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Chronicles over thirty years of social and political street art in San Francisco's Mission District, including nearly five hundred photographs.

Draws from research and eyewitness accounts to reexamine the earthquake that struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906, measuring 8.3 on the Richter scale,and to discuss the fires, plagues, crimes, and other horrors that added to the devastation.

Lt. Lindsay Boxer and the members of the Women's Murder Club face a defensive hospital administration and a wily killer when they set out to learn why a rash of recuperating patients at a San Francisco hospital, on the verge of being released, have suddenly taken a fatal turn for the worse.

Answers many questions about what happened when a big earthquake hit the city of San Francisco in 1906.

Tells the story of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake written in graphic novel format.

The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese-American in San Francisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage.

Examines the founding and early years of Yerba Buena, one of the earliest settlements in America; tells of the challenges faced by colonists in the New World; and discusses the contributions of notable men and women to the community. Includes a chronology and time line.

Although twelve-year-old Abby has always tried to deny that she has some kind of weird psychic power, she takes advantage of it to help her mother, a struggling private investigator, and, more importantly, to find her best friend's little brother when he goes missing at a ski resort.

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.

Four friends--homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer, medical examiner Claire Washburn, assistant district attorney Jill Bernhardt, and crime reporter Cindy Thomas--team up to track down a killer who has been stalking newlyweds in San Francisco, but their investigation goes terribly wrong.