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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Three interlocking stories focusing on the residents of a town called Sam Dent, the undercurrent of the Trump movement in America, and a series of local tragedies"--
"A husband sells property to a mysterious, temperamental stranger, and is hounded on social media when he publicly questions the man's character. A couple grows concerned when an enigmatic family moves next door, and the children start sneaking over to beg for help. Two dangerous criminals...
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Pub Group, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
''90 easy, delicious South-Asian inspired recipes for Ramadan, Eid, and beyond. Desified is a celebration of South Asian flavors and spices. Inspired by the core principles of Ramadan, this book has more than 90 recipes, including show-stopping breakfasts, simple and satisfying dinners, and feasting dishes to share. Whether you're looking for the best ways to break your fast or you simply want to eat well throughout the year, a desi twist is always...
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Language
English
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When her formidable intelligence, outspoken opinions and headstrong determination gain her the favor of the beau monde's leading taste-maker Beau Brummell, Lady Hester Stanhope learns to bend the rules of the ton to her own advantage until England is plunged into war, changing her world forever.
"Even with her privileged life, Lady Hester Stanhope knows that claiming the adventurous life she truly wants will not be easy, thanks to her eccentric father's...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"Before Garrison Keillor and Spalding Gray there was Jean Shepherd: a master monologist and writer who spun the materials of his all-American childhood into immensely resonant—and utterly hilarious—works of comic art. Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories represents one of the peaks of his achievement, a compound of irony, affection, and perfect detail that speaks across generations. Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories is a universal...
Author
Series
All the duke's sins volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When a wounded soldier and self-proclaimed "beast" finds unlikely friendship with a headstrong and unconventional beauty, they quickly find themselves weaving a tale as old as time… Despite a hero's return to England from the Napoleonic Wars, Wesley Audley isolates from the ton. Deep wounds from the horrors of combat—and the despair of a broken heart—left him scarred. As he struggles to cope and resume his place in Polite Society, Wesley...
6) Père Goriot
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Paris, 1819. Eugene de Rastignac, a young law student, lives at a boarding house. Also residing there is an elderly man known as "Pere" Goriot. Once wealthy, Goriot was has spent most of his fortune on his two daughters, Anastasie de Restaud and Delphine de Nucingen, and his poverty makes him a subject of mockery amongst the other boarders. Rastignac meets the daughters, and hopes to use the rivalry between the sisters to his advantage. He begins...
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Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Hiding out from her fiancé in her father's barn, Liberty Mayfield can't deny that she made the biggest mistake of her life when she agreed to marry ruthless Captain Samuel Buchanan. Now if only she could find a way to stop the wedding without risking her father's life. Ever since he defended the Whispering Mountain Ranch as a boy, Tobin McMurray vowed to steer clear of outsiders. But something about Liberty Mayfield has made it impossible to keep...
Author
Publisher
Rowman and Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Traces the profound transformation of the City of Light during Napoleon III's Second Empire, as he and Georges Haussmann completely rebuilt Paris in less than two decades."--
"Acclaimed historian Mary McAuliffe vividly recaptures the Paris of Napoleon III, Claude Monet, and Victor Hugo as Georges Haussmann tore down and rebuilt Paris into the beautiful City of Light we know today. Paris, City of Dreams traces the transformation of the City of Light...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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With laugh-out-loud impertinence and tongue-in-cheek humor, a New York Times best-selling author profiles the unforgettable, impressive 19th- and early 20th-century women-unjustly called sluts, shrews, sinners and scolds-who refused to conform to social standards and who were collectively unbecoming as women, but forever changed what women can become.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"A searing and deeply personal memoir that explores the institutions--family, society, country--that defined a Puerto Rican woman and what she unlearned to rediscover herself. Growing up in the Midwest, raised by a Puerto Rican mother who was abandoned byher family, Jamie Figueroa and her sisters were estranged from their culture, consumed by the whiteness that surrounded them. In Mother Island, Figueroa traces her search for identity as shaped by...
Publisher
Edify Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow the adventures of the young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as the faces new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, a town that has become a symbol of the love and support the residents have for one another.
Publisher
Edify Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow the adventures of the young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as the faces new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, a town that has become a symbol of the love and support the residents have for one another.
Publisher
Edify Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow the adventures of the young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as the faces new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, a town that has become a symbol of the love and support the residents have for one another.
Publisher
Edify Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow the adventures of the young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as the faces new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, a town that has become a symbol of the love and support the residents have for one another.
Lucas gives his thought on Elizabeth's writing. Nathan investigates his father's crime.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An epic middle-grade memoir about sisterhood and coming-of-age in the three years leading up to the Bosnian Genocide. Three Summers is the story of five young cousins who grow closer than sisters as ethnic tensions escalate over three summers in 1980s Bosnia. They navigate the joys and pitfalls of adolescence on their family's little island in the middle of the Una River. When finally confronted with the harsh truths of the adult world around them,...
Publisher
Edify Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow the adventures of the young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as the faces new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, a town that has become a symbol of the love and support the residents have for one another.
Publisher
Edify Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow the adventures of the young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as the faces new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, a town that has become a symbol of the love and support the residents have for one another.
Publisher
Edify Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Follow the adventures of the young school teacher Elizabeth Thatcher as the faces new adventures and trials with the many citizens of Hope Valley, a town that has become a symbol of the love and support the residents have for one another.
Publisher
2 Entertain Video Limited
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rowan Atkinson is deliciously twisted as the comic villain, Edmund Black Adder, in the enormously popular comedy series. Follow Black Adder in hysterical send-ups of the Middle Ages, the Elizabethan age, the Regency Period, and World War I. This special edition contains new exclusive interviews and audio commentaries.
Episodes of the comedy serial about the terminally treacherous Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh (alias The Black Adder) following him through...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the heaviest bombardment by the United States against communist Pathet...
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