbles upon an 80-year-old corpse, the product of murder whose perpetrator is still alive and well--and the most powerful man in L.A.
82) Blonde
Author
Language
English
Description
"In one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jean Baker - the child, the woman, the fated celebrity - in Norma Jeane's own voice. This most intimate portrait reveals a fragile, indiosyncratically gifted young woman who makes and remakes her identity, ever managing to survive against crushing odds to become the definition of stardom ... Blonde is a sweeping novel about the elusive...
Author
Publisher
Compendium Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Former cage fighter living low in L.A. Mike Romeo doesn't have to look for trouble: it comes after him! A woman he saved from poisoning disappears and Romeo is hired by her father to find her. He discovers the people in her life were a mix of L.A. weird and downright dangerous: and some people want him dead.
84) Do tell: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
479 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A glittering debut novel set in the golden age of Hollywood, following a former actress whose new career in gossip journalism grants her more power on the page than she ever commanded in front of the camera"--
85) Blood defense
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Samantha Brinkman, an ambitious, hard-charging Los Angeles criminal defense attorney, is struggling to make a name for herself and to drag her fledgling practice into the big leagues. Sam lands a high-profile double-murder case in which one of the victims is a beloved TV star, and the defendant is a decorated veteran LAPD detective. It promises to be exactly the kind of media sensation that would establish her as a heavy hitter in the world of criminal...
87) The cutting edge
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brett Rutland, Carter Engineering's top troubleshooter, is sent to the L.A. office to crack a case of embezzlement. Brett's a hard man, so it hit him like a sledgehammer when he fell in love with Tessa Conway. Half the men in the office had been in love with her for years, but Brett was the first she'd loved in return. Their love is perfect, too perfect to last. And when Brett discovers the identity of the embezzler, his whole world is about to come...
88) Cinnamon kiss
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him it's a cinch. Then another friend, Saul Lynx, offers a job that might solve Easy's problem without jail time. He has to track the disappearance of an eccentric, prominent...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2013
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (11 hr., 58 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A chatty wedding planner wants her first gig-the adventurous nuptials of two Hollywood stars-to springboard her into the good life, but her plans may crash and burn when she has to work with a handsome, aloof extreme-sports entrepreneur.
90) Evergreen
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 1946: It's been two years since Aki Ito and her family were released from Manzanar detention center and resettled in Chicago with other Japanese Americans. Now the Itos have finally been allowed to return home to California--but nothing is as they left it. The entire Japanese American community is starting from scratch, with thousands of people living in dismal refugee camps while they struggle to find new houses and jobs in over-crowded...
91) Loving
Author
Series
Bailey Flanigan volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Bailey Flanigan is making decisions that will shape her future, and is trying to decide if she will spend her life with Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, or if her heart will draw her back to Bloomington, Indiana and Cody Coleman, her first love.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Elle Stowell is a young woman with an unconventional profession: burglary. But Elle is no petty thief--with just the right combination of smarts, looks, and skills, she can easily stroll through ritzy Bel Air neighborhoods and pick out the perfect home for plucking the most valuable items. This is how Elle has always gotten by. She is good at it, and she thrives on the thrill. But after stumbling upon a grisly triple homicide while stealing from...
94) The lawgiver
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
234 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale told through correspondence, articles, and text messages traces the efforts of a group of movie makers, including a brilliant young writer-director who has rejected her rabbinical father's strict upbringing, to create a movie about the life of Moses.
95) Movieland
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For decades Malibu Creek State Park was the spectacular natural setting where Hollywood fantasies were made. But when a female camper is gunned down, it becomes a real-life killing ground. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department homicide detectives Eve Ronin and Duncan Pavone are assigned the case...Seven victims over fourteen months...Despite finding no evidentiary links between the shootings, Eve and Duncan follow their instincts into the shadows...
96) Night Watch
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann has thrilled audiences with her Tall, Dark and Dangerous series. Experience it here with a hero who must face the most daring adventure of all-falling in love. How can he choose between an old flame and a new spark? When US Navy SEAL Chief Wes Skelly is sent to LA on assignment, he reluctantly agrees to go on a blind date with Brittany Evans, the sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 466 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Dolls: red or black; capsules or tablets; washed down with vodka or swallowed straight -- for Anne, Neely, and Jennifer, it doesn't matter, as long as the pill bottle is within easy reach. These three women become best friends when they are young and struggling in New York City and then climb to the top of the entertainment industry -- only to find that there is no place left to go but down -- into the Valley of the Dolls.
Author
Publisher
Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press
Pub. Date
c2011.
Physical Desc
119 pages : map ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawn against a Los Angeles landscape and crossing generations and borders, this debut collection of interrelated stories delves into the world of Andi Rowe -- a young woman of Mexican and Irish heritage -- to give an intimate account of one family's passage from the immigrant story to the American story and the cycle of loss, adaptation, and rediscovery that is innate to that experience.
99) Sonata in K
Author
Publisher
Ellipsis Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
K, a Nisei woman, is hired to be a reconstituted Franz Kafka's interpreter and chauffeur through a tour of millennial Los Angeles--
Who is Kafka-san? Is he a digitally remastered hologram of the famous writer? Or a golem engineered from a finger-bone excavated from a grave in Prague? Or just your garden-variety flesh-and-blood clone? No one is quite sure, least of all K, a Nisei woman hired to be Kafka-san's interpreter and chauffeur through millennial...
Author
Publisher
Quality Black Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
iv, 397 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'Black girls must die exhausted' is something that 33-year-old Tabitha Walker has heard her grandmother say before. Of course, her grandmother (who happens to be white) was referring to the 1950s and what she observed in the nascent times of civil rights. With a coveted position as a local news reporter, Marc--a 'paper-perfect' boyfriend-- and a standing Saturday morning appointment with a reliable hairstylist, Tabitha never imagined how this phrase...
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