san francisco

Tells the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake written in graphic novel format.

The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese-American in San Francisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage.

Examines the founding and early years of Yerba Buena, one of the earliest settlements in America; tells of the challenges faced by colonists in the New World; and discusses the contributions of notable men and women to the community. Includes a chronology and time line.

Although twelve-year-old Abby has always tried to deny that she has some kind of weird psychic power, she takes advantage of it to help her mother, a struggling private investigator, and, more importantly, to find her best friend's little brother when he goes missing at a ski resort.

Detective Lindsay Boxer calls upon her friends in the Women's Murder Club for help when a series of seemingly unrelated killings jolt the San Francisco area, but the women soon find they are in over their heads, and even worse, have made themselves targets of the murderer.

Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.

Reconstructs a realistic murder crime on the remote Palmyra Island, 1,000 miles due south of Hawaii.

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, McTeague opens a quack dental parlor, but his wife's former suitor is jealous and exposes his malpractice.

Reprint of a 1958 novel by Beat generation writer Jack Kerouac, in which Leo Percepied, a writer in underground San Francisco, makes an important discovery about himself and his life at the moment when his lover is leaving him.

An account of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.