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101) Rules for visiting
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reclusive gardener May Attaway is inspired by her love of classic literature to embark on an odyssey to reconnect with four once-close friends through simple activities and digital encounters that unexpectedly catapult her into viral fame.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Claire Luchette's debut, Agatha of Little Neon, is a novel about yearning and sisterhood, figuring out how you fit in (or don't), and the unexpected friends who help you find your truest self"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eschewed by her wealthy Smith College classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to join a group of graduates who travel to Europe to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sent into an arranged marriage, Tan Yunxian, forbidden to continue her work as a midwife-in-training as well as see her forever friend Meiling, is ordered to act like proper wife and seeks a way to continue treating women and girls from every level of society in fifteenth-century China.
"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is...
105) Tick tock
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 34
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The women of the Sisterhood have developed a motto: Whatever it takes. Regardless of how dangerous an adversary may be, or how overwhelming the odds against them seem, the group’s devotion to each other and to their cause has helped them achieve the seemingly impossible. But there’s a price to pay for success. In the course of both their official careers and their top-secret missions, the Sisterhood—and their menfolk—have acquired enemies....
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The long anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of Be Frank With Me, set in 1930s Reno, in which two very different women seeking divorces meet and form an unlikely friendship that is complicated by the handsome young ranch hand who befriends both--and who finds his life unexpectedly upturned by one"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 382 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Following the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico, Luz Avila arrives in San Antonio to find her aunt and meets her mother, who she had always believed dead. Now Luz must face her mother's reappearance in her life and get her grandmother's ashes to Mexico for the Day of the Dead.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
505 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In nineteen fifties Italy, Elena and Lila learn to rely on each other as they are growing up in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, but their beautiful friendship is not always a shelter from hardship.
Author
Series
Blossom Street volume 4
Language
English
Description
When Susannah, the owner of a new flower store, and her employee, a young widow named Colette Blake, join the knitting class at A Good Yarn, they meet a group of unforgettable women who offer them life-changing advice, support, and friendship.
110) Hello Girls
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happened the night they met outside the police station, both deciding whether to turn their families in for abuse and mistreatment. They realize they can't wait until graduation to start their new lives. They need out. Now. All they need is three grand, fast. And really, a stolen convertible to take them from Michigan to Las Vegas can't hurt.
112) Dirty girls on top
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Three women in fairly happy marriages, question the sacrifices they make, the choices to support their spouses, to take control of their own needs, and settle for the humdrum lifestyle they are accustomed to. Together they bond and make the changes in their lives that afford everyone some happiness and empowerment.
115) In plain sight
Author
Series
The Sisterhood volume 25
Language
English
Description
For years Myra Rutledge and Annie de Silva, founding members of the Sisterhood, have funded an underground network run by former Supreme Court Justice Pearl Barnes to help women escape abusive relationships. When two of Pearl's clients fail to report for their weekly check-in, the Sisterhood and their allies begin a search for French model Amalie Laurent and her one-time maid, Rosalee Muno. Amalie's estranged husband, Lincoln Moss, is a distant cousin...
116) Lethal justice
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 6
Language
English
Description
Alexis Thorn, once a successful securities broker, spent a hellish year behind bars for a crime she never committed. Meanwhile the real criminals, her former employers, continue to make millions by conning the innocent and preying on the elderly. Alexis dreams of getting even.
117) Razor sharp
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 14
Language
English
Description
The women of the Sisterhood come to the aid of their ally, attorney Lizzie Fox, who has agreed to defend Lily Flowers, the madam of a bordello that counted some of the richest and most influential men in the country as clients.
Author
Language
English
Description
By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands. In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a weekend getaway. Their husbands will be joining them in the morning. Or so they think. But when they get to Dark Fell Barn, the women find a devastating note that claims one of their husbands has been murdered. Their phones are out of range. There's no internet. They're stranded. And a storm's coming in....
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 4
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English