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Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable...
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"Inspired by a true story, this is the unforgettable story of a young boy named Ernest, set during the 1909 Seattle world's fair called the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo. It is a time when the magical wonders of technology on display at the expo future seems limitless. But for Ernest, a half-Chinese orphan who found his way to America through a last desperate act of his beloved mother, every door is closed. A charity student at a boarding school, he has...
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"A cinematic debut set in the American West about a scrappy orphan bent on making her own luck—and finding friendship, romance, and her true calling along the way “Queer, feminist, subversive, and a good old-fashioned freight train of an adventure story.”٬٢٠١٤؛Sara Nović, author of True Biz The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. It’s the spring of 1877 and sixteen-year-old Bridget is already disillusioned...
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Little, Brown and Company
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c2013.
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English
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It's the nineteenth century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she's been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads south to meet her lover, a man as charismatic as he is merciless, and the only person who can quell her mysterious fits. He has a plan to make them both rich chasing a pirate's buried treasure rumored to be buried in a settlement called Middle Bayou.
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Doubleday
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[2024]
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English
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"It’s 1954 on far-flung Verona Island, a tropical paradise with a fragile economy and a rising crime rate. Prostitution is legal and Lila Gulliver is proud of her business, a high-end brothel where her clients are guaranteed privacy and discretion. When Carità Bercy, a young, destitute, and beautiful blind woman arrives at her door seeking employment, Lila decides to give her a chance. Carità proves a valuable asset to the house, as well as a...
9) Stone mad
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Karen Memory volume 2
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A Tom Doherty Associates Book
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[2018]
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English
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Readers met the irrepressible Karen Memory in Elizabeth Bears 2015 novel Karen Memory, and fell in love with her steampunk Victorian Pacific Northwest city, and her down-to-earth story-telling voice. iO9--28 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Well Worth Checking Out in March, Unbound Worlds--20 Best New Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books--March 2018, The Verge--15 new science fiction and fantasy books--March 2018, Kirkus--18 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to...
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Schocken Books
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[2010]
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English
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The ghetto in which the Jews have been confined is being liquidated by the Nazis, and eleven-year-old Hugo is brought by his mother to the local brothel, where one of the prostitutes has agreed to hide him. Mariana is a bitterly unhappy woman who hates what she has done with her life, and night after night Hugo sits in her closet and listens uncomprehendingly as she rages at the Nazi soldiers who come and go. But when she’s not mired in self-loathing,...
11) Sparrow
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The Overlook Press
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2023.
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English
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"Told from the perspective of an enslaved boy being raised in a Roman brothel, a stunning literary historical novel of identity, family, suffering, and freedom In a brothel on the Spanish coast during the waning years of the Roman Empire, a young enslaved boy of unknown parentage is growing up. His world is a kitchen, then an herb-scented garden, followed by a loud and dangerous tavern, and finally, the mysterious upstairs where the “wolves”...
12) The bone orchard
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Tor
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2022.
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"Sara A. Mueller's The Bone Orchard is a fascinating whodunit set in a lush, gothic world of secrets and magic--where a dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire. Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at...
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