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"The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start...
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"The quintessential California cookbook with farm-to-table recipes and stories from pioneering female chef and founder of The French Laundry, Sally Schmitt"--
Schmitt is a pioneer of the farm-to-table movement. Here she weaves her story with historic menus and recipes that distill the ethos of Northern California cooking into simple, delicious dishes that always please. Whether you read it as a memoir or a cookbook, you'll get an inside look at the...
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"The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books. No pressure. Yes, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads. Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys. Paris is still reeling after chasing off the only man brave and foolish enough to marry her. Inspired by the heroines...
5) Your fault
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When Noah fell in love with Nick, she knew their relationship would never be easy. They're fire and electricity, and when they're together, every kind of sparks fly. After last summer, Noah thought their passion had grown stronger than their fear, but her life is about to turn upside-down again now that she's starting university. Moving again while maintaining her relationship with Nick will be a difficult hurdle, with their age difference, campus...
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Ruinous love trilogy volume 1
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Zando
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English
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"When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive -- the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the...
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Gifted chocolatier Allison Thomas is out to save the world, one truffle at a time. Although her career is delicious, her love life is semisweet at best--okay, nonexistent--until Matt Baker arrives in coastal Saint Maggie, California, with an intriguing smile and a mysterious past. Since tragedy derailed his life, Matt has bounced from town to town, always alone. But despite his attempts to stay away from Ali, her kindness and beauty begin to melt...
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English
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A woman lives alone in an isolated lighthouse on the coast of California ... until a man appears on her doorstep who knows every single secret she's kept since one fateful night.
In an isolated lighthouse on the California coast, Rowan Winterbourne lives a solitary life with only her secrets for company. For she has a mission that drives her--to avenge herself against Gregory Torval, the powerful drug and arms dealer who murdered her mother and vowed...
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1992.
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English
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Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1936, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.
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2023.
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English
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"At the height of the military dictatorship in South Korea, Insuk and Sungho are arranged to be married. The couple soon moves to San Jose, California, with an infant and Sungho's overbearing mother-in-law. Adrift in a new country, Insuk grieves the loss of her past and her divided homeland, finding herself drawn into an illicit relationship that sets into motion a dramatic saga and echoes for generations to come. From the Gwangju Massacre to the...
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Magical fortune cookie volume 1
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Felicity Jin grew up literally hanging onto Mom's apron strings in their magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, California. Her mother's enchanted baked goods, including puffy pineapple buns and creamy egg tarts, bring instant joy to all who consume them. Felicity has always been hesitant in the kitchen herself after many failed attempts, but a takeout meal gone wrong inspires her to craft some handmade fortune cookies. They become so popular...
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Magnolia Publications/William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The Ranch Table celebrates Rancho San Julian in both its past, including beautiful archival images of Elizabeth's family's history on the land and recipes adapted from her ancestors' notebooks, and present, organizing the book around the ranch's most important work days, family traditions big and small, and annual celebrations. Each chapter will begin with a description of an event or a special day--the work of a branding, the joys of the annual...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
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"The collaboration of two friends -- one a novelist, one a marine biologist -- produced a volume in which fascinating popular science is woven into a narrative of man's dreams, his ideals, and his accomplishments through the centuries. Sea of Cortez is one of those rare books that are all things to all readers. Actually the record of a brief collecting expedition in the lonely Gulf of California, it will be science to the scientist, philosophy to...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary inquiry that chronicles one woman's experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record. Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means-now-to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the...
17) Orange County
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Paramount
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Description
Inspired by acclaimed author Martin Skinner, Shaun Brumber realizes his life ambition and through a host of hilarious circumstances attempts to realize his dream.
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D'Angelos volume 3
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Tasting wine is not enough: sommelier Giovanni D'Angelo wants to create it. To put his family first, he's always deferred his dreams-a vineyard to run, a woman to marry. But a three-week vineyard tour in Italy could set him back on track. For Emma Rutledge, wine is in her blood. Intent to run the family wine business one day, she finds that the men in her family are only intent to push her out of it. But that's fine-she's got a plan. When Gio and...
20) Seabreeze gala
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Series
Summer beach novel volume 10
Publisher
Sunny Palms Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"The future of the Seabreeze Inn hinges on one gala event, but will the history of the beachside inn threaten its survival? When Ivy Bay's historic Seabreeze Inn requires critical repairs, a benefactor offers help, and the announcement ripples through the art world and beyond. However, the aution of an incomparable Victorian necklace attracts people Ivy never expected. Soon, a host of characters descend on quiet Summer Beach and the beachside inn...
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