northern california

Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.

"Mila is used to being alone. Maybe that's why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. But she hadn't known about the ghosts. Newly graduated from high school, Mila has aged out of the foster care system. So when she's offered a teaching job and a place to live on and isolated part of Northern California coast, she immediately accepts. Maybe she will finally find a new home--a real home. The farm is a refuge, but it's also haunted by the past. And Mila's own memories are starting to rise to the surface"--Jacket flap.

A bilingual collection of poems in which the renowned Mexican American poet celebrates winter in San Francisco and the mountains of Northern California.

Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.

Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, and Maya sets her heart on meeting one.

When private investigator Jim Bishop is sent to investigate corruption at a Northern California airport, he sets in motion a series of events that will lead Jim and hisboss on a desperate hunt for a master assassin.

In northern California, Julian Carter-Li and his friends old and new fight to save a grove of redwoods from an investment company that plans to cut them down.

April Taylor, her parents dead, estranged from her older sister, and alone after the death of the uncle with whom she had been living, is taken in by a kind elderly woman and her deaf granddaughter, and through their friendship and love learns to trust herself--a quality that comes in handy when danger appears on the doorstep.

California sheriff's deputy Rhoda Swift reluctantly joins forces with author and journlist Guy Newberry in an attempt to solve a thirteen-year-old multiple murder--a case that is revived when a copycat killing occurs on the anniversary of the massacre.

After eighteen happy years of marriage, Liz Sutherland must learn to cope with the sudden death of her husband, deal with caring for five children alone, and navigate the complexities of a new relationship.