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One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers his first novel-a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass across the reader's sight lines-some never to be seen again-but James Frey lingers on a handful of LA's lost souls and captures the dramatic narrative of their lives: a bright, ambitious young Mexican-American woman who allows her future...
2) The drop
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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LAPD detective Harry Bosch simultaneously investigates a killer who has been operating undetected for thirty years and a political conspiracy that has its origins in his police department.
3) L.A. times
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Vinnie Callabrese moves from the world of the Mafia in New York to the intrigues of tinseltown and carves a niche in the film industry until his old friends find him.
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Sabine-twenty years a magician's assistant to her handsome, charming husband-is suddenly a widow. In the wake of his death, she finds he has left a final trick, a false identity and a family allegedly lost in a tragic accident but now revealed as very much alive and well. Named as heirs in his will, they enter Sabine's life and set her on an adventure of unraveling his secrets, from sunny Los Angeles to the windswept plains of Nebraska, that will...
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At 8:15 in the morning, a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California. Shock waves ripple through Los Angeles, as L.A.P.D. Lieutenant Peter Decker works overtime to calm rampant fears of a 9/11-type terror attack. But a grisly mystery lives inside the plane's charred and twisted wreckage: the unidentified bodies of four extra travelers. And there is no sign of an airline employee...
6) Tell-all
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Soaked, nay, marinated in the world of vintage Hollywood, Tell-All is a Sunset Boulevard—inflected homage to Old Hollywood when Bette Davis and Joan Crawford ruled the roost; a veritable Tourette's syndrome of rat-tat-tat name-dropping, from the A-list to the Z-list; and a merciless send-up of Lillian Hellman's habit of butchering the truth that will have Mary McCarthy cheering from the beyond.
7) Lying awake
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Mark Salzman received critical acclaim for Iron & Silk, his personal account of two years spent in China. In Lying Awake, he creates a fascinating spiritual landscape that lies behind the walls of a monastery. Readers around the world praise the beauty and originality of this novel. Sister John has devoted her life to serving God. For almost 30 years she has lived in a Carmelite monastery near Los Angeles. There, she experiences religious visions...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear...
9) The watchman
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Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 11
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Joe Pike, a reclusive former Marine, police officer, and mercenary, is called upon to repay an old debt by guarding the rich, spoiled daughter of a California businessman, who has, for some unknown reason, become the target of a determined killer after being involved in a late night car accident.
10) Cinnamon kiss
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Easy Rawlins mysteries volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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In this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant-and faces danger around every corner.
It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outside the law than Easy has ever traveled, but his daughter, Feather, needs a medical treatment that costs far more than Easy can earn or borrow in time. And his friend Mouse tells him it's a cinch.
Then...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. He wants to spend the summer in Charles' basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The money would be welcome. But Charles Blakey is black, and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than...
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Peter Macklin novels volume 4
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Trying to go straight, former contract killer Peter Macklin carries out a hit in the Lone Star state, in this page-turning hard-boiled thriller Johns Davis has just left the Alamo when he feels the garrote wrap around his neck. The bookie slams his foot on the gas, sending the car into oncoming traffic. It bounces off a van, hops the curb, and crashes into a hotel, knocking Davis unconscious and breaking the neck of his would-be assassin. Davis...
13) Looks to die for
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Lacy Fields is the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a dedicated mother of three, and an absolutely fabulous decorator to the stars. But when her husband is accused of murdering a young wannabe actress, Lacy finds out she has a killer instinct for hunting down murderers as well as antique furniture.Cleverly marrying the day-to-day foibles of family life with delicious insider glamour, Looks to Die For takes audiences behind the scenes...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 10
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FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.
Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict...
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Elvis Cole/Joe Pike novels volume 9
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Detective Elvis Cole's relationship with Lucy is strained. When her son is kidnapped, Elvis joins forces with his enigmatic partner, Joe Pike, LAPD detective Carol Starkey, and Lucy's wealthy ex-husband in a frantic race to find Ben alive.
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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He walked away from the job three years ago. But Harry Bosch cannot resist the call to join the elite Open/Unsolved Unit. His mission: solve murders whose investigations were flawed, stalled, or abandoned to L.A.'s tides of crime. With some people openly rooting for his failure, Harry catches the case of a teenager dragged off to her death on Oat Mountain, and traces the DNA on the murder weapon to a small-time criminal. But something bigger and darker...
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In her most scandalously titillating novel since the #1 bestselling Hollywood Wives, internationally renowned author Jackie Collins once again takes her readers behind the scenes and into the bedrooms of Hollywood's glamorous world of superstardom, where narcissism is a virtue, and fidelity means not sleeping with anyone less attractive than your spouse. Leaving her readers to guess which real celebrities she has used as models for her fabulous characters,...
19) Cold hit
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Shane Scully novels volume 6
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Cannell delivers non-stop action and intrigue in the latest installment of his New York Times bestselling Shane Scully series… Shane Scully and his partner are assigned to the case of "the Fingertip Killer"-a serial murderer preying on homeless veterans in Los Angeles. Every two weeks he strikes: he beats his victims, then shoots them in the back of the head. Once they're dead, he cuts off their fingertips, closes their eyes, and tosses them in...
20) Dead eyes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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The one-man stalker squad of the Beverly Hills Police Department begins his hunt for the stalker of a young Hollywood actress.
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