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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Fascinated with America, young Saba Hafezi of 1980s Iran becomes convinced that her suddenly missing mother and twin sister have departed for America without her, a situation that compels her to envision her twin's Western life throughout subsequent years.
82) Zorrie: a novel
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Cast adrift in the Depression-era West after the last of her relatives pass away, Zorrie survives by working at a radium processing plant before finding love, community and unexpected loss upon returning to her small Indiana hometown.
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Jane Austen's unfinished novel Sanditon (1817) tells the story of a quaint seaside village and its inhabitants. Charlotte Heywood is invited by Mr. and Mrs. Parker to stay the summer with them at Sanditon, where Mr. Parker spent his youth and where he now wants to create a tourist resort. While there, Charlotte gets to know and observe the many colorful residents of Sanditon, including the wealthy, twice-widowed Lady Denham; her ward, Clara Crereton,...
85) Rebellious heart
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"When Susanna's heart for the poor and Ben's disillusionment with British rule cross paths in 1763 Massachusetts, the two find themselves bound in a dangerous fight for justice"--
86) Follow her home
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Series
Juniper Song mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Physical Desc
viii, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Possessing investigative instincts and a long-standing love for noir novels, Juniper Song is asked to discover the truth about her friend's father's alleged affair with a young paralegal, only to become embroiled in a crime involving deeply hidden secrets from her own life.
90) The flapper
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : silent, black and white and color tinted ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of an innocent girl from the country who comes to a boarding school and enjoys the sophisticated life of a liberated women until she gets mixed up with some crooks and must do what's responsible.
92) Pond
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize "What Bennett aims at is nothing short of a re-enchantment of the world... This is a truly stunning debut, beautifully written and profoundly witty." -The Guardian Immediately upon its publication in Ireland, Claire-Louise Bennett's debut began to attract attention well beyond the expectations of the tiny Irish press that published it. A deceptively slender volume, it captures with utterly...
93) Smooth talk
Series
Criterion collection volume 1068
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
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The fifteen-year-old black sheep of her family whose summertime idyll of beach trips, mall hangouts, and innocent flirtations is shattered by an encounter with a mysterious stranger. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, it captures the thrill and terror of adolescent sexual exploration as it transforms the conventions of a coming-of-age story into something altogether more troubling and profound.
94) Unsane
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 39 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear, but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman...until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be: she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.
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Series
Darcy novels (Elizabeth Aston) volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
After an unhappy romance, Mr. Darcy's niece Phoebe retreats to Pemberly where, amid preparations for a summer ball, she and Louisa Bingley encounter several handsome strangers intent on winning their hearts.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of the coming of age of Lucy Honeychurch. Longing to burst free from the repression of British upper class manners and mores, she must wrestle with her inner romantic longings to choose between the passionate George and the priggish but socially suitable Cecil.
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Attempting to rekindle a romance with a worldly Englishman as part of a cover-up for her assignment with the CIA, Lulu Sawyer finds the delicate balance between her public and covert worlds disintegrating when she attempts to aid two Middle Eastern women.
Author
Appears on list
Description
"From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a shocking and tender novel about a young woman's efforts to sustain a state of deep hibernation over the course of a year on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her...
100) Emma
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (270 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An adaptation of Jane Austen's novel about Emma Woodhouse, a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with Mr. Knightly.
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