los angeles (calif.)

"In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed"-- Provided by publisher.

With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.

Growing up under the care of a loving aunt, an orphaned judo student with a mixed heritage reevaluates her perspectives on happy endings while searching for evidence proving that she is related to a famous rom-com celebrity.

"Daphne Walters moved to Los Angeles to follow the love of her life ... or so she thought. Rudely awakened for her happily-ever-after, she finds herself suddenly both out of a place to live and without a reason for being thousands of miles from home. In the midst of her heartbreak, she finds her way to Rycroft Manor, a derelict apartment complex that isn't as abandoned as it seems. It turns out that the Manor isn't just packed with mid-century charm ... it's also teeming with lovesick ghosts and aspiring actor ghouls! Daphne might need to crash on this haunted couch for a while, nut having undead roommates might be more than she bargained for"--Back cover.

A memoir in which the author, a writer of crime fiction, tells of his experiences after teaming up with a homicide detective in 1994 to finally unravel the mystery of his mother's murder in a Los Angeles suburb thirty-six years earlier.

Told in two voices, sisters April, age sixteen, and Jenn, eighteen, have twenty-four hours to fulfill a childhood pact and deal with a secret that threatens to tear them apart.

Los Angeles homicide detective Alex Brandon, investigating the murder of a notorious drug dealer, soon comes to the realization that the killing was just the first in a rash of crimes committed against felons on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and that the deaths are somehow related to Kit Logan, a young man who murdered his stepfather--an abusive serial murderer.

Psychologist-detective Alex Delaware probes into the dark life of Lauren Teague, a young woman he treated years earlier when she was a troubled teenager, whose corpse has been found dumped in an alley.

Story of Gregory Reeves's search for love and his attempt to reconcile his past which included poverty, neglect, war, and abusive relationships with his current strivings for success and peace of mind.

After her family moves to Los Angeles, Delilah Rollins, already a minor Internet celebrity, plunges into the competitive and glamorous world of social media influencers, but can cosmetics and good lighting conceal cheating, manipulation, blackmail, and murder?.