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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2011
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEOWaxman, 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;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WAXClare, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2017
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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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD M WOOBarry, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BARAndelson, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ANDBunn, 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 BUNConnelly, Michael
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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2006
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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grim Oak Press 2018
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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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2015
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: FIC MAHBradbury, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRAPatterson, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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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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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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub./Hachette Book Group 2006
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Summary: Moving to Hollywood with his academic parents, eleven-year-old Mitch feels like an outsider in his school where everyone has connections to the powerful and famous in the entertainment industry, until he is cast in a soda commercial that launches a popular catchphrase.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WILSalazar, Aida
Summary: Nine-year-old Betita and her parents fled Mexico after her uncle was killed by the cartels, and settled in Los Angeles seeking political asylum and safety in what her father calls Aztlan, the land of the cranes; but now they have been swept up by by the government's Immigration Customs Enforcement, her father deported back to Mexico, and Betita and her mother confined in a family detention...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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Summary: "Sandman Slim investigates Death's death in this hip, propulsive urban fantasy through a phantasmagoric LA rife with murder, mayhem, and magic. James Stark has met his share of demons and angels, on earth and beyond. Now, he's come face to face with the one entity few care to meet: Death. Someone has tried to kill Death--ripping the heart right out of him--or rather the body he's inhabiting....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KADLennon, M. T. (Maria T.)
Summary: The trials and tribulations of twelve-year-old Charlie C. Cooper, reformed bully, gifted hacker, and middle child, continue as Charlie tries to convert her overnight fame into a lucrative role on a television show.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION LENWest, Kasie
Summary: Lacey Barnes has dreamt of being in a movie for as long as she can remember. However, while her dream did include working alongside the hottest actor in Hollywood, it didn't involve having to finish up her senior year of high school at the same time she was getting her big break. Although that is nothing compared to Donavan, the straight-laced student her father hires to tutor her, who is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WESSonneborn, Scott
Summary: Searching in Los Angeles for the descendant of the man whose right eye was used to create his dad, J.D. discovers that the man, Sam Hammer, is a detective on the trail of a werewolf--and finds himself arrested at the request of Frankenstein's daughter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SONEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: "Bela Lugosi's Frankenstein screen test puts Valentino in the picture for murder. Everyone knows the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. His portrayal is so famous that the play Arsenic and Old Lace was filled with Karloff/monster jokes--even when the part of the monstrously deformed villain was played by another actor. But before Karloff's memorable portrayal, another famous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge Books 2013