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California San Francisco Criminal investigation Criminal investigation California San Francisco Drama Detective and mystery plays Detectives California San Francisco Drama Obsessive-compulsive disorder California San Francisco Drama Police California San Francisco Drama San Francisco (Calif.) Drama San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction San Francisco (Calif.). Police Department DramaRumsey, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: ESRI Press 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912.7 RUMSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Summary: Obsessive-compulsive sleuth Adrian Monk is back, solving crimes and keeping things immaculate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MONSummary: Brilliant but phobia-laden detective Adrian Monk never lets his obsessive-compulsive disorder stop him from solving a crime in the most ingenious way imaginable.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: Strobing lights and dark rooms; throbbing house and drag queens on counters; first kisses, last call: the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression—whatever your scene, whoever you’re seeking. But in urban centers around the world, they are closing, a cultural demolition that has Jeremy Atherton Lin wondering: What was the gay bar? How have they shaped him? And could...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.766 LINSummary: A statement on a business card is adorned with a chess-piece knight and heralds the professional services of Paladin. Based at the Hotel Carlton in San Francisco, and assisted by his manservant, Hey Boy, Paladin is an intelligent yet mysterious loner as well as a man of many talents, including detective, bodyguard, courier, sleuth and bounty hunter. When the situation is desperate, Paladin is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment/CBS DVD 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HAVCollins, Ailynn
Summary: "The date is April 18, 1906. The city of San Francisco has just been rocked and shaken by a huge earthquake. Even worse, the quake causes huge fires to break out across the city. Can you escape your damaged home before it collapses? Will you join the firefighters as they try to save the city from the devastating fires? Will you be accused of looting after helping a boy escape from some rubble?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: From their uniquely-equipped office at SFPD headquarters, Chief Ironside continues to lead his special police unit, fighting crime others cannot. His crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown, ex-con-turned-assistant Mark Sanger and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IROMuller, 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 MULDavenport, Matthew J.
Summary: "Matthew J. Davenport's The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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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: "San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSSummary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOTalbot, David
Summary: Traces the story of San Francisco in the latter half of the twentieth century, covering topics ranging from the civil rights movement and pop culture to the 49ers and famous crime cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.09794 TALClements, Andrew
Summary: "Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of things -- and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. A fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Left wheelchair-bound by a sniper's bullet, long-time San Francisco Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside, becomes the head of his own special police unit. Operating from a specially equipped office at SFPD headquarters, Ironside fights crime using intelligence and action. His crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown, ex-con-turned-assistant Mark Sanger, and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IROSummary: From their uniquely-equipped office at SFPD headquarters, Chief Ironside continues to lead his special police unit, fighting crime others can't. His crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown, ex-con-turned-assistant Mark Sanger and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IROMuller, Marcia.
Summary: Sharon McCone investigates a terrorist bombing at the Consulate of an Arab Emirate and tries to save the consul general's granddaughter who has disappeared, leading Sharon on a high-stakes chase that ends up on the deadly streets of San Francisco.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULKing, Laurie R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KINHsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B HSU HSUSummary: At the center of this hard-hitting television drama is Lt. Mike Stone, assigned to the homicide detail of the San Francisco Police Dept., and his young, energetic partner, Inspector Steve Keller. In this volume, Stone and Keller confront a hired assassin, a ruthless bank robber, and a trio of escaped convicts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STRKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Returning to her former home of San Francisco in 1924, Mary Russell and her husband, eminent detective Sherlock Holmes, are confronted by dark secrets of the past that continue to haunt Mary's dreams--Novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION KingLescroart, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LESRoerig, Fred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector Books 2006