Kristin Atherton
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
After an extraordinarily bad day during which Cassandra Dankworth's boyfriend breaks up with her and she is fired from her job, she wakes up the next day and has the chance to do it all again, differently.
Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and strongly dislikes what she doesn't (mess, change, her boss drinking out of her mug). Her life runs in a pleasing, predictable...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
Author
Series
Publisher
LUNA
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
427 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
While about to be executed for murder, Yelena receives a reprieve to eat the best of meals and have rooms in the palace. But she'd also risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. Yelena chooses to become food taster, but the chief of security feeds her Butterfly Dust, and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay the agonizing death from the poison. Can Yelena escape her new dilemma in the face of mounting disasters?...
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 2
Language
English
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"Irene is working undercover in an alternate Victorian London. For this librarian spy, it's business as usuak - until her assistant Kai is abducted. Kai's hidden dragon heritage means he has powerful enemies, and this act of aggression could trigger a war between his people and their greates rivals. As they each represent the forces of order and chaos themselves, matters could turn unpleasant. Irene's mission to save Kai and avert Armageddon will...
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Librarian spy Irene and her apprentice Kai return for another "tremendously fun, rip-roaring adventure," (A Fantastical Librarian) third in the bibliophilic fantasy series from the author of The Masked City. Never judge a book by its cover... Due to her involvement in an unfortunate set of mishaps between the dragons and the Fae, Librarian spy Irene is stuck on probation, doing what should be simple fetch-and-retrieve projects for the mysterious...
Author
Series
Ill-mannered ladies volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series. Lady Augusta Colebrook, 'Gus,' is determinedly unmarried, bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two. She and her twin sister, Julia, who is grieving her dead betrothed, need a distraction. One soon presents itself: to rescue...
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Collecting books can be a dangerous prospect in this fun, time-traveling, fantasy adventure from a spectacular debut author. One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London....
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After being commissioned to find a rare book, Librarian Irene and her assistant, Kai, head to Prohibition-era New York and are thrust into the middle of a political fight with dragons, mobsters, and Fae. In a 1920s-esque New York, Prohibition is in force; fedoras, flapper dresses, and tommy guns are in fashion: and intrigue is afoot. Intrepid Librarians Irene and Kai find themselves caught in the middle of a dragon political contest. It seems a...
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English
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"Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitised. As the novel progresses and their...
10) The half sister
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meet the half sister, and unravel the ties that blind us.
THE TRUTH
Sisters Kate and Lauren meet for Sunday lunch every week without fail, especially after the loss of their father.
THE LIE
But a knock at the door is about to change everything. A young woman by the name of Jess holds a note with the results of a DNA test, claiming to be their half sister.
THE UNTHINKABLE
As the fallout starts, it's clear that they are all hiding secrets, and...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want. She agrees again when Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated Georgian house on the Dorset cliffs--a good house for children,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve, and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi...
13) Fire study
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
441 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Yelena, able to capture and release souls, is awaiting word of her fate from the Council when she learns of a planned uprising against her homeland by a past enemy, and sets out--with hopes of reuniting her beloved--to prove herself and save the land she loves.
14) Magic study
Author
Series
Publisher
LUNA
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A lesson in loyalty-a master class in intrigue. So far, I've managed to survive. You would think after being kidnapped as a child, imprisoned in my teens and released to become a poison taster, I would have endured enough. But no. The discovery of my magical abilities-powers forbidden in Ixia-has resulted in an execution order. My only chance is to flee to Sitia, my long-lost birthplace. But Sitia is unfamiliar. I'm treated like an enemy-even by my...
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 6
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 334 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Librarian's work is never done, and once Irene has a quick rest after their latest adventure, she is summoned to the Library. The world where she grew up is in danger of veering deep into chaos, and she needs to obtain a particular book to stop this from happening. No copies of the book are available in the Library, so her only choice is to contact a mysterious Fae information broker and trader of rare objects: Mr. Nemo. Irene and Kai make their...
16) The dark archive
Author
Series
Invisible library volume 7
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A professional spy for a mysterious Library that harvests fiction from different realities, Irene faces a series of assassination attempts that threaten to destroy her and everything for which she has worked. Irene is teaching her new assistant the fundamentals of a Librarian's job, and she is finding that training a young Fae is more difficult than she expected. But when they are the targets of kidnapping and assassination attempts, she decides...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While their mother entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of her painful past, sisters Rachel, Imogen, and Sasha find her silence keeping them from finding true happiness, in a novel that asks whether children can ever be free from the mistakes of their parents.
Forbidden, passionate and all-encompassing, Margo and Richard's love affair was the stuff of legend--but, ultimately, doomed. When Richard...
18) Just my luck
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For fifteen years, Lexi and Jake have played the same six numbers with their friends. Over drinks, dinner parties, and summer barbecues, the three couples have discussed the important stuff...and they've laughed off their disappointment when they failed to win anything. But then the unthinkable happens. There's a rift in the group...And soon after, six numbers come up that change everything forever. Lexi and Jake have a ticket worth millions. And...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with an almost supernatural ability to remain still amid the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though his life is rife with emotional challenges-suffering the death of his sister and the absence of his brother; caring for his elderly parents; raising his granddaughter when her mother, Marco's own child, is no longer capable; loving an enigmatic woman-Marco carries on with a noble stoicism that belies an intensity...
20) Two dead wives
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"A woman with a shocking secret is missing, presumed dead. And her two husbands are suspects in her murder. DCI Clements knows the dark side of human nature and that love can make people do treacherous things...Until a body is found, this sad case remains wide open. Stacie Jones lives a quiet life in a small village, nursed by her father as she recovers from illness, and shielded from any news of the outside world. But their reclusive life is about...