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Never Fade Away

An untenured instructor at a state university in mid-1980s Los Angeles goes against the system to help ethnic minority and immigrant students succeed.

College stories, College teachers, English teachers, fiction, Los Angeles (Calif.)

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Some Like It Hot

Zoey Dean

As prom approaches, Anna, Sam, and their friends struggle with insecurities about their bodies and their relationships, and Cammie discovers a shocking secret about her mother's death.

fiction, High schools, Los Angeles (Calif.), Proms, Schools

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Blonde Ambition

Zoey Dean

While Anna's new job as intern on the hottest television show brings her into contact with an interesting new man and helps her see how possessive Ben has become, Cammie sets her sights on Adam.

fiction, High schools, Interpersonal relations, Los Angeles (Calif.), Production and direction

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Tall Cool One

Zoey Dean

When she joins her sister on the West Coast at their father's, Anna begins to understand that telling true love from true lust is far more easily said than done.

fiction, High schools, Interpersonal relations, Juvenile fiction, Los Angeles (Calif.)

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DEA

Her sister Susan's arrival in Beverly Hills further complicates Anna's life, with Ben still mooning over her, Adam wanting more than friendship, an internship in her father's girlfriend's new company,

fiction, High schools, Interpersonal relations, Los Angeles (Calif.), Schools

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The A-list

Zoey Dean

Seventeen-year-old blueblood Anna Percy leaves Manhattan to spend the second half of her senior year with her father in Los Angeles and quickly becomes involved in the lives of the rich and famous at

Fathers and daughters, fiction, High schools, Interpersonal relations, Los Angeles (Calif.)

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Boy Proof

Cecil Castellucci

Feeling alienated from everyone around her, high school senior and cinephile Victoria Denton hides behind the identity of a favorite movie character until an interesting new boy arrives at school and

fiction, High schools, Identity, Identity (Philosophical concept), Interpersonal relations

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CAS

Margaux with an X

Ronald Koertge

Margaux, known as a "tough chick" at her Los Angeles high school, makes a connection with Danny, who, like her, struggles with the emotional impact of family violence and abuse.

Emotional problems, Family violence, fiction, Los Angeles (Calif.), Sexual abuse victims

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The Big Sleep

Raymond Chandler

When Detective Philip Marlowe investigates a murder, blackmail and intrigue prevail.

fiction, Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.), Marlowe, Philip (Fictitious character), Mystery fiction

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Cha

One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Sonya Sones

Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother's grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who d

Actors and actresses, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Grief, Homosexuality

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