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Series
Library of America volume 268
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Four suspense novels of the 1940s. These four stories explore the terrors of family life, personality disorders, and horrors of the mind.
582) Party girl
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Landon Brinkley's dreams are all coming true. She's landed an internship with the fabulous Selah Smith, event planner for the Hollywood elite, taking her from small-town Texas to the bright lights of LA. Landon soon finds herself in a world in which spending a million dollars on an event--even a child's birthday party--is de rigueur and the whims of celebrity clients are life-and-death matters. At first, the thrill of working on A-list parties and...
Author
Series
Frost files volume 3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Teagan Frost might be getting better at moving shit with her mind - but her job working as a telekinetic government operative only ever seems to get harder. That's not even talking about her car-crash of a love life. And things are about to get even tougher. No sooner has Teagan chased off one psychotic kid hell-bent on trashing the whole West Coast, but now she has to contend with another supernatural being who can harness devastating electrical...
584) It's alive!: a novel
Author
Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1931, life was good for Junior Laemmle. Though only twenty-three years old, he was the head of all movie production for Universal Pictures, and under his reign, the studio flourished. So much so, he was about to be bestowed with the greatest honor a young executive can receive in Hollywood: a promotion to vice president of the entire company. What's more, Carl Laemmle, his father and founder of the studio, was returning to California...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"We live in a society obsessed with celebrity, but have you ever wondered who is on the inside gathering the best celebrity gossip and how do they get access? According to a Source: A Novel by Abby Stern dishes on this behind the scenes world in a way that only a Hollywood insider could. Ella Warren works for celebrity news website, The Life, as a club reporter. She's assigned to stake out Hollywood's hottest clubs and spy on the celebrities inside....
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Assigned to tell the story of popular 1960s comedy team Lanny Morris and Vince Collins, O'Connor, a feisty young journalist known for her celebrity interviews, sets out to discover the mystery behind the desteuction of their friendship, becoming increasingly involved with both men, one of whom could be a murderer.
588) Under color of law
Author
Series
Trevor Finnegan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Black rookie cop Trevor "Finn" Finnegan aspires to become a top-ranking officer in the Los Angeles Police Department and fix a broken department. A fast-track promotion to detective in the coveted Robbery-Homicide Division puts him closer to achieving his goal. Four years later, calls for police accountability rule the headlines. The city is teeming with protests for racial justice. When the body of a murdered Black academy recruit is found in the...
589) Spider season
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Justice was once one of the most prominent and respected journalists in Los Angeles, even the country. But when it was discovered that he'd invented the sources for his Pulitzer Prize winning series of articles, he lost everything - his job, his reputation, his friends. Now, many years later, Justice has finally published a memoir revealing the truth behind the events that cost him so much and made him permanently radioactive in the journalism...
590) Unscripted
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Line producer Danny Byrd is well-known in Hollywood for being someone who gets things done on time and under budget. But when his reputation takes a beating after his partner-- and former best friend-- makes off with their investors' money, Danny has but one chance to redeem himself and restore his ruined career. LA lawyer Megan Pierce sacrificed years proving herself to bosses only to be disgusted by their snobbery and their specious business practices....
591) Influence
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After her family moves to Los Angeles, Delilah Rollins, already a minor Internet celebrity, plunges into the competitive and glamorous world of social media influencers, but can cosmetics and good lighting conceal cheating, manipulation, blackmail, and murder?
After her video goes viral, Delilah Rollins knows everything is going to change. She has no idea how much. Jasmine Walters-Diaz, a child star turned media darling, can practically break the...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rick Nagano is a graduate student in the history department at USC, struggling to make rent on his South Los Angeles apartment near the neighborhood where his family once lived. When he lands a job as a research assistant for the elderly Mrs. W--, the heir to an oil fortune, he sees it first simply as a source of extra cash. But as he grows closer to the iconoclastic, charming, and feisty Mrs. W--, he gets drawn into a world of privilege and wealth...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Freddy Otash is the man in the know and the man to know in Tinseltown. He operates with two simple rules--he'll do anything but murder, and he'll never work with commies. Freddy is a corrupt L.A. cop on the skids. He executed a cop killer named Horvath and it gores him. So Captain "Whiskey" Bill Parker cans him. Now, Freddy dons an array of new hats--sleazoid private eye, shakedown artist, matchmaker for Rock Hudson, pimp for President John F. Kennedy--and,...
594) Lola: a novel
Author
Series
Lola Vaquez novels volume 1
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been drawn into an escalating war between rival drug cartels. To outsiders, the Crenshaw Six appear to be led by a man named Garcia. but what no one has figured out is that the gang's real leader (and secret weapon) is Garcia's girlfriend, a brilliant young woman named Lola. Lola has mastered playing the role of submissive girlfriend, and in the man's world...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The youngest of three brothers, K just wants to be an all-American boy-shooting hoops with his buddies and riding his Huffy around the San Fernando Valley. But K understands there's something different about himself, a longing that draws him closer to his friends while making him feel more and more alienated. At home, K must navigate another confusing identity: that of the faithful son of Iranian immigrants struggling to survive in the United States....
Author
Series
Frost files volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Teagan Frost's life is finally back on track. Her role working for the government as a psychokinetic operative is going well. She might also be on course for convincing her crush to go out with her. And she has even managed to perfect her paella recipe. But Teagan is about to face her biggest threat yet. A young boy with the ability to cause earthquakes has come to Los Angeles--home to the San Andreas Fault, one of the most lethal lines in the world....
Author
Series
Another kingdom novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Austin, a struggling screenwriter living in LA, is transported to the medieval city of Galiana, where he is charged with murder. He is suddenly transported back to LA and sets off in search of the only book written about the medieval kingdom. But Austin is not the only one interested in the book - Serge Orosgo, a powerful billionaire and family friend, wants the books so badly that he threatens to kill Austin if he doesn't find it. Realizing Serge...
599) Look
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"While falling in love with the mysterious Cass, Lulu sheds her carefully crafted social media persona and takes ownership of who she is in this feminist, queer coming-of-age story"--
Things Lulu Shapiro's 5,000 Flash followers don't know about her: That the video of her with another girl was never supposed to go public ; That Owen definitely wasn't supposed to break up with her because of it ; That behind the carefully crafted selfies and scenes...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this new installment of the Edgar award-winning Stewart Hoag mystery series, the ghostwriting sleuth investigates a trail of murder amidst Hollywood's rich and famous. Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag hasn't written any fiction since his debut novel rocked the literary world of the 1980s and then left him with a paralyzing case of writer's block. Since then, he's been reduced to ghostwriting celebrity memoirs. But his newest project could have him diving...
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