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- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Mystery, Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary with historical flashback
After an abrupt move across the country to San Francisco, sixteen-year-old Livvy is shocked to find that her mother has lied to her. Instead of looking for work at a bakery, her mom is taking care of Adelle, Livvy’s...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Humour, Romance
- Era(s): Present
What a difference a day makes… Nell Sullivan has always been known as ‘Miss Five-Year Plan’. But when she finds herself jobless and newly single on the same day, Nell decides it is time to stop planning and start...
- Location(s): Switzerland, Hawai'i, Nepal, New Zealand (Aotearoa), Paris, San Francisco, Sydney, Thailand
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
She thinks she is safe now that she’s home from her travels… but her nightmare has only just begun After her stalker takes his life and she’s jilted by a holiday lover, Sandrine comes home from her round-the-world backpacking...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1920s
In 1918, a young and bright-eyed Dorothea Lange steps off the train in San Francisco, where a disaster kick-starts a new life. Her friendship with Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straight-talking Chinese American with a complicated past, gives Dorothea entrée...
- Location(s): China, San Francisco
- Era(s): Modern and pre-war
LuLing Young is in her eighties, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 20th century, early 21st century
At the turn of the last century, two sisters are following very different paths. Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is a CEO of an internet start-up; twenty-three-year-old Jess is a grad student in philosophy, a vegan who rejects the rampant capitalism that...
- Location(s): Minneapolis - St Paul, San Francisco, Washington DC
- Genre(s): Humour, Suspense
- Era(s): 2014
Young underemployed man in the East San Francisco Bay gets hired by mysterious tech company. Hilarity ensues. A scotch-swilling DUI attorney, a cynical congressional staffer, and a retired bomb- sniffing German Shepherd are just some of the characters Chuck...
- Location(s): Beijing (Peking), San Francisco
- Genre(s): Thriller, Espionage
- Era(s): Contemporary
A fresh and vivid new voice brings a contemporary edge to the classic espionage novel. At twenty-six, Princeton grad Michael Wang is trapped. Stifled under the bamboo ceiling at General Motors, he’s working quietly on a breakthrough in self-driving...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Late 19th century
It’s the end of the nineteenth century in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ghost hunters from the Maoshan traditions of Daoism keep malevolent spiritual forces at bay. Li-lin, the daughter of a renowned Daoshi exorcist, is a young widow burdened...
- Location(s): San Francisco
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1949
In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, meet weekly to play mahjong and tell stories of what they left behind in China. United in loss and new hope for their daughters’ futures, they call themselves the...
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