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"In 1938, Ruby, Helen and Grace, three girls from very different backgrounds, find themselves competing at the same audition for showgirl roles at San Francisco's exclusive "Oriental" nightclub, the Forbidden City. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family who have deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. At times...
2) Top story
Author
Series
Front desk novel volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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"Mia Tang is at the top of her game! She's spending winter break with Mom, Lupe, Jason, and Hank in San Francisco's Chinatown! Rich with history and hilarious aunties and uncles, it's the place to find a great story--one she hopes to publish while attending journalism camp at the Tribune. But this trip has as many bumps as the hills of San Francisco... 1. Mia's camp is full of older kids, with famous relatives, fancy laptops, and major connections!...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
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"Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father--despite...
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English
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Twelve-year-old Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
As a member of the Jade Society, twelve-year-old Faryn Liu dreams of honoring her family and the gods by becoming a warrior. But the Society has shunned Faryn and her brother Alex ever since their father disappeared years ago,...
Author
Series
Sammy and the Cheese volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy 'Two Toes' Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie's Coffee Irregulars, a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir, are on the hustle: they're trying to open a driving school for Chinatown residents; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous head of the S.F.P.D. vice squad; all while Sammy's girlfriend,...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xi, 372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fictionalized account of the early years of Donaldina Cameron's work with the Occidental Mission Home for Girls in San Francisco, California, which worked to rescue Chinese girls and women from slavery conditions in the late 1800s through the early 1900s" -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 299 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At the news of her mother's death, Natalie Tan returns home. The two women hadn't spoken since Natalie left in anger seven years ago, when her mother refused to support her chosen career as a chef. Natalie is shocked to discover the vibrant neighborhood of San Francisco's Chinatown that she remembers from her childhood is fading, with businesses failing and families moving out. She's even more surprised to learn she has inherited her grandmother's...
Author
Series
Carpenter and Quincannon mystery volume 3
Publisher
Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2015, c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two missing bodies and two separate investigations take Carpenter and Quincannon from the heights above San Francisco Bay to the depths of Chinatown's opium dens. For John Quincannon, this is a first: searching a Chinatown opium den for his client's husband, who is missing in the middle of a tong war brewing over the stolen corpse of gang leader Bing Ah Kee. Meanwhile, his partner, Sabina Carpenter, searches for the corpse of a millionaire, which...
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The first of ten novellas in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Francisco's Asian-American community through the civil rights era.
Centered around the International Hotel, a historic low-income residence in San Francisco's Chinatown, the ten novellas of Karen Tei Yamashita's epic are each devoted to a single year in one of America's most transformative decades. This multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and...
10) 1974: I-Migrant
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The seventh novella in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Francisco's Asian-American community through the civil rights era.
Centered around the International Hotel, a historic low-income residence in San Francisco's Chinatown, the ten novellas of Karen Tei Yamashita's epic are each devoted to a single year in one of America's most transformative decades. This multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy...
11) 1970: "I" Hotel
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"I Hotel" is the third novella of I Hotel, a National Book Award finalist and epic of America's struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco's Chinatown. Yamashita's cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, caught in riptides of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil.
Author
Series
Chinatown volume 2
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
214 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When $2000 is stolen during the opening of a restaurant, Lily and her aunt, a Chinese American movie actress, search for the thief throughout San Francisco's Chinatown.
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Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer after seventh grade, and Ruby Chu is feeling more lost than ever. Her best friends aren't speaking to her. She ended the year in detention. Her sister's about to leave for college. Ruby's still grieving her grandfather Ye-Ye when it seems like no one else is. And without Ye-Ye and his annual scavenger hunts across San Francisco, their hometown doesn't really feel like home anymore. Things get worse when Ruby's forced to spend the...
15) Ebony Gate
Author
Series
The phoenix hoard volume 1
Publisher
Tor/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Julia Vee and Ken Bebelle's Ebony Gate is a female John Wick story with dragon magic set in contemporary San Francisco's Chinatown. Emiko Soong belongs to one of the eight premier magical families of the world. But Emiko never needed any magic. Because she is the Blade of the Soong Clan. Or was. Until she's drenched in blood in the middle of a market in China, surrounded by bodies and the scent of blood and human waste as a lethal perfume. The Butcher...
Author
Series
Chinatown volume 3
Pub. Date
1999
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a prop gun used during the making of a television show turns out to have real bullets, twelve-year-old Lily Lew and Auntie, her movie actress great-aunt, comb San Francisco's Chinatown in search of the culprit responsible for loading the gun.
Author
Series
A to Z mysteries.Super edition volume 5
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
132 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are enjoying a visit to San Francisco when Holden, their college-age tour guide, is accused of abducting Miss Chinatown from the Chinese New Year parade and stealing her valuable crown.
Author
Publisher
Quail Hill Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ruth Greer, wealthy daughter of a shipping magnate, finds a young boy who has run away from his home in Chinatown--an area of gambling parlors, opium dens, and sing-song girls, as well as families trying to eke out a living. It is also home to a number of highbinder tongs, the infamous and deadly "hatchet men" of Chinese lore. There, Ruth meets the boy's father, Li Han-lin, the handsome, enigmatic leader of one such tong, and discovers he is neither...
20) Thief of hearts
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English