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2) Hostage
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Language
English
Description
Former LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley takes a job as chief of police in a small town far from the city, but his peaceful life is overturned when three young men, fleeing a robbery, invade a local home and take a family hostage.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Mark Haines's former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man--until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he's marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash--two cynical...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Top surfer Dolphin Smoote gets more than he bargains for when he works up the nerve to ask out the brown eyed beauty on a date. The search of quick coin without having to work will always lead a surfer to precarious places, and Dolphin is no exception. With the help of his lovable surfer crew who often have more to say about stylishness than anything else, Dolphin finds himself between conmen, ghosts, an impending storm from the coast of Mexico...and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. An old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. When a new family--with a particularly annoying girl his age named Oak--moves into the neighboring house, they cut the tree down. As Oak and Alder start school together, they can't imagine ever becoming friends. But they soon discover a series of mysterious, possibly magical, connections...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This book explores the famous clash between two high-profile scientists over a consequential question: Is California earthquake country? Set in the first half of the twentieth century, when seismology was still in its infancy, this debate had life-or-death consequences for the millions of people migrating west. After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, people wanted to know: Is it safe? And how can we best prepare for the next big one? Susan Hough...
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Series
DIMILY trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A year after Eden last spoke to her stepbrother, Tyler, she returns to Santa Monica and finds him there, determined to rekindle their romance.
After a year, Eden remains furious at her stepbrother Tyler for ending their physical relationship and leaving her. But she's moved on with life in Chicago, where she is at University studying psychology. For the summer she heads back to Santa Monica, but a tragedy draws Tyler down from Portland, and brings...
10) 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
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English
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"Best friends Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani endure every parent's nightmare when a tragic accident befalls their teenage boys, leaving one dead, another in a coma, and a third too traumatized to speak. Reeling from the worst night of their lives, the three mothers plunge into a desperate investigation of the bizarre incident. How could something so horrible happen in their wealthy Southern California suburb? They soon discover that the accident was just...
12) Wave
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
13) The perfect look
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A man winds up dead in a hotel room in LA after a night with a prostitute, and no one thinks much of it until what seems like an isolated case turns into a pattern. It soon becomes clear that a prostitute has turned serial killer, and that LAPD forensic profiler and FBI agent Jessie Hunt may be the only one who can stop her.
14) Key player
Author
Series
Front desk volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mia Tang is going for the goal in the fourth Front Desk novel by New York Times bestselling author Kelly Yang! The Women's World Cup coming to Southern California, everyone is soccer-crazy -- especially Mia Tang! The U.S. is playing China in the finals, and Mia feels like her two identities are finally coming together. Less exciting, though? The fact that her P.E. teacher wants Mia to get out of the soccer field, too -- or fall short of the grade...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Presenting the big screen adventures of Gidget, the original queen of the Southern California beach scene.
Gidget: Gidget goes to the beach over her summer vacation and finds herself adopted as the mascot of a group of college boys who surf at Malibu. Romance and fun follow the group in all their beach shenanigans.
Gidget goes to Rome: Gidget goes to Rome with boyfriend Moondoggie and their best friends. But then Gidget falls for an Italian dreamboat...
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