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Sexton, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC SEX

Muller, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Muller 2018

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: M MUL

Freeman, Brian

Summary: Four years after serial killer Rudy Cutter was sent away for life, San Francisco homicide inspector Frost Easton uncovers a terrible lie: his closest friend planted false evidence to put Cutter behind bars. When he's forced to reveal the truth, his sister's killer is back on the streets. Desperate to take Cutter down again, the detective finds a new ally in Eden Shay. She wrote a book about...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2018

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Momaday, N. Scott

1 hold on 1 copy

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial 1990

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Jackson, Lisa

Summary: The Cahills of San Francisco are famous for two things: their vast wealth and the scandals that surround them. The betrayal you can't imagine may be the most terrifying weapon of all.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAC

Patterson, James

Summary: Detective Lindsay Boxer has everything she could possibly want. Her marriage and baby daughter are perfect, and life in Homicide in the San Francisco Police Department is going well. But all that could change in an instant. Lindsay is called to a crime scene at the Four Seasons Hotel. There is a dead man in one of the rooms, shot at close range. The man checked in under a false name with no ID...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS PAT

Patterson, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Patterson 2019

Yep, Laurence

1 hold on 1 copy

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper; an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

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Lescroart, John T.

Summary: When the body of Dominic Como, one of San Francisco's most high-profile activists--a charismatic man known as much for his expensive suits as his work on a half dozen nonprofit boards--is discovered, P.I. Mickey Dade and P.I. Wyatt Hunt investigate Como's business associate, Alicia Thorpe--young, gorgeous, and the sister of one of Mickey's friends.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LES

Dev, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEV

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Dev 2019

Pronzini, Bill.

Summary: When a suspicious wife reports her husband's inexplicable attendance at the funerals of murdered strangers, the nameless detective and his companions, Tamara and Jake, find themselves compromised in the face of a stalled investigation.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC Pro

Patterson, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PAT

Patterson, James

Summary: "Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday. When Tara Burke goes missing with her baby girl, all eyes are on her husband, Lucas. He paints her not as a missing person but a wayward wife--until a gruesome piece of evidence turns the investigation criminal. ADA Yuki Castellano sizes Lucas up as a textbook domestic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAT

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC PAT

Black, Saul.

Summary: "When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done. For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Black 2015

Carlisle, Kate

Summary: "Brooklyn and her hunky husband, security expert Derek Stone, have just returned from a delightful trip to Dharma, where the construction of their new home away from home is well underway, when a little black book arrives in the mail from Scotland. The book is a rare British first edition of Rebecca, and there's no return address on the package. The day after the book arrives, Claire Quinn...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAR

Feehan, Christine

Summary: "Gideon "Eagle" Carpenter is used to rolling with the punches life has thrown at him. It's the only thing that's kept him alive. He and his team of GhostWalkers have seen and experienced it all. He does his best to live with all the sins written on his soul. Then he hears the laughter of a woman with the ability to erase--even for a few previous moments--the darkness of his past. Laurel "Rory"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FEE

Moore, Jonathan

Summary: PI Lee Crowe finds Claire Gravesend dead, in a fine cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce, in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire's mother, Olivia, is one of the richest people in California. She doesn't believe the coroner: her daughter did not kill herself. Olivia hires Crowe, who--having just foiled a federal case against a cartel kingpin--is eager for distraction. But...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge Audio 2019

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOO

Black, Saul

Summary: "When she's called to the murder scene, the last thing San Francisco Homicide detective Valerie Hart is expecting is for Katherine Glass to walk back into her life. Six years earlier, revulsion and fascination had gripped the nation in equal measure, as beautiful, intelligent, charming--and utterly evil--Katherine Glass had been convicted on six counts of Murder One. But the freshly-mutilated...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLA

Steel, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: FIC STE

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STE

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STE

Chance, Megan

Summary: The eve of destruction. After her mother's death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn't know existed summons her to San Francisco. There she's welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle. Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. Her glamorous cousin...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHA

Deaver, Jeffery

Summary: "Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: locating a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths. Following the enigmatic clues his father left behind, Shaw plays cat and mouse with the company's sadistic enforcers. Only by finding...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DEA

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEA

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEA

Lescroart, John T.

Summary: "Having joined the "dark side" after years spent prosecuting criminals as the San Francisco DA, defense attorney Wes Farrell is experiencing a crisis of faith. How can he in good conscience defend clients whom, in his estimation, are most likely guilty? In his role as DA, Farrell had helped put away Paul Riley, a young man charged for the rape and murder of his then-girlfriend Dana Rush, only...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LES

Macomber, Debbie.

Summary: Elizabeth Wainwright, an East Coast heiress in disguise, takes a job waitressing at a Fisherman's Wharf cafe, eager to live a simpler life. One day Andrew Breed, handsome, mysterious and charismatic, walks in. He says he's a longshoreman, but his words and actions don't quite add up. Is Elizabeth falling in love with someone who's pretending to be something other than he claims?

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2013

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAC

Allende, Isabel

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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2015

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALL

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