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82) Stormdancer
Author
Series
Lotus War trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In this dystopian steampunk fantasy set against a backdrop of feudal Japan, warrior Yukiko captures a supposedly extinct (but crippled) griffin for the Shogun, then learns -- after meeting secretive Kin and the rebel Kage cabal -- of the horrifying extent of the Shogun's crimes, both against her country and her family. Returning to the city, Yukiko is determined to make the Shogun pay -- but what can one girl and a flightless griffin do against the...
83) Dear Emmie Blue
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Teenager Emmie Blue ... releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it. Now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up in the air"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"On a chilly morning in the Northwest Iowa town of Blackhawk, Dr. Lucas Hudson is filling in for the vacationing coroner on a seemingly open-and-shut suicide case. His own life is crumbling around him, but when he unearths the body of a woman buried in the barn floor beneath the hanging corpse, "he realizes this terrible discovery could change everything."--Provided by publisher.
85) Sweetbitter
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A lush, thrilling debut--a publishing event already the subject of an article in The New York Times--about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young woman, set in the wild, alluring world of a famous downtown New York restaurant. "Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge ..." This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the 22-year-old at the heart of this stunning debut. Shot like a bullet from a mundane past, she's come...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Tori Henderson is on the fast track in her marketing career in Houston, but her personal life is slow as molasses. So when her beloved Aunt Dottie falls ill, Tori travels back to tiny Bayford to care for her. But when she arrives, she?s faced with more than she bargained for, including Dottie's struggling local store and a troubled little step-cousin, DeAndre. Worse, the nearest Starbucks is twenty miles away?
Author
Series
Shopaholic series volume 2
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Her shopping excesses are in check- for now at least-and she has a new career as a TV financial adviser. But now Becky's business-minded boyfriend needs to move to New York the shopping Mecca, and he wants her to move with him!
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr. Shields, she thinks all she'll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave. But as the questions grow more and more intense and invasive and the sessions become outings where Jess is told what to wear and how to act, she begins to feel as though Dr. Shields may know what she's thinking...and what she's hiding."--
91) Sister Carrie
Author
Pub. Date
1994, c1981
Language
English
Description
Young Caroline Meeber leaves home for the first time and experiences work, love, and the pleasures and responsibilities of independence in late-nineteenth-century Chicago and New York.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
They come together by chance in the heart of New York City, four young women at turning points in their lives. Claire Kelly finds the walk-up apartment--a spacious loft in Hell's Kitchen. But the aspiring shoe designer needs at least one roommate to manage it. She meets Abby Williams, a writer trying to make it on her own, far away from her successful family in L.A. Four years later, Morgan Shelby joins them. She's ambitious, with a serious finance...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Beautiful, happily married, surrounded by loving friends, and the owner of a successful interior design business, Casey Marshall couldn't be more content with her life. Until a car slams into her at almost fifty miles an hour, breaking nearly every bone in her body, and plunging her into a coma that leaves her conscious but unable to move or communicate. Lying in her hospital bed, observing and listening to visitors, who assume she is oblivious to...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A young woman discovers a cache of heirlooms in an abandoned safe deposit box: bundles of handwritten letters, photographs, expired passports, both American and Italian, and twenty-two leather boxes, each holding a priceless piece of jewelry. Drawn to the mysterious woman in the photographs, Jane digs deeper into the woman's luxurious, golden life and the older, dashing man who occupies her pictures and letters. The details are both glamorous and...
95) The miniaturist
Author
Series
Miniaturist novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Engaging the services of a miniaturist to furnish a cabinet-sized replica of her new home, 18-year-old Nella Oortman, the wife of an illustrious merchant trader, soon discovers that the artist's tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in eerie and unexpected ways.
Author
Series
Westward to home volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
An education back East is the last thing Miranda Williams wants, but since her stepfather had noted it in his will, her stepsister Delia is determined to see it through. Miranda doesn't want to go East, and she certainly doesn't want to be subjected to more schooling. When neighboring Colorado rancher Jackson O'Neil pays her attention, Miranda sees a way out. But Jackson has his own dreams, dreams of heading to Alaska and striking it rich in gold....
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Rósa has always dreamed of living a simple life alongside her Mamma in their remote village in Iceland, where she prays to the Christian God aloud during the day, whispering enchantments to the old gods alone at night. But after her father dies abruptly and her Mamma becomes ill, Rósa marries herself off to a visiting trader in exchange for a dowry, despite rumors of mysterious circumstances surrounding his first wife's death.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Illuminating some of the most fraught and common issues confronting women, this is a powerful, emotionally resonant story about Rose and Lily Winters--twins who are so close they can feel each other's emotions. But their connection can be destructive. Like most women, the twins have struggled with their bodies and food since childhood. Now, the adult Rose is living in a rehabilitation facility for anorexics. Lily, her sole visitor, is struggling,...
99) Kinslayer
Author
Series
Lotus War trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The mad Shōgun Yoritomo has been assassinated by the Stormdancer Yukiko, and the threat of civil war looms over the Shima Imperium. The toxic blood lotus flower continues to ravage the land, the deadlands splitting wider by the day. The machine-worshippers of the Lotus Guild conspire to renew the nation's broken dynasty and crush the growing rebellion simultaneously--by endorsing a new Shōgun who desires nothing more than to see Yukiko dead"--Dust...
100) A room with a view
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Language
English
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Description
E. M. Forster's 1908 novel 'A Room with A View' narrates the story of a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.
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