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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station....
23) Along the shore
Author
Series
Book club volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set on a charming North Carolina island, the latest novel in national bestselling author Rochelle Alers' unforgettable, heartfelt Book Club series tells of one woman whose past comes calling - even as a new beginning beckons. Perfect for fans of warm, sexy, community-oriented fiction featuring diverse, multicultural characters in the vein of Tracey Livesay, Sherryl Woods and Brenda Jackson"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1815. Amateur sleuth Atlas Catesby is about to discover the dark side of the bright lights. His long-awaited night at the opera with Lady Lilliana ends abruptly when a notorious courtesan is shot to death in Covent Garden. The infamous victim was the mistress of the powerful Marquess of Vessey. Atlas believes that the marquess--his former brother in law--is responsible for the long-ago death of Atlas's sister, Phoebe. Atlas seizes the opportunity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Walking through London's West End after a night at the theater, Amory Ames and her husband Milo run into wealthy investor and former actor Gerard Holloway and his wife Georgina, old friends of theirs. When Holloway invites them to the dress rehearsal of a new play he is directing, Amory is shocked to learn that Holloway has cast his mistress, actress Flora Bell, in the lead role. The casual invitation is not what it seems-- Holloway has been receiving...
Author
Series
Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 2
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Language
English
30) The midwife
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Two of French cinema's biggest stars shine in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely friendship that develops between Claire, a talented but tightly wound midwife, and Beatrice, the estranged, free-spirited mistress of Claire's late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely on each other as they cope with the unusual circumstance that brought them together.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author delivers the first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun in this authoritative reassessment of Braun's role in Hitler's life and revealing portrait of the Führer and his inner circle. Drawing on newly discovered documents, Görtemaker carefully distinguishes fact from fiction.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Georgetown socialite Mary Pinchot Meyer lived by her own rules-- and paid the ultimate price for her independence. Her murder a year after JFK's assassination was never solved. Her diary was never found-- until now. Secret lover of JFK; ex-wife of a CIA chief; sexual adventurer; LSD explorer and early feminist -- it's all in her diary. And now it's in your hands. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Por qué el escritor de misterio más famoso del mundo desaparecería durante once días? ¿Qué hace que una mujer esté lo suficientemente desesperada como para destruir el matrimonio de otra mujer? ¿Qué tan profundamente puede una persona anhelar la venganza? En 1925, la señorita Nan O'Dea se infiltró en el rico y enrarecido mundo de la autora Agatha Christie y su marido, Archie. En todos los sentidos, ella se convirtió en parte de su vida,...
Author
Series
Sun Court duet volume 1
Publisher
Touchstone/Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A rollicking historical account of Marguerite Steinheil ('the Red Widow"), a real-life French femme fatale who used her influence to arrange governmental appointments, blackmailed her opponents, and may have even attempted to poison those who got in the way of her agenda--and also mysteriously survived a home invasion that left her husband and mother dead, leaving the police with more questions than answers. For readers of The Radium Girls and Sin...
Publisher
itv Golbal Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of the late eighteenth century. Emma Hart is a beautiful dance hall girl who is sent by her latest lover to stay with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Sir William considers Emma a rare piece of art he must possess. Sir William introduces Emma to Naples' elite society and she soon marries him. Later, Horatio Nelson, a famous English Naval office arrives. Soon, a scandalous,...
40) Figures in silk
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In 1471 England, two daughters of a silk merchant follow different paths. Jane Shore becomes the mistress of the king and her sister Isabel becomes powerful in the silk industry.
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