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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

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

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

Carlisle, Kate

Summary: "San Francisco book-restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright was hoping for a fun, relaxing weekend at a local book fair, but a murderer made other plans in the latest in this New York Times bestselling series. Brooklyn and her new hunky husband, Derek, are excited to be guests at Dharma's first annual Book Festival. The entire town is involved and Brooklyn's mom Rebecca is taking charge. In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CAR

Klages, Ellen

Summary: In 1957, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball and uses what she learns about civil rights and the history of female baseball players to challenge the league ban on girls.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC KLA

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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1 available in Adult Fiction, 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

Moore, Heather B.

Summary: "A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2020

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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

Yep, 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.

Format: text

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

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC YEP

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

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

Patterson, James

Summary: In The 4th of July, after losing one of its own, Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club make a courageous return for their fourth and most chilling case ever--one that could easily be their last. A young girl is killed in crossfire after a routine arrest goes terribly wrong, and Lt. Lindsay Boxer has to defend herself against a charge of police brutality. While awaiting trial, Lindsay...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009

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

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

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Muller 2018

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1 available in Adult, Call number: M MUL

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

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

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 Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEA

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

Patterson, James

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Summary: The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she hopes to solve her father's murder.--Dust jacket.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult, 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 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 Fiction, Call number: Fiction Patterson

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M PAT

Jackson, Lisa

Summary: "The Cahills of San Francisco are famous for two things: their vast wealth, and the scandals that surround them. Murder, greed, deadly ambition ... some people will do anything to get, and keep, the Cahills' kind of money. Not that James Cahill wants any of it. He's tried to make his own way, less interested in a future inheritance than in his construction company - and in enjoying the many...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAC

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jackson 2020

Kohler, Hannah

Summary: "San Francisco, 1968: Jeannie and Kip are lost and half-orphaned, their mother dead under mysterious circumstances, and their father - a decorated WWII veteran - consumed by guilt and losing sight of his teenage children. Kip, a dreamer and swaggerer prone to small-time trouble, enlists to fight in Vietnam; Jeannie finds a seemingly safe haven in early marriage and motherhood. But when Kip is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOH

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

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

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

Summary: The complete third season of what the New York Post calls 'the best detective show to come along in decades'. Tony Shalhoub plays obsessive-compulsive detective Monk, who assists police in their most baffling cases.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2005

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MON

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MON

Summary: Television's favorite defective detective returns to DVD to solve a new batch of baffling mysteries with his trademark wit, wisdom ... and hand wipes.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD MON

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MON

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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