Penelope Rawlins
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War I, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer's dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything--her family, her reputation, and her life--to see her husband again. Almost a century later, Sophie's portrait is given to Liv Halston by her young...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the most famous toddler in America, Charles Lindbergh, Jr., is kidnapped from his family home in New Jersey in 1932, the case makes international headlines. ... His father, Charles, Sr., is the country's golden boy, with his wealthy, lovely wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, by his side. But there's someone else in their household: Betty Gow, a formerly obscure young woman, now known around the world by another name: the Lindbergh Nanny. A Scottish...
Publisher
NCircle Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The school day at Superhero Kindergarten is a lot like that at any other kindergarten... except these six extraordinary students have a secret. They are superheroes! Rather than powers derived from a radioactive spider bite or gamma rays, these special kids' powers are inspired by items commonly found in kindergarten classrooms across the globe including crayons, paste, putty and building blocks. And thankfully, they have Arnold Armstrong (AKA Captain...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son Ben when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry--until Ben vanishes. Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from...
5) Daisy Miller
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Modern Library pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 80 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Classic novella about a captivating young American, Daisy Miller, whose behavior causes conflicting feelings in the mind of would-be suitor, Winterbourne.
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Joanne knows how lucky she is—Richard is a wonderful husband, Evie is the most gorgeous baby girl, they live in a beautiful house—life couldn't be better. But then Richard's twenty-year-old daughter Chloe turns up. Chloe hasn't spoken to her father since the day he married Joanne two years ago. But with the arrival of her baby sister Evie, Chloe wants to make peace. Richard is delighted, and since Joanne is struggling with the new baby,...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
While investigating the brutal attack on Gregor, a seemingly single man, DS Joanna Harper discovers that her estranged daughter Ruby is somehow involved in this case that is steeped in Celtic mythology.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
436, 12 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Zoe Maisey is a seventeen-year-old musical prodigy with a genius IQ. Three years ago, she was involved in a tragic incident that left three classmates dead. She served her time, and now her mother, Maria, is resolved to keep that devastating fact tucked far away from their new beginning, hiding the past even from her new husband and demanding Zoe do the same. Tonight Zoe is giving a recital that Maria has been planning for months. It needs to be the...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
150 pages 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Catherynne M. Valente, the bestselling and award-winning creator of Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland returns with The Past is Red, the enchanting, dark, funny, angry story of a girl who made two terrible mistakes: she told the truthand she dared to love the world. The future is blue. Endless blue...except for a few small places that float across the hot, drowned world left behind by long-gone fossil fuel-guzzlers. One of those...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A blackout and a blizzard leave seventeen-year-old Lottie and her new stepsister Jade trapped in an isolated ski cabin in Tahoe, where they are soon joined by a cute, fast-talking stranger named Alex, who claims to be lost and in need of shelter--but the girls realize Alex is not who he claims to be, and he has dangerous friends.