Telgemeier, Raina
Summary: Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets herheart on meeting one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2016
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TELHegland, Jean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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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 LACDavidson, Ash
Summary: A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
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Summary: Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANLe Guin, Ursula K.
Summary: A master builder of faraway, fantastic worlds, Ursula K. Le Guin, at mid-career, found in her native California the inspiration for what was to be her greatest literary construction: nothing less than an entire ethnography of a future society, the Kesh, living in a post-apocalyptic Napa Valley. This Library of America edition of her 1985 classic Always Coming Home, prepared in close...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2019
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Summary: "When her favorite true-crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession. Sera loves true crime podcasts. They make her feel empowered in a world where women just like her disappear daily. She's sure they are preparing her for something. So when Rachel, her favorite podcast host, goes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Brazier 2021Kiesling, Lydia
Summary: In Lydia Kiesling's debut novel, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIECarr, Robyn
Summary: Determined to escape distractions and avoid the holiday season, Kaylee borrows a cabin in Virgin River. She knows the isolation will help her writing, and as she drives north through the mountains and the majestic redwoods, she immediately feels inspired. Until she arrives at a building that has just gone up in flames. Devastated, she heads to Jack's Bar to plan her next steps. The local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2020
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Summary: Kaylee Sloan's home in Southern California is full of wonderful memories of the woman who raised her. But the memories are prolonging her grief over her mother's recent death. A successful author, Kaylee hoped she could pour herself into her work. Instead she has terrible writer's block and a looming deadline. Determined to escape distractions and avoid the holiday season, Kaylee borrows a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Carr 2020Gudenkauf, Heather
Summary: "The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Overnight Guest comes a twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening. The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2024
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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Summary: For a favorite son returned from war and an outsider looking for a home, Virgin River offers both a chance to make peace with the men they once were and to find the dreams they thought they had lost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MIRA 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARMontes, Marisa.
Summary: When their parents are killed in an accident, eleven-year-old Javier and his younger brother leave their home in Puerto Rico to go live with their aunt in Northern California, where a ghost from an unsolved crime and Javi's new-found psychokinetic powers make their adjustment all the harder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2000
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC 17.00Muller, Marcia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2001
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Summary: When journalist Guy Newberry arrives in a small seaside community to investigate several unsolved murders, the body of a woman washes up at nearby Point Deception, forcing Guy and Sheriff Rhoda Swift to work together to stop a deranged killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001
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Summary: "When the bodies of two Indigenous women are found in the wilderness of northern California, it is only the latest horrific development in a string of similar crimes in the area. Despite all evidence to the contrary, officials rule the deaths isolated incidents, which soon join the ranks of countless other unsolved cases quickly dismissed by law enforcement. In a town where too many injustices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: After the disappearance of his wife, a man's life is destroyed by suspicion and innuendo. When, after fourteen years, he receives an anonymous phone call saying she is alive, and well aware of what her disappearance has done to him, he sets out in search of vindication.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2003
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M MULPronzini, Bill.
Summary: When the Coastline Killer, a vigilante who's been targeting random victims because they don't respect the environment, claims another victim, the local police consider Jay Macklin--a tourist staying at a remote northern California cottage with his paramedic wife--a suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PROKlavan, Andrew.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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Summary: After the death of his ex-girlfriend Carly, northern California high school student Neily joins forces with Carly's cousin Audrey to try to solve her murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JARSteinbeck, Thomas.
Contents: The night guide -- The wool gatherer -- Blind luck -- An unbecoming grace -- The dark watcher -- Blighted cargo -- Sing Fat and the Imperial Duchess of Woo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STEWiggs, Susan.
Summary: With Chicago and her marriage in the rearview mirror, cartoonist Sarah Moon flees to the small northern California coastal town where she grew up. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again. Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she'd skewered mercilessly in her old comics is now a local firefighter and he's been through some changes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2008