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The story of a Latin American science fiction writer and the lives her lost manuscript unites decades later in post-Katrina New Orleans. In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather's...
62) The Villa
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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As kids, Emily and Chess were inseparable. But by their 30s, their bond has been strained by the demands of their adult lives. So when Chess suggests a girls' trip to Italy, Emily jumps at the chance to reconnect with her best friend. Villa Aestas in Orvieto is a high-end holiday home now, but in 1974, it was known as Villa Rosato, and rented for the summer by a notorious rock star, Noel Gordon. In an attempt to reignite his creative spark, Noel invites...
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
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272 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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When Sabrina Stanhope asks her to investigate the murder of Virginia Pratt, a young secretary by day and high-priced call girl by night, whose naked body was found in Central Park, crime reporter Paige Turner, asked to keep her findings a secret to avoid a scandal, must go undercover to catch a killer.
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Garland reference library of the humanities volume 818
Publisher
Garland
Pub. Date
[1988]
Physical Desc
xvi, 516 pages ; 26 cm.
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English
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Series
Sisters of Bethlehem Springs volume 3
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English
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In 1918, Daphne McKinley publishes her rough-and-tumble dime novels under a male pseudonym, but when a newspaperman enlists her aid in restoring his grandfather's good name, Daphne finds herself re-examining the power of her words and reconsidering the direction of her life.
70) The guest list
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English
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Two sisters hopeful for the future fail to see the monster creeping up from their past in this romantic suspense tale by the #1 New York Times–bestseller.
For the first time ever, Abby Mitchell feels that the world is her oyster. Her first book has found a publisher, a daring new surgery promises to take away the birthmark that mars her lovely face, and there's a new man in her life, a man who sees beyond her flaw . .
71) The Feminist companion to literature in English: women writers from the Middle Ages to the present
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[1990]
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xvi, 1,231 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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English
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"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny--or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"-experiences. A staunch atheist and rationalist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her life-long search. Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, Living...
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Home. . . . That's what Martha's Vineyard is to Annie Sutton now.
After a winter spent writing her latest novel, Annie looks forward to a summer with friends who have become like the family she never had. But then her landlord announces that his grandson will be moving into her cozy Chappaquiddick cottage—and she'll be moving out. Year-round island housing is tough to find at any time; in summer, it's nearly impossible....
After a winter spent writing her latest novel, Annie looks forward to a summer with friends who have become like the family she never had. But then her landlord announces that his grandson will be moving into her cozy Chappaquiddick cottage—and she'll be moving out. Year-round island housing is tough to find at any time; in summer, it's nearly impossible....
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2012.
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English
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In A THOUSAND MORNINGS, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life's work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings...
78) A willing murder
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English
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Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, but retirement has been boring her, and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan -- a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She accepts immediately, but with so little saved up, she'll have to approach her estranged yet incredibly famous aunt for a place...
79) The island villa
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English
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"Celebrated romance author Catherine Swift has topped the bestseller lists for decades, though her personal story hasn't been quite so successful. Three failed marriages have left her relationship with her daughters strained, but that's about to be rectified. Engaged yet again, Catherine is counting on this wedding to be what finally brings them together as a family, and she'll do whatever it takes to make that happen. Adeline doesn't know what's...
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Chesapeake diaries volume 9
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English
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Forced to take over the family inn after his father's death, widower and single father Daniel Sinclair has no time for love until he meets Jamie Valentine, an intriguing new guest and author of self-help books, who has cut her book tour short after she discovers that her own life is based on a lie.
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