For Rachel Chavez, every day is a battle with her demons. She only wants to stay sober and keep her recently inherited parking lot in downtown LA financially afloat. It’s nearly a 24/7 job. Then an executive from the nearby water agency...
California--Los Angeles
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- Author:Schraff, Anne E.Summary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Author:Schraff, AnneSummary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Author:Connelly, MichaelSummary:
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After twetny-four years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA...
- Author:Brandt, GeraldSummary:
Kris Merrill is a member of a small insurgent group operating within a multi-level metropolis that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border. Her attempt at rescuing Ian Miller failed, leaving her alone and her unborn son...
- Author:Rummel, ErikaSummary:
The novel revolves around the forced sale of a painting in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Zoltan Nagy, the legitimate heir, is pressured by his daughter to go to court and recoup his parents' possessions. But Zoltan is in love with the...
- Author:Rivers, FrancineSummary:
New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet...
- Author:Schraff, Anne E.Summary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...
- Author:Kuhlken, KenSummary:
During the summer of 1936, destitute farmers from the Dust Bowl swarm into California, and an old friend brings police detective Tom Hickey a manuscript, a clue to the mystery of his father Charlie’s long-ago disappearance. Tom chooses...
- Author:Connelly, MichaelSummary:
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home.
- Author:Fitzhugh, BillSummary:
All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive a half dozen assassination attempts, pull a 10 million dollar con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the...
- Author:Koontz, Dean R.Summary:
Melanie was kidnapped at the age of three. Six years later she is found wandering the streets of L.A. with blank eyes. What terrible secret keeps her from talking and telling people how they can fight the evil that is terrorizing not...
- Author:Stevens, LaurieSummary:
Troubled detective Gabriel McRay is fired for police brutality. When a killer begins leaving notes on his victim's bodies addressed to the detective, Gabriel is hired back to lure in the killer. Gabriel's troubles stem from the...
- Author:Stevens, LaurieSummary:
Troubled detective Gabriel McRay is fired for police brutality. When a killer begins leaving notes on his victim's bodies addressed to the detective, Gabriel is hired back to lure in the killer. Gabriel's troubles stem from the blocked...
- Author:Perry, ThomasSummary:
A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber’s predictions of human behavior—a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners...
- Author:Hooper, Kay.Summary:
Cassie Neill has a powerful but troubling gift. She can see inside the minds of murderers as they are planning their crimes. Tormented by her ability, she takes refuge in a secluded North Carolina town. But there's no escaping her...
- Author:Tereba, TereSummary:
Go deep into the L.A. underworld with the true story of one obsessive gangster’s unparalleled quest for privilege, power, and paydays
This biography of celebrity gangster Mickey Cohen digs past the sensational headlines...
- Author:Hawthorne, ClareSummary:
When Greek gods start California dreaming, it results in the kind of mayhem you might expect from a bunch of spoiled, self-absorbed Olympians. Fortunately, the gods prefer hasty acts of retribution to spontaneous displays of emotion, so...
- Author:Salzman, MarkSummary:
In a Carmelite monastery outside present-day Los Angeles, life goes on in a manner virtually un-changed for centuries. Sister John of the Cross has spent years there in the service of God. And there, she alone experiences visions of...
- Author:Schraff, Anne E.Summary:
Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies and self-esteem to name a few. More than...