chinatown (san francisco, calif.)

At the news of her mother's death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn't spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco's Chinatown from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She's even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother's restaurant. The neighborhood seer reads the restaurant's fortune in the leaves: Natalie must cook three recipes from her grandmother's cookbook to aid her struggling neighbors before the restaurant will succeed.

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are enjoying a visit to San Francisco when Holden, their college-age tour guide, is accused of abducting Miss Chinatown from the Chinese New Year parade and stealing her valuable crown.

Sam and Dean are called to San Francisco's Chinatown by renegade angel Castiel who gives them information about a series of killings, and soon they realize they are facing an evil spirit that has been fought by their parents and grandparents in the past.

When Miss Chinatown and the crown go missing from San Fransisco's Chinatown Parade, Holden--Lily, Miss Chinatown's boyfriend--is accused of the crime. It will take Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose's best detective skills to clear their friend's name.

A murder at the Blue Dragon, a small apartment building in San Francisco's Chinatown, prompts the absentee owner to hire Chinese American Peter Strand to calm the anxious tenants. But Strand isn't exactly what he appears to be. Neither are the tenants, who on the surface seem to be regular people going about their lives. Strand, a forensic accountant by trade, doesn't intend to investigate the murder, but he soon realizes that this isn't a gang-related killing, as the police believe. The murder was committed by one of the tenants.

Contains the dramatic text of an adaptation of Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II's Broadway musical, "Flower Drum Song," in which a young, traditional, Chinese woman arrives in San Francisco to take part in an arranged marriage to a nightclub owner, only to discover he is in love with his club's star singer.

"In 1938, Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive "Oriental" nightclub, the Forbidden City. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family who have deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. At times their differences are pronounced, but the girls grow to depend on one another in order to fulfill their individual dreams. Then, everything changes in a heartbeat with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly the government is sending innocent Japanese to internment camps under suspicion, and Ruby is one of them. But which of her friends betrayed her?"--Provided by publisher.

Chinese immigrant Jack Moon Szeto struggles between the woman he loves and the law that forces him into a pre-arranged marriage.

When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.

Erin, a non-Chinese teenager living in San Francisco's Chinatown, ghostwrites an online advice column, but when a reply to her ex-best friend backfires, Erin's carefully constructed life takes a crazy spin.