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Author
Publisher
Linda Mahkovec
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In New York City, the playful antics of Gabriel and his friend Billy bring together an assortment of people to celebrate Valentine's Day at The Red String Curio Store - with unintentional results. In rural Illinois, Jessica attempts her hand at matchmaking, against the advice of her family to leave well enough alone. In both places, love, friendship, and family come together in a heartwarming celebration of 1946 Valentine's Day.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Tom Candy Ponting was no ordinary trail boss. He didn't smoke, chew, cuss, or even carry a gun. Unlike his competitors, he learned how to herd cows on a farm back in England -- and how to handle cowboys in bareknuckle prizefights. But his skills and know-how were really put to the test when he accepts a bet he might live to regret: lead a cattle drive from Texas to New York City. Not one to back down on a dare, Ponting assembles the motliest crew...
3) Night Watch
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
In 1874, in the wake of the War, twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her mother, Eliza, who hasn’t spoken in more than a year. They arrive at the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the hospital’s entrance by a war veteran who has forced himself into their world. There, far from family, a beloved neighbor, and the mountain home they...
Author
Publisher
Persevero Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in New Mexico, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and naïve would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's philandering husband; and Maria's design and building of a remarkable adobe house and studio for the artist...
Author
Publisher
John S. Bodkin, Jr.?
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Briarhill to Brooklyn, is a novel, grounded in facts, in which Jack Bodkin tells the story of his Irish Catholic family's 1848 migration from County Galway, Ireland, to Brooklyn, New York, in the era of the Irish Potato Famine. Was it the prospect of starvation, the snows of Black '47, or the fear of typhus that made the Bodkins leave? Or was it the dream of America's freedom and opportunity that drove the family from Galway onto a ship? Their destination...
Author
Series
Andy Mills mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war, arrives in his offices, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job seems to be a simple case of blackmail, and Andy's...
Author
Series
The Parisian Oprhan volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Evelyne Redfern, a secretary for Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the cabinet war rooms, uses all of her amateur sleuthing expertise garnered from years of reading mysteries to solve a murder, teaming up with a cagey minister’s aide to expose a traitor in their midst.
Author
Language
English
Description
After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn, delivering a box of books to Penryth Hall, the home to her once dearest friend, Tamsyn, is drawn into a mystery when Tamsyn’s husband is murdered and the crime is blamed on a curse—one that could claim Tamsyn’s life as well.
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