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281) Ebony Gate
Author
Series
Phoenix hoard volume 1
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the scent of blood and human waste as a lethal perfume. The Butcher...
282) The marriage game
Author
Series
Marriage game novels volume 1
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's a clash of culture in this romantic comedy about arranged marriages from Sara Desai. Layla Santos is the child of first-generation immigrants from India. Her parents run a Michelin-starred Indian restaurant in San Francisco and are very traditional in their ways, including a firm belief in the benefit of arranged marriages. Her father, thinking he knows best, signs Layla up for IndianGirlMatch.com and sets up a series of dates without telling...
283) La letra con sangre
Author
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done. For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of victims--women abducted, tortured and left with a seemingly...
284) Fogtown
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"Frank Grissel is a hard-knuckled private eye -- and a deeply closeted homosexual -- set in the very real world of 1953 San Francisco. Aided by his long-suffering secretary (and sometime live-in lover) Loretta, Grissel's search for a runaway girl winds up with his becoming a suspect in a string of gruesome murders. The case takes twists and turns through the Golden Gate's greasy underbelly: the beguiling arms of a Chinese shipping heiress (and smuggler);...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 24
Publisher
Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
Español
Description
La casa del árbol lleva a Annie y Jack a California, en 1806, en el momento justo del famoso terremoto de San Francisco. ¿Podrán Annie y Jack encontrar el último escrito para que Morgana salve al reino de Camelot? ¿Lo lograrán antes de que San Francisco quede en ruinas?
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
286) The killing lessons
Author
Series
Valerie Hart novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When the two strangers turn up at Rowena Cooper's isolated Colorado farmhouse, she knows instantly that it's the end of everything. For the two haunted and driven men, on the other hand, it's just another stop on a long and bloody journey. And they still have many miles to go, and victims to sacrifice, before their work is done. For San Francisco homicide detective Valerie Hart, their trail of victims-- women abducted, tortured and left with a seemingly...
287) Love water memory
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who is Lucie Walker? Even Lucie herself can't answer that question after she comes to, confused and up to her knees in the chilly San Francisco Bay. Back home in Seattle, she adjusts to life with amnesia, growing unsettled by the clues she finds to the selfish, carefully guarded person she used to be. Will she ever fall in love with her handsome, kindhearted fiance, ́Grady? Can he devote himself to the vulnerable, easygoing Lucie 2.0, who is so unlike...
Author
Series
Cameron Winter novels volume 2
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The world of Big Tech is full of eccentric characters, but shamanic billionaire Gerald Byrne may be the strangest of the bunch. The founder of Byrner, a global social media platform, Byrne is known for speaking with vague profundity and for dabbling in esoteric spiritual practices; he wears his hair in a long black ponytail to reveal a large flower tattooed on his neck; he's universally admired as a visionary, a philanthropist, and a devoted husband...
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when her prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI, Yolanda turns in her corrupt bosses to save her career--and goes to work for the Bureau. Soon she's sent undercover at Red, Black, and Green--an African-American extremist activist group back in her California college town. They claim a biotech...
290) Ruby lost and found
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced to spend the summer at Nai-Nai’s senior center, Ruby Chu works to help save a historic Chinatown bakery while revisiting her late Ye-Ye’s favorite spots to find a way to deal with her grief and maybe find herself.
291) Ghostly game
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes things just go south and there isnt a damn thing you can do about it. Gideon Eagle Carpenter eased his body back slowly until he was entirely prone, linked his fingers behind his head and stared up at the stars. This was San Francisco. Viewing stars wasnt always easy because fog liked to creep in at night, at least where he was located. He was on the roof of the four-story, wedged shaped original warehouse made of red bricks that rose like...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
"The text of this edition presents, fully annotated, the 1899 First Edition text of McTeague, a significant example of American literary naturalism and a commentary on turn-of-the-century American cultural values. Contexts focuses on the novel's sources and composition. Included are newspaper accounts of a San Francisco murder; a description of Norris' Polk Street neighborhood, which figures prominently in McTeague; an examination of the relationship...
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