"Chastnyĭ detektiv Dzhessika Sho uzhe privykla k anonimnym poslanii︠a︡m. No vot chego ona nikak ne ozhidala, tak ėto poluchitʹ fotografii trekhletneĭ devochki, pokhishchennoĭ v Los-Andzhelese dvadt︠s︡atʹ tri goda nazad. Devochki, v kotoroĭ ona s uzhasom uznala samu sebi︠a︡. V pogone za otvetami Dzhessika napravli︠a︡etsi︠a︡ na samui︠u︡ temnui︠u︡ iznanku Los-Andzhelesa, ona zhazhdet raskrytʹ delo, s kotorym kogda-to...

Now that she's exiled from her home with her mother in Montreal, Canada, Katy figures she'll bury her nose in a book and ignore the fact that she's spending two weeks with her estranged father -- punk name: the Rat -- a recovered addict and drummer for the famously infamous band Suck. Even though Katy doesn't want to be there, even though she feels abandoned by her mom, even though the Rat's place is a mess and he's not like anything she'd call a...

The end of the cricket season spells gloom for Blotto, until he is invited to bat against the Hollywood cricket team out in sunny LA, where rain never stops play. And so begins the latest adventure for Blotto and his supremely gifted sister Twinks. Although their mother, the Dowager Duchess of Tawcester, keeps a strict rein on her two children, she knows America is full of wealthy young men, all of whom will fall in love with her daughter - and marriage...

"While working at a dead-end job in Los Angeles during the mid-1990s, [the narrator] reconnects with his best friend Moira, recently returned from Central America, and makes a new friend, Bernie, who teaches the history of photography. The two of them convince him to pursue a master's degree as a way of escaping the unrewarding life of a video store clerk. Once the narrator is exposed to an academic environment, he takes a dim view of the education...

"After a disastrous date results in her arrest, sixteen-year-old Lily Douglas is horrified to discover her mugshot is leaked on a gossip website. Lily is the niece of Whitney Paley, a Hollywood housewife and star of reality show Platinum Triangle, a soap-opera-style docu-series in the vein of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and The Hills, revolving around several glamorous families living in the Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Holmby Hills neighborhoods...