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Arrested for the murder of her sister, a young woman fights for freedom The world loves Monica Vincent, and her sister Anna has always tried to love her, too. Anna's life is devoted to the Hollywood star; As her sister's personal assistant, she spends her days answering Monica's fan mail and catering to her every whim. But Monica is cruel, and when a car accident leaves her in a wheelchair, she treats Anna even worse. All Anna wants is her freedom,...
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
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Too big to miss—that's Odelia Grey. A never-married, middle-aged, plus-sized woman who makes no excuses for her weight, she's not super woman just a mere mortal standing on the precipice of menopause, trying to cruise in an ill-fitting bra. She struggles with her relationships, her crazy family, and her crazier boss. And then there's her knack for being in close proximity to dead people...When her close friend Sophie London commits suicide in front...
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From Tatjana Soli, The New York Times bestselling author of The Lotus Eaters, comes a breathtaking novel of a California ranching family, its complicated matriarch, and the enigmatic caretaker who may destroy them.
When Claire Nagy marries Forster Baumsarg, the only son of prominent California citrus ranchers, she knows she's consenting to a life of hard work, long days, and worry-fraught nights. But, her love for Forster is so strong, she turns...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Biographer and amateur sleuth Cece Caruso, researching the life of author Carolyn Keene, heads for the annual Nancy Drew convention in Palm Springs where she plans to stay at the vacation home of a collector of original volumes of the mystery series, but her trip takes a deadly turn when she arrives to find a corpse in the pool.
11) Pie in the Sky
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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"Abby Lovitt is put in charge of training the expensive and haughty horse Pie in the Sky when his owner refuses. While trying to get a hold on him, she must deal with the new challenges, both good and bad, that come with being a freshman in high school in 1970's Northern California"--Provided by publisher.
12) The judge
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Attorney Paul Madriani finds himself defending an old nemesis on solicitation charges, but when the crime's only witness turns up dead, his client is charged with murder.
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As Veblen and Paul struggle to make it to their wedding day in one piece, they grapple with staying true to their ideals in life and work, dealing with dysfunctional parents, a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, and a very charismatic squirrel. "A dazzlingly original novel about love and family, war and nature, set amid a California culture clash of new money and antiestablishment values." -- provided by publisher.
14) Lover's lane
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For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for herself and her son Christopher. Nobody in the quiet little beach community of Twilight Cove, California, suspects she is running from the tragic memory of her fiancé Rick and his unexpected death--and from his rich, powerful parents, who want to take away her child. She has carefully concealed her troubled past from the folks in the isolated cove. Until now.
Private investigator, Jake Montgomery,...
16) Dreaming water
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Bestselling author Gail Tsukiyama is known for her poignant, subtle insights into the most complicated of relationships. Dreaming Water is an exploration of two of the richest and most layered human connections that exist: mother and daughter and lifelong friends.
Hana is suffering from Werner's syndrome, a disease that makes a person age at twice the rate of a healthy individual: at thirty-eight Hana has the appearance of an eighty-year-old. Cate,...
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Brixton brothers volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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Seventh-grader Steve Brixton finds himself pulled back into sleuthing when, during a train trip down the California coast, he uncovers a mystery involving a fleet of priceless automobiles, an assassin, and a private rail car.
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A sublime comedy of contemporary manners, this is the novel Jane Austen might well have written had she lived in twenty-first- century California.
Nothing ever moves in a straight line in Karen Joy Fowler's fiction, and in her latest, the complex dance of modern love has never been so devious or so much fun. Six Californians join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they meet, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
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Joe Allston, the retired literary agent in Stegner's National Book Award–winning novel, The Spectator Bird, returns in this disquieting and keenly observed novel. Scarred by the senseless death of their son and baffled by the engulfing chaos of the 1960s, Allston and his wife, Ruth, have left the coast for a California retreat. And although their new home looks like Eden, it also has its serpents: Jim Peck, a messianic exponent of drugs, yoga, and...
20) High country
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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It's fall in the Sierra Mountains, and Anna Pigeon is slinging hash in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel. Four young people, all seasonal park employees, have disappeared, and two weeks of work by crack search-and-rescue teams have failed to turn up a single clue; investigators are unsure as to whether the four went AWOL for reasons of their own - or died in the park. Needing an out-of-park ranger to work undercover, Anna is detailed...
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