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• The Maltese Falcon

  Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961

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  "A coolly glittering gem of detective fiction that has haunted three generations of readers, from one of the greatest mystery writers of all time."

• The Joy Luck Club

  Tan, Amy

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  "This book chronicles the lives of four Chinese women, their forty-year friendship, and how the death of one brings her daughter into the fold and creates a new understanding for each."

• The Spellman Files

  Lutz, Lisa

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  "While deciding if she should quit working for her family's private investigation firm, Izzy Spellman copes with meddling parents, an alcoholic uncle, the disappearance of her younger sister, and her own problems with men and drinking."

• Tales of the City

  Maupin, Armistead

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  "A naive young secretary forsakes Cleveland for San Francisco, tumbling headlong into a brave new world of laundromat lotharios and cutthroat debutantes."

• Little Brother

  Doctorow, Cory

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  "After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  Dick, Philip K.

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  "In January 2021, years after World War Terminus has destroyed the planet, bounty hunter Rick Deckard remains on the Earth pursuing his vocation of hunting down and killing rogue androids."

• Daughter of Fortune

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel

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  "A Chilean woman searches for her lover in the goldfields of 1840s California. Arriving as a stowaway, Eliza finances her search with various jobs, including playing the piano in a brothel."

• Maids of Misfortune

  A Victorian San Francisco Mystery: Victorian San Francisco Mystery, #1

  Locke, M. Louisa

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  "It's the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie's husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the boardinghouse she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Amazing Grace

  Steel, Danielle

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  "On a warm May night in San Francisco, the Ritz-Carlton ballroom shimmers with crystal and silver as a glittering, celebrity-studded crowd gathers for a charity dinner dance. The evening is perfect-until, just minutes before midnight, the room…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore

  Sloan, Robin, 1979-

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  "Clay Jannon, the new night clerk at Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore, notices the strange behavior of the customers and is determined to find out what is really going on."

• The Flower Drum Song

  Lee, C. Y., 1915-2018

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  "Living in San Francisco's Chinatown-with his widowed father, Old Master Wang, who misses the old way of life in China, and his younger brother, who just wants to be a normal American teenager-Wang Ta becomes involved with a series of women as he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Golden Gate

  a Novel in Verse

  Seth, Vikram, 1952-

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  "John Brown, a successful yuppie living in 1980s San Francisco meets a romantic interest in Liz, after placing a personal ad in the newspaper. From this interaction, John meets a variety of characters, each with their own values and ideas of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dead Irish

  a Novel

  Lescroart, John T.

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  "In his new life as a bartender at the Little Shamrock, Dismas Hardy is just hoping for a little peace. He's left both the police force and his law career behind. Unfortunately it's not as easy to leave behind the memory of a shattering personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Locked Rooms

  a Mary Russell Novel

  King, Laurie R.

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  "Mary Russell, en route to San Francisco with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, to settle her family's estate, finds herself plagued with dreams that hint of a trauma she suffered during the 1906 earthquake."

• Last Night at the Telegraph Club

  Lo, Malinda

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  "Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club."

• The Confessions of Max Tivoli

  Greer, Andrew Sean

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  "Max, who was born in the body of an old man and looks younger each year, explains his life and his choices to his wife and son."