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Burning Cove, California volume 4
Burning Cove California volume 4
Burning Cove California volume (Book 4)
Burning Cove California volume 4
Burning Cove California volume (Book 4)
Language
English
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"Welcome to Burning Cove, California, where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer.... Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes. Although she is set on making a career of transforming her photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what's paying the bills. After shooting crime scene...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 38
Language
English
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"The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying thriller of art and brutality from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense. Los Angeles is a city of stark contrast, the palaces of the affluent coexisting uneasily with the hellholes of the mad and the needy. It is that shadow world and the violence it breeds that draw brilliant psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware and Detective Milo Sturgis into an unsettling...
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Benni Harper mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A fifth go-around for Benni Harper (Goose in the Pond, 1997, not reviewed, etc.), the ranch-bred widow of Jack Harper, whos now married to San Celica, California, Police Chief Gabe Ortiz. San Celica is having a Heritage Days celebration, and Benni, as curator of the Folk Arts Museum and Artists Co-op, is in the thick of it. Her elegant southern cousin Emory Littleton (with a mega-crush on Bennis best friend Elvia Aragon) is staying with her, and at...
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Lilly Hawkins mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to "A Bad Day's Work" finds news photographer Lilly Hawkins covering what she believes will be the biggest story of her career before learning about the suspicious death of a girl she met years earlier whose recent reputation is inconsistent with the person Lilly knew.
6) Double Image
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The adventures in love and war of photographer Mitch Coltrane. In one adventure, he becomes the object of revenge by a Balkan war lord whose crimes he recorded on film, in another he searches for a beautiful woman he saw in a photograph.
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Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Crossing the country with his camera in the late nineteenth century, San Francisco photographer Edward Muybridge meets the emancipated young dancer Holly Hughes, who becomes his life's focus until a corrupt robber baron, interested in Muybridge's talent for technology, comes between them.
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Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful symbol of self-reliance, strength, and determination, the Black cowboy is a figure commonly overlooked in the histories of the American West. Held annually in cities across the United States, the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo (BPIR) honors the historic accomplishments of Black cowboys and fosters a vibrant community dedicated to continuing that legacy. Bay Area photographer Gabriela Hasbun has spent more than a decade photographing this...
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Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Palomino": Photographer Smantha Taylor finds inspiration in a California ranch and the arms of rugged ranch hand Tate Jordan. "Secrets": After the TV cameras stop rolling, the cast of a popular new soap opera discover that the intrigue in their own lives is just as sensational as what is on screen. "Star": Years after their first fateful meeting, fame, fortune and circumstanace threaten to destroy a second chance at love for a beautiful singer and...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
20220426
Language
English
Description
For nearly a decade, Palley has been on the frontline of fire. He has witnessed homeowners on the worst day of their lives. He's seen puddles of aluminum where cars were once parked. He's watched as 150-foot walls of flame cascaded down mountainsides and crashed into the Pacific Ocean. And he's captured, time and again, the tireless commitment of firefighters as they work to save lives and homes, in terrain where fire always seems to have the upper...
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Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles in the 1960s: riots in Watts and on the Sunset Strip, wild weekends in Malibu, late nights at The Daisy discotheque, openings at the Ferus Gallery, and the convergence of pop art, rock and roll, and the New Hollywood. At the center of it all, one inspired, improbable, and highly combustible couple--Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward--lived out the emblematic love story of '60s L.A. The home these two glamorous young actors created for themselves...
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