san francisco (calif.)

In the late 1960s, a Chinese girl and her parents emigrate to the U.S. and try their best to assimilate into their San Francisco neighborhood while anxiously awaiting the arrival of their green cards.

Frances, a Chinese-American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she becomes a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent.

Rereading Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" over Christmas break gives brainy, fifteen-year-old Alice a different way of looking at herself, her first boyfriend, her friends, and her family.

After an arduous journey, Will Dwinelle and his friend Ben finally reach California in 1849 intending to bring home the man who betrayed the honor of a girl back home in Philadelphia, but find themselves tempted by the riches of the Gold Rush.

A novelization of twenty-two-year-old photographer Edith Irvine's experiences in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, as seen through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Daisy, a fictitious traveling companion. Includes reader's guide and author interview.

After the universe is suddenly bifurcated in 1986, novelist Felix Sayers risks everything when he finds out he has an "alter" in Universe B and tries to journey to this other world.

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.

Aurora del Valle, raised in the privileged class of Chile by her grandmother, is tormented by nightmares and half-memories of events set in San Francisco's Chinatown. Disillusioned in her marriage, Aurora sets out to rediscover the missing years of her early childhood.

Wendy Darling Braverman, the great-granddaughter of the original Wendy from the Peter Pan legend, has trouble--as do all the women in her family--dealing with reality after her trip to Neverland as a thirteen-year-old, and tries to prepare her daughter Berry for the arrival of Peter who is sure to break her heart.