The long take : a noir narrative —Robertson, Robin, 1955- author.

"Walker is a D-Day veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder; he can't return home to rural Nova Scotia, and looks instead to the city for freedom, anonymity, and repair. As he finds his way from New York to Los Angele...

A race to splendor a tale of rivalry, redemption, and the rebuilding of a devastated city —Ware, Ciji.

Inspired by female architect Julia Morgan, this is the riveting tale of a race against time to rebuild two luxury hotels after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed 400 city blocks and left 250,000 homeless. Morgan...

Noir : a novel —Moore, Christopher, 1957- author.

"It's not every afternoon that an enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar. It's love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his...

Across a broken shore —Trueblood, Amy, author.

"In 1936 San Francisco, eighteen-year-old Willa MacCarthy is bound for the convent. But when she discovers her love of medicine, she will defy her family and work with a female doctor to care for those building the Golde...

City of sharks —Stanley, Kelli, author.

Miranda Corbie, a private investigator working in the heart of 1940s San Francisco, is bringing this chapter of her life to a close before embarking on a journey to England to find her mother, despite the escalating conf...

Fridays at Enrico's : A Novel. —Carpenter, Don, author.

Don Carpenter s semi- autobiographical Fridays at Enrico s can be read as the swan song of the entire Love Generation. The New York Times Book Review The author of A Hard Rain Falling and A Couple of Comedians , Don C...

A race to splendor a tale of rivalry, redemption, and the rebuilding of a devastated city —Ware, Ciji.

Inspired by female architect Julia Morgan, this is the riveting tale of a race against time to rebuild two luxury hotels after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake destroyed 400 city blocks and left 250,000 homeless. Morgan...

The Buddha in the attic a novel —Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the pro...

The Buddha in the attic —Otsuka, Julie, 1962-

In six unforgettable, incantatory sections, the novel traces their new lives as "icture brides": the arduous voyage by boat, where the girls trade photos of their husbands and imagine uncertain futures in an unknown land...

City of secrets —Stanley, Kelli.

When Pandora Blake is murdered at San Francisco's 1940 World's Fair and her body marked with an anti-Semitic slur, Miranda Corbie is soon entangled in a web of deceit and betrayal that is only overshadowed by the threat ...

Hattie ever after —Larson, Kirby.

In 1919, seventeen-year-old Hattie leaves the Montana prairie--and her sweetheart Charlie--to become a female reporter in San Francisco.

City of secrets —Stanley, Kelli.

Against a brightening sky —Moyer, Jaime Lee, author.

By 1919 the Great War has ended, peace talks are under way in Paris, and the world has been forever changed. Delia Martin, apprentice practitioner of magical arts, and her husband, Police Captain Gabriel Ryan, face the g...

City of Ghosts —Stanley, Kelli.

"PI Miranda Corbie will do anything to save her mother, but first she must clear her name of the murder of a Nazi spy June 1940--Hitler's army has conquered France and is turning on England. While the United States is on...

Love at any cost a novel —Lessman, Julie, 1950-

A spunky heiress without a fortune moves to vibrant San Francisco in 1902 and tries to forget about love until a handsome pauper looking to marry well captures her heart.

The strange case of Baby H —Reiss, Kathryn.

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries. Grades 5-8. 2003.

Love & Haight —Carlton, Susan R. F. K., 1960-

Seventeen-year-old Chloe brings her friend MJ to San Francisco, one of the few places where an abortion can be obtained legally in 1971, to get rid of Chloe's "Thing" while staying with her bohemian Aunt Kiki, experienci...

Noir a novel —Moore, Christopher, 1957- author.

"It's not every afternoon that an enigmatic, comely blonde named Stilton (like the cheese) walks into the scruffy gin joint where Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin tends bar. It's love at first sight, but before Sammy can make his...

A barricade in hell —Moyer, Jaime Lee, author.

Hoping to settle down after stopping a serial killer, Delia, an early twentieth century psychic, instead encounters the ghost of a strange young girl who threatens her police officer husband.

Rising tide —Thesman, Jean.

In 1908, Kate and Ellen set up shop and begin to sell handmade Irish linens to a select San Francisco clientele.