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Pub. Date
2022.
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Rockwell “Rocky” Rhodes has spent years fiercely protecting his California ranch from the LA Water Corporation. It is here where he and his beloved wife Lou raised their twins, Sunny and Stryker, and it is here where Rocky has mourned Lou in the years since her death. Rocky is determined to protect his remaining family and the land where they’ve loved and lost so much. But when the government decides to build a Japanese-American internment camp...
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
Description
Thirty-four years after Violet Sullivan's unexplained disappearance, Daisy--the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter she left behind--enlists the assistance of private detective Kinsey Millhone to help her find the truth.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 20
Description
"Beginning slowly with the day-to-day life of private eye Kinsey Milhone, the story suddenly shifts to Solana Rojas, introducing readers to a chilling sociopath. Rojas is not her birth name. It is an identity she cunningly stole, an identity that gives her access to private caregiving jobs"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
1stBooks
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
The colorful O'Halloran clan carves a niche in one of California's most spectacular garden spots. From comic to tragic, the family's trials echo and re-echo over the span of a century. These hardy pioneers scratch and tumble into contemporary time when hired hand Ross Alexander moves onto the O'Halloran Cattle Company ranch with his wife Briar and their young children."--P. [4] of cover.
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Series
Elm Creek Quilts volume 19
Pub. Date
2012
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Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence.
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 15
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.
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Series
Description
Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the world's most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. Private's investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world, and they always uncover the truth. When a former lover is found murdered in Jack's bed, he is instantly the number one suspect....
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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 13
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
300 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
Private investigator Kinsey Millhone is hired to track down Guy Malek, a man who walked away from his family eighteen years earlier and now stands to inherit part of his deceased father's forty-million dollar estate, but unfortunately, not everyone is eager to welcome home the prodigal son.
16) Esperanza renace
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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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Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 7
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Hired to bring a woman's mother back from the Mojave desert, female investigator Kinsey Millhone returns to unearth a gruesome, long-buried secret and make the top billing of Tyrone Patty's hit list.
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Series
Ruby McGavin novels volume 2
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"Ruby never thought she'd return to Cardinal, but she's hoping the place and people who gave her so much can give her brother Nash-who's been drowning in drink in Nashville-the fresh start he so desperately needs. Saddlemaker Lucas McGavin is thrilled that Ruby has come back. He hasn't given up on his love for her, despite the awkward fact that she is his brother's widow, and he's well aware that this may be his last chance to win Ruby's heart. When...
19) Gold fame citrus
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"Drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. Most of the Southwest has been evacuated. Luz and Ray are holdouts, squatting in a starlet's abandoned mansion and subsisting on rationed cola and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise, their love somehow blooming in this arid place. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, and the thirst for a better future begins."--
Author
Series
Stella Batts volume 2
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
136 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
When Stella learns that her best friend Willa is moving away, she makes a wish and tries with a magic potion to keep her in Redwood City, California.
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