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Author
Series
Katharine Wright volume 1
Language
English
Description
December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
Author
Series
American Dreamers volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty
Pub. Date
1996, 1996, c1995
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A juicy novel of celebrity love gone wrong, pulled from the pages of today's gossip magazines Actress Lizzie Pepper was America's Girl Next Door and her marriage to Hollywood mega-star Rob Mars was tabloid gold--a whirlwind romance and an elaborate celebrity-studded wedding landed them on the cover of every celebrity weekly. But fame, beauty, and wealth weren't enough to keep their marriage together. Hollywood's "It" couple are over--and now Lizzie...
Author
Series
Sir John Fielding mysteries volume 4
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[1997], c1997
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A tender and engrossing historical novel about the unlikely love affair between two great nineteenth-century poets, Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett. On a bleak January day in 1845, a poet who had been confined to her room for four years by recurrent illness received a letter from a writer she secretly idolized but had never seen."--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s, Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are inseparable due to Molly's bouts of mental confusion, and as Peggy goes to great lengths to protect her sister's secret, she falls in love with a charming composer, which sparks the bitterest of betrayals.