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61) Until August
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
ix, 129 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In a rediscovered novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, Ana Magdalena Bach has been happily married for 27 years, and yet, every August, she travels by ferry to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
62) The Madstone
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a pregnant young mother, her child and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms.
Author
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An approachable, empowering guide to investing that helps you level the financial playing field, move toward financial independence, and grow your money, from one of the internet's favorite personal finance educators"--
64) Starling house
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house--and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When she discovers that her late husband enrolled her in a dating service, which he set up to go into effect a year after his death, Robin Lindstrom puts herself out there and finds herself meeting new people, trying new things, and getting a second chance at love--and at loving life.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
67) The limits
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters-a fifteen year old girl toggling between her mother, a marine biologist studying coral reefs on an island off the coast of Tahiti, and her father, a surgeon in Manhattan-who undergo massive transformation over the course of a single year"--
69) The women
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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 the Army Nurse Corps...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of America's first women astronauts--six extraordinary women, each making history going to orbit aboard NASA's Space Shuttle.
"When NASA sent astronauts to the moon in the 1960s and 1970s the agency excluded women from the corps, arguing that only military test pilots--a group then made up exclusively of men--had the right stuff. It was an era in which women were steered away from jobs in science and deemed unqualified for space...
Author
Series
Wyoming sunrise volume 2
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Nell becomes one of the first female Justices of the Peace in the country, she's immediately thrown into the fire. After an attempt is made on his life, widower Brand proposes a marriage of convenience to ensure his daughters will be taken care of-but as feelings grow, will this practical marriage become something more?"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What if?
What if Sean Courtland’s old Chevy truck had broken down somewhere else? What if he’d never met Denise Givens, a waitress at a local tavern, and gotten into a bar fight defending her honor? Or offered a ride to Dan Young, another young man like Sean, burdened by secrets and just drifting through the small Wisconsin town?
Instead, Sean enlists Dan’s help with a construction job in the basement of a local—the elderly, reclusive Marion...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 452 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Code Girls reveals the untold story of how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, a sweeping story of a "sisterhood" of women spies spanning three generations who broke the glass ceiling, helped transform spycraft, and tracked down Osama Bin Laden. Upon its creation in 1947, the Central Intelligence Agency instantly became one of the most important spy services in the world. Like every male-dominated...
74) Funny story
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York times best-selling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveting story of rebuilding a life after the end of a marriage--an exploration of motherhood, art and new love.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After witnessing a wrongful conviction as a young girl, Rebecca Whitman - the first female court reporter in Montana - is now determined to defend the innocent. During a murder trial, something doesn't sit well with her about the case, but no one except the handsome new Carnegie librarian will listen to her. When a patron seeks help with research in hopes of proving a man's innocence, librarian Mark Andrews is immediately drawn to her and her cause....
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Deciding to restore and run a decaying lakefront hotel called La Llorona in a small Central American village, Irene, a troubled yet talented artist, meets a colorful cast of characters who change her life.
78) The divorcees
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry, a novel set at a 1950s Reno "divorce ranch," about the complex friendship between two women who dare to imagine a different future "A delicious literary page-turner from a fierce new voice." -Rebecca Makkai. Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles sets her focus on fulfilling her dream of building a mountaintop railroad--and remaining independent. But when a cruel and powerful man goes to dangerous lengths to try to make Jilly his own, marrying her friend Nick may be the only way to save herself and her dreams"--
80) One wrong move
Author
Series
Jeopardy falls volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Making amends for his criminal past, Christian Macleod has become one of the country's top security experts. But a string of heists brings attention from Andi Forster, an insurance investigator with her own checkered past. The two of them are drawn into a dangerous game with an opponent bent on revenge, and one wrong move could be the death of them both"--