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Shusterman, Neal

Summary: When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, Alyssa's quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone in the hunt for water. And that's when her parents go missing.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SHU

Shusterman, Neal

Summary: A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster BFYR 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SHU

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SHU

Cameron, Josephine

Summary: As his family's dog-friendly bed-and-breakfast establishment in dog-friendly Carmelito, California, welcomes celebrity dog Sir Bentley, twelve-year-old Epic McDade and his younger siblings investigate the disappearance of the famous dog's jewel-encrusted collar.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD CAM

Colbert, Brandy

Summary: "Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC COL

Collins, Ailynn

Summary: Having just moved to California, Syretia's mother enrolls her and her younger brother, Sean, in the only summer camp available: Mars or Bust, which is focusing on the Mars Curiosity rover due to land soon; Sean is thrilled by all things involving space, but eleven-year-old rock enthusiast Syretia is not really interested, until she discovers that the rover will be studying Martian geology--as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE COL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COL

de la Peña, Matt

Summary: Haunted by the event that sentences him to time in a group home, Miguel breaks out with two unlikely companions and together they begin their journey down the California coast hoping to get to Mexico and a new life.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH DEL

Nelson, Jandy

Summary: "A story of first love, family, loss, and betrayal told from different points in time, and in separate voices, by artists Jude and her twin brother Noah"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION NEL

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NEL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC NEL

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC NEL

Gyasi, Yaa

Summary: "A novel about faith, science, religion, and family that tells the deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief, narrated by a fifth year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford school of medicine studying the neural circuits of reward seeking behavior in mice"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GYA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GYA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GYA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GYA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Gyasi 2020

Bybee, Catherine.

Summary: Grace Hudson is the only female civil engineer in her department. After her last love interest left her traumatized, she is determined to focus on her career. Even so, a little flirting with a handsome stranger over coffee can't hurt, right? Dameon Locke is focused on his newest development project and keeping his company afloat after his biggest investor pulled out. So during the planning...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Montlake 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BYB

Blackburn, Venita

Summary: Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar Straus and Giroux 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

Scott, Michael

Summary: Nicholas Flamel and teenaged twins Josh and Sophie Newman return to San Francisco where a weakened Flamel reunites with his wife, Perenelle, hoping to use his remaining power to prevent the monsters on Alcatraz Island from escaping. Meanwhile, Dr. John Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power and the twins desperately try to determine who they can trust as they search for Scatty and an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2011

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SCO

Bybee, Catherine

Summary: As the only female civil engineer in her department, Grace Hudson needs space from men. Her last love interest traumatized her in ways she never saw coming; with that behind her, she is determined to focus on her career. Even so, a little flirting with a handsome stranger over coffee can't hurt, right? In their short interaction, Grace dazzles Dameon Locke. But he's focused on his newest...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction Byb

Twelve Hawks, John.

Summary: Struggling to protect the legacy of his Traveler father, Gabriel faces troubling new questions and relentless threats. His brother Michael, now firmly allied with the enemy, pursues his ambition to wrest power from Nathan Boone, the calculating leader of the Brethren. And Maya, the Harlequin warrior pledged to protect Gabriel at all costs, is forced to make a choice that will change her life...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TWE

Lobdell, Scott.

Summary: When Frank and Joe Hardy go undercover at a major skateboarding contest in California, they must discover which competitor is trying to literally kill off the competition, before it's too late.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LOB

Newman, Sandra

Summary: Opening a fraudulent spiritual center with her brother and their friend Ralph in coastal California, Chrysalis Moffat experiences unexpected success before discovering their father's secret past and its connection to Ralph's mysterious, gambling-marked world.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEW

Kegan, Stephanie.

Summary: "In the vein of Defending Jacob or We Need to Talk About Kevin, a compelling literary drama about finding evil close to home and how far a woman will go to protect her family. All her life, Natalie Askedahl has been the good girl, an obedient team player. Growing up as the youngest child in one of California's most prominent political families, she worshipped her big brother, Bobby, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEG

Oliver, Lin.

Summary: "Identical twin sisters Sammie and Charlie meet twin brothers from El Salvador. When the less-popular brother is wrongly accused of a crime, Charlie must make a difficult decision"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC OLI

Twelve Hawks, John

Summary: Their lives shaped by their father's role as a Traveler, an elite prophet able to attain pure enlightenment, Gabriel and Michael Corrigan become a target of the Tabulas, a ruthless cadre seeking world domination.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TWE

Hake, Kelly Eileen.

Summary: Savor this delightful collection packed with brothers and brides. The Chance brothers enjoy ranch life in California and are not searching for brides - until brides come to them like damsels in distress, pulling at their tender heartstrings. Will any of the rough-around-the-edges brothers stand a chance of barring their hearts from love as they offer a hand of compassion?

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRI

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