Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...

To overcome her painful past, baker Shelby Gilmore goes on the hunt for a friend - a male friend - to convince her stubborn psyche that men can be trusted. But where in a town as small as Fool's Gold will the petite blonde find a guy willing to not date her? Dark, charming Aidan Mitchell puts the "adventure" in Mitchell Adventure Tours ... and into the beds of his many willing female tourists. Until he realizes he's inadvertently become that guy -...

"For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area. Three decades later, Michelle McNamara, a true crime journalist who created the ... website TrueCrimeDiary.com, was determined to find the violent psychopath she called...

Daniel, a Chinese-American teen, must grapple with his plans for the future, his feelings for his best friend Harry, and his discovery of a family secret that could shatter everything.

Describes and directs travelers to roadside oddities, personalized properties, strange beasts, legendary spots, places related to heroes and villains, and sites of unexplained phenomena throughout the state of California.

Detective Harry Bosch of Los Angeles police department is sure that he killed the sadistic serial murderer known as the Dollmaker. A corpse of a woman is found, and all indications are that this is another of Dollmaker's victims, but reports show that this woman was killed after Harry shot the man he believed to be the serial killer. The question now is did Harry kill the right man?

"Third-grader Stella Batts needs to find a new best friend after her friend, Willa, moves away, but finding a new best friend is not easy"--Provided by the publisher.

Regan Reilly agrees to help Abigail Feeney, who believes she has been cursed since birth, track down her ex-boyfriend, Cody Castle, who owes Abigail more than $100,000, but when the search is plagued by bad luck, Reilly begins to wonder if Abigail's curse is rubbing off on her.

"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her [stepbrother] Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons"--