Search:

Results 21 to 30 of 777 | « previous |

Dead in Long Beach, California / by Blackburn, Venita,author.;
"A form-twisting, gut-busting, heart-crushing debut novel following one woman's fraying connection to reality ... Coral is the first person to discover her brother Jay's dead body in the wake of his suicide. There's no note, only a drably furnished bachelor pad in Long Beach, California, and a cell phone with a handful of numbers in it. Coral pockets the phone. And then she starts responding to texts as her dead brother. Over the course of one week, Coral, the successful yet lonely author of a hit dystopian novel, Wildfire, becomes increasingly untethered from reality. Blindsided by grief and operating with reckless determination, she doubles--and triples--down on posing as her brother, risking not only her own sanity but her relationship with her precocious niece, Khadijah. As Coral's swirl of lies slowly closes in on her, the quirky and mysterious alien world of Wildfire becomes enmeshed in her own reality, in the process pushing long-buried memories, traumas, and secrets dangerously into the present. A form-shifting and soul-crunching chronicle of grief and crisis, Venita Blackburn's debut novel, Dead in Long Beach, California, is a fleet-footed marvel of self-discovery and storytelling that explores the depths of humankind's capacity for harm and healing. With the daring, often hilarious imagination that made her an acclaimed short-fiction innovator, Blackburn crafts a layered, page-turning reckoning with what it means to be alive, dead, and somewhere in between."--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Queer fiction.; Novels.; Authors; Brothers; Grief; Impersonation; Lesbians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The walking bread / by Archer, Winnie.;
Apprentice baker Ivy Culpepper sees art cars everywhere she turns. Besides helping prepare the bread and pastry for Santa Sofia's annual spring event, she's the official photographer, documenting the elaborate cars, outspoken artists, and riotous celebrations. Even her family's in on the act: her brother Billy has been runner-up in the competition more times than she can count--but this is going to be the year he celebrates his win in the victory lane. But after Billy's rival, Max Litman, revs up his bombastic showmanship, Billy is once again set to cruise into second place. Until Max is found dead--positioned as a prop in his own art car. The whole town knows there's no love lost between the two men, and Billy is the prime suspect. Now Ivy will have to sift through collusion, deception, gossip, and lies to find out what really happened. But with the help of her octogenarian Watson, her restaurateur beau, and her adopted aunts at Yeast of Eden, she knows she can take the heat...
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Murder;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Ashley Bell : a novel / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-;
"At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her that she's dying. Two days later, she's impossibly cured. Fierce, funny, dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. This proves to be a dangerous idea. Searching for Ashley Bell, ricocheting through a Southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent in the extreme, Bibi is plunged into a world of crime and conspiracy, following a trail of mysteries that become more sinister and tangled with every twisting turn"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Mystery fiction.; Young women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The last king of California / by Harper, Jordan,author.; Cosby, S. A.,writer of foreword.;
"Jordan Harper's "darkly irresistible" novel, a tragic, Hamlet-esque noir for readers of S.A. Cosby and Don Winslow, now available for the first time in the United States. Written years before Jordan Harper's breakout success, Everybody Knows, this stirring and brutal bildungsroman tells the story of young Luke Crosswhite, who after years apart from his criminal family returns to their flock deep in the California desert. Luke's father is serving time for a brutal murder that Luke himself witnessed; now, his uncle vies for power and rival biker gangs encroach on the family's various criminal enterprises. A sensitive boy grown hard man, Luke navigates the vicious pressures of "home," and the loyalties to his old friend, Cassie, who has hatched a scheme with her boyfriend Pretty Baby to escape the control of the gang, the Combine. Hanging over these desperate, lonesome parties is the gang's motto, tattooed indelibly across the heart: Blood is Love. The Last King of California is a story of the West unlike any you will read"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Bildungsromans.; Noir fiction.; Novels.; Belonging (Social psychology); Families; Family-owned business enterprises; Gangs; Homecoming; Organized crime; Self-realization;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

E is for evidence / by Grafton, Sue.;
LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character); Women private investigators;
© 2012, c1988., St. Martin's Griffin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

C is for corpse : a Kinsey Millhone mystery / by Grafton, Sue.;
LSC
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character); Women private investigators;
© 2012, c1986., St. Martin's Griffin,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

H is for homicide / by Grafton, Sue,author.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character); Women private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

B is for burglar : a Kinsey Millhone mystery / by Grafton, Sue,author.;
Subjects: Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character); Women private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

P is for peril / by Grafton, Sue,author.;
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character); Women private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

D is for deadbeat / by Grafton, Sue,author.;
Kinsey is hired to deliver $25,000 to a fifteen-year-old kid but discovers that the person who hired her is a phony who shows up dead when she tries to collect her fee.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Millhone, Kinsey (Fictitious character); Women private investigators;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Results 21 to 30 of 777 | « previous |