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On a Night Like this

On a Night Like this
  • Author(s): Ellen Sussman
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

They met in high school, but had nothing in common: Blair Clemens, a Bohemian chick who kept to herself, and Luke Bellingham, the golden boy – rich handsome, and destined for greatness. Now, years later, Luke has fulfilled his...

Summer Nights

Summer Nights
  • Author(s): Allie Spencer
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

There’s nothing quite like a holiday with your boyfriend. Flora Fielding can’t wait for Barney to join her in San Francisco so they can begin their dream holiday. Until Barney dumps her, leaving her stranded. Luckily, Flora’s cousin Bella...

Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore

Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore
  • Author(s): Robin Sloan
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

A New York Times bestseller, Mr Penumbra’s 24-hour Bookstore is an entirely charming and lovable first novel of mysterious books and dusty bookshops: it is a witty and delightful love-letter to both the old book world and the new....

The Bookers: San Francisco Memories

The Bookers: San Francisco Memories
  • Author(s): Don C Becker
  • Location(s): Kansas, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

When nineteen-year-old Constance Connors, the beautiful and carefree Hawaiian-born daughter of an Episcopalian minister, meets a newly graduated West Point cadet, Second Lieutenant Joseph Booker, she’s instantly smitten. But it’s not long before she finds herself pregnant, married, and...

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
  • Author(s): William Saroyan
  • Location(s): Northern California, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): 1920s

Wait for Me, Jack

Wait for Me, Jack
  • Author(s): Addison Jones
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back to 1950s

Set near San Francisco, this warm and funny novel follows the fortunes and failures of Jack and Milly for sixty years. They marry in 1952, and typical of post-war couples, shift up a class. Optimistic and full of plans,...

Perfect Crime

Perfect Crime
  • Author(s): Jack Erickson
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Crime, Novella
  • Era(s): Modern

A San Francisco wife plots to murder her philandering husband by being in two places at one time. She commits the Perfect Crime and starts an exciting new life with a sexy new boyfriend, living off the life insurance...

21st Birthday (Women’s Murder Club 21)

21st Birthday (Women’s Murder Club 21)
  • Author(s): James Patterson
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When a distraught mother pleads with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of her daughter Tara and baby granddaughter Lorrie, Cindy immediately loops in SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The prime suspect is Tara’s schoolteacher husband,...

A Goulden Christmas

A Goulden Christmas
  • Author(s): Carol E Ayer
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

It’s a Wonderful Life meets You’ve Got Mail meets Big in this magical, dual timeline romance! Hope Goulden works at her family’s old-fashioned storybook park. Loyalty to her mother and her high school sweetheart has kept her in the...

A House for Happy Mothers

A House for Happy Mothers
  • Author(s): Amulya Malladi
  • Location(s): South India, Silicon Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn’t have much—raising two...

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