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241) Bookshop Cinderella
Author
Series
Scandal at The Savoy volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Evie Harlow runs a quaint little bookshop in London, which is the biggest adventure an unmarried woman with no prospects could hope for. Until Maximillian Shaw, Duke of Westbourne, saunters into her shop with a proposition: to win a bet with his friends, he'll turn her into the diamond of the season. The duke might be devilishly attractive, but Evie has no intention of accepting his ludicrous offer. When disaster strikes her shop, however, she's...
242) A golden grave
Author
Series
Rose Gallagher mystery volume 02
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rose Gallagher's life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted. And she's been recruited to an elite unit dedicated to cases of a paranormal nature. This means spending her days alongside the dashing Thomas Wiltshire. When a new case arrives on Rose's doorstep, she jumps at the chance to prove herself. Six delegates have been murdered at a local political convention, and the police have no idea who--or what--is responsible....
Author
Series
Licanius trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown and killed. Now, those who once served them - the Gifted - are spared only because they have accepted the rebellion's Four Tenets, vastly limiting their own powers. As a young Gifted, Davian suffers the consequences of a war lost before he was even born. He and his friends are despised beyond their school walls for the magical power they wield: a power that Davian, despite his best...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five...
245) The door
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic, public-spirited, with an on-again-off-again relationship with Hungary's Communist authorities. Emerence is a peasant, illiterate, impassive, abrupt, seemingly ageless. She lives alone in a house that no one else may enter, not even her closest relatives. She is Magda's housekeeper and she has taken control...
246) The poison thread
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ireland, 1912, Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in an unknown new place, her heart remains in Ireland with Séamus, the sweetheart she left behind. When disaster strikes, Maggie is one of the few passengers in steerage to survive. Waking up alone in a New York hospital, she vows never to speak...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"One night. Four friends. Countless secrets. 1964. Karachi, Pakistan.Rozeena is running out of time. She'll lose her home--her parents' safe haven since fleeing India and the terrors of Partition--if her medical career doesn't take off soon. But success may come with an unexpected price. Meanwhile the interwoven lives of her childhood best friends--Haaris, Aalya, and Zohair--seem to be unraveling with each passing day. The once small and inconsequential...
Author
Series
Enchantée volume 02
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Camille Durbonne gambled everything she had to keep herself and her sister safe. But as the people of Paris starve and mobs riot, safety may no longer be possible... ...Not when Camille lives for the rebellion. In the pamphlets she prints, she tells the stories of girls living at society's margins. But as her writings captivate the public, she begins to suspect a dark magic she can't control lies at the heart of her success. Then Louis XVI declares...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Betty Weissman loses her elegant New York apartment when her husband of nearly fifty years divorces her for what he says are irreconcilable differences, but is in actuality another woman. She and her two grown daughters who quite unexpectedly find themselves the middle-aged products of a broken home and whose own lives are in varying states of disrepair and confusion regroup in a small, run-down Westport, Connecticut, beach cottage. As they wrestle...
251) Hot stew: a novel
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Pungent, steamy, insatiable Soho; the only part of London that truly never sleeps. Tourists dawdling, chancers skulking, addicts shuffling, sex workers strutting, punters prowling, businessmen striding, the homeless and the lost. Down Wardour Street, ducking onto Dean Street, sweeping into L'Escargot, darting down quiet back alleyways, skirting dumpsters and drunks, emerging on to raucous main roads, fizzing with energy and riotous with life. On...
252) The parting glass
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Vividly recreates the class and ethnic conflicts of early-19th-century New York City. In the 1830s, Maire O'Farren and her brother, Seanin, flee Ireland's poverty and political strife for a better life in America. Because of hostility to immigrants, Maire changes her name to Mary Ballard and assumes a British accent to secure a job as lady's maid to the rich and beautiful Charlotte Walden. Seanin, now calling himself Johnny Prior, gets a position...
253) Lost ark dreaming
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon's The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella written by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region's survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers' most affluent rule...
254) Cinder
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
255) Dirty dancing
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1999, c1987
Language
English
Description
While vacationing in the Catskills with her family, Baby becomes romantically involved with a dance instructor while helping his partner.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Cindy and her two older brothers live in rural Pennsylvania, in a house with occasional electricity, two fierce dogs, one book, and a mother who comes and goes for months at a time. Deprived of adult supervision, the siblings rely on one another for nourishment of all kinds. As Cindy's brothers take on new responsibilities for her care, the shadow of danger looms larger and the status quo no longer seems tolerable. So when a glamorous...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dani must question everything she's worked for as she learns about the corruption of the Median government"--
When she is asked to spy for a resistance group working to bring equality to Medio, Daniela Vargas, a student at the Medio School for Girls, questions everything she's worked for.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
An audacious wonder of a novel about baseball and a future America. The time: Some thirty-five years hence. The place: AutoAmerica--governed by "Aunt Nettie," an iBurrito of AI algorithms and the internet, in a land half under water. The people: Divided into the angelfair "Netted," whose fate it is to have jobs and live on high ground, and the mostly coppertoned "Surplus," whose jobs have been stripped and whose sole duty now is to consume, living...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, three different women navigate challenges in a changing school district--and in their lives. When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation, the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors. Tensions rise, culminating in an unforeseen event that impacts them all"--
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Seth Winters presents a rip-roaring spoof of the classic Jane Austin tome, Sense and Sensibility. Evicted from their home after their father's death, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are desperate to find suitors, and even more desperate to defend their coastal cottage from giant squid, great white sharks, and other sea monsters. Armed with nets, harpoon guns, and plenty of dry wit, they'll need to conquer unscrupulous cads, meddling matriarchs, and a...