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6) Arizona wild
Author
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Mojo Sheepshanks wants to start over with a nice, simple life, but sexy cop Tucker Darroch is intent on keeping things complicated.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three fierce women connected to a billionaire film mogul collide at a Hollywood party in this richly observed novel about female ambition, complicity, and privilege. Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. But a decade in at thirty-eight, that's exactly how she spends her days, earning six figures to make sure the movie mogul and his family have everything they could ever dream of and more....
9) This is life
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In Paris, art student Aurélie Renard throws a stone and sets in motion a chain of events that will turn her life upside down. Suddenly finding herself in sole charge of a stranger's baby, and with no idea how babies work, it's only thanks to the help of her adoring professor and her heartbreaking best friend that Aurélie is able to navigate her way through the most extraordinary and calamitous seven days of her life.
Author
Language
English
Description
Set on a secluded island off the British coast, The Women of Pearl Island is a moving and evocative story of family secrets, natural wonders and a mystery spanning decades. When Tartelin answers an ad for a personal assistant, she doesn't know what to expect from her new employer, Marianne, an eccentric elderly woman. Marianne lives on a remote island that her family has owned for generations, and for decades her only companions have been butterflies...
12) Breathing water
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2012, c1999
Language
English
Description
"Three years after leaving Lake Gormlaith, Vermont, Effie Greer is coming home. The unspoiled lake, surrounded by dense woods and patches of wild blueberries, is the place where she spent idyllic childhood summers at her grandparents' cottage. And it's where Effie's tempestuous relationship with her college boyfriend, Max, culminated in a tragedy she can never forget. Effie had hoped to save Max from his troubled past, and in the process became his...
13) Meredith, alone
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Meredith Maggs hasn't left her house in 1,214 days. But she insists she isn't lonely. . . She has her cat Fred. Her friend Sadie visits when she can. There's her online support group, StrengthInNumbers. She has her jigsaws, favorite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson, the internet, the Tesco delivery man and her treacherous memories for company. But something's about to change. Whether Meredith likes it or not, the world is coming to her door....
Author
Publisher
Black Lyon Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Sometimes the happiest "happily ever after"is learning to love yourself. School teacher Monica Humphrey is dangerously close to becoming the proverbial cat lady. Abandoned by her father after her mother's death, she's an adult now--alone with her fears, hazy impressions of childhood, and an abundance of food to fill the void inside. Except for when it doesn't. An accident one lonely Friday night becomes the catalyst for emotional growth and physical...
15) La Celestina
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023?]
Language
Español
Description
La emoción, la belleza, el sentido trágico ya la vez grotesco de las grandes altas y bajas pasiones humanas encuentran en La Celestina una de sus expresiones más intensas. La de Calisto y Melibea, enhebrada con los hilos de una, Celestina, culmina fatalmente con la muerte de ambos. Fernanco de Rojas es capaz de contarnos estas historias con una habilidad insospechada, que ata al lector a un texto poderoso y magnífico y que obra el milagro de llenar...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dolly Alderton Gwen is coasting through life. She's in her mid-thirties, perpetually single, her friends are busy procreating in the countryside and conversations with her parents seem to revolve entirely around the council's wheelie-bin timetable. And she's lonely. But then, isn't everyone? When she's made redundant from a job she hardly cares about, she takes herself out for a fancy dinner. There she has the best sticky toffee pudding of her life...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"1926, Hyde Park, New York. Born to modest means but befriended by the wealthy, aspiring dress designer Pandora Carmichael has been surrounded by privilege yet never at home in it. That hasn't stopped her from dreaming-of a romance in a rarified world that could also give her the status and resources to start a business of her own. When she's introduced to a charismatic Princeton student, Pandora's future begins to fall into place. Marriage provides...
18) The inland sea
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. The work itself becomes monotonous. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, having an affair with an ex-lover. Interwoven with...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Holly Banks is on a desperate mission to have it all, but nothing in life goes according to plan. She's quickly learning that keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time job, especially when the women of Primm, her new neighborhood, seem to have it together all the time. With her husband's job in flux, her daughter's difficulty with learning to read, and her mother's new zest for dating, Holly's life is already anything but picture perfect. Then her...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the sequel to the #1 New York times bestseller Life After Death, Winter Santiaga, after suffering a soul stirring death experience, faces a dilemma that every person faces: how to respond to the fear of God and the awareness of heaven and hell while pursuing sex, fun, love, money, revenge and fame.