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Books and reading Fiction California San Francisco Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) Fiction Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) Juvenile fiction FICTION / Literary Friendship Fiction Magic Fiction Magic Juvenile fiction San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction San Francisco (Calif.) Juvenile fictionYang, Kelly
Summary: "Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YANRoy, Ron
Summary: Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are enjoying a visit to San Francisco when Holden, their college-age tour guide, is accused of abducting Miss Chinatown from the Chinese New Year parade and stealing her valuable crown.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2011
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Summary: "Thanks to her Ye-Ye's epic scavenger hunts, thirteen-year-old Ruby Chu knows San Francisco like the back of her hand. But after his death, she feels lost, and it seems like everyone--from her best friends to her older sister--is abandoning her. After Ruby gets in major trouble at school, her parents decide she has to spend the summer at a local senior center, with her grandmother, Nai-Nai, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC LITallman, Shirley.
Summary: Flaunting the conventions of nineteenth-century society and feminine behavior, headstrong attorney Sarah Woolson gets more than she had bargained for when a reporter is found murdered during a seance at San Francisco's famed Cliff House.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALPatterson, James
Summary: For a trio of colleagues, an innocent night out after class ends in a deadly torture session. They vanish without a clue -- until a body turns up. With the safety of San Francisco's entire school system as stake, Lindsay Boxer has never been under more pressure. To solve the School Night case, Lindsay turns to her best friend, investigative journalist Cindy Thomas, as the chief of police and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PATCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2019Muller, Marcia
Summary: On a foggy summer morning, private investigator Sharon McCone receives a call from her former neighbors, the Curleys. Their usually dependable daughter Chelle hasn't been answering their calls for weeks. Would Sharon check on her? Sharon arranges to visit the building Chelle had been living in and rehabbing in southwest San Francisco. Once it was a nightclub and bar, she learns, and a favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Muller 2018Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M MULMomaday, N. Scott
Summary: Based on an Indian myth about a boy who turns into a bear, this mystic novel concerns a young artist who confronts his unusual destiny with the aid of the beautiful medicine woman who loves him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1990
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ZHALescroart, John T.
Summary: Released from desk work when a high-profile San Francisco activist is murdered, Hunt Club private investigator Mickey Dade discovers that the victim was involved in suspicious deals that also implicate the beautiful Alicia Thorpe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LESTallman, Shirley
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALBertman, Jennifer Chambliss
Summary: Twelve-year-old Emily is on the move again. Her family is relocating to San Francisco, home of her literary idol: Garrison Griswold, creator of the online sensation Book Scavenger, a game where books are hidden all over the country and clues to find them are revealed through puzzles. But Emily soon learns that Griswold has been attacked and is in a coma, and no one knows anything about the epic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BERCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BERStone, Tamara Ireland.
Summary: Told from his point of view, continues the love story of Bennett, a time traveler from 2012 San Francisco, and Anna, sixteen, of 1995 Evanston, Illinois, as they try to make their relationship work despite his fear that it is not meant to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOLee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)
Summary: Winston Chu saves the owner of a curiosities shop from a robbery only to be gifted a broomstick and a dustpan for his trouble--items that turn out to be more a curse than a blessing when they sweep away important stuff, like his baby sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2023
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Summary: At home they are just sisters, but on stage, they are The Salvations. Ruth, Esther, and Chloe have been singing and dancing in harmony since they could speak. Thanks to the rigorous direction of their mother, Vivian, they've become a bona fide girl group whose shows are the talk of the Jazz-era Fillmore. Now Vivian has scored a once-in-a-lifetime offer from a talent manager, who promises to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEXSvetcov, Danielle
Summary: "Newly homeless Jeanne Ann and wealthy Cal form a vital friendship as they both search for stability and community, finding it through love of books, art, and food"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SVENunn, Kem.
Summary: "In an intense tale of psychological suspense, a San Francisco psychiatrist becomes sexually involved with a female patient who suffers from multiple personality disorder, and whose pathological ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective--from a Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning author. Dr. Eldon Chance is a brilliant, lonely, forensic neuropsychologist with a long track record of getting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NUNYep, Laurence
Summary: A tiger, a monkey, a dragon, and a twelve-year-old Chinese American boy fight to keep a magic talisman out of the hands of an enemy who would use its power to destroy the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper; an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEPLee, Stacey (Stacey Heather)
Summary: When San Francisco adults forget who they are and mysterious exotic birds flock to the city, twelve-year-old Winston Chu and friends team up to investigate the strange occurrences and face off against Mr. Pang's older magpie-turned-human brother, Mr. Gu.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Hyperion 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEECoombs, Amelia Diane
Summary: Florie's OCD and her mother's worrying have kept her from a lot of things, like having an after-school job and getting her driver's license. Now she's taking a gap year after high school, and her best friend Kacey is headed to college in Portland in the fall. Winning tickets to see her favorite true crime podcast's live show in California gives her the opportunity leave small-town Washington...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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Summary: Mr. Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. First, there's the coded note he drops at a book event. Then Emily and James uncover a trail of encrypted messages in books by Mark Twain hidden through Book Scavenger. What is most suspicious is that each hidden book triggers an arson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BERPatterson, James
Summary: Three victims, three bullets, three cities. Simultaneous murders in LA, Chicago, and San Francisco, SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer's jurisdiction, and local reporter Cindy Thomas's beat. The shooters' aim is as fearsomely precise as their target selection. When Lindsay realizes that the fallen men and women excel in a lucrative, criminal activity, she leads the charge in the manhunt for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATPonti, James
Summary: Rebel surfer-turned-field ops specialist Sydney finds herself in hot water while undercover on a marine research vessel, while her City Spies teammates investigate a suspected mole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2021
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Summary: "From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from present-day San Francisco to Poland and the United States during WWII. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALLCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Allende 2015See, Lisa
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story of secrets and sacrifice, love and betrayal, prejudice and passion, China Dolls reveals a rich portrait of female friendship, as three young women navigate the "Chop Suey Circuit"--America's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014