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Summary: Conducting a dual investigation in the opium dens of Chinatown, Sabina Carpenter and John Quincannon search for missing millionaires against a backdrop of a brewing Tong war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULMuller, Marcia.
Summary: In 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, tackle two seemingly unrelated cases that are complicated by two murders and the interference of Sherlock Holmes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULDonoghue, Emma
Summary: "Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONMuller, Marcia
Summary: For the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative. When a pleasant afternoon's bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULTallman, Shirley.
Summary: Returning from an evening spent listening to a young Oscar Wilde in 1882 San Francisco, crusading young lawyer Sarah Woolson and her brother, Samuel, are targeted in the fog by a gunman who strikes Samuel, prompting Sarah's investigation into the shooter's identity and intended victim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TALSeidman, Robert J.
Summary: A tale loosely based on the life of photographer Edward Muybridge is set in late nineteenth-century San Francisco and follows the efforts of an ambitious photographer whose obsessive love for emancipated young dancer Holly Hughes is challenged by a corrupt robber baron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEIHuahn, Traci
Summary: Based on the life of Chinese American student Mamie Tape and her fight to attend the all-white Spring Valley Primary School in her San Francisco neighborhood including her family's successful 1885 lawsuit before the California Supreme Court, one step in the long journey towards equality in education. Includes author's note with biographical and historical information.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HUACollins, Ailynn
Summary: "The date is April 18, 1906. The city of San Francisco has just been rocked and shaken by a huge earthquake. Even worse, the quake causes huge fires to break out across the city. Can you escape your damaged home before it collapses? Will you join the firefighters as they try to save the city from the devastating fires? Will you be accused of looting after helping a boy escape from some rubble?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC COLSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 709 WORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Great DVD 759 World 2010Messner, Kate
Summary: This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MESDavenport, Matthew J.
Summary: "Matthew J. Davenport's The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco, and how a great earthquake sparked a devastating and preventable firestorm. At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck San Francisco, catching most of the city asleep. For approximately one minute, shockwaves buckled streets, shattered water mains,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 DAVBlundell, Judy.
Summary: It is 1906, and when her family is cheated out of their tavern, fourteen-year-old Minnie Bonner is forced to become a maid to the Sump family, who are moving to San Francisco--three weeks before the great earthquake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2013