san francisco (calif.)

The discovery of a small blue rubber shoe and other trifles left years ago in her deceased father's car, sends Mattie Ryder and her brother on a quest to uncover the secrets of their childhood, and brings Mattie, in the throes of divorce and single motherhood, to a new understanding of her parents and herself.

When people on earth are bathed in a blue light from the stars, they are instantly transformed into smarter, healthier, and more loving beings, but soon conflict develops between those who have seen the light and those who haven't, and Chance seems to be the only one who can keep the peace.

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, McTeague opens a quack dental parlor. His wife's former suitor is jealous and exposes his malpractice. After his wife's murder, McTeague escapes to the desert.

Analyzes and evaluates the counterculture literary movement of the Beat generation on the West Coast in the 50s.

Assesses the cultural and musical practices of the late 1960s in San Francisco, drawing from a wealth of primary source material to investigate the development and disintegration of the countercultural sensibility in the Haight-Ashbury district, and looking at how the movement perceived itself in relation to the "outside" world.

Sixteen-year-old Chloe King's life drastically changes when a fall off of a San Francisco skyscraper turns her into a cat person and she becomes the target of a secret society trying to eliminate her kind.

Amelia's mother helps her run away from her father who has custody and establish a new home and identity in San Francisco with her mother's girlfriend.

San Francisco police lieutenant Abe Glitsky, demoted to payroll after suffering a gunshot wound, and attorney Dismas Hardy search for the real killer of Glitsky's father's best friend when a friend of Hardy is railroaded by the police department.

A red-headed vampire named Jody sets her sights on C. Thomas Flood, a night-clerking aspiring writer from San Francisco, and finds more than one way to satisfy her hunger.

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.