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Author
Series
House of Wolves volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola, recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
Author
Series
Bella Vista volume 3
Language
English
Description
There is a book for everything. Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worried about. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes a caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative, not counting her scoundrel father. But the gruff,...
4) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A Chinese immigrant and his son build a flying machine in "an unusual historical novel, unique in its perspective of the Chinese in America and its portrayal of early 20th century San Francisco, including the Earthquake, from an immigrant's viewpoint".--School Library Journal. 1976 Newbery Honor Book; ALA Notable Children's Books of 1971-1975; 1976 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award Honor Book; New York Times Outstanding Children's Books 1975; School Library...
5) A dirty job
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Charlie Asher is a beta male, one of the countless guys who survive in the gene pool by doggie paddling in the shallow end. He doesn't take risks and he seriously hates change. But Charlie's safe life is about to take a really weird detour. On the day his daughter Sophie is born, his wife dies of a freak medical condition. As if being a widower and the single parent of a newborn aren't enough, soon people begin to drop dead around Charlie. Suddenly...
6) Pop's bridge
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
8) Forgiven
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Kula never expected to find herself on the streets of San Francisco, alone except for a letter of introduction. She had come to save her father from a cruel fate. But soon she is swept up in a world of art and elegance, a world she would hardly dared dream of back in Montana where she was no more than the daughter of an outlaw.. And then there is the handsome David Wong. When disaser strikes and the wreckage threatens all she holds dear, Kula realizes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jolly Fish Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Han Liu rejects his father's attempts to teach him traditional Chinese values, but when an earthquake and fire strike Chinatown, separating Han from his father, a book of family proverbs is all Han has left to guide him. Includes author's note.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a knock on the door in the middle of the night wakes Sharon, she's wholly unprepared for the horrifying news: her father has been the victim of a vicious, racially-motivated attack. A nationally recognized Shoshone artist, Elwood had been visiting Sharon for the holidays, browsing for gifts in San Francisco's exclusive Marina district when he was set upon by a mob of angry young men. Now he lies in a coma, hovering between life and death. With...
11) A summer affair
Author
Series
Calhoun chronicles volume 5
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A gifted but troubled physician, Blue Calhoun runs a thriving medical practice from his Nob Hill mansion in San Francisco while raising his son alone after an unthinkable tragedy. Then one day a female fugitive with a gunshot wound appears in Blue's surgery. Even though she holds a pistol aimed at his heart, the desperation in her eyes awakens Blue's compassion. Reluctantly he is drawn to her fragile beauty, her nerves of steel and the mystery surrounding...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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.
13) In an evil time
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jack Hollis had finally steeled himself for what had to be done: When a man is threatening your daughter and grandson, when reason can't stop it, when restraining orders don't work and the police can't help, then a father's choices are limited. David Rakubian was vicious, abusive, powerful, deadly - and Angela's husband. Everyone Hollis knew, the members of his family, his friends, all wanted to help save Angela. But this was something Jack had to...
Author
Series
American diaries volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In San Francisco near the beginning of the twentieth century, Alexia faces a moral dilemma when her con man father tries to cheat the widow who has been like a mother to Alexia.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
With Chasing the Dragon, Domenic Stansberry--the acclaimed writer of modern noir--introduces a new hardboiled series set in San Francisco. In this, the series opener, Stansberry tells a story written in clear homage to the masters of the genre, yet with an original, breathtaking voice all his own.
A complicated, shadowy man in disgrace, Dante Mancuso leads a double life. Lately, though, the line he walks has become razor thin.
Dante works for...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Environmental health officer Danny Skinner embarks on a journey from Edinburgh to San Francisco in search of the father he never knew, and discovers that his identity is entwined with the fate of his despised colleague, Brian Kibby.
19) Chasing secrets
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
Author
Series
Gilda Joyce mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.