san francisco (calif.)

Figure-skating researcher Bex Levy has witnessed the behind-the-scenes drama of the cutthroat world of competitive figure skating. The drama peaks at the World Championships in San Francisco when the judges award the gold medal to a Russian over America's sweetheart in a controversial decision. The judge who cast the deciding vote is found dead the next day and Bex investigates the murder.

In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.

A cat abandoned in Golden Gate Park quickly learns how to take care of itself, with the help of a street-smart raccoon and another stray cat.

Mark Bittner recounts how he became fascinated by a group of wild parrots inhabiting his new studio apartment and how he became the bird's trusted friend, the local parrot expert, and a tourist attraction.

Presents twelve short fiction stories about time and time travel set in New York and San Francisco in the 1950s and 60s.

Thirty-eight-year-old lawyer Sarah Anderson's riskless life changes when a gift from an elderly client--and a request that she do something daring with it--leads her to a crumbling San Francisco mansion whose history, involving a woman, a child, and war-torn France, helps her dream new dreams and find a new love.

Faith and her family return to their home in San Francisco and have more adventures in the spaceship Peahen while trying to keep secret the fact that Edison the dog knows how to write.

"Uncle Oscar was one of a kind. His dusty antiques shop, the Green Vase--nestled in San Francisco's historic Jackson Square neighborhood--was like his own personal museum to the Gold Rush era. Needless to say, I was shocked when he was found dead in his shop, and even more surprised to discover he'd left the venerable establishment to me...Before long, I learned my inheritance included all sorts of clues Uncle Oscar has left behind--a peculiar key, a trap door, a puzzling map..."--p.[4] of cover.

Sixteen-year-old Catherine struggles to hold onto her close relationship with her adopted Mexican American brother Henry after a family tragedy brings Catherine's prejudiced older brother back into their lives, with aims to send Henry away from the family's San Francisco home.

Violently attacked by a stranger six months after the brutal killing of her beloved husband, Julia Ransom is narrowly rescued by special agent Cheney Stone, who reopens the case of Julia's husband's death when he suspects a connection.