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Sweet magnolias series volume 3
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English
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The Sweet Magnolias is now a Netflix Original Series!
From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods
On the road to success, good friends are never far apart in the world of the Sweet Magnolias.
Helen Decatur spent a lifetime setting goals—getting through college and law school, opening her own practice, becoming financially secure, and establishing herself as one of the most...
From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods
On the road to success, good friends are never far apart in the world of the Sweet Magnolias.
Helen Decatur spent a lifetime setting goals—getting through college and law school, opening her own practice, becoming financially secure, and establishing herself as one of the most...
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English
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“A smart and stylish fast-paced case of intrigue and corruption” in the Venetian-set, New York Times–bestselling mystery series (Los Angeles Times).
After a wealthy elderly woman is found brutally murdered in her Venetian apartment, the police suspect her maid, who has disappeared and is heading for her native Romania. But when it becomes clear the maid could not have had time to kill the old...
After a wealthy elderly woman is found brutally murdered in her Venetian apartment, the police suspect her maid, who has disappeared and is heading for her native Romania. But when it becomes clear the maid could not have had time to kill the old...
3) Beloved
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. At the center of Toni Morrison's fifth novel, which earned her the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is an almost unspeakable act of horror and heroism: a woman brutally kills her infant daughter rather than allow her to be enslaved....
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English
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Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband's betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, she's made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private...
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Heart of San Francisco volume 2
Language
English
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Detective Nick Barone would rather do almost anything than teach petite socialite Allison McClare jiu-jitsu, but it seems he has little choice in the matter. Sparks fly every time the two meet until a grudging friendship develops into something deeper. But when Nick suddenly leaves town, Allison realizes he's a fraud just like all the rest of the men she's cared for. Does she dare love again?
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English
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San Francisco, 1904. Shy and unattractive as a child, Megan was teased by her classmates. After her senior year in Paris, the wallflower has blossomed into a beauty. With ambitions to become a lawyer or doctor, Megan accepts an internship at the district attorney's office only to discover that she will be working with Devin Caldwell, a boy who mercilessly mocked her at school -- and with whom she was hopelessly enamored. She turns to her dear friend...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA, Dani Shapiro received the astonishing news that her beloved deceased father was not her biological father. Over the course of a single day, her entire history--the life she had lived--crumbled beneath her. In just a few hours of Internet sleuthing, she was able to piece together the story of her conception and, remarkably, find a YouTube video of her...
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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"Forty-something workaholic Sara Graves thought her chance for an outrageous life was over... until she met and married a charming Frenchman who left her widowed three weeks later. Suddenly she is the heiress to an estate she can't afford to keep and uncovering secrets she never wanted to know. Does she have the courage to leave her home, her country, and everything she's ever known for a second chance at family... and love?"--Author's website.
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English
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To bridal boutique owner Madeline Krug, organizing a Christmas wedding sounds like a joy, until she finds out she'll be working closely with the gorgeous brother of the bride, movie star Jonny Blaze. How will a small-town girl like her keep from falling for the world's sexiest guy? Especially with mistletoe lurking around every corner!
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
276 pages, 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1957, inspired by what she is learning about civil rights and armed with knowledge of female ball players, ten-year-old Katy Gordon fights to be allowed to play Little League baseball.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating, inspirational look at the relationships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators and friends"--
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Black woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus sparked a bus boycott and became part of one of the most iconic moments in American history. Yet, few know that Rosa Parks had actively worked toward social justice her whole life. And even fewer know that the seeds of the statewide bus boycott were first planted by a teenager named Claudette Colvin, who was arrested on similar charges months earlier. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin...
Author
Series
Julia Kydd novels volume 1
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 1920s New York, the price of a woman's independence can be exorbitant--even fatal. In 1924 Manhattan, women's suffrage is old news. For sophisticated booklover Julia Kydd, life's too short for politics. With her cropped hair and penchant for independent living, Julia wants only to publish books under her own imprint. But as a woman, Julia must fight for what's hers--including the inheritance her estranged half brother, Philip, has challenged,...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (645 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ann Marie, a young woman from a small town, moves to New York hoping to become an actress. She shares all the joys and sorrows she encounters while dealing with her parents and boyfriend as she struggles to further her dreams.
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay--dearly, with both money and conscience--to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: "$20 for five minutes. I'll hold your hand in my own," one ghost says. "I'll tell you you were good to me." Like Dante before her, Stone positions herself as the living poet passing through and observing the land of the dead. She imagines...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ann Marie and Donald finally cement their long relationship with an engagement and wedding. The ring, the cake, the family, the bridal shower - all happen in an amusing fashion, except for the wedding. Ann Marie continues with her acting career and has a series of adventures including a play in St. Louis, appearing as "Miss Everything" at the "New York has Everything" exhibit, performs at the Friars Club and models at a race track.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 780 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Aspiring actress Ann Marie and her devoted boyfriend Donald Hollinger see their relationship grow deeper, but Ann still isn't going to put marriage plans ahead of her career. Her determination starts to pay off as Ann finds herself in a play with Ethel Merman, begins to appear in commercials, is cast in a Broadway hit and shows up on the cover of a magazine. Of course, Ann's doting parents still worry about their daughter, and her father clings to...
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