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1221) Code of the west
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Oscar-winning screenwriter and novelist Aaron Latham dazzles listeners with a colorful Old West tale of epic proportions. In a captivating barnburner of romance, adventure and gruesome frontier justice, Latham takes the mythical legend of King Arthur and create[s] a sweeping saga of three decades of Texas cowboy history.
1225) Girl
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"I was a girl once, but not any more." So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one...
1227) Iris Kelly doesn't date
Author
Series
Bright Falls volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Romance, published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partners that are perfect for them, and her parents are still blissfully married. And she's happy for all of them, truly. Iris doesn't want any of that-dating, love, romance. She'll stick to her commitment-free hookups, thanks very much, except no one in her life will just let her be. Everyone wants to see her settled down, but she holds firmly to her no...
1229) The mother's promise
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two, living quietly in northern California. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her constant and fierce protector. With no family to speak of, and the identity of Zoe's father shrouded in mystery, their team of two works - until it doesn't. Until Alice gets sick and needs to fight for her life. Desperate to find stability for Zoe,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment, "Black" and "White", as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history, mining the origins of two fundamentally opposing world views. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair....
1231) Once we were brothers
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The gripping tale about two boys, once as close as brothers, who find themselves on opposite sides of the Holocaust. Elliot Rosenzweig, a respected civic leader and wealthy philanthropist, is attending a fundraiser when he is suddenly accosted and accused of being a former Nazi SS officer named Otto Piatek, "the butcher of Zamosc." Although the charges are denounced as preposterous, his accuser, Ben Solomon, is convinced he is right. Solomon persuades...
1232) A Palm Beach wife
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Elin Hilderbrand, a delicious and irresistible commercial novel set among the high society galas and gossip of Palm Beach. Amid the glamour and galas and parties of Palm Beach, Faith knows that image often counts as much if not more than reality. She glides effortlessly among the highest of the high society so perfectly that you would never suspect she wasn't born to this. But it wasn't always so; though she hides it well, Faith has...
1233) Last resort: a novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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--
1234) The summer I met Jack
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark - and the child they may have had. Based on a real story - in 1950, a young, beautiful Polish refugee arrives in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts to work as a maid for one of the wealthiest families in America. Alicia is at once dazzled by the large and charismatic family, in particular the oldest son, a rising politician named Jack. Alicia and Jack are...
Author
Series
Irish Country books volume 13
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Once, not too long ago, there was just a single Irish country doctor tending to the lively little village of Ballybucklebo: Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly. Now his thriving practice is growing by leaps and bounds. Not only has O'Reilly taken a new trainee under his wing, Doctor Connor Nelson, he's also added a spirited Labrador puppy to his ever-expanding household at Number One Main Street. Meanwhile, his trusted partner, young Doctor Barry Laverty,...
1236) Cry the beloved country
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Who is Wendy Doe? The woman, found on a Peter Pan Bus to Philadelphia, has no money, no ID, and no memory of who she is, where she was going, or what she might have done. She's assigned a name and diagnosis by the state: Dissociative fugue, a temporary amnesia that could lift at any moment--or never at all. When Dr. Benjamin Strauss invites her to submit herself for experimental observation at his Meadowlark Institute for Memory Research, she feels...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Welcome back to Bon Temps, home to mystery, Southern sensuality, and dark secrets. Tara finds herself in love and under a spell; Sam puts his trust in an unlikely ally; Jason becomes involved with an anti-vampire sect; and Eric recruits Sookie to investigate the disappearance of a 2,000-year-old vampire.
1239) Charlie's angels
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
During the last perilous months of the conflict, Vienna's famed Spanish Riding School is threatened by devastating bombing raids and indifferent Nazi commanders. Despite the dangers involved in evaculating the Lipizzan stallions, the school's director and a handful of heroic citizens attempt a daring plan to move the stallions away from the ravages of war and, keep the historic breed alive.
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