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41) Sweet venom
Author
Series
Medusa girls volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As monsters walk the streets of San Francisco, unseen by humans, three teenaged descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned in Greek mythology, must reunite and embrace their fates.
Author
Series
I survived volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Earning money to help his family in 1906, ten-year-old newsboy Leo explores the hilly city's bustling business world and modern innovations before a massive earthquake and decimating fire change everything he has ever known.
43) Little brother
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
Author
Series
Heartbreaker Bay novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she makes a wish in a wishing well for Finn to fall in love and find the happiness he deserves, Pru finds herself way in over her head--and heart--when he sets his sights on her and she realizes she must tell him the truth, which could ruin everything.
45) Chance: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Pursuing an affair with a patient with multiple personality disorder, a brilliant but flawed forensic neuropsychologist is targeted by the woman's jealous ex-husband and plans a counter-strike at the side of a deranged would-be samurai.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place."-- Provided by publisher.
47) The suspect
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Caryn Dryden is found floating dead in her hot tub, her husband becomes the prime suspect. Gina Roake takes the case and feels her client's innocence will be easy to prove since he was at his cabin on Echo Lake that weekend."--From source other than the Library of Congress
48) Downfall
Author
Series
Sam Capra novels volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Compelled to assist a beautiful woman who whispers a plea for help in his San Francisco bar, former CIA agent Sam Capra is pursued by authorities and a secret network of successful people who owe their wealth and power to a mysterious and dangerous Faustian figure.
49) Sweet legacy
Author
Series
Medusa girls volume 3
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Now united, the three descendants of Medusa must find the gate between the human and monster world to achieve their destiny.
50) Homeland
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
51) Passing strange
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Follows six women in 1940 San Francisco as they discover love and danger on the borders where magic, science, and art intersect.
52) Girl, unframed
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
Author
Series
The loner volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The Loner's cross-country search for his kidnapped twins ends in San Francisco where he is joined by his father, Frank Morgan, the most notorious gunman of the West"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Dismas Hardy novels volume 13
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Dismas Hardy defends Maya Townshend, the beautiful socialite niece of the San Francisco's mayor, who is suspected of killing a charming ex-convict. A compelling and timely legal thriller filled with blackmail, political intrigue, and multiple murder which also features returning characters Abe Glitsky and Wyatt Hunt.
Author
Series
Frost Easton novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a friend becomes the latest victim in a string of murders linked by bizarre crime-scene snake paintings, San Francisco homicide detective Frost Easton is drawn into a cat-and-mouse game with the most formidable adversary of his career.
56) Sweet shadows
Author
Series
Medusa girls volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A comedic novel about an American woman leaving her 20-year marriage to her French husband, returning to her native San Francisco to pick up the life she left behind, and the entwining lives of her children and grandchildren"--
59) The Trial
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I'm not on trial. San Francisco is."
An accused murderer called Kingfisher is about to go on trial for his life. Or is he? By unleashing unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in the case, he has paralyzed the city. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club are caught in the eye of the storm.
Now comes a courtroom shocker you will never see coming.
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LIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES...
An accused murderer called Kingfisher is about to go on trial for his life. Or is he? By unleashing unexpected violence on the lawyers, jurors, and police involved in the case, he has paralyzed the city. Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club are caught in the eye of the storm.
Now comes a courtroom shocker you will never see coming.
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LIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES...
60) Bachelor girl
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having left her parents' Missouri farm for good and trained to become a telegraph operator in Kansas City, teenage Rose moves out to San Francisco and joins the thousands of "bachelor girls" supporting themselves.
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