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21) In a gilded cage
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Irish-born detective and Vasser graduate Molly Murphy is hired to find out the truth about her friend's missionary parents' deaths and her loss of inheritance. Another Vasser grad has a philandering husband to track. Set in early 20th-century New York City.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It's been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Mart̕n, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note written in her mother's handwriting: Perd̤name si te falle. Recuerda que siempre te quise. ('Forgive me if I failed you. Remember...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Scribner ed.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Nazneen is forced into an arranged marriage with a much older man whose expectations of life are miserably low. When they flee the oppression of their Bangladeshi village for a high-rise block in the East End, she finds herself cloistered and dependent on her husband. It soon becomes apparent that of the two, she is the real survivor and more able to deal with the ways of the world and the vagaries of human behavior. Through her friendship with another...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A tale rich in color, character, and vivid historical detail, When we were strangers chronicles the tumultuous life journey of a young immigrant seamstress, as she travels from her isolated Italian mountain village through the dark corners of late nineteenth century America."--from publisher's description.
Author
Series
Berrybender narratives volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
xiii, 302 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Larry McMurtry has gained international fame for his eccentric characters and vivid settings. The Wandering Hill is part of a series as colorful as the American West. An eccentric family of English sportsmen have traveled to America to hunt buffalo and other big game. As they spend the winter at a remote trading post, bizarre adventures and even stranger domestic affairs befall them.
26) Cinders to satin
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
768 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable novel from the national bestselling sensation Fern Michaels, about a young woman's journey into the heart of the unknown. . .
Callie James learned to survive in the squalid back alleys of Dublin. Tough, spirited, and possessed of a singular beauty, she was sent to New York to find her fortune. But everywhere she turned there were men who saw only what they wanted to see in her. Byrch Kenyon offered friendship and encouragement, but...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"'Your husband is a landowner,' they told her. 'Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on trees. 'You will be able to go to school.' Of the three lies the matchmaker told Willow before she left home as a picture bride in 1918, the third hurt the most. Never one to be deterred, Willow does all that she can to make the best of her unexpected circumstance. But it isn't long before her dreams for this new life are shattered, first by a husband who...
31) Death of Riley
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
32) The spice box
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An immigrant youth struggling to assimilate, a middle-aged housewife with a troubled marriage, a Vegas social worker, and a wounded soldier connect with each other and rescue themselves in the wake of an unthinkable incident.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young African mother embarks on a journey to reclaim the infant son stolen from her arms. Beginning in Tunisia, she makes an illegal and harrowing crossing of the Mediterranean, then treks up through Italy, over the Alps, and on to Berlin, where her son has been placed in another woman's care.
35) Threads of love
Author
Series
Fabric of time volume 3
Publisher
Realms
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Sundberg considers herself a proper young lady of the twentieth century. But a decade ago she behaved more like a tomboy. So when the neighbor's grandson came to visit one summer when she was thirteen, they became fast friends. Emily even got her first kiss, quite by accident. Unfortunately Jake Edgerton told all the boys something else. Rumors circulated, and Emily caved from embarrassment and guilt. Meanwhile Jake returned home to Fallon,...
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Working as an orderly in a gritty Brooklyn public hospital, Sima is often reminded by her superiors that she's the least important person there. An immigrant who, with her mother, escaped vicious anti-Semitism in Poland, she spends her shifts transporting patients, observing the doctors and residents ... and quietly nurturing her aspirations to become a doctor herself by going to night school. Now just one credit short of graduating, she finds herself...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Beneath the holy mountain Croagh Patrick, in damp and lovely County Mayo, sits the small, sheltered village of Ballinacroagh. To the exotic Aminpour sisters, Ireland looks like a much-needed safe haven. It has been seven years since Marjan Aminpour fled Iran with her younger sisters, Bahar and Layla, and she hopes that in Ballinacroagh, a land of "crazed sheep and dizzying roads," they might finally find a home. From the kitchen of an old pastry shop...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Spanish edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
The discovery of a cache of letters, photos, and jewels in an abandoned safe deposit box brings together several unlikely people who investigate the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful young countess seventy-five years earlier.
"En una caja de seguridad abandonada en un banco de Nueva York aparecen un fajo de cartas manuscritas, fotogra̕fas, pasaportes caducados y veinti̤ds joyas de un valor incalculable. Jane Willoughby, empleada judicial,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1857. Three women--once strangers--come together in unpredictable Utah Territory. Hopeful, desperate, and willful, they'll allow nothing on Earth or in Heaven to stand in their way. Following the call of their newfound Mormon faith, Tamar Loader and her family weather a brutal pilgrimage from England to Utah, where Tamar is united with her destined husband, Thomas Ricks. Clinging to a promise for the future, she abides an unexpected surprise: Thomas...