san francisco (calif.)

Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have more in common than their twisted names, they have both learned that their parents are getting divorced, and while on their class trip to San Francisco they go off on their own to talk about the divorces and fall asleep, but when they wake up they find the Golden Gate Bridge gone, and they meet a man named Sam Clemens who is on the run from a mysterious stranger.

Cowpokes Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto, down and out in San Francisco in the summer of 1893, decide to become professional detectives and set out to investigate the death of their friend Dr. Chan, landing them in hot water with crooked police, Barbary Coast hoodlums, and Chinatown tongs, all of whom are looking for the elusive "Black Dove.".

Carolyn Blue, an aspiring food columnist, moves to San Francisco and investigates why her mother-in-law is wrapped up in a murder trial.

Discusses how the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 led to a greater scientific study of earthquakes in an attempt to understand the movements of the earth, and explains plate tectonics theory, the creation of the San Andreas Fault, and the social and political shifts caused by the disaster.

The semi-autobiographical story of an impoverished seaman who pursues, obsessively and aggressively, dreams of education and literary fame.

Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the murder of San Francisco's most celebrated couple, Isa and Ethan Bailey, and reporter Cindy Thomas becomes attracted to the case and Lindsay's partner Rich Conklin, when the body of a preacher is found executed.

Cupcake Brown shares the story of her life, beginning with her mother's death in 1976 when she was just eleven, discussing how she ended up in foster care, her introduction to drugs, alcohol and sex as a runaway, her gang affiliation, and her addiction to crack, and telling how she turned her life around and eventually became an attorney and motivational speaker.

Nineteenth-century American realist Frank Norris's brutal story of a San Francisco dentist and his greedy wife, two people doomed to lives of violence by their respective obsessions.

Teen triplets Gretchen, Grace, and Greer, descendants of Medusa, continue to battle the monsters who walk the streets of San Francisco, unseen by humans, but realize they must enter the abyss if they are to protect their loved ones--and their world.

Primary documents, photographs, timelines, and maps describe the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 and the efforts of the military and local services to put out the fires that were consuming the city.