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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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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESexton, Margaret Wilkerson
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: Ecco 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEXYe, Chun
Summary: "After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHUDev, Sonali
Summary: Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco's most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that's not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules: never trust an outsider, never do anything to jeopardize your brother's political aspirations, and never, ever, defy your family. Trisha has been guilty of breaking all the rules, but finally has a chance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dev 2019Steel, Danielle
Summary: "Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her acting career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has been living alone in San Francisco with two trusted caretakers. Then, on a muggy late summer day, a massive earthquake strikes Northern California, plunging the Bay Area into chaos. Without a moment's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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Summary: Leaving their well-ordered Manhattan life to move to San Francisco triggers a collision between the past and present for a successful married couple who, during a small earthquake, experience visions of their new home's original inhabitants from a century earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Llc 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2017Steel, Danielle
Summary: Sybil and Blake Gregory have established a predictable, well-ordered Manhattan life -- she as a cutting-edge design authority and museum consultant, he in high-tech investments -- raising their teenagers Andrew and Caroline and six-year-old Charlie. But everything changes when Blake is offered a dream job he can't resist as CEO of a start-up in San Francisco. He accepts it without consulting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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Summary: Jerome Sugar learned the art of baking in his grandma's bakery, also called Sugar, on historic Perdita Street in San Francisco. He supplies baked goods to the Lost and Found Bookshop across the street. When the restaurant that shares his commercial kitchen loses its longtime tenant, a newcomer moves in: Margot Salton, a barbecue master from Texas. Margot isn't exactly on the run, but she needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WIGChen, Mike
Summary: Six years after a global pandemic wiped out most of the planet's population, the survivors are rebuilding the country, split between self-governing cities, hippie communes and wasteland gangs. Krista, Moira, Rob and Sunny are brought together by circumstance, and their lives begin to twine together. But when reports of another outbreak throw the fragile society into panic, the friends are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEWiggs, Susan
Summary: Jerome learned to bake in his grandma's bakery, Sugar, but when the restaurant next door gets a new tenant, Margot, a barbecue master from Texas, things really start to heat up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: "For fourteen years, Letty Espinosa has worked three jobs around San Francisco to make ends meet while her mother raised her children--Alex, now fifteen, and Luna, just six--in their tiny apartment on a forgotten spit of wetlands near the bay. But now Letty's parents are returning to Mexico, and Letty must step up and become a mother for the first time in her life. Navigating this new terrain...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2015
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Summary: Marrying a divorced father of two, Andi finds herself struggling to gain her stepdaughters' acceptance while preserving family peace in the face of daily dramas and competitions for her husband's attention.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Green 2012Steel, Danielle
Summary: A reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, revealing secrets, breaking relationships apart, and bringing strangers together to forge powerful new bonds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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Summary: In 1949, four Chinese women--drawn together by the shadow of their past--begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and "say" stories. They call their gathering the Joy Luck Club--and forge a relationship that binds them for more than three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TANSteel, Danielle
Summary: "A reclusive woman opens up her home to her neighbors in the wake of a devastating earthquake, setting off events that reveal secrets, break relationships apart, and bring strangers together to forge powerful new bonds"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEEstleman, Loren D.
Summary: While her undertaker husband practices the art of making victims of the untamed American west presentable and dignified after death, a woman devotes her time to safeguarding her marriage in the face of local challenges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ESTFreethy, Barbara.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Large Print Book Co. 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRELutz, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: A woman marries into a ready-made family and learns the true meaning of motherhood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing 2012
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRELamott, Anne.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMRobbins, Tom
Summary: American MIAs choose to remain missing after the end of the Vietnam War, while four generations of women share a unique link to a mysterious figure from Japanese folklore.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBD'Erasmo, Stacey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004