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Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 23 cm
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"In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens-Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the battle on the home front. While Sam fights...
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Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004, c1994.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Joseph and Sarah had been together a few years before Joseph felt it was time to pop the question. Unfortunately, this event convinces Frank that it is also the right time to profess his love for Sarah. Bad timing? Well, maybe not. Frank's heartfelt indiscretion bewitches Sarah, bothers Joseph and bewilders their friends who have no problem expressing their opinions of this bizarre love triangle.
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 25 cm
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"Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
7) Mi policia
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 23 cm
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Es en Brighton en la decada de 1950 cuando Marion ve por primera vez a Tom. El le ensena a nadar, la guia suavemente a traves del agua a la sombra del famoso muelle de la ciudad y Marion queda prendada, decidida a que su amor por si solo sera suficiente para ambos. Unos anos mas tarde, cerca del Museo de Brighton, Patrick conoce a Tom. Patrick esta enamorado y abre los ojos de Tom a un nuevo mundo glamoroso y sofisticado de arte, viajes y belleza....
8) La Elite
Author
Series
Selection novel volume 2
Publisher
Rocabolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 19 cm.
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"De las treinta y cinco chicas llegaron a palacio para competir en la Seleccion. Todas menos seis han sido devueltas a sus hogares. Y solo una conseguira casarse con el principe Maxon y ser coronada princesa de Illea."--
Author
Series
Girl's guide (Laura Taylor Namey) volume 2
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Winchester, England, has always been home for Flora, but when her mother dies after a long illness, Flora feels untethered. Her family expects her to apply to university and take a larger role in their tea-shop business, but Flora isn't so sure. More than ever, she's the chaotic "hurricane" in her household, and she doesn't always know how to manage her stormy emotions. So she decides to escape to Miami without telling anyone-especially her longtime...
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Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
312 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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"High-school senior and notorious wallflower Hawkins finally works up the courage to remove her mascot mask and ask out her longtime crush: Regina Moreno, head cheerleader, academic overachiever, and all-around popular girl. There's only one teensy littleproblem: Regina is already dating Chloe Kitagawa, athletic all-star...and middling English student. Regina sees a perfectly self-serving opportunity here, and asks the smitten Hawkins to tutor Chloe...
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Publisher
Bantam Dell
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 23 cm.
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Jean is a house sitter at the end of a dreary career. Steph is nine months pregnant and on the run. And Michael is a thief. Through a mixture of deceit, good luck, and misfortune, these three damaged loners have come together at a secluded country home called Walden Manor. Now all three have found what they needed most: a new beginning, a little kindness, a little love. Living off the manor's riches, tending its grounds and gardens, they leave the...
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Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm
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"Alix Leclaire has a plan: graduate high school and land her dream job as a feather artist at Mille et une Plume, where her creations will help define high fashion. Her best friend Jeanne will get a record contract and they'll take over the Paris art scene together. But then Jeanne dies. Alix is lost, until the day she feels Jeanne pushing her to the feather boutique. Soon, Alix is living a life she hardly recognizes—pursuing a passionate...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Zoe, una atractiva mujer, luego de casi 10 años de matrimonio descubre que su vida de casada carece de pasión y sorpresa, y se deja seducir por la posibilidad de hallar esas sensaciones ya olvidades en la figuera del hermano de su marido. Deste esta premisa se desencadena una serie de eventos que llevarán a estos tres personajes a un arriesgado juego de venganzas, secretos, y pasiones.
After ten years of marriage, the stunning Zoe realizes that...
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 252 pages ; 20 cm.
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Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, whose affair leaves one emblazoned with her sin and the other distraught with hidden guilt; their daughter Pearl, born into ostracism; and Roger Chillingworth, driven to vengeance by hatred. Though these characters face a set of specifically troubling circumstances, their words andactions point to moral truths inherent in human affairs, independent of time and place.
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"Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them. When Rachel falls in love...
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Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm
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"Coming from a moderately traditional Muslim family, twenty-seven-year-old Samira Abdel-Aziz has endured her fair share of arranged matches--first dates she calls "doorknock appeals," where she and her possible suitors eat snacks in her living room in the company of both sets of parents. Her general rule: no shoes with tassels, no cheesy leather jackets, no mustaches. A girl has to have some standards, right? The truth is, Samira is already experiencing...
Author
Series
Tristan and Isolde novels volume 2
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
336 pages : map, genealogical table ; 21 cm.
Description
Continues the story of Isolde, queen of Ireland, and her unhappy marriage to Cornwall's King Mark, uncle of her beloved Tristan.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
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"The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When 'Willie' Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his...
19) Birthday girl
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Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Jordan has nowhere else to go when her boyfriend offers to let her move in with him and his dad. Working a dead-end job, with her relationship sputtering, she jumps at the opportunity, expecting to help out around the house in exchange. What she doesn't anticipate is for her heart to race every time Pike pulls into the driveway, or to burn when their eyes meet over the breakfast table. He's kind and listens to her and protects her in a way no man...
Author
Series
Tristan and Isolde novels volume 1
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Isolde, a gifted healer and princess destined to inherit the Irish throne from her mother, falls in love with Tristan, nephew of the King of Cornwall, who is embroiled in a war with the Irish queen.
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