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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
-- New York Times Julia White is struggling: her bartending job isn’t cutting it and her first book has sold hardly any copies. She’s broke, barely able to make ends meet while drowning in her late mother’s medical bills and reeling after a one-night stand with her ex-boyfriend, who’s now completely ghosted her. Enter Johnathan Aster, world-renowned photographer, with a proposal: he has a never-before-seen photograph of a woman falling from...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs. A rich industrialist with enemies among the anarchist factions on the far left, Walter Wilkinson could have been targeted by any number of groups. But strangely, Sullivan’s investigation brings up the...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
-- corps de ballet So, when Fin’s employer, Gustave Eiffel, announces that he needs additional investors to pay for his pet project, a 300-meter tower that will dominate the city’s skyline, Fin jumps at the chance. If he raises enough money, the commission will earn him a fortune, and hopefully, some protection. Capricious stranger Gilbert Duhais appears to be a boon from the gods. Gilbert is handsome, wealthy, connected, and somehow privy...
5) Queenie of Norwich: A compelling tale based on the true story of one woman's quest to beat the odds
Author
Publisher
Laura Garcia
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
-- From the author of -- People say you get one life, but I've lived three.I was born Ellen Hardy in 1900, dragged up in Queen Caroline's Yard, Norwich.There was nothing royal about our yard, and Mum was no queen. At six years old Mum sold me. I became Nellie Westrop, roaming the country in a showman's wagon, learning the art of the fair. And I've been the infamous Queenie of Norwich, moving up in the world by any means, legal or not. I've been...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of the NYT In 1913, on a summer's day at Half Moon Lake, Louisiana, four-year-old Sonny Davenport walks into the woods and never returns. The boy's mysterious disappearance from the family's lake house makes front-page news in their home town of Opelousas. John Henry and Mary Davenport are wealthy and influential, and will do anything to find their son. For two years, the Davenports search across the South, offer increasingly large...
8) The Safekeep
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
-- The New York TimesKirkus Reviews -- The Safekeep is a brilliantly plotted and provocative debut novel you won’t soon forget.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
-- Good Company Stella reached for an oyster, tipped her head, and tossed it back. It was cool and slippery, the flavor so briny it was like diving into the ocean. When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading “Go to Paris.” Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic childhood has kept her confined to the strict routines of her comfort zone. But when her boss encourages...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist, an unusual profession for a woman with her privileged upbringing, she is constantly challenging the oppressive regime. Her investigative partner is photographer Francisco Leal, the son of impoverished Spanish Marxist émigrés. Together, they are an inseparable team and—despite Irene’s engagement...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Oprah’s Book Club Pick for Summer 2024The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, Familiaris is the stirring origin story of the Sawtelle family and the remarkable dogs that carry the Sawtelle name.It is spring 1919, and John Sawtelle’s imagination has gotten him into trouble … again. Now John and his newlywed wife, Mary, along with their two best friends and their three dogs, are setting...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
For readers of Costanza Casati and CirceA disgraced daughter. A fearsome witch. A woman more myth than mortal.Medea, princess of Colchis, longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been shunned from her family, tormented by her people, and treated with shame. All because of a unique and dangerous talent: witchcraft.But when a dashing young hero, Jason, arrives to claim the famed Golden Fleece, Medea sees her opportunity for escape. Her...
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Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
-- Enter Dr. Emily Clarke, a tantalizing bluestocking working at a quaint village hospital outside the city. Emily has reservations about getting mixed up in Jo’s scandalous arrangement, but her flustered, heart-racing response to Jo has her agreeing to help despite herself. -- Lucky Lovers of London Book 1: The Gentleman's Book of VicesBook 2: A Rulebook for Restless RoguesBook 3: A Bluestocking's Guide to Decadence
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South,and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. In her distinctive voice, Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual "Lost...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris, working alongside the library's legendary director, Dorothy Reeder. But when World War II breaks out, Odile stands to lose everything she holds dear - including her beloved library. After the invasion, as the Nazis declare...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In her fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family in Sepphoris with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, a relentless seeker with a brilliant, curious mind and a daring spirit. She yearns for a pursuit worthy of her life, but finds no outlet for her considerable talents. Defying the expectations placed on women, she...
17) The gilded hour
Author
Series
Gilded hour novels volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"London. December, 1942. As the Russian army repels German forces from Stalingrad, Maggie Hope, secret agent and spy, takes a break from the Special Operations Executive division to defuse bombs in London. But Maggie herself is like an explosion waiting to happen. Shaken by a recent case, she finds herself living more dangerously--taking more risks than usual, smoking again, drinking gin and riding a motorcycle--and the last thing she wants is to...
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