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Afternoon

Afternoon
  • Author(s): Nidhi Dalmia
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kashmir, New York City (NYC), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in the late ’60s, intertwined with the significant cultural, student, sexual and intellectual revolutions taking place around that time, Afternoon is the story of a young...

Aftershock

Aftershock
  • Author(s): Judy Melinek, T J Mitchell
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Crime, Coming of Age, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When an earthquake strikes San Francisco, forensics expert Jessie Teska faces her biggest threat yet in this explosive new mystery from the New York Times bestselling duo There’s a body crushed under a load of pipes on a San...

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (A Love Story #1)

Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story (A Love Story #1)
  • Author(s): Christopher Moore
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Humour, Paranormal
  • Era(s): Modern

A striking red-head, 20-something Jody is attacked and transformed into a vampire while walking home one night in downtown San Francisco. Befriending 19-year-old Tommy, Jody tries to understand her new undead life, but trouble finds her when the cops...

Calico Palace

Calico Palace
  • Author(s): Gwen Bristow
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Gold Rush (mid 19th century)

This thrilling story of the California gold rush is not about the forty-niners, the prospectors who came rushing to the San Francisco area in 1849, but about the men and women who were there when it all began with...

China Blues

China Blues
  • Author(s): Ki Longfellow
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

The Roaring Twenties, Chinatown, San Francisco: back-street blues and bathtub gin… hardball mobsters and hardheaded cops… seductive speakeasies and sizzling scandals. As the young Louis Armstrong blows his horn in the infamous Blue Canary, impetuous Nob Hill Socialite Elizabeth...

Dante’s Numbers

Dante’s Numbers
  • Author(s): David Hewson
  • Location(s): Rome, San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Thriller

Allan Prime looked ready to die of fright, even before the bright, shining spear with the blood-soaked tip reached his head . . . The death mask of the poet Dante is to be exhibited at the premiere of...

Days of Distraction

Days of Distraction
  • Author(s): Alexandra Chang
  • Location(s): San Francisco, New York State
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A wry, tender portrait of a young woman–finally free to decide her own path, but unsure if she knows herself well enough to choose wisely–from a captivating new literary voice The plan is to leave. As for how, when,...

Dead Lawyers Don’t Lie

Dead Lawyers Don’t Lie
  • Author(s): Mark Nolan
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present Day

A mysterious killer who calls himself The Artist is assassinating wealthy lawyers in San Francisco. When photo-journalist Jake Wolfe accidentally takes his picture during a murder, The Artist adds Jake to his kill list and he becomes a target...

Followives

Followives
  • Author(s): Irene Perali
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 2010s

Viola, Bianca, Luna, Giada, and Aurora have just started to discover their career paths in vibrant Milan. These five women don’t have a lot in common until the men in their lives decide to chase their dream jobs in...

Frog Music

Frog Music
  • Author(s): Emma Donoghue
  • Location(s): San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1870s

Frog Music is an atmospheric and gripping novel by Emma Donoghue, author of the multi-million-copy bestseller Room, adapted as a major motion picture directed by Lenny Abrahamson. San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed...

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