California Future

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A timeless, structure-bending classic that explores how actions of individual lives impact the past, present and future—from a postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in fiction Featuring a new afterword by David Mitchell and a new introduction by...

In this inspirational memoir, celebrated actor Michael J. Fox motivates graduates to recognize opportunities, maximize their abilities, and roll with the punches—all with his trademark optimism, warmth, and humor. Michael J. Fox abandoned high school to pursue an acting career, but went on to...

California stands at a crossroads. The world’s fourth-largest economy has become defined by homelessness, wildfires, unaffordable housing, and political dysfunction—stories that overshadow the beauty, resilience, and promise Californians know to be true. California 2.0 offers a clear, nonpartisan blueprint to restore what makes this state extraordinary. Jon Henderson blends economic logic, practical solutions, and the lived experience of a native Californian to offer ideas only an independent can propose.

If you’re on the list, someone wants you dead. From the New York Times bestselling author of Eight Perfect Murders comes the heart-pounding story of nine strangers who receive a cryptic list with their names on it—and then begin to die in highly unusual circumstances. Nine strangers receive...

NEW YORK TIMES bestseller 2005: Welcome to NoCal and SoCal, the uneasy sister-states of what used to be California. The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter...

Her country needed the information. Their security teams need a capture. Can she survive and escape? After a year living under cover as Mary Hoskins, Krystal defends against another spy’s assault, leaving her with a chip full of classified data and a dead man in front of her. While trying to get a clear view of who knows about her, Krystal is attacked by a security team and must fight back. Once the fight is on, Krystal focuses on getting out, cutting deals, dodging security teams and battling her hunters. If she slips up, she’s facing interrogation, damage to her country and death. If ...

This richly imaginative, immersive, and “electrifyingly relevant” (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author) debut novel follows a shocking disappearance amid the climate crisis of our near future—perfect for fans of Station Eleven and The Last Thing He Told Me. Emi Vargas...

The inside story of how nuclear energy—long considered scary, controversial, and even apocalyptic—has become the hot topic of the climate debate, and perhaps a vital power source of the future On June 21, 2016, Pacific Gas & Electric Company announced a plan to shutter California’s last...

Alice Randall, award-winning professor, songwriter, and author presents “a celebration of all things country music” (Ken Burns) as she reflects on her search for the first family of Black country music. Country music had brought Alice Randall and her activist mother together and even gave...

Once upon a time, any mention of California triggered unpleasant reminders of Ronald Reagan and right-wing tax revolts, ballot propositions targeting undocumented immigrants, and racist policing that sparked two of the nation's most devastating riots. In fact, California confronted many of the challenges the rest of the country faces now - decades before the rest of us. Today, California is leading the way on addressing climate change, low-wage work, immigrant integration, overincarceration, and more.

American War meets Into the Wild in Brian Hart’s epic saga of one man’s struggle to survive a hostile world—tracing his path from a self-destructive, skateboarding youth in the 90s to the near future as he journeys across a desolate, militia-controlled American West to find his missing...

Tensions between the world's superpowers are mounting in Washington, D.C., and Beijing. But between these hubs of high-level politics, an entirely new reality is emerging. Yet the People's Republic of China and the state of California have built deep and interdependent socioeconomic exchanges that reverberate across the globe, and these interactions make California a microcosm of the most important international relationship of the 21st century. In The Transpacific Experiment, journalist Matt Sheehan chronicles the real people who are making these connections.

Are you ready to finally pass the PELLET B and start your law enforcement career with confidence? Do you feel nervous about the CLOZE section or struggle with reading comprehension speed? Have you been studying on your own but still can’t seem to raise your practice test scores? Are you worried that test-day pressure might stop you from performing at your best? You’ve got the drive to serve. Now you need the right system to prove it. Most test-takers fail the PELLET B not because they’re unqualified — but because they don’t prepare strategically. Many waste time with scattered ...

A man in his forties wakes in a park in San Diego with no memory of his name, his past, or how he got there. He finds a cowboy hat, black boots, an e-bike, and a gold medallion that talks. Who is he? Where did he come from? Ride north, the medallion tells him. Visit the old missions one by one. At each, carry out a mysterious ritual. When you reach Sonoma, your memories will be restored, including those of a mysterious past. You will know who took them and why. Refuse, and I will stop your heart. As he journeys, encountering a persistent assassin, meeting reanimated gods in his dreams, ...

Bloomsbury presents The Future Saints by Ashley Winstead, read by Ali Andre Ali, Brittany Pressley, Vikas Adam, and Tyla Collier THE NEW ROMANCE NOVEL FROM TIKTOK SENSATION ASHLEY WINSTEAD. 'The Future Saints is not to be missed.' Annabel Monaghan, author of Nora Goes Off Script A band on the...

"Kavenna is a diligent scholar of her form, melding a massively complex plot à la Thomas Pynchon and the wicked social satire of Evelyn Waugh with a healthy dose of Gogol's absurdist dysphoria thrown in for good measure." Kirkus (starred review) A blistering, satirical novel about life under a...

In the near future, Quincy Lane is the most adored celebrity on Earth. Until she does the unthinkable: she walks away. Disappearing into obscurity, she chooses the Life Boat—a chaotic haven of eccentrics, mentally vulnerable, complete with malfunctioning service robots and an amateur rock band led by the unforgettable Tall Mary. A wry exploration of society’s direction and absurdities, part speculative fiction, Quincy is an outlandish story of one woman’s daring search beyond the fame, within the world of the forgotten. In this strange new home, amidst the broken, the bold, and ...

The recent fires in Southern California have made it very clear that we need new systems for fire management in the area. In this publication we discuss the future of fire management in Southern California. Specifically, we provide a detailed design for a completely new system fire suppression technologies. This new system will eliminate all fires of any size, and regardless of the weather. We can also eliminate multiple large-scale fires at the same time. Using these new technologies we can extinguish all of these large-scale fires within a few hours. Therefore, the purpose of this ...

From ash we remember. From orchard we begin again. After the 2025 Los Angeles Wire Fire, the city’s hills stand black and silent. Insurance systems collapse. Real estate vultures arrive. And grief settles into the lungs of the living—heavy, smoky, impossible to exhale. For Eli Voss, a former firefighter who lost his sister and young niece Lila, the world has narrowed to one ritual: returning to their burned home each day, searching the ash for something that grief refuses to let him release. Then the city deploys Symbionts—humanoid partners built under The Five Symbiotic Laws, created...

After a massive solar storm causes a catastrophic global blackout, Greg and Vega Stern escape with their extended family to their solar powered, self-sufficient mountain cabin. Their survival is threatened when a dead body is found on the path behind their home, and a gang of lawless Neo-Nazis tries to take over their property.