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41) Pie in the Sky
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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.
42) Frankly in Love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"High school senior Frank Li takes a risk to go after a girl his parents would never approve of, but his plans will leave him wondering if he ever really understood love--or himself--at all"--
High school senior Frank Li is caught between his parents' traditional expectations and his own Southern California upbringing. His parents have one rule when it comes to romance: 'Date Korean. But Frank falls for Brit Means, who is smart, beautiful-- and white....
Author
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A former colonel for the Iranian Air Force believes he can create a new life for himself and his family when he buys an attractive bungalow in the California countryside, and when the cottage's former owner wants her house back, he is willing to do anything to keep it.
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Jemima Jones, nearly one hundred pounds overweight and in love with a man she believes she can never have, meets a California hunk on the Internet, introducing herself as JJ, a slim, beautiful, glamour girl; but when her online love demands to meet her in person, Jemima knows it is time to take action.
45) Vanishing point
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Sharon McCone is hired to investigate the 22-year-old cold-case of a housewife and artist who vanished inexplicably in the central part of California"--Provided by publisher.
46) Angle of repose
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[1992], c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Story of four generations in the life of the Ward family, from America's western frontier to today.
47) Pay it forward
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A young boy who believes in the goodness of human nature sets out to change the world with his seemingly simple plan, but he soon learns that some people are not willing to help him.
48) The judge
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
49) City of secrets
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Miranda Corbie, a private detective in 1940, investigates a brutal animal trainer, an Irish cop, and an American fascist group in her efforts to find out who killed Pandora Blake, a peep show worker on San Francisco's Treasure Island found stabbed to death with an anti-Semitic slur scrawled across her body.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
52) Ransom river
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Rory Mackenzie, having been selected as a juror in a murder case in Ransom River, California, reluctantly returns to her hometown and is forced to face her past when she realizes the dark secrets she has been keeping can help solve a cold case.
53) Sooner or later
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Restaurant owner Ellie Parrish Duveen and ex-New York City policeman Dan Cassidy, attracted to one another from the moment they first met, are just starting to develop a deeper relationship when Ellie's half-brother, freed by error from an insane asylum, returns to take revenge on everyone he believes has harmed him.
54) Stray Kat waltz
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Kat Colorado, still coping with the death of her fiancé, agrees to investigate when the wife of an abusive police officer asks for her help and later disappears.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
On her death bed, Fermina, the Pueblo guardian of the four Gabaldón sisters, promised each of the young girls a special gift--hands that heal, a skill for storytelling, comic appeal, and the power to curse others--but twenty years later, the grown Gabaldón sisters wonder whether their guardian was a fairy godmother, or a witch.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the meaning of family and the limitations of the American dream. Rockwell "Rocky" Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved...
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
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