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Author
Publisher
Jms Books Llc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Follow the story of Angelita, a young woman with no family, who is brought to Miss Isabella’s finishing school in hopes she can avoid being sent to the workhouse. Miss Isabella’s house is full, so an agreement is made to take in Angelita as a kitten.
Can a lower class girl as a mute kitten ever hope to fit in with the young women from prominent families who board at Miss Isabella’s manor? Only one other girl in Miss Isabela’s house...
Can a lower class girl as a mute kitten ever hope to fit in with the young women from prominent families who board at Miss Isabella’s manor? Only one other girl in Miss Isabela’s house...
Author
Publisher
Jms Books Llc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Britt Belladonna, a workaholic employed at a cruise company, is sent on a rival company’s cruise to dig up dirt on the competition. It seems like an easy enough assignment: go on the cruise, figure out why this company is drawing in more customers than the cruise line she works for, and create an amazing report that will earn her a promotion.
While on the cruise, however, she learns it’s for singles and everyone on board is looking for...
While on the cruise, however, she learns it’s for singles and everyone on board is looking for...
4) Bed Death
Author
Publisher
Jms Books Llc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Julia and Pepper used to be lovers -- but sometimes these things don't work out.
When Julia is arrested for trespassing and other illicit charges for being in a graveyard at night, she can think of no other person to call other than Pepper, her ex-lover and lawyer extraordinaire. Never mind that it's now been six years since they last spoke and they left things rather badly. Julia needs all the real life -- and not supernatural -- help she...
When Julia is arrested for trespassing and other illicit charges for being in a graveyard at night, she can think of no other person to call other than Pepper, her ex-lover and lawyer extraordinaire. Never mind that it's now been six years since they last spoke and they left things rather badly. Julia needs all the real life -- and not supernatural -- help she...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Greeley's storytelling is intricate, masterly, and delightfully imaginative. Highly recommended."-Library Journal (starred review)
In this gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on Pride and Prejudice, the author of The Clergyman's Wife combines the knowing eye of Jane Austen with the eroticism and Gothic intrigue of Sarah Waters to reimagine the life of the mysterious Anne de Bourgh.
As a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh was prescribed...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Language
English
Description
In Cameroon, where same-sex relationships are punishable by law, Bessem and Fatima, when Fatima's older brother, a staunch Muslim, finds out about their affair, physically assaults them and reports them to the authorities, and 13 years later, Bessem, unable to forget Fatima, embarks on a winding search for her lost love.
Author
Publisher
Two Lines Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
For fans of Claire-Louise Bennett and Eileen Myles, an enigmatic work of autofiction set in a time of leftist politics and criminalized sexuality.
Pirkko Saisio’s autofictional novel, in Mia Spangenberg’s tender translation, is a mesmerizing account of radical politics and sexual awakening in a series of farewells—to her mother, to the idealism of youth, to friends and lovers, and finally to her
Author
Language
English
Description
'An engaging portrait of an indomitable woman at the heart of Golden Age Hollywood' Gill Paul, bestselling author of The Manhattan Girls ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'I was hooked from the first page… it had what I was looking for in the Golden Age of Hollywood' NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Really reminded me of City of Girls, the lifestyle, the glamour but also the tenderness… Wonderful!' NetGalley reviewer A compelling story inspired by the real life...
9) Soror Love
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Series
Language
English
Description
In the vibrant world of sororities, where sisterhood thrives, and secrets lurk beneath the surface, one woman, Lauren Jacobson, stands at the pinnacle of it all. As the captivating and fearless president of Nu Nu Lambda Sorority, Lauren exudes power and charisma, ruling her sorority with grace and charm. But behind the façade of success lies a complex woman whose desires and passions lead her down a treacherous path. Every two years, Nu Nu Lambda...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Charlie Mack and her crack team private investigators have been asked to take on a seemingly impossible task-to identify and thwart an attack on the upcoming Detroit Auto Show. With a $100K incentive and the help of a dozen freelancers, Charlie and her team slowly begin to unravel a twisted plot that runs through several countries and even more bank accounts. But finding out who's behind the deadly plot only solves half the problem, because Charlie...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When set adrift in the universe, some things are worth holding onto.
Titan Valentino has been offered a job they can't refuse.
Tai, a gender-neutral courtesan, receives a scandalous proposition: seduce an actor's virgin fiancée. The money is enough to pay off Tai's crushing medical debt, a tantalizing prospect.
Too bad Aisha Malik isn't the easy target they expect.
A standoffish historian who hates to be touched, she's laser-focused on her career,...
Author
Language
English
Description
A wartime secret. A journey to uncover the truth. After an accident leaves Claire's aunt Margaret feeling frail, Claire is more concerned for her than ever: Margaret has started getting mixed up between the past and present and keeps asking after someone called Agnes. When Claire asks her aunt about Agnes, she learns that the two lived together during the war whilst working as WAAFs. They were best friends until Agnes started acting strangely, suddenly...
13) Maggie Terry
Author
Publisher
The Feminist Press at Cuny
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Terry is the most beautiful, most bitter, most sweet, and all around best detective novel I've read in years. Precise, insightful, heartbreaking, and page turning." —Sara Gran, author of The Infinite Blacktop
Post-rehab, Maggie Terry is single-mindedly trying to keep her head down in New York City. There's a madman in the White House, the subways are constantly delayed, summer is relentless,
...14) Sphinx
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sphinx is the remarkable debut novel, originally published in 1986, by the incredibly talented and inventive French author Anne Garréta, one of the few female members of Oulipo, the influential and exclusive French experimental literary group whose mission is to create literature based on mathematical and linguistic restraints, and whose ranks include Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, among others.
A beautiful and complex
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this rollicking mystery, perfect for fans of Steven Rowley and Elle Cosimano, the circus becomes the stage for a high-profile murder investigation.
With quirky LGBTQ+ amateur sleuths, Cirque du Slay will delight readers looking for a madcap mystery with high-flying excitement!
Pint-sized Seattle middle school teacher and gay dating blogger Hayden McCall and his best friend Hollister are invited to a fundraiser for Bakers...
With quirky LGBTQ+ amateur sleuths, Cirque du Slay will delight readers looking for a madcap mystery with high-flying excitement!
Pint-sized Seattle middle school teacher and gay dating blogger Hayden McCall and his best friend Hollister are invited to a fundraiser for Bakers...
Author
Publisher
SparkPress
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sometimes you have to go back before you can move forward.
Meg Monahan was born to be a secret keeper. From the moment she became a peer counselor in high school, Meg has been keeping her friends secrets – from sordid family drama to their sex lives – that she never wanted to know. Flash forward to adulthood when Meg is a recruiter for the world’s hippest (and most paranoid) high-tech company – and now Meg is a professional secret...
17) No Regrets
Author
Language
English
Description
'I raced through it' Daily Mail 'Funny and addictive' Lucy Vine 'A super-sexy romp' The Sun 'Scandalously good fun' Hello! For fans of Bridget Jones, Sex and the City and Dawn O'Porter! Best friends Stella, Ana and Dixie have always lived life to the full. But now they're approaching their forties, reality is starting to kill the mood... Stella loves her children, but misses her glittering career. Plus she can't even remember the last time she had...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
When Charlie Mack is hired by her ex-husband's new wife, things get awkward quickly. Her ex, Franklin, has been charged with his brother-in-law's murder. Charlie and Pamela both believe he didn't do it; it's the only thing they will ever see eye-to-eye on. But he's also in hiding for some reason neither of them understands. To the police, it adds up to guilt, but to Charlie, it indicates that Franklin has stumbled into an unplanned, and perhaps life-threatening,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When a guilt-ridden client has an unexpected change of heart, the Mack team's careful preparation for his grand jury testimony is blown to smithereens. Now, Charlie and Gil must pull out all the stops to defend him from his new enemies and the estrangement of his father. Meanwhile, Charlie reports for jury duty and unwittingly begins to unravel a disturbing plan to alter the outcome of a crime lord's conspiracy trial. Before she knows it, Charlie's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A hate group operating in Oakland County, Michigan has claimed responsibility for a six-month-long string of arson fires and robberies at mosques, temples, and black churches around Detroit, eluding police and federal agencies. The most recent fire, at a mosque in Dearborn, kills a respected imam. His children-suspicious are of law enforcement's treatment of Muslims, and afraid of reprisal-hires Charlie Mack and her team of investigators to find...
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