san francisco (calif.)

Li, her mother, and her brother journey from China to America to join their father in San Francisco, but they are detained at the Angel Island immigration center, where Chinese Americans are subject to harsh treatment and questioning. Will Li be able to answer the detailed questions about her former home, and why she wants to come to America? Or will she fail the tests and be deported?.

Amanda, a teenage girl must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.

Twelve-year-old Emmy feels out of place in her new school. She takes a computer coding class and instantly connects to the material as well as to a new friend, Abigail--a talented singer who secretly wishes to be a coder--and Emmy feels she's finally starting to find her footing. Then she finds out that the teacher who so inspired her is gravely ill and her new-found stability seems to be at risk. Told through prose, verse, and Java code.

Aspiring comic book artist Morning Glory Conroy is delighted to be in a relationship with new student Gabriel, but her best friend Julia needs her, Gabriel's cousin Luci keeps causing trouble, and other crises keep arising, making her wonder if the heavens are against them.

"Anna and Bennett weren't supposed to meet. She lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett has the unique ability to travel through time and space, which he normally uses to see epic concerts from his favorite vintage bands. After an unexpected complication forces him to remain in 1995 for longer than usual, he has to enroll at the local high school. And that's when he meets Anna. Anna spots Bennett at the track during a training run, and she can't get the mysterious new boy out of her head. Or the feeling that he seems to know her already. As the pair grows closer, Anna is shocked to learn Bennett's secret, but his ability means they can experience times and places she never dreamed of seeing. That is, until a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question, and Bennett begins to experience the terrifying side effects of his travels. Their thrilling, unforgettable love story sparkles in this collection of New York Times best-selling author Tamara Ireland Stone's first two novels, Time Between Us and Time After Time, as Anna and Bennett face the impossible task of weaving together two futures that were never meant to intersect."--Back cover.

Running from a painful past filled with abandonment and betrayal, seventeen-year-old Xochi becomes the live-in governess to twelve-year-old Pallas--the daughter of a free-loving rockstar family in a San Francisco. One night, during a raucous party downstairs, Xochi and Pallas playfully perform a riot-grrrl ritual and accidentally summon a pair of demons who look to right the wrongs of Xochi's past. She quickly learns that the demons' thirst for vengeance puts even those she loves at risk including the new life she's made for herself.

Quiet, high-society sheltered girl Isabel lives in San Francisco, where she keeps her dresses spotlessly clean, is impeccably behaved, and certainly never has adventures. However, the Great Quake of 1906 has changed things--one day, Isabel finds herself crossing a barrier into another world, where the fairies of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts are at war. Only Isabel, with a magic necklace and a few new friends, can end the war before it destroys both worlds.

Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.

Artist Frida Kahlo finds her own voice and style when her famous husband, Diego Rivera, is commissioned to paint a mural in San Francisco, California, in the 1930s and she finds herself exploring the city on her own.

"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"--OCLC.