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662) Bad karma
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Series
Jack McCoul capers volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"San Francisco con artist Jack McCoul has left his life of crime behind until his past comes roaring back. A former partner's scheme to snatch a priceless statute drags him into a murder investigation and a sexy suspect's life hangs in the balance. When hired killers come gunning for him, Jack's only choice is to do what he does best-- even though it means breaking the law again." --
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Description
"San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist church was built amid the hollows, odd lights and drifting fog of what had been a burial ground."--BOOK JACKET. "Rumors of ghosts and orgies swirl around the church. Worse is the repeated, brutal fact of suicide and murder. The church's first pastor severed his own throat with a straight razor, the second pastor shot himself, the third murdered the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle."--BOOK JACKET. "The fourth...
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 21
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
As SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer prepares to celebrate her daughter's birthday, she learns of a theory that connects the dots on a constellation of killings. Soon, there won't be a woman in California who's safe.
Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday.When a distraught mother pleads with San Francisco Chronicle reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the disappearance of...
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"For the past fifty years, Rolling Stone has been a leading voice in journalism, cultural criticism, and--above all--music. This landmark book documents the magazine's rise to prominence as the voice of rock and roll and a leading showcase for era-defining photography. From the 1960s to the present day, the book offers a decade-by-decade exploration of American music and history. Interviews with rock legends--Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger, Kurt Cobain, Bruce...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
First biography of the little-known real-life Tom Sawyer (a friend of Mark Twain during his brief tenure as a California newspaper reporter), told through a harrowing account of Sawyer's involvement in the hunt for a serial arsonist who terrorized mid-nineteenth century San Francisco.
672) The oath
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 8
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
When the head of San Francisco's largest HMO dies in his own hospital, no one doubts that it is anything but the result of massive injuries inflicted by a random hit-and-run accident. But the autopsy soon tells a different story - an overdose of potassium killed him, and the attending physician, Eric Kensing, becomes the prime suspect in a high-profile homicide.
Author
Pub. Date
p2002
Description
When the head of a San Francisco HMO dies in his own hospital, nobody doubts that a hit-and-run car accident was the cause, until the autopsy shows an overdose of potassium, and defense attorney Dismas Hardy and the police get involved and discover a trail of homicide in the hospital.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"Dancer Dawkins is a swift-footed, weed-smoking football stud. Her lover, Jessica, left their place in Los Angeles to join a Napa Valley cult, where she believes she has found salvation. Willie Gutherie, the cigar-smoking, self-proclaimed California Kid, collides with Dancer in San Francisco, and the two join forces to liberate Jessica from the clutches of cult leader Fatin Satin Aspen. Willyce Kim's campy, women-centered Western novel is a celebration...
Author
Series
Do androids dream of electric sheep? volume 2
Pub. Date
1968.
Description
Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids. They are machines, but look, sound and think just like humans--clever and most of all dangerous humans.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
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Description
The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
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Description
"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest...
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