Showing results for "California Girl" in Literature & Fiction

The California sunshine’s not quite so bright for three sisters who get dumped in the same week… Finola, a popular LA morning-show host, is famously upbeat until she’s blindsided on live TV by the news that her husband is sleeping with a young pop sensation who has set their affair to...

She is all blond, beautiful motion; tanned and lithe, she represents freedom, youth, and a playful sexuality that is at once seductive and dangerous to a man's soul. The California girl became a national fantasy in the Sixties, a myth that embodied every daydream, set to the rhythm of a Beach Boys anthem. The story is told in the first person by David Levine, a Jewish New Yorker. In 1965, at the beginning of his senior year in high school, he moves with his family to the San Fernando Valley in Southern California.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of the Booker nominated, international bestseller Nightcrawling: a novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a Florida beach town. When Adela Woods tells her parents she’s pregnant, they immediately send her a...

Kalifornien in den 80er-Jahren. Das bedeutet Freiheit, Sex und Rebellion. Mittendrin ein vierzehnjähriges Mädchen, das zwischen ihrer Hippie-Künstlerin-Mutter in L.A. und dem Professoren-Vater in Berkeley hin und her pendelt. Schmerzhaft wird sie sich der Lügen und Exzesse der Erwachsenen bewusst und antwortet darauf, wie es nur ein Teenager kann. Auf der Suche danach, wo sie hingehört und wer sie werden wird, probiert sie Outfits, Identitäten und Drogen und rast mit uns durch ein Leben zwischen erster Liebe und absoluter Verunsicherung.

In this “truly unique, intriguing, and satisfying” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) thriller, a young man descends into the Los Angeles underworld to find his family’s killer—aided by a group of strangers with their own shadowy pasts. When Marty returns to Pennsylvania...