san diego (calif.)

When Richard Collier becomes obsessed with a celebrated actress from the turn of the century, he is transported back in time, where he romances the woman of his dreams and tries to avoid the relentless tide of history.

Homicide cop Tom McMichael must put aside generations of bad blood between the McMichael and the Braga families when he is assigned to investigate the murder of eighty-four-year-old city patriarch Pete Braga who was found bludgeoned to death.

A young Vietnamese refugee, newly arrived in America with her father, struggles along with other family members to make sense of the past and adjust to life in the United States.

In the Queen Geek Social Club, boys have always been strictly secondary to the goal of spreading "geekiness" to every corner of Green Pines High School, until sophomore Shelby is swept off her feet by the karaoke stylings of a boy named Fletcher, and Becca and Amber fall for an artistic computer genius.

Yolanda Sahagun can hardly wait for her brother, Chuy, to return from Vietnam, but as soon as he arrives, the entire family realizes how much the war has changed him, and they must all readjust to his new attitude.

Cupcake Brown shares the story of her life, beginning with her mother's death in 1976 when she was just eleven, discussing how she ended up in foster care, her introduction to drugs, alcohol and sex as a runaway, her gang affiliation, and her addiction to crack, and telling how she turned her life around and eventually became an attorney and motivational speaker.

After moving to San Diego and her fifth foster home since kindergarten, Sheridan Alexander has two goals, to graduate and exit the system without any more trouble until she finds the abandoned journal of Ribbon Barber in her locker and she knows she has to find Ribbon and protect her from the endless insults and abuse that has been flung at the innocent girl.

Bindi, Robert, Terri Irwin, and their American friend Kelly are on a surfing tour in Mexico and the United States. Getting to surf with green sea turtles is a complete thrill. But one of their fellow surfers is acting suspiciously, and Bindi realizes he's got more than just beautiful waves on his mind.

Describes the experiences of one Kurdish family that fled their home in northern Iraq and moved to a new life in California.

While training for a surfing competition to earn a college scholarship, Grace Parker struggles with her feelings toward her best friend Ford Watson and tries to conceal her family's toxic dynamics.