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1) Sisters
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st large print ed.
Physical Desc
496 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four sisters temporarily move into a Manhattan brownstone together after a car accidents kills their mother and blinds one of the sisters.
Author
Series
Louise Faulk mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
431 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York City, 1913. Twenty-year-old Louise Faulk has fled Altoona, Pennsylvania, to start a life under dizzying lights. In a city of endless possibilities, it's not long before the young ingénue befriends a witty aspiring model and makes a splash at the liveliest parties on the Upper East Side. But glitter fades to grit when Louise's Greenwich Village apartment becomes the scene of a violent murder and a former suitor hustling for Tin Pan Alley...
Author
Series
Godmothers novels volume 5
Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover
Godmothers series) volume 5
The godmothers volume 5
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Wheeler Publishing large print hardcover
Godmothers series) volume 5
The godmothers volume 5
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
'Teresa 'Toots' Amelia Loudenberry is extending her stay in Charleston to help care for her ailing housekeeper, Bernice. Here in her beloved hometown, the air is rich with the scent of azaleas and honeysuckle and there's always a pitcher of sweet tea (or something a little stronger) close to hand. Not that the ladies have much time for relaxing. Ida's new line of cosmetics, "Seasoned," is about to launch, and Toots, Mavis, and Sophia are relishing...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
371 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins. The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1968, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son inherits the weight of that legacy. But Joe III is a free spirit -- and a little bit reckless. Despite his best intentions,...
Author
Publisher
N.A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
It all begins in modest Rockford, Illinois, where Charlotte starts to plot her escape practically from birth. Spiky and elusive, she becomes a big-time fashion model, then nearly dies in a car crash on a spontaneous trip back to her hometown. Her famous face is so thoroughly smashed that 80 titanium screws are used to reconstruct it; the result is a visage no one recognizes and a life in shambles. Charlotte's groping for a new sense of self is paired...
10) Aftershocks
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005, c1985
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Hugo Marston novels volume 5
Publisher
Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A nineteen-year-old aspiring model has disappeared in Paris. Her father, Bart Denum, turns to his old friend Hugo Marston for help.
12) Change of heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday large print
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
482 p.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Elijah J. Harcourt and Chelsea Hamilton, who were separated when they were teenagers, are reunited in Edilean, Virginia, where they overcome the distance that has grown between them by investigating a tragic story together.
Author
Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 6
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
837 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"To the outside world, Electra d'Apliese seems as though she is the woman who has everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. But beneath the veneer, and fuelled by the pressure of the life she leads, Electra's already tenuous control over her mental state has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters as babies from around the globe. Struggling to cope,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"I'd rather take a photograph than be one," Lee Miller declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous Surrealist Man Ray. Though he wants to use her only as a model, Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. As they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee's life forever.
Lee's journey...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after...
17) The Paris orphan
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
701 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York City/Paris, 1942: When American model Jessica May arrives in Europe to cover the war as a photojournalist for Vogue, most of the soldiers are determined to make her life as difficult as possible. But three friendships change that. Journalist Martha Gellhorn encourages Jess to bend the rules. Captain Dan Hallworth keeps her safe in dangerous places so she can capture the stories that truly matter. And most important of all, the love of a...
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Running her family's bookstore while fending off questions about her love life, Tansy Adams invents a girlfriend, Gemma, inspired by the cover model on a bestselling book, but when the real-life Gemma--who needs to marry in order to inherit her family's publishing company--discovers Tansy's charade, she takes things one step further and announces their engagement.
Tansy Adams' greatest love is her family's bookstore, passed down from her late father....
19) Body grammar
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House,LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"To her own dismay, Lou is a natural model: tall, thin, captivatingly androgynous, and with a striking look. Out of nowhere, every agent in the Portland area wants to represent her. But Lou doesn't care for fashion, nor does she wish to be seen. Fresh out of high school, Lou's plan is to spend the summer taking photographs and hoping to catch the attention of Ivy, her close friend and secret crush. But when an afternoon hiking trip ends in a tragic...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Paris, France: September 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream—he’s getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. Here name is Philippa Crosby, and she's a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and acting. As Stuyvesant follows Philippa’s trail through the expatriate community of artists and writers, he crosses paths with...
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