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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....
22) Who do I run to?
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Janiece Hawkins never thought she'd find herself involved in a love triangle -- especially with a married man. KP, the man of her dreams, sweeps her off her feet long before he tells her he is married with two kids. She doesn't have a problem with her role as KP's mistress until she meets Isaiah. He's ready to commit and make Janiece his. Things spiral out of control when KP decides it's time to leave his wife to be with Janiece. The drama kicks...
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
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Meet Shannon and Jay Lovejoy--the rich and successful power couple who, to the fans of their call-in radio show, seem like they've got it all. But after three years, their once passionate and loving romance has fizzled and the couple's divorce becomes embroiled in not only a mess of infidelity and deceit, but the untimely and shocking death of Jay's mistress, as well..."--
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,...
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