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Kelly, David A. (David Andrew)

Summary: Cousins Kate and Mike visit Kate's father, a baseball scout for the Dodgers, in Los Angeles just as a series of suspicious events lead him to think that someone is trying to steal his scouting reports.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BPM 3

Leonard, Elmore

Summary: Gentleman/banker-robber Jack Foley is back in prison doing a thirty-year sentence after a week-long escape. Brought in by Karen Sisco, US marshall, who got her man after being abducted with the escapees, Jack and Karen have a thing for each other, and Karen arrests him only after a meaningful 'time'out' together. Jack is resigning himself to doing time, lots of it, and he seems to have a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010

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Keene, Carolyn

Summary: Nancy, Bess, and George visit the Hollywood set of the movie "The Aliens Next Door", and try to solve the mystery of the missing leading cat star, Fluffington.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Paperbacks 2007

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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KEE

Waxman, Abbi

Summary: "Young widow Lilian Girvan can't see the garden for the weeds... It's been three years since her husband was killed in a car accident and Lilian is still getting used to being sane--after that one early breakdown. She's happy just being able to get her two girls to school every morning, keep her illustrating job, and catch up on her favorite TV shows with her sister. She's not exactly in a rut;...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAX

Clare, Cassandra

Summary: Emma is torn between her passion for Julian and her need to protect him from the consequences of a forbidden romantic partnership, a situation challenged by her relationship with Mark and his efforts to regain his Shadowhunter capabilities.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2017

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

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

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

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

Ellroy, James

Summary: "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,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELL

Baldacci, David

Summary: It is New Year's Eve, 1952 in Los Angeles. Private Investigator, Aloysius Archer, is dining with his friend and rising Hollywood star, Liberty Callahan, when they're approached by Eleanor Lamb, a famous screenwriter, who would like to hire him as she suspects someone is trying to kill her. A visit to Lamb's Malibu residence leaves Archer in no doubt of foul play when he's knocked unconscious...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BAL

Kellerman, Jonathan

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: "Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis must uncover the connection between a brutally murdered psychologist and a victim they're unable to identify in this electrifying thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Two burly movers are heading back into Los Angeles from the dusty wasteland of Ojai when they hit a man--a naked man who appears out of nowhere. Master...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kellerman 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M KEL

Adia, Jade

Summary: Rhea and her friends Zeke and Malachi are South L.A. born and raised. The old neighborhood is fading away, and more white people are flocking to this little urban paradise for its cheap rent, transforming the place they call home. When an eviction notice from a greedy landlord threatens to split up the crew, Rhea and her friends use social media to form a fake gang in hopes of scaring off...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2023

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

Woods, Stuart.

Summary: Stone Barrington receives a rather unexpected phone call from Arrington Calder, the ex-girlfriend with whom he has a son. Arrington's much older husband, the actor Vance Calder, has just died, leaving her a fortune in Centurion Studios stock. Arrington has plans for the money and asks Stone to represent her in the sale of the company. But when he arrives at her home in Bel-Air to finalize the...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

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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"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018

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

Connelly, Michael

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: Renée Ballard returns to Hollywood Station from working the night beat. She finds a stranger rifling through old file cabinets-- retired detective Harry Bosch, working a cold case that has gotten under his skin. Ballard kicks him out, but then checks into the case herself. Bosch is investigating the death of fifteen-year-old Daisy Clayton, a runaway on the streets of Hollywood who was brutally...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M CON

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: MYSTERY CON

Barry, Ava

Summary: "1940s Hollywood was an era of decadence and director Theodore Langley was its king. Paired with Eleanor Hayes as his lead actress, Theo ruled the Golden Age of Hollywood. That ended when Eleanor's mangled body was discovered in Theo's rose garden and he was charged with her murder. The case was thrown out before it went to trial and Theo fled L.A., leaving his crawling estate, Windhall, to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAR

Andelson, Amy

Summary: During a layover at LAX, fifteen-year-old Flynn Barlow, her older stepbrother Amos Abernathy, and their nine-year-old half-sister Poppy decide to ditch their family Christmas vacation in Bora Bora, where their parents plan to announce their divorce, and the three siblings instead spend three days in Los Angeles, hooking up with Flynn's summer camp crush, visiting Disneyland, reuniting with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018

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Beall, Will.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEA

Mahin, Shanna

Summary: "Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she's got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she's a dead girl walking. Enter Jess's mother--a failed actress who puts the strange in estrangement. She dives headlong into her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAH

Brooks, Terry

Summary: Receiving a dire warning immediately before his father disappears, Ash finds himself hunted in a futuristic mega-city where he searches for help from a human and part-human underworld.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grim Oak Press 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BRO

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: SCI.FIC BRO

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1 available in Adult- Science Fiction, Call number: SF Brooks 2018

Summary: A popular California high school girl is selected by a mysterious old man to kill the vampires that are terrorizing Los Angeles. Although it could put a serious crimp in her shopping, Buffy takes on the ghouls with the help of a handsome drifter, and incurs the wrath of the chief vampire!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BUF

Kenna, Alex

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "Kate Myles was a promising Los Angeles police detective, until an accident and opioid addiction blew up her family and destroyed her career. Struggling to rebuild her life, Kate decides to try her hand at private detective work--but she gets much more than she bargained for when she takes on the case of a celebrated painter found dead in a downtown loft. When Margot Starling's body was found,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KEN

Bradbury, Ray

Summary: In California in 1949, a young writer and a detective believe a number of deaths associated with an amusement park were murders. Suddenly the killer begins stalking them.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRA

Patterson, James

Summary: Junior's pet humans are going on a trip, leaving him at a horrible place where he's forced to eat vegetables for dinner. Junior decides he has to break out, or at least get hamburger on the menu.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

De la Cruz, Melissa

Summary: Eighteen-year-old Spencer Sandoval goes to dangerous lengths to uncover the truth about a fatal car crash and its relation to her school's honor roll.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC DE L

Connelly, Michael

Summary: When an infamous serial killer known as the Poet reemerges, FBI agent Rachel Walling, long haunted by her unsuccessful efforts to bring him to justice, receives assistance from LAPD detective Harry Bosch.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub./Hachette Book Group 2006

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CON

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Connelly 2004

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...

Format: text

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

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