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St. Martin's Press, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world. Jacqueline Millender is a reclusive billionaire/women's...
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English
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"A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands"--
When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem--she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they've been together for...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After a school shooting leaves her son with traumatic injuries, kindergarten teacher Elisabeth Ross commits her own act of shocking violence that captures the attention of the world.
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Rose has always dreamed about marrying a prince charming, but instead she married an evil stepmother. Rose was born as a Princess, but got exiled from royalty when she was a child. Marriage proposal from Prince Kit is a chance of returning to royal life, so she takes it. Unfortunately, what a 21st century Princess thinks of as a dream, turns out to be a nightmare. She desires a peaceful, calm family life, but the endless cycle of rigorous rules, strict...
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English
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Tinker Street, the prequel to Anna Magdalena (2022), has arrived from Emperor Books!
Struck by love for a boy as beautiful as a Michelangelo, fifteen year old Maggie digs her heels in. She's got what Willa Cather called "luck-making power of desire." She's a rebel in the best sense of the world.
Growing up in Woodstock of the 1990s, the daring performance artist Anna Magdalena is called Maggie. Raised as a "love child" in a communal household...
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English
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You are in the wrong life, with the wrong man. This is a trap. Escape. You are in the right life, with the right man. This is a trap. Escape. In the surreal, macabre performances of femininity that haunt Suzanne Burns' third collection, nobody emerges innocent or unscathed. Tasha lives in a community that is mysteriously obsessed with a high-stakes bake-off. Junie constantly tries to impress a cabal of unsettlingly toxic ladies who don't respect her-until...
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English
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What do you do when you fall in love with your next-door neighbour? You peer at each other through a hole in the fence and eventually climb over.Sybil is a member of The Good-Hearted Gardeners, a Society for Well-Meaning Efforts for the Betterment of Language and the Salvation of the Planet, which her lover, Demo, is allowed to join. It' s funded by MI5, who ask them to monetise and weaponise the English language. Soon afterwards they discover that...
8) Ryder
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English
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This modernist, experimental, and controversial novel examines gender politics in the lives of an American family.
Lesbian poet, journalist, and illustrator Djuna Barnes's debut novel was a sensation when it was originally published in 1928. A bawdy parody of patriarchal repression, the book was heavily censored upon its release in America. An exploration of sexuality that is thought to be based on Barnes's own life, the novel depicts a family...
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Español
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Una de las mejores novelas de familias en la Guerra Civil española, de lo mejor que vas a leer por Rosa Sanmartín, una novela imprescindible.
SINOPSIS
En una casa heredada de los abuelos, vive la familia Martí Llorens. Un padre carlista y una madre republicana. Su ideología, hasta ese momento casi imperceptible, los convierte en enemigos un verano de 1936.
Luis, el primogénito, siempre trabajó en el campo con el padre. En julio de 1936 se alistarse...
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English
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Laila Russell is an ordinary 15-year-old schoolgirl living in London with her father, who is morose over his wife's accidental death. In the spring of 1972, Laila spots a lost pocketbook on the Underground and returns it to Amanda Charles, a fashionable young woman employed by an aging rock star. With glam music on the rise, Chaz Bonapart is going out of style. His manager, Francis Guy, comes up with a plan to get him back in the game by feeding him...
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Español
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Tras sufrir un aborto, Ada, una joven profesora de danza que vive condicionada por los fantasmas de su pasado, se sumerge en una profunda crisis personal que desemboca en un punto de inflexión en su vida.
Con el apoyo incondicional de su padre y de su mejor amiga, decide iniciar una terapia psicológica en la que hará frente a las devastadoras secuelas que arrastra desde su infancia. En este proceso intentará superar las barreras que le impiden...
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Français
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Empreint de la nature fabuleuse de la Cte-Nord, ce roman de fiction d'anticipation relate l'histoire d'une octogénaire en 2023, d'une mère et de sa fille qui travaillent en santé auprès des personnes aînées aux abords de 2050. Les personnages prennent la parole et soulèvent des enjeux prégnants du système de santé, de justice sociale au XXIe siècle et du traitement de la vieillesse dans la société.
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A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's life, and a wonderfully imaginative exploration of the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Europe, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the continent in ash and clouds. Amid the gloom of this "year without summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby boy William, and her stepsister Claire...
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Olivia Foster always believed in striving for perfection, but life had a different plan. "The Imperfect Advocate," follows Olivia's unexpected journey as she discovers the profound intricacies of dyslexia and giftedness through her daughter, Natalie, and her son, Jonathan.Natalie, a bright and gifted child, grapples with the complexities of dyslexia, while her younger brother Jonathan tags along to school meetings. As Olivia and her supportive husband,...
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As the sun dipped below the horizon, casting its golden hues upon the tranquil beach of West Hampton Dunes, a figure emerged from the gentle surf. It was Charlotte Penrith, her blond locks shimmering in the fading light, cascading down her slender shoulders. Her lithe form, kissed by the summer sun, moved with a grace that mirrored the ebb and flow of the ocean waves.Dressed in a provocative red swimsuit, the fabric clung to her like a second skin,...
16) Fran, Older
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English
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Life Isn't What It Used to BeLet's have a look at Fran's life:Husband deceased (but his stern portrait on the wall is an adequate stand-in, in some ways). Kids grown and gone. Career a distant memory. Driver's license a thing of the past (just as well, after the stop sign incidents). Suburban home sold. Her current address is a cozy unit in an upscale seniors' residence she calls the Facility.Fran is elderly, but far from over the hill. Politely independent,...
17) The Pink House
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English
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Jen Johanssen is a former porn actor trying to fit into the world of academia. Her sister, Lolly Johanssen, is a cancer survivor. Nicole Parks is in prison for loving the wrong guy. And Sonya Yakowski, also in prison, is a member of a family of traveling criminals, desperately missing her young son. The lives of these four women converge in a Florida prison, where Jen and Lolly have joined forces to put on a grant-funded drama production. Despite...
18) Control Freak
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English
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Jordan's life is totally in control:Crushing it as an ER doc-they don't call her The Ice Queen for nothingAvoiding devil-spawn sister's wedding-RSVP'd HELL NOFantasizing about dreamy nurse Eli-a secret she will take to her graveEverything is in order…except for that big lie she just told her sister. Now Jordan needs a fake boyfriend to be her plus-one for a family gathering, and she puts all options on the table-a bachelor auction, a male escort,...
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When popular daytime TV host and uber-feminist Erica Flanagan skewers a young "trad wife" influencer on live TV, she soon finds herself on a forced sabbatical, searching for a project to keep her busy. Without a single domestic bone in her body, Erica embarks on a blogging project determined to prove that domesticity is a con. But her domestic adventure turns into a quagmire of personal discovery -and what she discovers is herself. Erica Flanagan,...
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"Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman." -Bookpage
In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman.
After packing...
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