Eleven-year-old Dougie, living in California's Calaveras County, teams up with twelve-year-old Varloo, an emissary from a culture living in underground caves, and tries to help her people.
California
- Author:Freeman, MarthaSummary:
- Author:Fadiman, AnneSummary:
- Author:Fowler, EarleneSummary:
Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, with her brother Nash, hoping the fresh start will help him kick a debilitating drinking habit. And Ruby's not the only one with renewed hope, as saddlemaker Lucas McGavin redoubles his...
- 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:Chandler, RaymondSummary:
- Author:Hallinan, TimothySummary:
Simeon Grist is drawn into the Asian underworld of Los Angeles when two children vanish in Chinatown and the parents refuse to inform police for fear that Vietnamese hit men will do them in.
- Author:Kuhlken, KenSummary:
The Loud Adios is set on the home front during World War II. Tom Hickey is in the army, an M.P. working the Tijuana-San Diego border, when a farm boy draftee about to ship overseas begs for help rescuing his sister from a gang of German...
- Author:Stevenson, Sarah JamilaSummary:
Hoping to raise money for a post-graduation trip to London, Asha Jamison and her best friend Carey decide to sell T-shirts promoting the Latte Rebellion, a club that raises awareness of mixed-race students. But seemingly overnight,...
- Author:Finney, JackSummary:
This classic thriller of human triumph over an alien threat inspired the acclaimed 1956 film directed by Don Siegel. This edition is read by Siegel's son, Kristoffer Tabori, and includes reminiscences of his father's work on the film....
- Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:
The New York Times bestselling author of 'Til Death Do Us Part transports readers to 1930s California, where glamour and seduction spawn a multitude of sins. At the exclusive Burning Cove Hotel on the coast of California, rookie...
- Author:Smiley, JaneSummary:
Abby Lovitt has been riding horses for as long as she can remember, but Daddy hasn't let her name a single one. He calls all their geldings George and their mares Jewel and warns her not to get attached. The horses are there on the...
- Author:Vanderhaeghe, GuySummary:
"The Englishman's Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West - the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe's rendering of the...
- Author:Grande, ReynaSummary:
In this memoir, award-winning writer Reyna Grande vividly brings to life her tumultuous early years, capturing all the confusion and contradictions of childhood, especially one spent torn between two parents and two countries.
- Author:Ritter, John H.Summary:
In 1881, the scrappy, rough-and-tumble baseball team in a California mining town enlists the help of a quick-witted twelve-year-old orphan and the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid to win a big game against the National League Champion...
- Author:Herron, RachaelSummary:
From international bestseller Rachael Herron, comes a book too delightful to put down:The saloon had always looked old-fashioned, but now it resembled a set in a ghost town. The problem was that Adele wasn't in an old western, or a...
- Author:Walker, AliceSummary:
Recounts the author's experiences caring for a flock of chickens on a farm north of San Francisco, documenting her personal discovery, political commitment, and the joys of relating to animals.
- Author:Kingsbury, KarenSummary:
Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith...
- Author:Ritter, John H.Summary:
The fate of a small California town rests on the outcome of one baseball game, and Tom Gallagher hopes to lead his team to victory with the secrets of the now disgraced player, Dante Del Gato.
- Author:Cushman, KarenSummary:
In 1849, twelve-year-old California Morning Whipple, who names herself Lucy, is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a rough California mining town.
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
The Art of Detection is another spellbinding tale starring San Francisco homicide inspector Kate Martinelli. The victim is Sherlock Holmes aficionado Philip Gilbert, whose collection of priceless memorabilia is definitely worth killing...