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Pub. Date
2024.
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256 pages ; 21 cm
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"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
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xxvii, 466 pages ; 20 cm
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"Rona Jaffe's beloved novel of mid-century NYC women in the workplace that paved the way for the #MeToo movement and iconic cultural touchstones like Mad Men, now for the first time in Penguin Classics, in a 65th anniversary edition with an introduction by New Yorker staff writer Rachel Syme A Penguin Classic When Rona Jaffe's superb page-turner was first published in 1958, it changed contemporary fiction forever. Some readers were shocked, but millions...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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In modern Mexico, Sitlali is all alone after the death of her beloved abuela. Targeted by a dangerous gang member, she flees to the United States. As a memento, she takes with her an ancient conch shell. In 1521, Calizto is trapped in the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan. He has fought valiantly for his people against Spanish invaders, but hope is fading. Desperate, he takes up a sacred conch and sounds a plea to the gods. The conch holds magic neither...
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To gaze upon wicked gods volume 1
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"Ruying, born with the power over death, must weigh if her family's life is worth betraying her country to strike a deal with an enemy prince. Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen. Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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319 pages ; 21 cm.
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"Coming from a moderately traditional Muslim family, twenty-seven-year-old Samira Abdel-Aziz has endured her fair share of arranged matches--first dates she calls "doorknock appeals," where she and her possible suitors eat snacks in her living room in the company of both sets of parents. Her general rule: no shoes with tassels, no cheesy leather jackets, no mustaches. A girl has to have some standards, right? The truth is, Samira is already experiencing...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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317 pages ; 25 cm
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"From the best-selling author of Longbourn, a gripping novel of one young woman's unraveling during the Blitz-a story of WWII intrigue, love, and danger. It is 1940 and bombs are falling on London. Watching from her attic window, Charlotte sees enemy planes flying in over the city and her neighbours' homes turning to rubble. Still grieving for her beloved brother who never returned from France, Charlotte has moved away from her overbearing father...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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240 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
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"Gods, demigods, and true romance? Office Gods, based on the hit webcomic, is an addictive rom-com set in the corporate HQ of the Olympians themselves! Iris, a young human woman, is swept into the world of divine bureaucracy when she's recruited to work in the office of the gods, in the department of Hermes. The gods and goddesses may be beautiful beyond human comprehension, but she quickly learns that they're every bit as petty and quarrelsome as...
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"Lucy Young is twenty-six and tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, sick of going on disastrous dates, and done with living in a damp flat with roommates who never buy toilet paper. After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life. When she wakes the next morning to a handsome...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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133 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Saku is looking forward to spending her New Year's holiday vegging out and eating Yukichi's delicious home cooking, but that plan goes out the window when her mom calls, demanding that Saku come visit! Saku doesn't want to leave Yukichi home alone, so she decides to bring him with her! But how will she hide her giant cat from her parents?!"--Back cover.
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One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa Hall's Speak, and as visionary as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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133 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Saku's been able to skip the biennial company retreat every time so far, but not this year! While she's out, her cat Yukichi will be watching the house, of course, but how long can Saku go without Yukichi's meal and warmth? And while Yukichi appears nonchalant about sending Saku off, how does he actually feel? The messy office worker and skillful cat are spending their first night apart, and boy, are they in for a long one!"--
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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371 pages ; 24 cm
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"Bianca Bridge has always dreamed of becoming a writer. But Trididadian society can be unforgiving, and having an affair with a married government official is a surefire way to ruin your prospects. So when Obadiah Cortland, a notoriously tyrannical entrepreneur in the island's beauty scene, offers her a job, Bianca accepts, realizing that working on his magazine is the closest to her dreams she'll get. As Bianca begins to embrace her power and...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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279 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
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After being summoned to the palace by Noah's half brother, King Siathrich, Raeliana is forced to stay there and confront the future of her relationship with Noah. Obviously, they have feelings for each other, but the ever-present weight of Beatrice's existence complicates things. Still, Raeliana isn't going to wait around for her Duke Charming to save her. She's got a plan--but so does the universe!
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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104 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Nishina is a part-timer at the supermarket near Saku and Yukichi and has run into them a few times. One day, she faints from overwork and lack of sleep. When Saku takes her to home to rest, it turns out that Nishina's home is a total mess-almost as bad as Saku's place before she took in Yukichi! Saku can't bear to leave Nishina in these conditions, which means it's time to call in the one and only masterful cat, Yukichi!!"--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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"The witty and entrancing story of a young woman trapped in a ramshackle English playhouse-and the mysterious figure who threatens the theater's very survival. The year is 1901. England's beloved queen has died, and her aging son has finally taken the throne. In the eastern city of Norwich, bright and inquisitive young Edith Holler spends her days among the boisterous denizens of the Holler Theatre, warned by her domineering father that the playhouse...
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Catch these hands! volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
155 pages : chiefly black & white illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm
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After throwing some hands like back in the old days, Takebe and Soramori's relationship is finally back on track. But the more Takebe tries to care for her girlfriend, the more she wonders if their feelings aren't quite the same...And if there's anything harder than taking Soramori down, it's getting her to open up. That won't stop Takebe from trying, though! The ex-delinquent couple's tale comes to a close in this heartwarming finale.
37) The women
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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©2006
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4 videodiscs (907 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Nineteen-year-old Christy Huddleston has lived a life of luxury in her cosmopolitan, turn-of-the-century hometown. Determined to reach beyond her sheltered world to help others, the headstrong schoolteacher heads for the impoverished Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee to teach in a remote schoolhouse. As she grapples with the ignorance and poverty of the members of her new community, she strives to make a difference in the lives of the children she...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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283 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
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Raeliana is off to the temple for the torch ceremony. But what should be an uneventful encounter is turned on its head when she meets legendary high priest Heika Demint! Meanwhile, Vivian Shamal is determined to take Noah for herself-and desperate times call for desperate (and dangerous) measures. And despite everything against them, Noah and Raeliana continue to grow closer...
40) The sea in you
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
210 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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In a dark fantasy retelling of "The Little Mermaid," a young girl barely escapes an encounter with a deadly mermaid, and the two quickly form a romantic bond that threatens all of their social ties on land and beneath the sea.
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