Product Description: Learner’s The Witch of Cologne is an erotically-charged novel of people swept inexorably along by events they could not control.  In Soul, Learner relates the story of Lavinia and Julia Huntington, passionate women trapped in emotional whirlpools that threaten to drown them and everyone they love...read more

Marion Zane re-created herself to achieve the title of L.A.'s top Trophy—with a faithful husband, loyal fellow-Trophy friends, queen-bee status over the Hollywood "name-above-the-title" charities, and, best of all, no prenup! So why is she so nervous? Maybe she's forgotten that in L.A. enemies can come disguised as girlfriends. And when she impulsively breaks the unwritten code by stepping on another Trophy's charity turf, it's a fatal mistake.Drugged and framed by a jealous rival and her powerful mystery partner, Marion finds herself abandoned by her husband, left penniless, her deepest secrets rudely exposed. Undaunted, she hides her newfound poverty while dreaming of regaining her love, social position, and dermatologist. But when forced to choose between vilification or re-enthronement at the price of betraying a friend, Marion is torn. After all, Marion Zane didn't become Marion Zane by fair play alone.

Seeking to break out of a personal rut by putting everything into her latest celebrity documentary, filmmaker Christine Chase investigates her fiercely private subject's world and learns disturbing truths about the lengths some people will go to for fame. Reprint.

Verna Flake flees a failed marriage and rigid Morman lifestyle for impersonal Los Angeles, where she meets up with her brother's widow, with whom she travels to Baja to escape her violent husband. Reprint.

Somewhere out beyond Hollywood, resting actress Maria Wyeth drifts along the freeway in perpetual motion, anaesthetized to pain and pleasure, seemingly untainted by her personal history. She finds herself radically divorced from husband, lovers, friends, her own past and her own future.

Awakening bruised and bloody, with no memory, in a ransacked house, Ariel Gold begins a stubborn quest to reclaim her past, searching through a stranger's unknown life to find herself, but her investigation is leading her into the sights of a killer. Reprint. AB.

Chronicling the lives of three women attorneys, a murder case pits the power of old money against the solidity of the law and forces each of the lawyers to put much more than their careers on the line. Reprint.

In Alabama during the racially restless summer of 1965, an orphan boy comes of age, and his aunt escapes from an unhappy marriage

Product Description: A dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It As It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation. Joan Didion chose Hollywood to serve as her microcosm of contemporary society and exposed a culture characterized by emptiness and ennui...read more

Verna Flake flees a failed marriage and rigid Morman lifestyle for impersonal Los Angeles, where she meets up with her brother's widow, with whom she travels to Baja to escape her violent husband

An ironic novel about a beautiful young woman who, despite having no sense of identity, has made it into her thirties by hiding behind the various members of her uncommon family

Lola, a German immigrant to the Hollywood, Pierce-Arrows, Sunset Boulevard, and Maybelline mascara cakes of the 1920s, and Sophie, blond, healthy, busty, and trendy in today's Hollywood, share a primal knowledge of life in Los Angeles

An autobiographical novel depicts the life of a divorcee in Venice, California, her odd friends, and their struggles with alcoholism, loneliness, and other problems