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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 COLChippendale, Lisa A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979.461 CHIArnold, Caroline
Summary: Inspired by the logs and adventures of Juliet Fish Nichols, a female lightkeeper who kept the light shining through the fog following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake,
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cameron Kids 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ARNMessner, 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 MESBlundell, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BLUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DA BLUKing, Laurie R.
Summary: Returning to her former home of San Francisco in 1924, Mary Russell and her husband, eminent detective Sherlock Holmes, are confronted by dark secrets of the past that continue to haunt Mary's dreams--Novelist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION KingKing, Laurie R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M KINDavenport, 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 DAVKurzman, Dan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 979.461 KURHoobler, Dorothy
Summary: "In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake. One early April morning in 1906, the people of San Francisco were jolted awake by a mammoth earthquake--one that registered 7.8 on the Richter Scale. Not only was there major damage from the quake itself but broken gas lines...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 979 HOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 HOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT US Hist What HooblerWinchester, Simon.
Summary: Winchester brings his storytelling abilities, as well as his understanding of geology, to the extraordinary San Francisco Earthquake, exploring not only what happened in northern California in 1906 that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion, but what we have learned since about the geological underpinnings that caused the earthquake. He also positions the quake's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.4 WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: 979.4 WinchesterEdgarian, Carol
Summary: Narrowly surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, a bordello proprietor's daughter bonds with an unlikely new family, from a Chinese clan and an orphan caregiver to tenor Enrico Caruso and tabloid celebrity Alma Spreckels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EDGPeterson, Tracie
Summary: "After getting left at the altar in 1906, Kenzie Gifford flees to San Francisco, determined never to love again. When an earthquake strikes, Kenzie finds herself facing a hidden danger--and two men set on winning her heart. With her life--and heart--on the line, who can she trust?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Peterson 2018Summary: Aftermath of the San Francisco Earthquake
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1906
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Meissner, Susan
Summary: "April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MEISummary: 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