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87) Flickers
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After they are taken in as wards by Mr. Cecil, a mysterious film director, Isabelle becomes a silent film starlet, while her sister, hidden away on the Cecil estate, starts to realize Mr. Cecil has truly dark designs for his next film.
88) Aloha from hell
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Sandman Slim volume 3
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All hail Sandman Slim, author Richard Kadrey's ultra-extreme anti-hero and recent escapee from Lucifer's overheated Underworld playground. In Aloha from Hell, the ruthless avenger, a.k.a. Stark, finds himself trapped in the middle of a war between Heaven and Hell. With God on vacation, the Devil nosing around in Paradise, and an insane serial killer doing serious damage on Earth, Stark/Slim is ready to unleash some more adrenaline-surging, edgy and...
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Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited first work of fiction—at once hilarious, delicious and brutal—is the always surprising, sometimes shocking, novelization of his Academy Award winning film.
RICK DALTON—Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick's a washed-up villain-of-the week drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it?
CLIFF BOOTH—Rick's stunt
...90) Rampart: Rempart
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A riveting parable about what happens to a man who refuses to change, even when change is the only thing that can save him. Dave Brown, a man who has taken the 'no guts, no glory' American mythos to heart, without questioning what it is doing to him and those he holds dear, is a cop whose personal life is propelled into a dizzying downward spiral when he comes under suspicion for roughing up a suspect.
91) The scarecrow
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Jack McEvoy novels volume 2
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Jack McEvoy uses the time before he retires from the Los Angeles Times to write an exposé of the societal factors that helped turn a sixteen-year-old into a murderer. However, his investigation leads to his discovery that the teenager is actually innocent, and that the true killer may be the perpetrator of a previous, unsolved murder. Jack must find the murderer before the murderer finds Jack.
92) Do tell: a novel
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"A glittering debut novel set in the golden age of Hollywood, following a former actress whose new career in gossip journalism grants her more power on the page than she ever commanded in front of the camera"--
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"High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage--and hoping that boredom won't kill her before the cancer does. Then Jack--tiny...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 19
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Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire is nearing the end of his life and is haunted by one regret. When he was young, he had a relationship with a Mexican girl, his great love. But soon after becoming pregnant, she disappeared. Did she have the baby? And if so, what happened to it? Desperate to know whether he has an heir, the dying magnate hires Bosch, the only person he can trust. With such a vast...
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A battle for the soul of haunted Los Angeles Why did Cecil B. DeMille really bury the Pharaohs Palace set after he filmed The Ten Commandments in 1923? Fugitives Sebastian Vickery and Ingrid Castine find themselves plunged into the supernatural secrets of Los Angeles from Satanic indie movies of the 60s, to the unquiet La Brea Tar Pits at midnight, to the haunted Sunken City off the coast of San Pedro pursued by a Silicon Valley guru who is determined...
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Over the years, the adventures of superheroines Aveda Jupiter and Evie Tanaka have become the stuff of legend-and now they'll be immortalized in their very own TV show! The pair head to LA for filming, but Aveda struggles to get truly excited. Instead, she's preoccupied wondering about the fate of the world and her role in it. You know, the usual. Now that Otherworld activity has been detected outside the Bay Area, she can't help but wonder if the...
97) Everybody knows
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After her boss is gunned down at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Mae Pruett, a "black-bag" publicist working at LA's most powerful crisis PR firm protecting the rich and depraved, decides to investigate, running afoul of the whole system.
99) Influence
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After her family moves to Los Angeles, Delilah Rollins, already a minor Internet celebrity, plunges into the competitive and glamorous world of social media influencers, but can cosmetics and good lighting conceal cheating, manipulation, blackmail, and murder?
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