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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself ... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies--good ones! That win contests! But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates--The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!--it's...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Darkness is nothing new to LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan, but in P.J. Tracy's The Devil You Know, even she isn't prepared for the scandalous deception of deadly proportions that shakes the very foundation of Hollywood and its untouchables...and leaves her entangled in its rotten core. Los Angeles has many faces: the real LA where regular people live and work, the degenerate underbelly of any big city, and the rarefied world of wealth, power, and...
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Language
English
Description
"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this New York Times bestseller, retired LAPD detective Harry Bosch wants justice for a murdered production assistant ā but without his police badge, can he take down a powerful and ruthless killer?
The vision has haunted him for four years ā a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was...
The vision has haunted him for four years ā a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
In the dark, steamy streets of Los Angeles, a bounty hunter tracks renegade androids. The hunter's work is complicated by having to find a way of prolonging the life of his android love who is programmed to live only four years. A sequel to the movie, rather than the book.
11) Night shade
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Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jimena, who has the gift of seeing the future, must call on the skills she developed as a gang member when Cassandra, a Follower of the evil Atrox, hatches a plot that may destroy the moon goddesses and those they love.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Serena, a moon goddess who has the special gift of reading minds, is torn between joining the dark force of the evil Atrox and staying with her friends, the Daughters of the Moon.
14) Escape
Author
Publisher
Volo/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Upon escaping from the realm of Nefandus, fifteen-year-old Samuel finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles, where he learns that he the Fourth of those destined to free Nefandus' slaves and seal its entrance forever, but first he must learn whether to trust the beautiful Ashley or the Sons of the Dark.
15) Night sun
Author
Series
Sons of the dark volume 4
Publisher
Volo/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Four guys living in Los Angeles are just trying to survive at Turney High School. But these four are "Renegades", on the run from the sinister world of Nefandus. Their survival means learning how to control their powers and fulfill their destiny as this bad-boy series continues.
16) The lost one
Author
Series
Publisher
Volo
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After awakening with amnesia and an overwhelming sense of danger, a teenager discovers that she has the gift of telekinesis and a long-standing war with the evil Followers of Atrox.
18) Picture perfect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
Cassie Barrett, world-renowned anthropologist, wakes up in a Los Angeles graveyard and doesn't know who she is. Taken in for a few days by William Flying Horse, a Native American police officer, she waits for answers and is stunned to discover that she is the wife of Hollywood leading man Alex Rivers. A picture-perfect romance that deteriorates into wife beating. By the author of Harvesting the Heart.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Psychologist Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis are faced with their most perplexing case yet when a double homicide investigation leads them to stolen identities and long-buried secrets worth killing for in this riveting thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
Los Angeles is a city of reinvention. Many come to start anew, to strike it big. Many kill the person they once were, the person they left behind. And in turn, someone...
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