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Publisher
Airship
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In order to learn how Arnold might rise to power, Rishe disguises herself as a man and leads a double life as a trainee knight! Despite her deception, she grows closer to her fianc�e during a secret sojourn to the city. But when a former patient from her life as an apothecary comes begging for help in saving his nation, will Rishe stand by Arnold's refusal to lend his aid, dooming the country to devastation? --from Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Airship
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Galkhein has officially forged an alliance with Coyolles, and Arnold and Rishe are closer than ever. During a visit to the Grand Cathedral of Domana, which Arnold burns to ash in the future, they bump into the young lady Rishe served as a maid. But this happy reunion soon takes a turn for the strange, with curses, warnings, and grudges aplenty! As Arnold's hatred of the church comes to a head, another piece of the handsome prince's mysterious past...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this irresistible debut novel, a freak accident allows a wife and mother to explore the alluring alternative of the Road Not Taken. Abbey Lahey is a married, harried working mother of two, struggling to make ends meet in a blue-collar suburb of Philadelphia. When a tumble down a Nordstrom escalator lands her in an alternate reality, Abbey finds herself happily married to the one who got away--a dashing Philly blueblood she met briefly years earlier--and...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As springtime dawns in Moominvalley and the first northern crocus opens, Moominpappa and Snorkmaiden, glamorized by the prospects of movie stars and gambling, insist the whole family take a trip down to the Riviera. Reluctantly Moomin and Moominmamma agree to go along, and the Moomins set off on a grand adventure, complete with butlers, luxury shops, indoor swimming pools, and duels at dawn. With their innocent curiosity about everything, the Moomins...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"San Francisco, 1906. Violet is one of three people grateful for the destruction of the big earthquake. It leaves her and her two best friends unexpectedly wealthy - if the secret that binds them together stays buried beneath the rubble. Fearing discovery, the women strike out on their own, and orphaned, wallflower Violet reinvents herself. When a whirlwind romance with the city's most eligible widower, Harry Carlyle, lands her in a luxurious mansion...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Will Matthews came to Wall Street with hopes and dreams of hitting it big. But things have not been going as expected. He's on the verge of being fired when he meets the devilishly mysterious and fabulously wealthy Sam Abaddon. Winning Sam's business answers Will's prayers, catapulting the young stockbroker into the privileged world of money and luxury. Not only that, but Will also has met his dream girl, ambitious attorney Gwen Lipton. All at once,...
Author
Series
House of secrets (V. C. Andrews) volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The English countryside is beautiful, but for Emma Corey it cannot compare with the bright lights of New York City. Tired of performing only in pubs and at church, she announces she’s moving to America—and her conservative father disowns her on the spot. Distraught but undeterred, Emma will become a Broadway star—or die trying. Leaving the comforts of her youth is a thrilling adventure. The largeness of the city, her new friends, the boundless...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Biltmore House, a palatial mansion being built by the Vanderbilts, American "royalty," is in its final stages of construction in North Carolina. The country's grandest example of privilege, it symbolizes the aspirations of its owner and the dreams of a girl, just as driven, who lives in its shadow. Kerry MacGregor's future is derailed when, after two years in college in New York City, family obligations call her home to the beautiful Appalachians....
30) The first to lie
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
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"We all have our reasons for being who we are-but what if being someone else could get you what you want? After a devastating betrayal, a young woman sets off on an obsessive path to justice, no matter what dark family secrets are revealed. What she doesn't know-she isn't the only one plotting her revenge. An affluent daughter of privilege. A glamorous manipulative wannabe. A determined reporter, in too deep. A grieving widow who must choose her new...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"After her mother's death, penniless May Kimble lives a lonely life until an aunt she didn't know existed summons her to San Francisco. There she's welcomed into the wealthy Sullivan family and their social circle. Initially overwhelmed by the opulence of her new life, May soon senses that dark mysteries lurk in the shadows of the Sullivan mansion. Her glamorous cousin often disappears in the night. Her aunt wanders about in a laudanum fog. And a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Airship, Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Being reborn once may sound impressive, but Rishe is already on her seventh time around! She has had all kinds of excitement in her previous lives, from peddling goods as a merchant to locking blades as a knight, so now she's determined to kick back and enjoy. But to savor the high life, she first has to marry the handsome prince...the same one who happens to be her murderer! It will take six-plus lifetimes of experience and skills for Rishe to break...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen year old Cindy and her two older brothers live in rural Pennsylvania, in a house with occasional electricity, two fierce dogs, one book, and a mother who comes and goes for months at a time. Deprived of adult supervision, the siblings rely on one another for nourishment of all kinds. As Cindy's brothers take on new responsibilities for her care, the shadow of danger looms larger and the status quo no longer seems tolerable. So when a glamorous...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perenial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Meet Ramesh Kumar, "examinations consultat," who makes a lucrative living taking tests for the sons of India's elite. He is just a cog in the wheel that keeps the middle classes thriving, until he takes India's national university entrance exam for a lackluster student and inadvertently comes in first. Ramesh sees an opportunity--perhaps even an obligation--to cash in on the newfound celebrity of his client Rudi, who's soon juggling stardom and his...
35) Mummy darlings
Author
Series
Glorious Guinness girls volume 2
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"It's the dawn of the 1930s and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into becoming wives and mothers: Aileen in Luttrellstown Castle outside Dublin, Maureen in Clandeboye in Northern Ireland, and Oonagh in Rutland Place in London. But while Britain becomes increasingly politically polarized, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh discover conflict within their own marriages. Oonagh's dream of romantic love is countered by...
Author
Series
(Jennifer Lynn).Inheritance games volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Ella viene de la nada. Avery tiene un plan: pasar desapercibida, trabajar duro para aspirar a un futuro mejor. Entonces un exc�entrico multimillonario fallece y le deja casi toda su fortuna. Y nadie, tampoco Avery, sabe por qu�e. Ellos lo ten�ian todo. Ahora tiene que mudarse a la mansi�on que ha heredado, que est�a llena de secretos y c�odigos, y en la que residen los parientes del fallecido: una familia dispuesta con el �unico objetivo...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a trace of any human presence. The wanderer is searching for a garden that has long captivated him: "he continu- ally saw the garden in his mind's eye without being able to touch its existence." This exquisitely beautiful novel by National Book Award-winner...
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