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541) Old bones
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"A timely and penetrating mystery about the intersection of policing, racism, and the community--set in a city at its boiling point--from an author who's been in the trenches and seen it all. A senseless act of violence. During a vigil calling for police reform, students from Spelman College, a historically black women's institution, are assaulted by rifle fire from a passing vehicle. On her way to interview witnesses, Detective Sarah "Salt" Alt confronts...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A debut book by the education columnist for Slate traces her experiences as a Jewish teen intellectual whose fateful relationship with a boy who introduced her to Kafka inspired her love for German language and culture,"--NoveList.
543) Sanctuary: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this 'deliciously creepy' (TV Insider) psychological thriller, Helena visits her troubled twin sister, Siri, at a secure retreat in the Italian Alps. But when she wakes up the next day, Siri has stolen her identity and fled, leaving Helena trapped inside a clinic where nothing is what it seems.
544) Call me Mrs. Miracle
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This Christmas, Emily Merkle (aka Mrs. Miracle) is working in the toy department at Finley's. Her boss is Jake Finley, the owner's son, who needs a miracle to keep the business afloat. Holly Larson needs a miracle, too. Her widowed brother who is in the army won't be home for the holidays. For Christmas her nephew wants the toy robot he saw at Finley's, and she plans to get it for him. Fortunately, it's Mrs. Miracle to the rescue. Next to making children...
546) The Cipher
Author
Series
Nina Guerrera novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Escaping a still-at-large serial killer as a teen, Special Agent Nina Guerrera teams up with the Bureau's preeminent criminal profiler, Dr. Jeffrey Wade, when the killer, a depraved social media superstar, begins taunting her with coded riddles.
547) The third person
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the winter of 2004, a shy woman named Emma sits in Toby's office. She wants to share this wonderful new book she's reading, but Toby, her therapist, is concerned with other things. Emma is transgender, and has sought out Toby for approval for hormone replacement therapy. Emma has shown up at the therapy sessions as an outgoing, confident young woman named Katina, and a depressed, submissive workaholic named Ed. She has little or no memory of her...
Author
Series
Regency faerie tales volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Orbit paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Risking her immortal soul to win Mr. Benedict Ashbrooke's heart, housemaid Effie has 100 days--and 10,000 stitches--to make Mr. Ashbrooke fall in love and propose but finds her greatest obstacle the man with whom she made a devil's bargain whose overwhelmingly good intentions stand in her way.
Series
Criterion collection volume 478
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Special édition].
Language
Français
Description
X attempts to convince A that they met last year in this same hotel (or maybe it was in a different one). They loved each other, emotionally and physically. She agrees to elope with him and get away from M, her husband (or lover). At the last moment, she refuses (for whatever reason) and asked for a one year postponement. Now, the year has passed and X has come to their agreed rendezvous to take her away. A claims she does not recognize X and does...
Author
Series
McCutcheon family novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Luke McCutcheon finds Faith Brown about to give birth in her rickety wagon, his first instincts are to ride for help. Instead, he stays and delivers a beautiful baby girl. Unable to leave the pretty young widow and her little son and newborn unprotected in the Montana wilderness, he brings them along on his family's cattle drive. Faith finds his flashing eyes and handsome face make her dream of a happily-ever-after loving family, but she is...
552) Madame
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Adding a little spice to a waning marriage, Anne and Bob, a wealthy and well-connected American couple, move into a manor house in romantic Paris. While preparing a particularly luxurious dinner for sophisticated international friends, our hostess discovers there are 13 guests. Panic-stricken, Anne insists her loyal maid Maria disguise herself as a mysterious Spanish noble woman to even out the numbers. But a little too much wine and some playful...
553) Anne Frank
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Presents information about Anne Frank, including her childhood in Holland, her years in hiding, her death, and her legacy.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Giving up hope that her pilot husband Dean who vanished over the Bermuda Triangle is still alive, Olivia Hamilton finds her life intertwining with that of a particle physicist who casts Dean’s disappearance in a new light, calling everything she believed into question.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Sisters Evangeline and Beatrice Eliott, who, with talent nurtured by necessity, establish a fashion house that creates a sensation in Roaring Twenties London. Their star continues to rise, but competition is fierce and customers are fickle. Bea's devotion to the business strains her marriage, while Evie embarks upon a liaison that threatens to ruin both her and the House of Eliott. Title has been repackaged.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Changing times, cutthroat competition, and romance flavor the dramatic conclusion. As the Roaring Twenties close, the market for haute couture is shrinking. In order to survive, can the House of Eliott realize that ready-to-wear is fashion's future? Title has been repackaged.
Pub. Date
[Date of publication not identified]
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
From the creators of Upstairs, Downstairs comes an addictive drama series set in the lively opulence of high-society London during the Roaring Twenties. Evangeline and Beatrice Eliott, sisters born into wealth and privilege, are left destitute when their spendthrift father dies suddenly. They have no education or training, just a passion for fashion design. Title has been Repackaged.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a teacher at Gotham Academy goes missing, it's up to Olive, Maps, Colton, Pom, and Kyle to figure out what is happening and how to get her back. With only an outdated birthday invitation as the clue, they find themselves in the middle of the woods with no idea of where to start. With the sudden appearance of the Lumberjanes--April, Jo, Mal, Molly, Ripley and Jen--who are on the hunt for their missing Camp Director, all clues point to an abandoned...
559) The duchess
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amanda Foreman, a Londoner, freelance journalist, and Oxford graduate, presents the captivating story of Lady Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire. In 1774, Georgiana married wealthy aristocrat and fifth duke of Devonshire, William Cavendish. The marriage spoiled immediately, and Georgiana, noted for her style and political involvement, yet limited as a woman by law, dealt with her adulterous and cold husband through secret substance and gambling...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"On December 12, 1719, a ship named La Mutine, or the Mutinous Woman, sailed from the French port of Le Havre, bound for the vast North American territory then referred to as "the Mississippi." La Mutine was loaded with goods that the fledgling French colony urgently required for its survival, basic foodstuffs such as flour and lard. But its principal commodity was a new kind of French export: women. The women who arrived in the New World from that...
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