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81) The 17th suspect
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 17
Language
English
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A series of shootings exposes San Francisco to an unpredictable killer, and a reluctant woman puts her trust in Sergeant Lindsay Boxer. The confidential informant's tip leads Lindsay to disturbing conclusions, including that something has gone horribly wrong inside the police department itself.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1992, Sam and Elida Mejia left Guatemala during a violent civil war and brought their one-year old son, Gilbert, to California. The Mejia’s settled in the Bay Area, and for the past 17 years they have worked multiple jobs to support their family, paid their taxes, and saved enough to buy a home. They had two more children, Helen and Dulce, who are both U.S. citizens. Two years ago, immigration agents stormed the Mejia’s house looking for someone...
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Series
Language
English
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The Nameless Detective, battling his own private demons, along with his assistant, and his field investigator, tries to stay on task when he is hired by the wife of wealthy financial consultant James Troxell who wants to know why her husband has recently attended the funerals of three women, all strangers, who died violently.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history...
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today's world. In 1913 the San Francisco Bulletin published a serialized, ghostwritten memoir of a prostitute who went by Alice Smith. "A Voice from the Underworld" detailed Alice's humble Midwestern upbringing and her struggle to find aboveboard work, and candidly related the harrowing events she endured after entering "the life."...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...
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Series
Language
English
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Part-time teacher and suburban sleuth Kate Austen has her hands full trying to juggle the mystery of an unsolved killing, an impending divorce, and an unannounced visit from her mother-in-law, but her energies become focused on finding a murderer when one of her students is found shot to death.
90) Breakfast in bed
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
When Carter Madison comes to Sloan's bed-and-breakfast in order to finish his latest novel before he marries Sloan's best friend, he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with Sloan, but their loyalty to Carter's fiancee prevents them from experiencing true love.
91) Ransom
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Peter Morgan, newly released from jail, accepts a deal from a shady acquaintance to put together a team to kidnap the son of recently deceased dot.com millionaire Allan Barnes, not realizing Barnes' wife Fernanda has merely been keeping up appearances to save the reputation of her late husband who had lost all his money in bad investments.
Author
Series
Women's murder club volume 18
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Detective Lindsay Boxer and her husband Joe Molinari team up to protect San Francisco from an international war criminal in the newest Women's Murder Club thriller. Three female schoolteachers go missing in San Francisco, and Detective Lindsay Boxer is on the case-which quickly escalates from missing person to murder. Under pressure at work, Lindsay needs support at home. But her husband Joe is drawn into an encounter with a woman who's seen a...
93) 12th of never
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
San Francisco homicide detective, Lindsay Boxer, is forced to return to work after just a week with her newborn baby when the chief of police calls her desperate for help with some baffling and terrifying murders.
95) The alternate
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Courtroom adversaries Grace Harris and Barrett Dickson become dangerously close outside the halls of justice when they are called upon to try the case of Elliot Ashford, an ex-congressman with mob connections who has been accused of killing his trophy wife.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
California produces 90% of America's wine and is the fourth-largest producer of wine in the world. Travel through the state's rich wine regions: including Napa Valley, Sonoma Valley, and Santa Barbara: and explore its grape varieties, including the predominant Zinfandel.
97) You kill me
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He is a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not the touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel, a woman who is dangerously...
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Series
Language
English
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Private investigator Nameless, having tracked down the ex-wife of David Virden to give her papers which she denied, is told by his client that he had the wrong woman right before he goes missing and Nameless must figure out what is going on and what his place is in the mess, while agency operative Alex Chavez tries to find out if his girlfriend's son is being abused by his father.
100) Dirty Harry
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Eastwood is detective Harry Callahan, who is attempting to track down a psychopathic rooftop killer before a kidnapped girl dies.
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