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The House of Mirth is an uncompromising depiction of 19th-century New York society. Lily Bart is a society lady who is unwilling to marry for love, but equally unwilling to marry as society dictates. She sabotages every advantageous opportunity she receives, until her society friends begin to hasten her downfall for their own ends.
7) Friendship
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
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Two best friends living in New York in their early 30s find that their relationship changes when one unexpectedly becomes pregnant.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
339 p. ; 25 cm.
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Weezy and her husband become increasingly perplexed by life challenges that compel their first daughter to move back into her childhood room, their second daughter to cancel her wedding, and their son to become enmeshed in a relationship disaster.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 24 cm
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Spanning 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a family saga finds three generations of women in a Jewish-Russian family making fateful choices in their respective efforts to break free from historical dynamics and pursue personal fulfillment.
13) The other typist
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Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
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Working as a typist for the NYC Police Department in 1923, Rose Baker documents confessions of harrowing crimes and struggles with changing gender roles while clinging to her Victorian ideals and searching for nurturing companionship before becoming obsessed with a glamorous newcomer and her world of bobbed hair, smoking and speakeasies.
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Publisher
Paul Dry Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
227 pages
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Listening to the ticking of her biological clock, and wondering where life is taking her, Suzanne Davis embarks on a wrong-headed, but very funny, quest to find Mr. Right and start the family she hopes will give meaning to her life, as her 35th birthday looms closer.
15) Life after death
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Series
Coldest Winter ever volume 2
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
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With her jail sentence coming to a close, Winter is ready to step back into the spotlight and reclaim her throne.
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"It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life-her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the...
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvii, 248 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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"From a chorus of bestselling historical fiction writers, a breathtaking book inspired by the day tens of thousands of women marched for the right to vote on October, 23, 1915. Includes an introduction by Kristin Hannah and stories by Lisa Wingate, M. J. Rose, Steve Berry, Paula McLain, Katherine J. Chen, Christina Baker Kline, Jamie Ford, Dolen Perkins-Valdez, Megan Chance, Alyson Richman, Chris Bohjalian, and Fiona Davis."--
18) Killer riff
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Series
Molly Forrester mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
viii, 306 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Yearning for recognition as an investigative journalist, Molly Forrester is assigned to profile Russell Elliott, a legendary rock producer who recently died of an accidental overdose, but her investigation turns up more than anyone had expected.
Author
Series
Coldest Winter ever volume 1
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
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After a black drug dealer goes to jail in Brooklyn, his ruthless 17-year-old daughter takes over his empire. A look at the mores and manners of the black underclass, this one with money. First novel by a hip-hop artist, author of No Disrespect.
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Washington Square (1881), by Henry James, tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, feckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three...
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