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Feb.11.2013
It's 1983 in Berkeley, California. Cut loose by her parents, 20-year old Allie Dodgson is trying hard to make it on her own, attending college on a scholarship and working in a dress shop. But when the dress shop turns out to be a front for a dangerous drug dealing business and Allie ends up with a...
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Jun.28.2012
Imagine being an adventure traveler setting out to explore the California Coast. Then imagine climbing in beside someone with intimate local knowledge of the coast and all its opportunities for outdoor exploration and enjoyment. With the Sea Beside Me is a guide book, a running narrative and...
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Oct.05.2011
Jennie Nash's "winning debut"* The Last Beach Bungalow, was followed by The Only True Genius in the Family, a "page-turning delight"**. Now she introduces us to two women who learn the lessons of grief-and of hope...
A photo of her sons. A doormat from Target. Twenty-three tubs of fabric....
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Aug.13.2010
"Jessica Blau’s second novel is not only a wise and pitch-perfect depiction of family dynamics but also happens to be unrelentingly, side-splittingly funny. I dare you to forget this family." (Irina Reyn, author of What Happened to Anna K.)
“[H]ilarious and heartbreaking....[A] testament to the...
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Dec.04.2009
Jason Zachary is having a really bad day. Waking up from a drugged stupor he discovers he is in bed with a man he's never seen before. A dead man he's never seen before. In this BDSM novel Detective Alexander Spider of the Santa Barbara Police hauls a protesting Jason in for the murder of...
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Jul.17.2009
ERNIE WITHAM DOESN’T HAVE TIME TO LOOK FOR A JOB
He’s too busy living, too busy laughing, too busy writing about life.
Every day of Ernie’s year is a quest for the next column, and his material is all around him, in the everyday life of Ernie’s World. Every year in this writer’s world is...
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Nov.24.2008
Hometown Santa Barbara explores the capital of the Central Coast and her neighbors like no traditional guidebook can. This new sibling of the bestselling, award-winning Hometown Pasadena and Hometown Santa Monica is like having a dyed-in-the-wool local – five of them, actually – introducing you to...
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Nov.01.2008
THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES WAS CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE!
CHOSEN AS A BEST SUMMER BOOK BY:
THE TODAY SHOW
THE NEW YORK POST
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
COSMO MAGAZINE PICKED IT AS THEIR "SEXY SUMMER READ!"
BARNES AND NOBLE PICKED IT AS ONE OF...
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