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1) Blaze Allan
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English
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This novel is set in the Santa Lucia mountains above the Monterey coast and the Big Sur country in the late 1890s. It is the story of Blaze, the daughter of the Allans from the novel The Stranger in Big Sur. Blaze fights with her father, demanding to choose her own husband.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"It's been a minute-or five years-since Jordan Vargas last saw his college friends, and twenty-eight years since their graduation when their adult lives officially began. Now Jordan, Jordy, Naomi, Craig, and Marielle find themselves at the brink of a new decade, with all the responsibilities of adulthood, yet no closer to having their lives figured out. Though not for a lack of trying. Over the years they've reunited in Big Sur to honor a decades-old...
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Creative Arts Book Co
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
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A woman's experience of marriage to a shell-shocked man. She is Hannah Kramer from San Francisco, he is Clayton McLoyd, a World War I veteran. On horseback they set out for a log cabin to make a new life in the shadow of his illness.
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Series
Dream trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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"Surrounded by the sweeping cliffs and beauty of Big Sur, Kate Powell treasured her life at Templeton House...and the family who raised her like one of their own. Although Kate lacked Margo's beauty and Laura's elegance, she knew she had something they would never possess--a shrewd head for business. Driven by ambition, Kate measured her life's success with each soaring promotion. But now, faced with professional impropriety, Kate is forced to look...
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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
©2020
Language
English
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Living in Big Sur has stirred the writer in me. I don't know why but as 2019 drew near I decided to write a poem a day. I did it, to my surprise. I had to carry around a notebook and pen whenever I left home. The idea was to title each poem with one word and write about that word, never using the same title twice during the year.
9) Hideaway
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English
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"Caitlyn Sullivan had come from a long line of Hollywood royalty, stretching back to her Irish immigrant great-grandfather. At nine, she was already a star- yet still an innocent child who loved to play hide and seek with her cousins at the family home in Big Sur. It was during one of those games that she disappeared. Some may have considered her a pampered princess, but Cate was in fact a smart, scrappy fighter, and she managed to escape her abductors....
10) The Diana strain
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
When a storm washes out California's Highway One, the forested coastal town of Big Sur is cut off from civilization. On the full moon, two mutilated bodies are discovered and then another, and another. Detective Frank Crow, his wife and local librarian Lela Crow, and a mysterious occult bookshop owner named Nob must learn the identity of the murderer, but what they discover will reveal a terrifying and ancient curse, a secret society of hunters, and...
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Desperate to escape her abusive fiancé, kinetic sculptor Laurel McDowell pawns her engagement ring, loads everything she owns into her VW Beetle, and heads for the sanctuary of her family home in Big Sur. She lands a job in an art gallery in picturesque Carmel-by-the-Sea and begins a new life.After her ex's body washes up on Carmel beach, Laurel finds herself dragged into a scheme involving money-laundering Russians, a pair of affable bikers with...
12) Big Sur
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Coming down from his carefree youth and unwanted fame, Jack Kerouac undertakes a mature confrontation of some of his most troubling emotional issues: a burgeoning problem with alcoholism, addiction, fear, and insecurity. He dutifully records his ever-changing states of consciousness, which culminate in a powerful religious experience. Big Sur was written some time after Jack Kerouac's best-known works, following a visit to northern California and...
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