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In [this book, the author] explores her lifelong battle with mental illness. A hysterical, ridiculous book about crippling depression and anxiety? That sounds like a terrible idea. But terrible ideas are what Jenny does best. As Jenny says: "Some people might think that being 'fu...
Who is Claire Gravesend? PI Lee Crowe wonders when he finds her dead, in a fine cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire's mother, Olivia, is one of the richest people in California. She doesn't believe the coroner: her d...
"Toulouse, France--1879. Catalan orphan-turned-fugitive Viviana Torrens has found sanctuary serving in the home of an aging artist in Southern France. It is in his studio that she meets Francisco Vella, a Gibraltarian merchant who sells artists' pigments. When her past catches up...
In the spring of 1851 San Francisco is booming. 12-year-old Amelia Forrester has just arrived with her family in Phoenix City. But the mostly male town is not that hospitable to females. Cutting her hair and donning a cap, she joins a gang of newsboys, selling Eastern newspapers ...
""Something in me knows of a life I was meant to live but for whatever reason, I have not. " Words that ring painfully true for Adam Sheppard, a San Francisco programmer who has spent the vast majority of his 30-something years lost in the dim glow of a computer screen. On the ve...
Shaken after a hair's-breadth escape from death, Nameless has made some changes in his professional life: he's taken on his smart, young assistant Tamara as a partner, and he's hired Jake Runyon, a reticent ex-cop with a hammerhead jaw and a troubled past, to work with him in the...
Marisol McDonald has flaming red hair and nut-brown skin. Polka dots and stripes are her favorite combination. She prefers peanut butter and jelly burritos in her lunch box. To Marisol, these seemingly mismatched things make perfect sense together. Other people wrinkle their nose...
She trusts him with her body...but can he trust himself with her heart? San Francisco Doms, Book 1 Devin Delaney has never described herself as kinky, despite a rich fantasy life filled with submission scenarios-until her best friend takes her to the Ring, a San Francisco B...
As a girl growing up in Idlewild, Michigan, Ava Johnson had always heard that, if you were young, black, and had any sense at all, Atlanta was the place to be. So as soon as she was old enough and able enough, that was where she went - parlaying her smarts and her ambition into o...
From nationally-lauded San Francisco chocolate maker, Dandelion Chocolate, comes the first ever complete guide to making chocolate from scratch. From the simplest techniques and technology-like hair dryers to rolling pins-to the science and mechanics of making chocolate from bean...
Maggie's life is rocked by a mistake from her boyfriend's pastAfter making progressive documentary films for decades, Maggie MacGowen did not expect to fall in love with a Los Angeles cop. But Mike Trent, whom she met while investigating her sister's shooting, is no Los Angeles P...
"Bodie, a mystery mix rescue pup, is on death row in a Los Angeles dog shelter, having been abandoned by his owner. Belinda, a heartbroken woman, is in a heap on the floor of her vintage apartment, having been dumped by the man of her dreams. Two lost souls ready to find a new li...
"Splendid" - New York Times "Mind-bending." - Wall Street Journal "Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year." - Salman Rushdie A daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between t...