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- Location(s): Japan, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
San Francisco antiques dealer Jim Brodie receives a call one night from a friend at the SFPD: an entire family has been senselessly gunned down in the Japantown neighborhood of the bustling city. As an American born and raised...
- Location(s): Lake Como, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Hallie Elliot has a perfect life. She is an up-and-coming interior designer in one of San Francisco’s most sought after firms, and has just recently become engaged to Peter, a brilliant young journalist. But when she stumbles upon Peter...
- Location(s): California, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Cassie Blake is the heiress to Fenton’s, San Francisco’s most exclusive department store. After the revelation of her husband Aidan’s affair with a student, she searches out her friend Alexis at Presidio Heights mansion, and has some soul searching...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
San Francisco, 1976. A naïve young secretary, fresh out of Cleveland, tumbles headlong into a brave new world of laundromat Lotharios, pot-growing landladies, cut throat debutantes, and Jockey Shorts dance contests. The saga that ensues is manic, romantic, tawdry,...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
The Golden Gate is a brilliantly achieved novel written in verse. Set in the 1980s in the affluence and sunshine of California’s Silicon Valley, it is an exuberant and witty story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the...
- Location(s): California, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts that it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident. The scene is more gruesome than anything she has...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl’s search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco’s Mission District. Michelle Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there’s knife-wielding Marta, who...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Era(s): 1800s and Modern
Looking for a better life, prostitute Nora Simms arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with a plan for success: to strike it rich by trading on her good looks. But when a string of murders claims several of her...
- Location(s): California, Monarch Beach, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Also known as The Beach Holiday. Amanda and Andre are married, but she catches him with his arm around his sous-chef and Amanda is now confronted with what her future might look like. She takes off for the beach...
- Location(s): California, San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Who needs the truth? Eight-year-old Ivy has a vivid imagination and tells lies so that people will like her. With her brother, Brice, in hospital, life at home feels unsettled and things become even more strained after her father...
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