Photographer Tom McCall’s only regret about accepting an assignment from the beautiful Anna Waverley to photograph her boat for a potential buyer is that he has double-booked himself and needs to...
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Author: Blair, MichaelSummary:
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Author: Currie, RobertSummary:
Living with the Hawk explores the traumatic events in the life of Blair Russell, a high school football player who struggles to do what’s right in tough circumstances. Key characters are his...
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Author: Magnusson, AnnaSummary:
In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums. A few years later...
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Author: Roye, Susmita, Banerjee, Amrita, Bauer, Helen Pike, Crane, Ralph, Goodwin, Gráinne, Johnson, Alan, Johnston, Anna, Nielsen, Danielle, Richardson, LeeAnne MSummary:
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22...
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Author: MCCANN, ColumSummary:
A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired the adoration of millions, an artist whose name was a byword for genius, sex, and excess. The magnificence of...
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A collection of essays on the writer who “after Rudyard Kipling . . . was the most famous nineteenth-century British author to depict India” (Nineteenth-Century Literature).
Flora Annie...
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Author: Palahniuk, ChuckSummary:
She's a fashion model who has everything--until a sudden freeway "accident." Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her the real...
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Author: Chang, IrisSummary:
In 1937, the Japanese army swept into Nanking and systematically raped, tortured, and murdered some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Eventually a group of resolute Europeans and Americans was able to...
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Author: Haigh, JenniferSummary:
Born and raised on Bakerton's Polish Hill, the five Novak children come of age during wartime, a thrilling era when the world seems on the verge of changing forever. The oldest, Georgie,...
Genre: Domestic fiction -
Author: Wilhelm, KateSummary:
When the first warm breeze of Doomsday came wafting over the Shenandoah Valley, the Sumners were ready. Using their enormous wealth, the family had forged an isolated post-holocaust citadel. Their...
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Author: Evans, Mary AnnaSummary:
Faye Longchamp is once again in Florida, at Joyeuse, the family plantation she labors so lovingly to restore. She’s doing archaeological work for pay, excavating a site once owned by her family....
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Author: Ozeki, Ruth L.Summary:
With reality, humor, and a message about corporate greed, Ozeki weaves together the story of two women a world apart. The lives of Jane in America and Akiko in Japan intersect through beef, love,...
Genre: Canadian fiction -
Author: Moyes, JojoSummary:
How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six...
Genre: General fiction -
Author: Comen, ElizabethSummary:
A surprising, groundbreaking, and fiercely entertaining medical history that is both a collective narrative of women's bodies and a call to action for a new conversation around women's...
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Author: Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
As a priest nears the end of his life, he is asked to prove or disprove the sainthood of a woman he knows well and struggles to guard his own secret identity in the process.