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Orlean, Susan

Summary: On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, patrons and staff outside of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, "Once that first stack got going, it was 'Goodbye, Charlie.'" The fire was disastrous, reaching 2000 degrees and burning for more than seven hours. It consumed four hundred...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018

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Clark, Marcia.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co. 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Petersen, Anne Helen

Summary: "A collection of shocking clashes and controversies from Hollywood's Golden Age, featuring notorious personalities including Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, and more"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 791.4 PET

Bunn, T. Davis

Summary: Young 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BUN

Goldberg, 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 GOL

More, Clay

Summary: "Adventurer, showman, charlatan, best-selling author: Ned Buntline was all of these things and more, including one of the most colorful characters in American history. Buntline, whose real name was Edward Zane Carroll Judson (he called himself Colonel Judson, but the rank was as fictional as the pseudonym), produced hundreds of dime novels during the second half of the 19th century and was the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOR

Kurzman, Dan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 979.461 KUR

Woods, Stuart

Summary: "When Peter Barrington and Ben Bachetti come under threat while working at a film festival abroad, Teddy Fay is lured to the glittering city of Macau to resolve the problem. He'll soon come to find that world of posh casinos, luxurious developments, and boundless wealth has a dark underbelly of crime and political intrigue. With international deals and private vendettas at stake, the villains...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WOO

Estleman, Loren D.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M EST

Connelly, Michael

Summary: Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood, beginning many investigations but finishing none as each morning she turns her cases over to day shift detectives. A once up-and-coming detective, she's been given this beat as punishment after filing a sexual harassment complaint against a supervisor. But one night she catches two cases she doesn't want to part with: the brutal beating of a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CON

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M CON

Bunn, T. Davis

Summary: "Set in the small California coastal town of Miramar Bay, a dying young man, Lucas Quarterfield, must say goodbye to the woman he loves. Almost fifty years later through unusual circumstances he receives as second chance to be near the only woman he ever wanted"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BUN

Connelly, Michael

Summary: Weaving lines of poetry into his gruesome crimes, the serial killer known to millions as the Poet returns. Rachel Walling, the FBI agent who years earlier had tried to track him down, has not forgotten him, and neither has former LAPD detective Harry Bosch who receives a call from an old friend whose husband had recently died. Even though his death appeared natural, the man's ties to the hunt...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CON

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP MYS Conne

Mosley, Walter

Summary: After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the desert, through South Central and into sex clubs and the homes of the fabulously wealthy, facing hippies, the mob, and old friends perhaps more dangerous than anyone else.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOS

Connelly, Michael

Summary: When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Mickey Haller (of "The Lincoln Lawyer" fame) inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2008

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Estleman, Loren D.

Summary: "Film detective Valentino is summoned to the estate of Ignacio Bozel to collect a prized donation to the university's movie library:Bleak Street, a film from the classic noir period, thought lost for more than sixty years. Bleak Street was never released. Its star, Van Oliver, a gifted and charismatic actor with alleged ties to the mob, disappeared while the project was in post-production,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EST

Kellerman, Faye

Summary: Peter Decker and his partner, Detective Tyler McAdams, are thrown into an unsolved case and propelled into action when a body is found in Upstate New York, in the very woods where a man previously went missing. Meanwhile Teresa McLaughlin, the biological mother of Peter and Rina's foster son, Gabe, has fled to Los Angeles with her two other children in tow, hoping to avoid a court injunction...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KEL

Isaacs, Susan

Summary: "An ex-FBI agent turned Long Island housewife taps into her investigative past when she begins to suspect that her neighbor is harboring criminal secrets"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ISA

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ISA

Kellerman, Jonathan.

Summary: Troy Turner and Rand Duchay were barely teenagers when they kidnapped and murdered a younger child. Troy, a remorseless sociopath, died violently behind bars. But the hulking, slow-witted Rand managed to survive his stretch. Now, at age twenty-one, he's emerged a haunted, rootless young man with a pressing need to talk once again with psychologist Alex Delaware. But the young killer comes to a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2005

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KEL

Chow, Jennifer J.

Summary: "When Yale Yee discovers her cousin Celine is visiting from Hong Kong, she is obliged to play tour guide to a relative she hasn't seen in twenty years. Not only that, but her father thinks it's a wonderful idea for them to bond by running a food stall together at the Eastwood Village Night Market. Yale hasn't cooked in years, and she hardly considers Celine's career as a social media influencer...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC CHO

Connelly, Michael

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Summary: LAPD detective Renee Ballard and Harry Bosch work together to hunt the killer who is Bosch's white whale --a man responsible for the murder of an entire family. A year has passed since LAPD detective Renee Ballard quit the force in the face of misogyny, demoralization, and endless red tape. Yet, after the chief of police himself tells her she can write her ticket within the department, Ballard...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CON

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CON

Connelly, 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 & Co 2011

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP MYS CON

Hanson, Hart

Summary: "Michael Skellig is a limo driver waiting for his client in the alley behind an upscale hotel. He's spent the past twenty-eight hours ferrying around Bismarck Avila, a celebrity skateboard mogul who isn't going home any time soon. Suddenly the wind begins to speak to Skellig in the guttural accent of the Chechen torturer he shot through the eye in Yemen a decade ago: Troubletroubletrouble....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HAN

Kellerman, Jonathan.

Summary: When he is consulted on a cold case involving the discovery of infant remains at a neglected Tudor mansion, psychologist Alex Delaware, tracing the long history of past residents, is led down a bloody path littered with unspeakable cruelty.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KEL

Mosley, Walter.

Summary: The arrival of his lowlife cousin, Ulysses S. "Useless" Grant, spells trouble for Paris Minton and his friend, Fearless Jones, as they become embroiled in a bizarre case involving mysterious women, desperate blackmail victims, cheating business partners,and murder.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOS

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