beverly hills (calif.)

The Khatchadorian family discovers they have inherited a million dollars, but to get it, they must stay in a ramshackle house in Beverly Hills and Rafe has to attend a snooty new middle school.

"Cher, the fairest maiden of Bronson Alcott High in Beverly Hills, spends her days merrily match-making and mall-hopping with her best friend Dionne. But her good attentions create mischief for her friends and family, including her new friend Tai, her crush Christian, and her cute stepbrother Josh, turning a comedy of errors into high drama. Can Cher admit her folly in time to save her friendships--and her own heart?--Back cover.

When a power surge during experimental plastic surgery turns fourteen-year-old Alison into a human flamethrower, she drops from popular Beverly Hills princess to social outcast, but with the help of a comic-loving "geek, " she becomes a real-life superhero.

Miller Packard, a Los Angeles police detective in 1953, becomes romantically involved with Norah, the sole survivor of a violent boat-jacking in which she was raped and her husband killed, but it becomes apparent her recovery is far from complete when Miller takes African-American caddy Lionel "Train" Walk under his wing, and the three of them embark on a path to disaster.

Sixteen-year-old Alessandra D'Angeli grows tired of her life in sixteenth-century Italy and uses a mystical spell to travel to twenty-first century Beverly Hills, California, to visit her cousin Cat Crawford, and there she meets Austin Michaels, a handsome and infuriating surfer.

Life is never boring when Courtney is around and when Cathy goes to visit her in Beverly Hills for Christmas vacation, the girls manage to get into all kinds of happy trouble.

When seventeen-year-old Natalie Shelton and her family move from Minnesota to Beverly Hills after her mother is hired as pastor of the wealthy Church of Beverly Hills, Natalie becomes overwhelmed by the lavish lifestyle and starts to forget her Christian values.

A top-ranking executive of a Hollywood movie studio finds his starlet wife and associates under investigation when a screenwriter friend is targeted by witch hunters from the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Seventeen-year-olds Esme, Lydia, and Kiley, nannies to the stars, juggle their complicated personal lives with the demands of taking care of the children of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills, California.