los angeles (calif.)

"As Los Angeles' high-flying protector, Faith has inspired the dreams of an entire metropolis... Now get ready to meet its worst nightmare! When an escaped psiot prisoner starts tearing through the streets, Faith must stop her fiery rampage before all hell breaks loose! But this isn't just any ordinary threat... Not only can this empowered escapee drain the energy of everything in sight, she's one of L.A.'s most controversial pop stars to boot!"--Back cover.

"Isaiah Quintabe has built a proper life for himself: respected in his hometown of East Long Beach, a well-kept home, a growing library, and even a rehabilitated horse-sized pit bull. But the death of his older brother nearly a decade ago sent him down a dark path, one that he's never truly been able to escape. IQ has a lasting, troubling love for Sarita, his late brother's girlfriend. When Sarita's younger sister, an erratic DJ and gambling addict, goes missing in Las Vegas, with a frightening bookie, Chinese Triad gangsters, and her own deadbeat boyfriend hot on her tail, mayhem is sure to ensue."--Provided by publisher.

Joe Goldberg is no stranger to hiding bodies. In the past ten years, this thirty-something has buried four of them, collateral damage in his quest for love. Now he's heading west to Los Angeles, the city of second chances, determined to put his past behind him. In Hollywood, Joe blends in effortlessly with the other young upstarts. He eats, works in a bookstore, and flirts with a journalist neighbor. But while others seem fixated on their own reflections, Joe can't stop looking over his shoulder. The problem with hidden bodies is that they don't always stay that way. They re-emerge, like dark thoughts, multiplying and threatening to destroy what Joe wants most: true love. And when he finds it in a darkened room in Soho House, he's more desperate than ever to keep his secrets buried. He doesn't want to hurt his new girlfriend; he wants to be with her forever. But if she ever finds out what he's done, he may not have a choice.

Brooke wants to start a blog revealing the inner-workings of Hollywood in order to be in the spotlight but has no time to write one, so she enlists the help of a ghost-writer, seventeen-year-old Max McCormack, who needs the money but not the hassles when the adorable actor, Brady Swift, comes between them.

Shows how six people's lives intersect in Southern California--a streaker running through traffic, a young man recently released from juvie, a married lawyer, a drifter searching for a murderer, a young tennis player trying to escape a mistake, and a young man running away from his father's commune. Jumps back and forth through decades to explore the rootless meaning of SoCal lives and examine how past events affect the future.

A seemingly routine matrimonial snooping job mushrooms into a murderous regional and personal scandal in pre-World War II Los Angeles.

After another violent encounter with her alcoholic mother's boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Tina decides her life would bebetter if she ran away from home.

"A few days after Christmas in a small suburb outside of L.A., pairs of a man's pants hang from the trees. The pants belong to Howard Young, a prominent history professor recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Howard's wife Annie summons their daughter Ruth. Freshly disengaged from her fianc?? and still broken up about it, feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned, thirty-year-old Ruth quits her job, and arrives home to find her parents' situation worse than she'd realized"--.

When Los Angeles superhero Melvin Beederman starts receiving mysterious, threatening emails, he and Candace, his partner in uncrime, must figure out who is out to get him and then do something about it.