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Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A mother and midwife inadvertently threatens the fortunes and livelihoods of her family and their neighbors after noticing an increase in local miscarriages and believes it's caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Timber Company, her husband's employer.
3) Firestorm
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©1996
Language
English
Description
A fireman is murdered during a blaze in the remote wilderness of northern California. Leonard Nims, a trainee crew boss, is found in his silver fire shelter, stabbed in the back. The park ranger and acting medic, Anna Pigeon, investigates. By the author of Ill Wind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Knox works to keep his family together as they move from Hong Kong back to northern California during the initial outbreak of the coronavirus.
Author
Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the beginning of December. Oak fires are burning in the stately flickering hearths of Nideck Point. It is Yuletide. For Reuben Golding, now infused with the wolf gift and under the loving tutelage of the Morphenkinder, this Christmas promises to be like no other . . . as he soon becomes aware that the Morphenkinder, steeped in their own rituals, are also celebrating the Midwinter Yuletide festival deep within Nideck forest. From out of the shadows...
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 21
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Successful author Kaylee Sloan's home is filled with memories that prolong her grief over her mother's recent death. Determined to avoid the holiday season-- and meet her looming deadline-- Kaylee borrows a cabin in Virgin River, hoping the isolation will help her writing. She arrives at a building that has just gone up in flames. At Jack|s Bar, the local watering hole, she|s surprised to be embraced by people who are willing to help a stranger in...
Author
Series
Jo Beckett series volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Given an expensive "ultimate urban reality" adventure for her twenty-first birthday, Autumn Reineger invites five friends to join her in a simulated drug deal and manhunt on the streets of San Francisco only to be exploited by real kidnappers. Working on a case nearby is forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett and her partner, Gabe Quintana. When the pair encounters a suspicious group of men carting six sullen college kids to the woods for a supposed wilderness...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Drawing on the culture and history of northern California, a collection of short fiction captures a world in which nature has a profound influence on the sailors, immigrants, ranchers, and others who dwell on the edge of a frontier.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When the Coastline Killer, a vigilante who's been targeting random victims because they don't respect the environment, claims another victim, the local police consider Jay Macklin--a tourist staying at a remote northern California cottage with his paramedic wife--a suspect.
10) The Golden State
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Lydia Kiesling's debut novel, we accompany Daphne, a young mother on the edge of a breakdown, as she flees her sensible but strained life in San Francisco for the high desert of Altavista with her toddler, Honey. Bucking under the weight of being a single parent--her Turkish husband is unable to return to the United States because of a "processing error"--Daphne takes refuge in a mobile home left to her by her grandparents in hopes that the quiet...
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The life Olivia Harper always dreamed of isn't so dreamy these days. The 16-hour work days are unfulfilling and so are things with her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when she hears that her estranged mother, Juliet, has been seriously injured in a car accident, Liv has no choice but to pack up her life and head home to beautiful Cape Sanctuary on the Northern California coast. It's just for a few months-that's what Liv keeps telling herself....
12) Drop City
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Set in 1970, Drop City, a California commune, decides to relocate to Alaska, where tensions rise between the commune and a group of homesteaders.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start...
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