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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
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Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
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American girls collection. Julie, 1974 volume 1
American girls collection [Julie] volume 1
American girls 1974 volume 1
American girls collection. 1974 volume 1
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American girls collection [Julie] volume 1
American girls 1974 volume 1
American girls collection. 1974 volume 1
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American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
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Ranger in time volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.
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American girls collection. Julie, 1974 volume 3
American girls 1974 volume 3
American girls collection. Julie 1974 volume 3
American girls collection [Julie] volume 3
American girls 1974 volume 3
American girls collection. Julie 1974 volume 3
American girls collection [Julie] volume 3
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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The first Christmas since Julie's parents' divorce is difficult for the whole family, but Julie finds comfort sharing the Chinese New Year traditions of her best friend, Ivy Ling, and thinking about new beginnings.
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Just turned twelve, Lily is the oldest of the three children in her Chinese American family living in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake hits; her family has survived the quake, but as the city starts to burn Lily and her younger brother are separated from the others and must get to the safety of Oakland across the bay and hope that the rest of their family and friends are there waiting for them--but between the fire and the anti-Chinese violence...
12) City of dragons
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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Mystery fiction. Set in San Francisco in 1940, Stanley's stunning first in a new series introduces a gutsy, independent heroine who isn't always likable. As the city celebrates the Chinese New Year with the Rice Bowl Party, a three-day carnival to raise money for China's war relief, PI Miranda Corbie sees Eddie Takahashi, a young Japanese numbers runner, shot dead in front of her on a crowded, fireworks-filled Chinatown street. When the police tell...
13) Landed
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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After leaving his village in southeastern China, twelve-year-old Sun is held at Angel Island, San Francisco, before being released to join his father, a merchant living in the area. Includes historical notes.
14) Vera: a novel
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Meet Vera Johnson, the uncommonly resourceful fifteen-year-old illegitimate daughter of Rose, notorious proprietor of San Francisco's most legendary bordello and ally to the city's corrupt politicians. Vera has grown up straddling two worlds - the madam's alluring sphere, replete with tickets to the opera, surly henchmen, and scant morality, and the violent, debt ridden domestic life of the family paid to raise her. On the morning of the great quake,...
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Lavette Family volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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The second volume in the New York Times best-selling Immigrants saga. With the publication of The Immigrants, a most wonderful book, according to Harlan Ellison in the Los Angeles Times, Howard Fast once again proved himself to be one of America's most popular authors. Now, in Second Generation, Fast continues the story of Dan Lavette, the young Italian who lost his parents but launched a stormy and brilliant career as a result of the great San Francisco...
16) Fractured path
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Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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San Francisco, California, 1965. The music and movement and love is perfect for a budding artist like Blake. Unfortunately, the art world is not welcoming to people of her gender or her multi-racial heritage, making it tough to land an internship that could put her on the map. With a family notoriously riddled with bad luck, Blake can't catch a break. When Blake starts to have ominous, confusing visions that grow stronger and more frequent, it prompts...
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