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82) Gorsky: a novel
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
On a rainy afternoon in London's old Chelsea, a charming multi-billionaire Russian oligarch, Gorsky, walks into an ailing bookshop and writes the first of several quarter-of-a-million pound checks. With that money, Gorsky has tasked Nikola, the store's bored and brilliant clerk, with sourcing books for a massive personal library, which will be housed in the magnificent, palatial home Gorsky happens to be building immediately next to Nikola's own modest...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. When she meets the handsome William Pride...
84) River's edge
Author
Series
Cape Refuge series volume 3
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
85) Tending roses
Author
Series
Tending roses volume 1
Publisher
NAL Accent
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the beloved books editor at Glamour magazine comes a heartfelt and painfully funny debut about what happens when a wife and mother of three leaps at the chance to fulfill her professional destiny--only to learn every opportunity comes at a price. In A Window Opens, Elisabeth Egan brings us Alice Pearse, a compulsively honest, longing-to-have-it-all, sandwich generation heroine for our social-media-obsessed, lean in (or opt out) age. Like her...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This is the time to run away, she thinks, to call it a mistake, to race back to home and safety. If I don't go home I will never feel safe again. On meeting Micajah Burnett, the son of an old school friend, Eve Armanton is faced with a choice. Years of a miserable marriage means she's as broken as the beautiful antique violin she's just found, and Micajah offers a spark of life, an opportunity to reawaken her sense. If Eve takes a leap into this new...
88) The summerhouse
Author
Series
Summerhouse novels volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
89) Mrs. Dalloway
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The captivating and romantic story based on the critically-acclaimed Virginia Woolf novel of the same name.
Author
Series
Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Robbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares Poirot who stages an eerie reenactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This astonishing debut inhabits the mind of a young married woman driven to extremes by disgust and dread in the aftermath of a rape. Marie and Laurent, a young, affluent couple, have settled into their large Paris apartment and decide to start trying for a baby. This picture-perfect existence is shattered when Marie is assaulted by her new boss. Deeply shaken by the attack, she discovers she is pregnant, and is convinced her rapist is the father....
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012, ©2010
Language
English
Description
Flaubert's classic tale, in which the title character turns to spending and a series of affairs to combat the boredom of married life and, heartbroken and crippled by debts, takes drastic action that results in tragedy.
96) The other life
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Hiding the truth about her ability to cross into alternate realities where she has made different life decisions, a married and pregnant Quinn Braverman learns that her unborn child will be disabled and glimpses into a parallel life where she is married to someone else and childless.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Historical novel set in 1870 St. Augustine, Florida. Cheney and Shiloh's vacation to Florida turns very mysterious and they wonder if perhaps Sangria House is not the haven they had thought it would be"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
100) The runaway heiress
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With a new name and fake ID papers, Sarah Patterson, on the run from her violent estranged husband -- a police lieutenant -- takes a job working with Hollywood's golden boy director who, as their bond deepens, attempts to keep Sarah out of harm's way.
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