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41) Esperanza renace
Author
Language
Español
Description
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
Author
Series
Modern Library chronicles volume 23
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive history of the state of California describing its early native peoples, Spanish conquest, the Gold Rush of 1848, the railroad, San Francisco earthquake, and much more.
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.
44) Nighttown
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Los Angeles burglar Junior Bender has a rule about never taking a job that pays too well--in the criminal underworld, if someone is offering you more money than a job is worth, someone is going to end up dead. But he's bending his rule this one time because he and his girlfriend, Ronnie, are in desperate need of cash so they can hire a top-notch kidnapper to snatch Ronnie's two-year-old son back from her evil ex. The whole thing is pretty complicated,...
45) Three keys
Author
Series
Front desk volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Mia Tang thinks she's going to have the best year ever. She and her parents are the proud owners of the Calivista Motel, Mia gets to run the front desk with her best friend, Lupe, and she's finally getting somewhere with her writing! But as it turns out, sixth grade is no picnic."--Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
1977. For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has chopped a livelihood out of the redwood forest along California's rugged coast. Rich and his wife, Colleen, are raising their own young son...
47) Risk factor
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Acting Sheriff Buddy Steel's idyllic mountain retreat is cut short when he's called back to Freedom, California to investigate a gang-related home invasion--at his father's address. To complicate matters, the break-in is just one in a series perpetrated by a group of tech-savvy millennials who also happen to be the untouchable offspring of elite cartel and gang leaders. Already on the trail of the serial burglars is LAPD Gang Enforcement and foremost...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
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 Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved...
49) The wolf gift
Author
Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.
51) Cold barrel zero
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
John Hayes is a Special Operations legend who went rogue on a deep-cover mission and betrayed his own soldiers. Disgraced and on the run, he returns to the United States to take revenge on his accusers with a series of devastating attacks. Only one man can stop him: Thomas Byrne. He once fought alongside Hayes as a combat medic. Now a surgeon, he moves from town to town, trying to forget his past, until he is called upon by a high-ranking government...
52) Best of my love
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
A heartbroken baker and a charming but womanizing tour guide embark on an experiment to prove their respective gender's quality and trustworthiness while regaining self-respect, only to become the subject of gossip in their small hometown.
Author
Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
It is the beginning of December. Oak fires are burning in the stately flickering hearths of Nideck Point. It is Yuletide. For Reuben Golding, now infused with the wolf gift and under the loving tutelage of the Morphenkinder, this Christmas promises to be like no other . . . as he soon becomes aware that the Morphenkinder, steeped in their own rituals, are also celebrating the Midwinter Yuletide festival deep within Nideck forest. From out of the shadows...
56) California Girls
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Mria's Synopsis: The California sunshine's not quite so bright for three sisters who get dumped in the same week... Finola, a popular LA morning-show host, is famously upbeat until she's blindsided on live TV by the news that her husband is sleeping with a young pop sensation who has set their affair to music. While avoiding the tabloids and pretending she's just fine, she's crumbling inside, desperate for him to come to his senses and for life to...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Description
In Santa Teresa, California, PI Kinsey Millhone is hired by a mother to investigate her daughter's death, which police are unable to solve. As Millhone probes, there emerges a picture of a two-facetted woman, simple receptionist during the day and porno queen at night. By the author of A Is for Alibi.
Author
Series
House of Wolves volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder."--
59) "N" is for noose
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 14
Language
English
Description
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.
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