Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine. But when she receives a bulky overseas parcel in the mail, the unexpected contents draw her inexorably back into her family's past, and the hushed-over crime passion of an aunt...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Emily Ruff belongs to a secretive, influential organization whose "poets" can break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. Then she makes a catastrophic mistake and falls in love with Wil Jamieson who holds the key to a secret war between rival factions of "poets." In order to survive, Wil must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, as the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel...
3) Damage
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The narrator's erotic obsession with a woman who wields a dominant sexual and psychological power over him draws him into a headlong plunge toward tragedy for his family and his own self-destruction.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Readers of Kate Atkinson will delight in this suspenseful and romantic debut novel about a woman haunted by nightmares and her grandmother's role in a doomed love triangle almost seventy years before. Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation. Now thirty-three and eager to settle down with her commitment-shy boyfriend, a recurring dream from her past returns: a paralyzing nightmare of being buried alive, the taste...
5) Heartless
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dreaming of happier futures as man and wife, Lucas and Anna Kendrick find their new marriage threatened by forces that cause them to deny their mutual feelings, and each claims to have married for the sake of convenience only.Betrayed by his elder brother, rejected by his fiancée, banished by his father, and shunned by his mother, Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, fled to Paris, where he became the most sought-after bachelor in fashionable society....
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 10
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children, who are safely stowed at an academy in Bath. Upon his return to the Isles, however, he finds that one of his daughters has vanished, along with one of her classmates-- Gwendolyn Meadows' little sister. Thrown together by circumstance, Gwen and William must cooperate to track down the young ladies before others with nefarious intent get their hands on them. But Gwen's partnership...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Cole Stockton has a will of steel and raw determination to go after what he wants, including Kelsey Murdock. She senses danger about him in the secrets he refuses to share. But when a simple business trip turns into a dangerous survival game, she must trust him to keep them both alive.
Author
Series
Texas Rangers (Carla Neggers) volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Delighted with her purchase of a run-down, nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston's North Shore, graphic designer Tess Haviland stumbles upon a skeleton inside the basement wall, a body that mysteriously vanishes when she brings her neighbor over to see it.
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Two strangers start out saving animals and end up rescuing each other in this heartwarming romance from the author of Unbreak Me. Mari Tucker is a wildlife biologist who scoops bunnies and endangered tortoises out of harm's way on construction sites. Still haunted by her past, she takes the most remote jobs in the Mojave Desert to avoid people and hide from her ex. It's a simple, quiet life filled with sweet animals and solar-powered baking until...
Author
Series
Emmeline Truelove novels volume 2
Publisher
Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of A Most Extraordinary Pursuit brings a dazzling voice and extraordinary plot twists to this captivating Scottish adventure... Scotland, 1906. A mysterious object discovered inside an ancient castle calls Maximilian Haywood, the new Duke of Olympia, and his fellow researcher Emmeline Truelove north to the remote Orkney Islands. No stranger to the study of anachronisms in archaeological digs, Haywood is nevertheless puzzled by...
11) The night island
Author
Series
Lost night files volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The disappearance of a mysterious informant leads two people desperate for answers to an island of deadly deception in the second novel of the Lost Night Files trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Jayne Ann Krentz. Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night they all have no memory of, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago-an experience that brought out innate psychic abilities...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request