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5) Last resort
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A young author on the cusp of a literary breakthrough is forced to make a Faustian bargain with an editor at a publishing house-the man who inspired his novel"--
Author
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Description
Adriana, Jimena, and Martina are three girls with dreams and invisible wings to help them achieve them, but first they must face a band of villains who try to weigh them down with doubt, insecurity, unfair treatment, and social expectations.
Author
Series
Fairmile novels volume 2
Description
"Midsummer Eve 1670. Two unexpected visitors arrive at a shabby warehouse on the south side of the River Thames. The first is a wealthy man hoping to find the lover he deserted twenty-one years before. James Avery has everything to offer, including the favour of the newly restored King Charles II, and he believes that the warehouse's poor owner Alinor hasthe one thing his money cannot buy-his son and heir. The second visitor is a beautiful widow from...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
463 pages ; 22 cm
Description
El esperad�isimo cierre de la bilog�ia Salvajes: Uno de nuestros finales de Elsa Jenner. �ES EL AMOR O LA MUERTE LO QUE DA SENTIDO A LA VIDA? Por mucho que deseemos que no suceda, nada nos asegura que nuestro mundo no vaya a desmoronarse. En la vida podemos equivocarnos, pero los errores conllevan consecuencias con las que debemos aprender a vivir. Una obsesi�on, una ilusi�on perdida, una mentira terrible y una dolorosa realidad: el precio...
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"When Rose McCarthy's staff at Mode magazine pitches a cover shoot with Hollywood's hottest young actress, the actress's sizzling affair with a bestselling French author is exposed. The author happens to be Rose's son-in-law, which creates a painful dilemma for her. Her daughter Nadia, a talented interior designer, has been struggling to hold her marriage together, and conceal the truth from their young daughters, her family, and the world. But Nicolas,...
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Brooke and Julian live a happy life in New York -- she's the breadwinner working two jobs and he's the struggling musician husband. Then Julian is discovered by a Sony exec and becomes an overnight success -- and their life changes forever. Julian's new-found fame means that Brooke must face the savage attentions of the ruthless paparazzi. And when a scandalous picture hits the front pages, Brooke's world is turned upside down.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
339 pages cm
Description
""Like The Great Gatsby and Bright Lights, Big City, Kimberley Tait's Fake Plastic Love examines one innocent's unsentimental education with great energy and panache." --Stewart O'Nan, author of West of Sunset. Four millennial bright young things charge into the real world, with all the unfounded confidence of twenty-two: M., our narrator, is one of the few young women at her prestigious, high-octane investment bank. To her mother's chagrin, she has...
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Description
The sun beamed down on Melissa Henderson's shining dark hair, pinned up on her head in a loose knot, as sweat ran down her face, and the muscles in her long, lithe arms were taut with effort as she worked. She was lost in concentration, sanding a door of the house in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts that had been her salvation. She had bought it four years before. It had been weather-beaten, shabby and in serious need of repair when she found...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The most ambitious, accomplished, and beguiling novel yet from the author of the National Book Award finalist Eat the Document and the National Books Critics Circle Award finalist Stone Arabia. Innocents and Others is a riveting story about three women looking for meaning in friendship, work, and love--"Dana Spiotta is a major unnervingly intelligent writer" (Joy Williams, author of The Quick and the Dead). They've always been friends, and they both...
Author
Series
Fairmile novels volume 3
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Description
It is 1685 and England is on the brink of a renewed civil war. King Charles II has died without an heir and his brother James is to take the throne. But the people are bitterly divided, and many do not welcome the new king or his young queen. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister, Alinor, that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant, Rowan, to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor and her daughter Alys, have been coaxed by the...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm
Description
When Diane Aziz drives her oldest son, Walter, from Los Angeles to Berkeley to begin college, it is her last parental act before falling into a deep depression. A single mother who maintains a wishful belief that her children can attain all the things she has not, Diane has worked hard to secure their future in caste-driven LA and finagled them spots in an affluent public school. But when she's admitted to a state hospital, it falls to her closest...
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