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1821) Curfew
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Think The Handmaid's Tale but with the women in charge, set in a world where all men are electronically tagged and placed under strict curfew, and the murder investigation threatening to undo it all. Imagine a near-future Britain in which women dominate workplaces, public spaces, and government. Where the gender pay gap no longer exists and motherhood opens doors instead of closing them. Where women are no longer afraid to walk home alone, to cross...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The true story of the Mona Lisa - the people behind it, how Leonardo painted it and what it meant to him, and its fortunes in the centuries since. Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again."--Back cover.
"For the world's greatest cultural icon still has secrets to reveal--not the silly secrets that the "Leonardo loonies" continue to advance, but previously unknown facts about the lives of Leonardo, his father,...
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A dream of Christmas: When a restless young married woman is granted a wish by a Christmas Angel to be single again, she soon discovers her new life isn't what she bargained for, and embarks on a quest to win her husband back.
The Mistletoe Inn: When aspiring romance novelist Kim Rossi is unceremoniously dumped by her soon-to-be-published romance novelist boyfriend, Garth, Kim takes stock and decides to take a leap by signing up for a romance writing...
1824) The seventh victim
Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Mary Gibson, a naive orphan, goes to Manhatten to find her missing sister Jacqueline. Her investigation leads her to Jacqueline's secret husband, and also to a strange cult of Diabolists who are also hunting Jacqueline.
1826) Julie & Julia: DVD
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Julia Child's life with her husband in Paris is intertwined with the life of thirty-year-old Queens resident Julie Powell who decides to cook every recipe in Child's book "Mastering the art of French cooking" over the course of one year.
1827) Midsummer night
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
One of the the American Library Association's Top Ten Fantasy and SF Novels of 2010. A sensuous, suspenseful modern fantasy of love, betrayal, and redemption. An Aetherial Talesnovel that can be read as a standalone, Freda Warrington's Midsummer Night is a powerful contemporary fantasy, beginning with a prank that turns lethal when supernatural forces are unwittingly set loose. A century may not be enough to undo the terrible consequences of one fateful...
1828) The duchess
Author
Series
Royal outsiders volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"It was a love so strong a king renounced his kingdom-all for that woman. Or was she just an escape route for a king who never wanted to rule? Bestselling author Wendy Holden takes an intimate look at one of the most notorious scandals of the twentieth century. 1928. A middle-aged foreigner comes to London with average looks, no money, and no connections. Wallis's first months in the city are lonely, dull, and depressing. With no friends of her own,...
1829) The penmaker's wife
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian England, a mother is on the run from her past-and the truth about what she did. Birmingham, 1880. Angelica Chastain has fled from London with her young son, William. She promises him a better life, far away from the terrors they left behind. Securing a job as a governess, Angelica captures the attention of wealthy widower Stanley Hampton. Soon they marry and the successful future Angelica envisaged for William starts to fall into place....
1830) The Underdog chronicles
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In The ticklefeather machine, Simon Barsinister and his assistant Cad are up to their old tricks again! All of Simon's inventions have failed against Underdog, and in order to become elected dictator, he must find a new invention to rule the world-- The ticklefeather machine! In Guerrilla warfare, Underdog has been unbeatable, but now Riff Raff has a new plan. With his gang of the world's best criminals, Riff intends to steal the world's most famous...
1831) Music for millions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The women of a touring symphonic orchestra are a tightly knit group, and they are not about to let the secret they hold slip through the knitting. They'll wait until fragile, pregnant bassist Barbara Ainsworth has her baby before letting her know about a War Dept. telegram that says her husband is missing in action in the WWII Pacific.
Author
Series
Amish new world romance volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
Christina and her practical-minded older sister Hilda have built a thriving life in the rugged Pennsylvania backcountry. Hilda has given up marriage dreams as foolish, and Christina vows she'll never marry until she finds her sister a husband. So when two handsome newcomers arrive, Christina engages in a bit of secret matchmaking... with disastrous results.
1833) Weeds: Season 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After her husband's unexpected death and subsequent financial woes, suburban mom Nancy Botwin embraces a new profession: the neighborhood pot dealer. As it seems like everyone secretly wants what she's selling, even city councilman Doug Wilson, Nancy is faced with keeping her family life in check and her enterprise a secret from her best friend/PTA president, Celia Hodes.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Ballantine Books trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
Nantucket Christmas: From the lighthouse sporting a huge wreath to the Christmas Stroll along its quaint streets, holidays on Nantucket are always magical. However, while the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Dead man's eleven: Schock ripples across the village of Fletcher's Cross when a prominent businessman's trophy wife is bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat. While the victim had no apparent enemies, her avaricious husband, Robert Cavendish, is hated by all. Death of a stranger: As the Upper Marshwood hunt heads off into the woods, a filthy tramp runs for cover, stumbles and falls into a pit screaming. This suspicious death, and the puzzling behavior...
1837) Bachelor in Paradise
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Remastered edition.
Language
English
Description
Taking an assumed name to hide his real identity, Adam rents a house from Rosemary Howard, the only single woman in a paradise filled with lonely housewives and workaholic husbands. There's trouble in Paradise when Adam begins advising the wives on their sex lives while their husbands grow increasingly jealous and indignant.
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Underscores the impact of secrets, lies and deception when a husband ... and wife ... find themselves in the midst of a crisis after their young daughter is kidnapped. The couple must race against time to find their child, who is believed to have been abducted by a serial killer that symbolically murders his victims 'On the 7th Day.' During their desperate search, they begin to uncover details about their past that threaten to rip their marriage...
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Branded as a 'nerd' and harassed by the school bully, 12-year-old Arthur is rescued by a magical troll who knows that the boy unwittingly holds the secret to defeat an evil dragon. Arthur's loving mom, struggling to keep her devious ex-husband from gaining custody of Arthur, dismisses her son's 'fantasies' until she realizes the all-too-real immediate danger and joins forces with Arthur, the troll, and a dashing but washed-up video game master. Together,...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When Calls the Heart" tells the captivating story of Elizabeth Thatcher (Erin Krakow), a young teacher accustomed to her high society life, who receives her first classroom assignment in Coal Valley, a small coalmining town where life is simple, but often fraught with challenges. Lori Loughlin plays Abigail Stanton, a wife and mother whose husband, the foreman of the mine, along with a dozen other miners, has just been killed in an explosion. The...
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