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81) The best friend
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the intense, toxic friendship of two kindred spirits across their lifetimes, The Best Friend is a dark, suspenseful novel and first standalone from Jessica Fellowes, New York Times bestselling author of the Mitford Murders series and the companion Downton Abbey books. Bella and Kate. Kate and Bella. From childhood they were bosom friends, Bella sensible and cautious, Kate gregarious and just a little dangerous. Yet in spite of their intimacy,...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 388 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows the deep friendship between two women at an early twentieth-century rehabilitation home for cast-out single mothers, and the reclusive librarian who discovers their story a century later.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sunflower Sisters is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real : As we roamed the neat brick streets of Charleston, past filigreed fences and palmetto trees, the atmosphere so gentle and refined, we never dreamed we'd stumble headlong into hell. Mother, my sister Georgy and I had come from...
84) Vanity fair
Author
Language
English
Description
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Small, perfect towns often hold the deepest secrets. Such is the case for Essie and her family. When a new woman moves next door to Essie, she is an immediate object of curiosity in this neighbourhood. As the two women grow closer and Essie's friends disapprove, it starts to become clear that Isabelle's choice of neighbourhood was no accident. And that her presence might bring even more secrets to light.
87) Lost and wanted
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Helen Clapp's breakthrough work on five-dimensional spacetime landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her popular books explain physics in plain terms. Helen disdains notions of the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven ideas. So it's perhaps especially vexing for her when, on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday in June, she gets a phone call from a friend who has just died. That friend was Charlotte Boyce, Helen's roommate at Harvard....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 325 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Three women at crossroads in their lives all wind up at Cosmos, a metaphysical shop that sells potions, crystals, and candles, where they rely on hope, strength, and a bit of magic to find their way.
Author
Series
Neapolitan novels volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
418 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elena and Lila have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts of her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would...
Author
Series
The Neapolitan novels volume Book 2
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Europa edition.
Physical Desc
471 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls...
91) The friend
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in...
Author
Series
Blossom Street volume 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Does the perfect wedding make the perfect marriage? As three very different women meet in their local knitting store, they find strength in friendship to help them through their problems. After adopting a daughter, Lydia hoped her life would be complete, but traumatic memories from her daughter's past threaten to ruin their happiness. And Lauren has always yearned for marriage and a family of her own, but her long-term boyfriend just won't commit....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager in which a recently fired Broadway star flees to a remote Vermont lake house, only to find out that the area has a history of missing women"--
It looks like a familiar story: A woman reeling from a great loss with too much time on her hands and too much booze in her glass watches her neighbors, sees things she shouldn't see, and starts to suspect the worst. But looks can be deceiving....
Author
Series
Sister circle volume 2
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
368p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her health begins failing, the mysterious author Vida Winter decides to let Margaret Lea, a biographer, write the truth about her life, but Margaret needs to verify the facts since Vida has a history of telling outlandish tales.
97) Swing time
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two dancers with different approaches to their craft share a complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, in a story that transitions from northwest London to West Africa.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traveling to Devon to accept an award, artist Jess Penhaligon is hosted by friendly Kate, whose loving extended family shares their stories and secrets, reminding Jess of how her own family fell apart years earlier.
"Marcia Willett delivers another powerful and touching tale of the importance of friendship and family in The Sea Garden. Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zoe Saldivar is more than just single--she's ALONE. She recently broke up with her longtime boyfriend, she works from home and her best friend Jen is so obsessed with her baby that she has practically abandoned their friendship. The day Zoe accidentally traps herself in her attic with her hungry-looking cat, she realizes that it's up to her to stop living in isolation. Her seemingly empty life takes a sudden turn for the complicated--her first new...
100) The mother's promise
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
All their lives, Alice Stanhope and her daughter Zoe have been a family of two, living quietly in northern California. Zoe has always struggled with crippling social anxiety and her mother has been her constant and fierce protector. With no family to speak of, and the identity of Zoe's father shrouded in mystery, their team of two works - until it doesn't. Until Alice gets sick and needs to fight for her life. Desperate to find stability for Zoe,...