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The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
By Christopher MooreA comedy set in a town where hundreds of inhabitants are on anti-depressants, prescribed by Dr. Valerie Riordan. After a patient dies she asks the druggist to substitute placebos....
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Tortilla Flat
By John SteinbeckAdopting the structure and themes of the Arthurian legend, Steinbeck created a "Camelot" on a shabby hillside above Monterey on the California coast and peopled it with a colorful band...
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And the Shadows Took Him
By Daniel ChaconMoving from the Fresno barrio to Oregon in an effort to climb up the socio-economic ladder, a Latino family learns that its ethnicity presents unexpected obstacles.Reserve this title
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Zorro, a Novel
By Isabel Allende"Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his...
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Katapult
By Karen KijewskiKAT COLORADOA thirty-something California bartender-turned-P.I.--a curious lady with nine lives, nerves of iron. . .and a passion for justice.KATAPULT A murderer has struck home--and...
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The Island of the Blue Dolphins
By Scott O'DellLeft alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and...
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Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild
By Kristiana GregorySusanna Fairchild and her family sail from New York to the West, where they plan to start a new life in Oregon. But tragedy strikes when Susanna's mother is lost to the sea. Hearing...
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The Wild Girls
By Pat MurphyIt's 1972. Twelve-year-old Joan is sure that she is going to be miserable when her family moves. Then she meets a most unusual girl. Sarah prefers to be called "Fox," and lives with her...
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Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson
Part fantasy, part romance, Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson is a time travel novel featuring Richard Collier, who falls in love with a turn ofread more
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