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21) The ivory tower
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America's Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower, his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction - in which American "innocence" is transformed by its encounter with European "experience"--Receives...
Author
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Twelve stories of women caught in the emotional turbulence of romance in Manhattan. For the twelve narrators of Susan Minot's breathtaking collection - artists and lawyers, teenagers and thirty-somethings - love in New York doesn't come easy. And as they struggle to reconcile their yearnings for romance with their needs for independence, they face resistance to emotional commitment at every turn. In intense snapshots of these women's most intimate...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
With her memory still fragmented, Ava returns to the International Sensory Assassin Network (ISAN) to find the twin sister she never knew she had. But as Ava hunts for information, she finds herself tangled in a web of yet more lies and conspiracy. The Helix serum may not be required to access her superpowers, and the number of male assassins--previously considered too volatile to tolerate Helix--is growing in every territory. The more Ava uncovers,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school in Georgia, but now that she's at Carter, it feels like she's got 'Scholarship Student' written on her forehead. Bea Powers put aside misgivings about attending college in the South as a biracial student intake part in Carter's Justice Scholars program. But even within that rarefied circle of people trying to change the world, it seems everyone has a different idea of what justice...
30) The unraveling
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the distant future somewhere in the galaxy, a society has emerged where everyone has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success within the rigid social system is reliant upon instantaneous social approbation. Young Fift is an only child of the staid gender, struggling to maintain their position in the system while developing an intriguing friendship with the poorly-publicized bioengineer Shria-somewhat...
Author
Series
It girl novels (Cecily von Ziegesar) volume 10
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Each year at Valentine's Day, the Waverly Academy Computer Society runs Perfect Match, an online personality survey that pairs up Waverly Owls with their supposed soul mates. Now the campus is overrun with peculiar pairings, odd couples, and mischief-makers hoping to play Cupid for a day.
36) Perfect timing
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"It's the night before her wedding when Poppy Dunbar meets Tom. He is tall, dark, and handsome with a quirky smile, and Poppy can't shake the feeling she's known him all her life. She can't go through with the meeting they arrange...but she can't go through with the wedding anymore either. Suddenly notorious as 'The Girl Who Jilted Rob McBride, ' Poppy leaves for London and a fresh start. Soon she's installed in the bohemian household of Caspar French,...
37) Cuatro amigos
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Detrás del desmadrado viaje de vacaciones de cuatro amigos veinteañe-ros se esconde una historia de amor. El protagonista, Solo, se sumerge en la juerga continua y el gamberrismo andante de sus inseparables compañeros tratando de huir del recuerdo de Bárbara, pero cada paso le acerca más a ella, a la que considera el amor de su vida. La exaltación de la libertad, de la juventud, de la adolescencia eterna no evita recordarles que todo...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone at elite Waverly Academy actually looks forward to the freezing month of January: it's Jan Plan, four blissful weeks when cool independent projects replace hectic schedules and boring classes. Wild weeknight parties, late-night trips to the crater, and plenty of time to gossip about it all? Yes, please! Jenny Humphrey can't wait to start her solo art project. But the real masterpiece is Isaac Dresden, the new dean's gorgeous son, who's taken...
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1490
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"There is an old story--you might have heard it--about a young mermaid, the daughter of a king, who saved the life of a human prince and fell in love. So innocent was her love, so pure her devotion, that she would pay any price for the chance to be with her prince. She gave up her voice, her family, and the sea, and became human. But the prince fell in love with another woman. The tales say the little mermaid sacrificed her own life so that her beloved...
40) Malibu bluff
Author
Series
A seasonaires novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Pegasus Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"Every summer is curated as a dream for six twenty-something seasonaires handpicked by Lyndon Wyld, the chic founder of her namesake clothing line. This summer takes these influential brand ambassadors to the West Coast. Mia, a resourceful young designer, is chosen to lead the pack--roped back into a second season by a deal she can't refuse, and the hope to leave behind her grief over her mother's death for the California sun. Mia is thankful that...
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