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Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
A rebellious youth turned L.A. art queen confronts her twilight years, family secrets and a fiery late-life romance as past demons and the thirst for revenge resurface in the form of her drug-addled grandnephew Michael.
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
To keep customers visiting Rose Cottage Books as the off-season begins, shop owner Meagan Poe hosts the Harvest of Books fundraiser, a monthlong initiative that supports local teachers and boosts sales. The finale is scheduled to be an evening with best-selling author Christina Rossi. But when Christina cancels unexpectedly, Meagan and the Rose Cottage Book Club must find a worth alternative. Meanwhile, Meagan suspects there's more to Christina's...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Her mother has just passed away, her brother is newly married, and now that the Great War is over, she has been asked to give up managing the estate she helped to run when the men all joined the army. It is suggested to her that she become a governess. But first, she will act as caretaker to Mrs. Fog, an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside resort. Constance is soon swept up in the social whirl...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Twenty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in a temporary reinvention that turns out to be the start of an entirely different journey"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
440 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and scandals run even deeper. . . . Everyone refers to the St. Cecelia as "the Saint." If you grew up coming here, you were "a Saint." If you came from the wrong side of the river, you were "an Ain't." Traci Eddings was one of those outsiders whose family wasn't rich enough or connected enough to vacation here. But she could work here. One fateful summer...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Leaving Seattle and her cheating husband behind, single mother Karissa moves to Puget Sound where she meets her new neighbors, who are also dealing with their own crises, and together they start a book club as a distraction until it becomes a way to build a better life together.
Author
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 525 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve. Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her three...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Depressed after being humiliated and abandoned by the two men in her life, Agatha Raisin finds a new prospect in curate Tristan Delon, whose untimely death prompts Agatha to investigate strange mysteries surrounding the victim.
10) City of laughter
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 363 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rich and riveting debut marrying centuries-old folklore to twenty-first-century queer literary fiction, City of Laughter spans four generations of Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an eighteenth century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to bring laughter to the...