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981) A shoe story
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A young woman has one month and a closetful of shoes to discover the future she thought she'd lost in this captivating new novel from the author of Eliza Starts a Rumor and Nine Women, One Dress. Esme Nash is eager to leave her small town and begin her carefully planned post-grad life- a move to New York City, an apartment with her loving college boyfriend, and a fancy job at an art gallery. But when tragedy strikes, instead of heading to Manhattan,...
Publisher
Warner Bros Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Based on the characters from Archie Comics, Riverdale returns with its subversive take on Archie and his friends, exploring small town life, the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale's wholesome facade. Determined to protect the sanctity of his town in the wake of his father's shooting, season two finds Archie seeking vengeance. As a civil war brews between the Northside and the Southside, loyalties will be divided. Betty and Jughead's...
983) Under the mistletoe
Author
Series
Liverpool sisters volume 2
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Liverpool, 1940. When war comes to Britain, Jessica Wilson and her friend Ruby seize the opportunity to leave behind the orphanage they grew up in and start new lives in the NAAFI. With only forged papers as identification the girls expect to be turned away but are delighted with an offer of work. For the first time in their lives they experience real independence and it isn't long before they're spending their evenings enjoying the delights of Liverpool....
984) Carol
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Two women from very different backgrounds find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York. As conventional norms of the time challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart in the face of change. A young woman in her twenties, Therese is a clerk working in a Manhattan department store and dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets Carol, an alluring woman trapped in a loveless,...
985) The chaperone
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The collection includes writings from an impressive array of girls and women who are trailblazers in their fields, including bestselling authors Victoria Aveyard, Libba Bray, and Margaret Stohl; Hollywood heavy-hitters such as Quvenzhane Wallis; renowned chef Katie Button; aerospace and mechanical engineer Emily Calandrelli; and many more.
Brief writings from an array of girls and women who are trailblazers in their fields, discussing the barriers...
Author
Publisher
Roaring BrookPress
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Updated with stories that trace the Olympic gold medalist's journey from youth soccer to the Hall of Fame, an adaptation of the best-selling Wolfpack inspires readers to harness their inner strength, forge their own path, and band together with teammates to make the world a better place.
989) Dolphin's kiss
Author
Publisher
Ulverscroft, Linford Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Sydney in the early 1800s, Abigail Moran knows only the constraints of a privileged life, and that she must hide the birthmark on her left hand at all costs. Yet the mark might prove to be the key that unlocks the secrets of her turbulent start in life aboard a convict ship - and, on a very different boat trip, it could open her eyes to real love...
990) Dragonspell
Author
Series
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
One Dragon Egg Holds the Key to the Future. Once a slave, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn about the difference between slavery and service. A Desperate Search Begins ... A small band of Paladin's servants rescue Kale from danger but turn her from her destination: The Hall, where she was to be trained. Feeling afraid and unprepared, Kale embarks on a perilous quest to find...
992) By the numbers, 1-5
Publisher
Binge box
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
One more time: Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man, Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake.
Two for the money: When Brandon Lang becomes the protege of sports gambling's power-player Walter Abrams, he swiftly becomes...
993) Miss Bala
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.
994) Great or nothing
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A reimagining of Little Women set in the spring of 1942, when the United States is suddenly embroiled in the Second World War, this story, told from each March sister's point of view, is one of grief, love, and self-discovery"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In serving the wealthy power brokers of New York society, Frank Tripp has finally gained the respectability and security his own upbringing lacked. There's no issue he cannot fix...except for one: the beautiful and reckless daughter of an important client who doesn't seem to understand the word danger. Excitement lay just below Forty-Second Street and Mamie Greene is determined to explore all of it-while playing a modern-day Robin Hood along the way....
996) Despu�es de ti
Author
Publisher
Suma de Letras
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Emoci�onate de nuevo con la esperada segunda parte de Yo antes de ti. �C�omo sigues adelante despu�es de perder a la persona a la que amas? Lou Clark tiene muchas preguntas: �Por qu�e ha terminado trabajando en el pub irland�es de un aeropuerto donde cada d�ia tiene que ver c�omo otras personas se van de viaje a conocer sitios nuevos? �Por qu�e a pesar de que ya lleva meses viviendo en su apartamento a�un no se siente en casa?...
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Shortly after flight MAS370 goes missing, scholarship student Girl borads her own mysterious flight from Australia to London to work on a dissertation on Sylvia Plath and her "postcolonial novel" (If only she could work out just what that means). Though she is ambivalent towards academia and its trappings, Girl relishes the freedom that has come with distance from the expectation and judgements of her very tight-knit Malaysian-Australian family....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston has lived a life of luxury in her cosmopolitan, turn-of-the-century hometown. Determined to reach beyond her sheltered world to help others, the headstrong schoolteacher heads for the impoverished Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee to teach in a remote schoolhouse. As she grapples with the ignorance and poverty of the members of her new community, she strives to make a difference in the lives of the children she...
1000) You won't know I'm gone
Author
Series
Black angel chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Going rogue in an effort to rescue her kidnapped parents has cost Reagan Hillis her automatic ticket to the Training Academy. But becoming a Black Angel is the only way Reagan will be able to exact revenge on her mother's merciless killer, Santino Torres. When Reagan is given a chance to prove that she's worthy of training to be a Black Angel, she also gets the first chance she's ever had to be her true self. No aliases. No disguises. But when her...