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In 1961, Margo Hightower, becoming the assistant to a society photographer, is thrown headfirst into the glamorous Jet Set world she so covets where she becomes friends with heiress and rising fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, but when the lines between work and play blur, the golden life she desires slips from her grasp.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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English
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"The author of the "magnificent...complex, vivid" (New York Journal of Books) Sin Eater returns with a rousing and propulsive novel based on the astonishing true story of the first female Pinkerton detective whose next assignment could end the Civil War. Kate Warner is many things: the country's first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy. It's August 1863, and her latest assignment could finally end the bloody war and bring the fractured...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Raised on tales of her revolutionary ancestors, Frances Perkins arrives in New York City at the turn of the century, armed with her trusty parasol and an unyielding determination to make a difference. When she's not working with children in the crowded tenements in Hell's Kitchen, Frances throws herself into the social scene in Greenwich Village, befriending an eclectic group of politicians, artists, and activists, including the millionaire socialite...
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Navona
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
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"Cuando Sylvia Beach, una joven americana amante de los libros, abre Shakespeare and Company en una tranquila calle en el París de 1919, no tiene ni idea de que cambiará el curso de la literatura. Shakespeare and Company es mucho más que una librería. Hemingway y muchos de los escritores de la Generación Perdida la consideran su segunda casa. Allí también se forjan algunas de las amistades literarias más importantes del siglo XX, como la de...
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Nebbadoon Press
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
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An historical romance novel with extensive notes about this true story. Frederic Hunter, in this highly entertaining novel, imaginatively conjures the "hidden" history of Abe and Molly's courtship. Hunter's novel soars as he catapults us through the surprising and at times turbulent personal relationship of this most famous American couple. Imagined in the greatest detail from the existing historical record, Abe and Molly's lives unfold across the...
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English
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"A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories-and even more perilously, her sanity-in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. "I didn't see her the day she came to the asylum. Looking back, this sometimes strikes me as unlikely. Impossible, even, given how utterly her arrival...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller-America's first feminist and the pioneering journalist who inspired a generation of writers and activists-from the New York Times bestselling author of The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post"--
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University Of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
This wild and entertaining novel expands on the true story of the West Indian slave Tituba, who was accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, arrested in 1692, and forgotten in jail until the general amnesty for witches two years later. Maryse Condé brings Tituba out of historical silence and creates for her a fictional childhood, adolescence, and old age. She turns her into what she calls "a sort of female hero, an epic heroine, like the legendary...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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English
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The daughters of one of England's most famous portrait artists of the 1700s, Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are inseparable due to Molly's bouts of mental confusion, and as Peggy goes to great lengths to protect her sister's secret, she falls in love with a charming composer, which sparks the bitterest of betrayals.
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Publisher
Dickinson
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A gripping story detailing the harrowing escape of a Jewish family from Bavaria. The story takes us across several countries in Europe and the difficuilties this couple encounters in their attempt to get away from the deteriorating conditions for Jews in Germany. The prejudices that gay men faced all through out Europe and the United States are also part of the story.
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Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"December 1903: While Wilbur and Orville Wright's flying machine is quite literally taking off in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with its historic fifty-seven second flight, their sister Katharine is back home in Dayton, Ohio, running the bicycle shop, teaching Latin, and looking after the family. A Latin teacher and suffragette, Katharine is fiercely independent, intellectual, and the only Wright sibling to finish college. But at twenty-nine, she's frustrated...
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