Susan Ericksen
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eye-opening and previously untold story, "Factory Girls" is the first look into the everyday lives of the migrant factory population in China. The author demonstrates how "the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America's shores remade our own country a century ago."
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape, any checklist would include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was another unspoken rule: you had to be a man. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved that they were not only as tough as the toughest man but also brave enough to challenge the government. They were blocked by prejudice, jealousy, and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 CDs (approximately 3 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When club-hopping bad girl Tiara Kent is found dead in her Manhattan apartment, police lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers the killing has all the earmarks of a vampire attack.
85) Girls like us
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
19 CDs (23.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joni Mitchell, Carole King, and Carly Simon remain among the most enduring and important women in popular music. Each woman is distinct: King is the product of outer-borough, middle-class New York City; Mitchell is a granddaughter of Canadian farmers; and Simon is a child of the Manhattan intellectual upper crust. They collectively represent, in their lives and their songs, a great swath of American girls who came of age in the late 1960s.
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Corp
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a deadly epidemic sweeps across the land of Pern, only Kindan, a young apprentice to the guild of musicians and teachers known as the Harpers, recognizes the imminent peril and must come up with a way to stop the illness from spreading.
87) Random in death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Minutes later, Jake's getting some fresh air, and the girl comes stumbling out. He tries to help, but it's no use. The only thing left to do is call Lieutenant Eve Dallas. After everyone on the scene is interviewed, lab results show a toxic mix of substances in the victim's body....
88) Payback in death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lt. Eve Dallas is just home from a long overdue vacation when she responds to a call of an unattended death. The victim is Martin Greenleaf, retired captain, Internal Affairs Bureau. At first glance, the scene appears to be suicide, but the closer Eve examines the body, the more suspicious she becomes. An unlocked open window, a loving wife and family, a too-perfect suicide note--Eve's gut says it's a homicide. After all, Greenleaf put a lot of dirty...
Author
Series
In Death series volume 55
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"New York, 2061. The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who'd been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina. Unfortunately, they didn't get away fast enough. Now Dorian is injured and Mina lies dead while Lt. Eve Dallas looks over the scene. Mina's elegant clothes and beauty products...
90) Encore in death
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The homicide cop with a passion for justice returns in the captivating crime thriller series by the #1 New York Times bestselling author. It was a glittering event full of A-listers, hosted by Eliza Lane and Brant Fitzhugh, a celebrity couple who'd conquered both Hollywood and Broadway. And now Eve Dallas has made her entrance--but not as a guest. After raising a toast, Fitzhugh fell to the floor and died, with physical symptoms pointing to cyanide,...
Author
Series
In Death series volume 49
Language
English
Description
She calls herself Lady Justice. And once she has chosen a man as her target, she turns herself into a tall blonde or a curvaceous redhead, makes herself as alluring and seductive as possible to them. Once they are in her grasp, they are powerless. The first victim is wealthy businessman Nigel McEnroy. His company's human resources department has already paid out settlements to a couple of his young victims -- but they don't know that his crimes go...
92) Overboard
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy preying on Chicago's weak and vulnerable, in this thrilling novel from New York Times bestseller Sara Paretsky. On her way home from an all-night surveillance job, V.I. Warshawski is led by her dogs on a mad chase that ends when they discover a badly injured teen hiding in the rocks along Lake Michigan. The girl only regains consciousness long enough to utter one enigmatic word....
Author
Series
In Death series volume 52
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The scene in the West Village studio appears to be classic crime-of-passion: two wineglasses by the bed, music playing, and a young sculptor named Ariel Byrd with the back of her head bashed in. But when Dallas tracks down the wealthy Upper East Side woman who called 911, the details don't add up. Gwen Huffman is wealthy, elegant, comforted by her handsome fiancé as she sheds tears over the trauma of finding the body - but why did it take an hour...
94) Impostor's lure
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Newlyweds Emma and Colin are suspicious when prosecutor Tamara McDermott is a no-show at a Boston dinner party. Matt Yankowski, head of HIT, Emma and Colin's small, elite Boston-based team, is a friend of Tamara's, and he needs them to find her. In London, a woman who was supposed to meet Emma's art-detective grandfather to talk about forgeries is discovered near death. Her husband, who stayed behind in Boston, has vanished. The couple's connection...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 25
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta has come almost full circle, returning to Virginia as the chief medical examiner, the state where she launched her storied career. Finding herself the new girl in town once again after being away for many years, she's inherited not only an overbearing secretary, but also a legacy of neglect and potential corruption. She and her husband Benton Wesley, now a forensic psychologist with the U.S. Secret Service, have...
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 24
Language
English
Description
On a hot late summer evening in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Scarpetta and her investigative partner, Pete Marina, respond to a call about a dead bicyclist. It appears that a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force. Why is Interpol calling about the case? Is her death the work of anonymous cyberbully Tailend Charlie-- who is also targeting Scarpetta?
97) Savannah blues
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Follows Eloise "Weezie" Foley, an antiques picker, as she deals with a huge estate sale, eccentric relatives, a sexy ex-boyfriend, and her ex-husband and his new girlfriend, unexpectedly discovering love is much better the second time around.
Author
Series
Blackshear family romances volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Westbrook has one goal and one goal only: to reclaim her rightful place in society and restore her family's good name. In order to achieve this feat, Kate is more than willing to use her beauty, her brains, and a recently revived connection with the aristocratic side of her father's family to land a titled husband. However, just as Kate launches her campaign to find a suitable nobleman to wed, she encounters an unexpected stumbling block in...
100) A lady awakened
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes...for a fee....