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121) Love me do
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While visiting her sister in Hollywood, Phoebe Chapman plays matchmaker for her sister’s personal trainer and the sweet carpenter next door, and caught up with writing love letters and an unexpected friendship with a reclusive 82-year-old film star, finds herself falling for the real LA—and someone unexpected.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Juggling the pressures of college applications and friendships, neurotic overachiever Jules' plans for her senior year are thrown off track when she starts dating the new guy at school and finds herself at the center of a rivalry between her high school's newspaper and its just-launched TV news show.
123) The ghost orchid
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 39
Language
English
Description
Consulting on the baffling double murder of a playboy heir to an Italian shoe empire and his married lover, brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis are led to L.A.’s darkest side as they contend with one of the most shocking cases of their careers.
124) Death by bubble tea
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When two cousins open a food stall at a Los Angeles night market, a customer dies after drinking their bubble tea, and they set out to find the killer and clear their names.
126) The shards
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1981 Los Angeles, 17-year-old Bret and his friends at the exclusive Buckley prep school welcome new student Robert Mallory into their fold until Mallory’s unsettling preoccupation with the Trawler, a serial killer targeting teenagers throughout the city, takes a horrific turn.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Pen, Hex, Ash, Ez, and Venice are living on hard work, companionship, and dreams in the pink house by the sea until a foreboding ship arrives and all start having strange visions of destruction and violence then, trance-like, they head for the ship and their new battles, with Pen using Virgil's epic Aeneid as her guide.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After America’s entry into WWII, Maria Lagana, an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties and jockeying positions until a man from her imprisoned father’s past threatens her carefully constructed façade.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In Los Angeles in the summer of 1962, Freddy O, a corrupt ex-cop, dope fiend and freelance extortionist, believes Marilyn Monroe’s death and the kidnapping of a B-movie starlet are riddles only he can solve as he tears through all those who block his path to the truth.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fashion-obsessed Abby Ives lands an internship at her favorite boutique for the summer, but falls for her fellow intern Jordi Perez, against whom she is vying for the one paid position at the end of the internship.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this powerful novel of stories handed down and handed on, and those held close to the heart, Julian Künstler, during the 2020 pandemic, is trapped in Venice, California, with his glamorous, eccentric 93-year-old grandmother who shares her experiences upon arriving in the US after escaping Nazi Germany.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When uber-stylist—and uber-bully—Bebe Braddock is murdered, and Jaine’s prints are all over the murder weapon, she, while navigating a cougar-style romance, must clear own name before the color of the next outfit she wears is orange.
133) The promise
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hired to find a missing woman, who was being blackmailed, Elvis Cole and Joe Pike find their case is somehow connected with LAPD officer Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie's pursuit of an armed and dangerous thief.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In a fast-paced sequel to The Hellfire Club, Charlie and Margaret Marder, political stars in 1960s Washington D.C., arrive in Los Angeles on their latest case, only to be pursued by sinister forces from Hollywood's stages to the newly founded Church of Scientology.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"As a biracial orphan, Rika has never felt like she fully belonged to her family or the Little Tokyo community in LA, until she embarks on a fairy tale-like quest to discover if America's leading movie star could be her biological mother"--
136) Hi five
Author
Series
IQ novels volume 4
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Cristiana is the daughter of the biggest arms dealer on the West Coast, Angus Byrne. She's also the sole witness and number one suspect in the murder of her boyfriend, found dead in her Newport Beach boutique. IQ - Isaiah Quintabe - is coerced into taking the case to prove her innocence. If he can't, Angus will harm the PI's new girlfriend, ending her career. The catch: Christiana has multiple personalities. Isaiah's dilemma: no one personality saw...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Working as a bodyguard for a spoiled federal witness, Joe Pike hatches a desperate plan to disappear with the woman in the underworld of Los Angeles and turn on her would-be killers, an effort in which he enlists the help of private investigator Elvis Cole.
138) A man named Doll
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran of both the Navy and LAPD, Doll supplements his meager income as a P.I. by working through the night at a local Thai spa to protect the women who work there from clients who have trouble understanding the word "no." When things get out-of-hand with one particularly...
139) The kill club
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Jazz and Joaquin's foster mother, Carol, has always been fanatical, but with Jazz grown up and out of the house, Carol takes a dangerous turn that threatens thirteen-year-old Joaquin's life. Over and over, child services fails to intervene, and Joaquin is running out of time. Then Jazz gets a blocked call from someone offering a solution. There are others like her--people the law has failed. They've formed an underground network of 'helpers', each...
140) The hunt
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus return to Los Angeles when a kidnapping hits close to home. Peter and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in the very woods where a man previously went missing in upstate New York. But that's not the only crisis that Peter has to deal with. Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter's foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles...
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