Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the latest Play-by-Play novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Straddling the Line, a sexy quarterback is finally playing for keeps... Grant Cassidy knows how to be a football star-flash that dazzling smile, throw the winning pass, get the girl. But while the hot quarterback loves the game and the lifestyle, no woman has come close to catching his heart. Then he matches wits with a smart, gorgeous model, and Grant finds himself wanting...
Author
Series
KGI novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
Swanson or "Swanny" as his teammates call him is always up for the next mission. He came back from Afghanistan wounded and scarred. Hardly the kind of man who even belongs in the same room with Eden. And yet there's something about the quiet beauty that stirs his blood and makes him dream of the impossible. Eden is said to be one of the most beautiful women in the world. Her face has graced countless magazines and her body has sold millions of dollars...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience... Tansy Adams’ greatest love is her family’s bookstore, passed down from her late father. But when it comes to actual romance… Tansy can’t get past the first chapter. Tired of her stepfamily’s questions about her...
4) Cowboy fever
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Rodeo America Jodi Brand has traded her sparkly sash for worn-out jeans and scuffed-up boots. She's back in town to start a therapy riding clinic for kids, and can't afford to be distracted by the bad-boy cowboy who once broke her heart. Teague Treadwell never forgot their one night together. Back then, she was way out of his league, but now he's given up his rebel ways and built his family ranch into a successful business. Ironically, the new...
6) Body grammar
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"To her own dismay, Lou is a natural model: tall, thin, captivatingly androgynous, and with a striking look. Out of nowhere, every agent in the Portland area wants to represent her. But Lou doesn't care for fashion, nor does she wish to be seen. Fresh out of high school, Lou's plan is to spend the summer taking photographs and hoping to catch the attention of Ivy, her close friend and secret crush. But when an afternoon hiking trip ends in a tragic...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator's dream -- he's getting paid to troll the cafes and bars of Montpartnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie de boheme, despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two-year-old from Boston who has been living in Paris,...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 11
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Special Day wedding salon is running an ad in the local newspaper, and they want Emma to model in the advertisement. The ad is a huge hit and suddenly Emma is very much in demand. But after running all over New York City for auditions, Emma realizes being a model is a lot tougher than she thought. Does Emma really want to be America's next top model, or is being a part of the Cupcake Club sweet enough?
Author
Series
Harte Family volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When a psychopath with deadly intent vows to shatter M's world forever, the muse and star model to France's iconic designer Jean-Louis Tremont will break the rules to protect her family and her life.
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Strike is down to one client, and creditors are calling. He has also just broken up with his longtime girlfriend and is living in his office. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, known to her friends as the Cuckoo, famously fell to her death a few months earlier....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins, in this irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and The Lies That Bind. The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1968, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Gisele Bündchen's journey began in southern Brazil, growing up with five sisters, playing volleyball, and rescuing the dogs and cats around her hometown. In fact, she wanted to become either a professional volley player or a veterinarian. But at the age of 14, fate suddenly intervened in in the form of a modeling scout, who spotted her in São Paulo. Four years later, Gisele's appearance in Alexander McQueen's memorably rain-soaked London runway...
14) Falling for you
Author
Series
Bradford sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Willow Bradford is content taking a break from modeling to run her family's inn. Then she comes face-to-face with NFL quarterback Corbin Stewart, the man who broke her heart-- and wants to win her back. When a decades-old missing-persons case brings them together, they're forced to decide whether they can risk falling for one another all over again. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
An expanded and refreshed "director's cut" of the author's 1999 novel restores his original vision for the work that depicts what happens to a fashion model after a debilitating accident destroys her face and her ability to speak.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Alyssa's modeling career came to an abrupt end when her manager boyfriend emptied her bank account and ruined her professional reputation. Now she's heading to a new town in Montana to rebuild her life--if she can even get there (stupid delayed planes!). But things are looking up when she's upgraded to first class and a mysterious stranger sits down next to her. Jackson Whitman doesn't believe in love, or commitment, or forever--not since he lost...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ethan Brodie is contracted as extra security for La Belle Lingerie when their top ten models receive threatening letters. His job: to protect the ladies, and maybe find the culprit. The one rule: no fraternizing with any of the models. Having sworn off women indefinitely, he thinks he'll be able to handle it. Then he meets Val, one of the threatened models, just trying to make some money, go back to school, and finish her veterinary degree. As the...
18) Play dead
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2013], c1993
Language
English
Description
When her husband, David Baskin, the Boston Celtics' star player, dies on their Australian honeymoon, Laura Ayars returns home to discover a half million dollars missing from his account and their house turned upside down.
Author
Language
English
Description
Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home{u2014}and how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. Shuttling between continents as a child, she lived a life of dislocation that would become habit as an adult, never quite at home in the world. And yet, through all her travels, her favorite food remained the simple...
Interlibrary Loan Request
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Des Moines Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? If the item was published recently, submit a purchase suggestion. Submit Request