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2) Temper
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Scout Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A debut workplace noir novel of female ambition about what happens when fake violence draws real blood, for fans of Mrs. and Tangerine" --
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
456 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A college student finds her perspectives transformed by a mentor activist at the center of the women's movement who challenges her to discover herself in ways that take her far from the traditional life she envisioned.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Alessandra Stathos, the second daughter of a minor nobleman, makes a plan to seduce, marry, and kill the king, then rule the world, and only love can stop her.
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1792, after leaving her violently mad mother behind in revolutionary France, seventeen-year-old Thea Hope travels to England, where she risks losing her own sanity when she creates the legendary Philosopher's Stone.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1948 Beirut, the eldest son of a prominent French family, Jean, who has committed a terrible crime, emigrates to Paris with his materialistic wife, while Etienne, the youngest son, seeks to make his fortune in Saigon and middle son, journalist Francois, tracks a killer who is closer than he thinks.
8) Mary can!
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The multi-awarding-winning singer, artist, actress, and icon presents this entertaining and empowering story in which young Mary, told there are many things she cannot do, isn't about to let anyone tell her she cannot sing.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If you look hard enough, you can find stories pretty much anywhere. They don't even have to be your own. Or so would-be writer Maurice Swift decides very early on in his career. A chance encounter in a Berlin hotel with celebrated novelist Erich Ackermann gives him an opportunity to ingratiate himself with someone more powerful than him. For Erich is lonely, and he has a story to tell. Whether or not he should do so is another matter entirely. Once...
10) Vengeful
Author
Series
Villians volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
478 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Sydney and Serena Clarke. Great partnerships, now soured on the vine. But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she's finally gained the control she's always sought, and will use her new-found power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She'll do whatever it takes, collecting her own sidekicks and leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale...
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
29 sound discs (approximately 37 hrs.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The conclusion to Ken Follett's historical series that follows the fortunes of five intertwined families, American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh, through the twentieth century. Now they come to one of the most chaotic eras of all: the enormous social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1960s through the 1990s, from civil rights, assassinations, mass political movements and Vietnam to the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It will take something extraordinary to show four women who they truly are . . . October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a "fallen angel" cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Dare Me meets Black Swan and Luckiest Girl Alive in a captivating, voice-driven debut novel about a trio of ballerinas who meet as students at the Paris Opera Ballet School. Fourteen years ago, Delphine abandoned her prestigious soloist spot at the Paris Opera Ballet for a new life in St. Petersburg--taking with her a secret that could upend the lives of her best friends, fellow dancers Lindsay and Margaux. Now 36 years old, Delphine has returned...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Three fierce women connected to a billionaire film mogul collide at a Hollywood party in this richly observed novel about female ambition, complicity, and privilege. Zanne Klein never planned to be a personal assistant to Hollywood royalty Ted and Holly Stabler. But a decade in at thirty-eight, that's exactly how she spends her days, earning six figures to make sure the movie mogul and his family have everything they could ever dream of and more....
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian England, a mother is on the run from her past-and the truth about what she did. Birmingham, 1880. Angelica Chastain has fled from London with her young son, William. She promises him a better life, far away from the terrors they left behind. Securing a job as a governess, Angelica captures the attention of wealthy widower Stanley Hampton. Soon they marry and the successful future Angelica envisaged for William starts to fall into place....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A modern love story about two childhood friends, Sam, raised by an actress mother in LA's Koreatown, and Sadie, from the wealthy Jewish enclave of Beverly Hills, who reunite as adults to create video games, finding an intimacy in digital worlds that eludes them in their real lives, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry"--
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits...