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Grey Janeway has lost his way. With no memory connecting him to his past, he is free to start over, and there is no better place to do that than San Francisco. In the city where rebuilding is a matter of course as well as pride, Grey looks to carve out a life that suits a man with no history. He knows there is a fortune to be made in this gold rush town, and he's betting everything on the success of his gaming hall and hotel.
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...2) Belle Cora
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English
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A sweeping historical tale based on the life and times of the daughter of a New York merchant finds the orphaned Belle suffering at the hands of a rival cousin before working as a prostitute and transforming herself repeatedly to win the love and life she desires.
In 1838, Arabella Godwin and her brother, Lewis, are orphaned and sent to live on their aunt's desolate farm in upstate New York. Time and again she will be broken and remade. She will...
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1905. Caleb Coulter, a lawyer, went missing three months ago. His sister, Camriann, heads to San Francisco to find him. She meets Judith and Kenzie, who also have mysteries to solve in the booming West Coast city. Camri's search leads her deep into the political corruption of the city-- and into the acquaintance of Patrick Murdock, an Irishman who Caleb saved from a false murder charge. Together they see the truth, will Patrick be able to protect...
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ReganBooks
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
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Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America's deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents' Leave It to Beaver values, Lisick makes her adult home on the fringe of mainstream culture and finds it rich with paradox and humor. On the one hand, she lives in "Brokeley" with drug dealers and street gangs; on the other,...
14) The adventures of John Carson in several quarters of the world: a novel of Robert Louis Stevenson
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Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The young Robert Louis Stevenson, living in a boarding house in San Francisco while waiting for his beloved's divorce from her feckless husband, dreamed of writing a soaring novel about his landlady's adventurous and globe-trotting husband--but he never got around to it. And very soon thereafter he was married, headed home to Scotland, and on his way to becoming the most famous novelist in the world, after writing such classics as Treasure Island,...
18) Summer of love
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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A look into the hippie revolution of San Francisco during the '60s, and how the free love and music turned into a life of drug use, violence, and broken dreams.
19) The lost garden
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J. Messner
Pub. Date
[1991]
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English
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The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese American in SanFrancisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage.
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