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(0)Sarah McCoy
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Language
English
Description
Plucky and ambitious, Marilla Cuthbert is thirteen years old when her world is turned upside down. Her beloved mother dies in childbirth, and Marilla suddenly must bear the responsibilities of a farm wife: cooking, sewing, keeping house, and overseeing the day-to-day life of Green Gables with her brother, Matthew, and father, Hugh. In Avonlea, a small, tight-knit farming town on a remote island, life holds few options for farm girls. Her one connection...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish boy arrives on Elsie's doorstep in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, Elsie understands that opening the door would put all she loves in danger. Sixty years...
Author
Language
English
Description
"...A sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press... It's January 1972 but the sun is white hot when Willy May Michael's boat first kisses the dock of Mustique Island. Tucked into the southernmost curve of the Caribbean, Mustique is a private island that has become a...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Sarah Brown, daughter of abolitionist John Brown, realizes that her artistic talents may be able to help save the lives of slaves fleeing north, she becomes one of the Underground Railroad's leading mapmakers, taking her cues from the slave code quilts and hiding her maps within her paintings ... Eden, a modern woman desperate to conceive a child with her husband, moves to an old house in the suburbs and discovers a porcelain head hidden in...
Author
Publisher
Murdoch Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xviii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
'Endo and PCOS won't stay neatly contained within your body... No chance. They'll bleed into every area of your life: school, work, relationships, finances, self-esteem, mental health... There's no part of your life they won't touch, and that's exactly why I'm going to come at them from all angles in this book.' In this raw, powerful, medically reviewed insider's guide, Erin Barnett - influencer, women's health advocate and star of Beauty and the...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"On any particular day, many thousands of people pass through New York City's Grand Central Terminal, through the whispering gallery, beneath the ceiling of stars, past the information booth and its four-faced clock, to whatever destination is calling them. It is a place people come to say hello and good-bye, and each has a story to tell. Now, ten bestselling authors inspired by this iconic landmark have created their own stories, set on the same...