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Blessing and cursing Fiction California Fiction California Los Angeles Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Cold cases (Criminal investigation) Fiction Detective and mystery stories Magicians Fiction Missing persons Fiction Murder Investigation San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) FictionMuñoz, Manuel
Summary: ""Her immediate concern was money." So begins the first story in Manuel Muñoz's dazzling new collection. In it, Delfina has moved from Texas to California's Central Valley with her husband and small son, and her isolation and desperation force her to take a risk that ends in profound betrayal. These exquisite stories are mostly set in the 1980s in the small towns that surround Fresno. With an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2022
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Summary: Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Mira 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WIGCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Wiggs 2013Bieker, Chelsea
Summary: A woman steals a baby from a shelter in an attempt to salvage her own lost motherhood. A phone-sex operator sees divine opportunity when a lavender-eyed cowboy walks into her life. A mother and a son selling dream catchers along a highway that leads to a toxic beach manifest two young documentary filmmakers into their realm. And two teenage girls play a dangerous online game with destiny....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BIEMiller, Jax
Summary: "The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth... On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MILQuick, Amanda
Summary: Welcome to Burning Cove, California, where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer ... Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes. Although she is set on making a career of transforming her photography into a new art form, she knows her current work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUISummary: Two migrant workers, George and Lennie, have been let off a bus miles away from the California farm where they are due to start work. George is a small, dark man with Lennie, his companion, is his opposite, a giant of a man. Overcome with thirst, the two stop in a clearing to camp for the night. As the two converse, it becomes clear that Lennie has a mild mental disability, is deeply devoted to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OFConnelly, Michael
Summary: Detective Harry Bosch investigates a cold case and the murder of a city councilman's son. The cases are unrelated but they twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Connelly 2011Weaver, Brynne
Summary: "When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive -- the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zando 2023
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Summary: "After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUSummary: Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) is a shy research physician who uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. The awakening of the first patient proves a rebirth for the doctor, too, as the patient reveals life's simple but sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor. Encouraged by Leonard's stunning recovery, Sayer administers the drug to other patients.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AWASummary: An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HAIBrouwer, Sigmund
Summary: "In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Kevin makes a startling discovery that he hides from his abusive foster parents."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BROConnelly, Michael
Summary: There's chaos in Hollywood at the end of the New Year's Eve countdown. Working her graveyard shift, LAPD detective Renée Ballard is called to a scene where a hardworking auto shop owner has been fatally hit by a bullet in the middle of a crowded street party. Ballard quickly concludes that the bullet is linked to another unsolved murder--a case at one time worked by Detective Harry Bosch. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CONPandian, Gigi
Summary: After a disastrous accident derails stage magician Tempest Raj's career, she heads back to her childhood home in California to comfort herself with her grandfather's Indian home-cooked meals. She resists working for her father's company. Secret Staircase Construction, which specializes in transforming clients' homes with sliding bookcases, intricate locks, and hidden reading nooks. When Tempest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC PANConnelly, Michael
Summary: "Defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a client in the trunk of his Lincoln. Haller is charged with murder and can't make the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Mickey elects to defend himself and must strategize and build his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles, all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Connelly 2020Pandian, Gigi
Summary: "Secret Staircase Construction is under attack, and Tempest Raj feels helpless. After former client Julian Rhodes tried to kill his wife, he blamed her "accident" on the home renovation company's craftsmanship. Now the family business - known for bringing magic into homes through hidden doors, floating staircases, and architectural puzzle walls - is at a breaking point. No amount of Scottish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: Beatrice Fletcher, great-grandniece of famous mystery writer Jessica Fletcher, is obsessed with the unsolved mysteries and murders of Cabot Cove, Maine, but this time the case becomes personal when her best friend Jackson disappears and she must rely on the help of three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy to find him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KUEBryan, J. G.
Summary: As seniors in high school during the late 70s in SoCal's San Fernando Valley, Douglas and his friends explore the city of Los Angeles, get stoned, tour the Manson murders locations, obsess over girls, and go to prom in powder blue tuxes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press, LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BRYMcNeil, Gretchen
Summary: Izzy and her family welcome foreign exchange student Alberto into their home, but after a series of mishaps and coincidences, and with a serial killer on the loose, Izzy begins to suspect Alberto is not who he seems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MCNDjanikian, Ariel
Summary: The middle daughter of struggling California fruit farmers, Alice Bush is accustomed to feeling inferior and destitute. When her elder sister's husband strikes a vein of gold in the Yukon Territory, Alice seizes control of her destiny by joining a wave of white settlers making the dangerous trek to the Klondike. By luck and circumstance Alice becomes tightly intertwined in her sister and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DJALaCour, Nina
Summary: A newly graduated Mila emerges from foster care to accept a job on an isolated Northern California Coast farm where she confronts haunting memories and the traumas of her fellow residents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LACFeehan, Christine
Summary: Stella Harrison thought she got away from her past. Running the Sunrise Lake resort has brought her peace. But a killer is out there. And Stella knows that this time she'll do whatever it takes to stop him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FEEGoldberg, Lee
Summary: "A catastrophic wildfire scorches the Santa Monica Mountains, exposing the charred remains of a woman who disappeared years ago. The investigation is assigned to Eve Ronin, the youngest homicide detective in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, a position that forces her to prove herself again and again. This time, though, she has much more to prove. Bones don't lie, and these have a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLPeters, Elizabeth
Summary: Vicky Bliss, peerless art historian and sleuth, searches for solutions to more than one heinous offense in the ever-shifting sands of Egypt's mysterious Valley of the Kings. When her longtime significant other, John Tregarth, the suave and dangerously charming international art thief, is accused of taking a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic, it is up to Bliss to clear his name.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2008