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Tag: California

  • Lunar New Year Love Story

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    Love is essential!

  • Soon to be cross-posted – a review of Humboldt

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    So I finally got around to writing another blog posting for a book I read not too long ago.  I wrote it originally for my library’s blog – because it’s a good book and it hasn’t been checked out very much.  I’m posting the review here first – it won’t show up on Pima County…

  • Into the Beautiful North

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    By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Back Bay Books, 2009 Genre: General fiction ISBN: 9780316025263 Audience: Adult, young adult Number of pages: 338 Setting: Tres Camarones & Tijuana, Mexico, San Diego, CA, & Kankakee, IL Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When narcos come to the sleepy town of Tres Camarones, nineteen…

  • The Sisters Brothers

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    By Patrick deWitt Place: Publisher & Year: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011 Genres: Western, historical fiction, cowboy noir ISBN: 9780062041265 Audience: Adult Number of pages: 328 Setting: Oregon City, Oregon Territory, & California (including San Francisco) Time period: 1851 Plot summary: Charlie and Eli sisters are known throughout the Oregon Territory and California as killers…

  • Nobody’s son: notes from an American life

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    By Luis Alberto Urrea Place: Publisher & Year: Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998 Genres: Non-fiction, autobiography, memoir Series: Camino del Sol ISBN: 9780816518654 Audience: Adults Number of pages: 189 Setting: Various locations in Mexico and the US,  including Tijuana and San Diego Time period: late 1950s – 1990s Description: Urrea describes key moments of…

  • I’m a Lebowski, You’re a Lebowski: Life, The Big Lebowski, and What Have You

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    By Bill Green, Ben Peskoe, Will Russell, & Scott Shuffitt; Foreward by Jeff Bridges Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Bloomsbury, 2007 Genre: Non-fiction, social science, popular culture ISBN: 9781596912465 Intended audience: Achievers Number of pages: 237 Setting: USA, mostly California but also Louisville, Kentucky Time period: Contemporary Description: This book is a must read…

  • Little Brother

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    By Cory Doctorow Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Tor, c2008, 2010 Genres: Science fiction, general fiction ISBN: 9780765323118 Intended audience: Young adult Number of pages: 416 – includes 2 afterwards, a bibliography, acknowledgements, and excerpts from For the Win.  The story is 365 pages. Setting: San Francisco, CA and the Bay area Time period:…

  • Island of the Blue Dolphins

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    By Scott O’Dell; narrated by Tantoo Cardinal Place: Publisher & Year: Santa Ana, CA : Listening Library, c1960, p2003 Genre: Historical fiction Format: Audio book ISBN: 9780307243164 Intended audience: Children – tweens Number of discs: 4 (about 5 hrs.) Setting: Ghalas-at (San Nicolas Island, Channel Islands, CA) Time period: Not stated, but likely early 1800’s…

  • Blood Work

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    By Michael Connelly Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Warner Books, 1998 Genre: Mystery, suspense Series: Terry McCaleb mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9780446690447 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 469 Setting: Los Angeles, CA Time period: contemporary (late nineties) Plot summary: Former FBI agent Terry McCaleb has a new lease on life, which comes from his…

  • The Spellman Files

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    By Lisa Lutz Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 Genre: Mystery Series: Izzy Spellman mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9781416532392 Intended audience: adult Number of pages: 358 Settings: Mainly San Francisco, CA but also Marin county and Reno, NV Time period: contemporary Plot summary: 28 year old Izzy Spellman comes from a family…