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1) The women
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Living in her car after her restaurant fails, Lee Gulliver, while planning her next move, meets Hazel, a woman trying to end her life to escape an abusive marriage, and forming an unlikely friendship, she agrees to help Hazel disappear, but soon learns she may not be the friend Lee thought she was.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While leading a group bike trip from NYC to Niagara Falls, 34-year-old Abby Stern, newly engaged, encounters Sebastian, the one-night stand she never thought she’d see again, and, determined to keep him at arm’s length over the next two weeks, finds her certainties about herself and the nature of love challenged.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a devastating event breaks her heart open, aspiring writer Alice creates a stunning debut novel in which her words find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness to a widower rent by grief, who, due to her book, find new paths forward.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Bohannon's findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rejiggering women's pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely...
8) Dirty thirty
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum, Trenton’s hardest working, most underappreciated bounty hunter, is offered a freelance assignment. Local jeweler Martin Rabner wants her to locate his former security guard, who he is convinced stole a fortune in diamonds out of his safe. Stephanie is also looking for another troubled man, Duncan Dugan, a fugitive from justice arrested for robbing the same jewelry store on the same day.
With her boyfriend Morelli away on police business,...
Author
Language
English
Description
When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
11) The vaster wilds
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Escaping from a colonial settlement in the wilderness, a servant girl, with nothing but her wits, a few possessions and some faith, is tested beyond the limits of her imagination, forcing her to question her belief of everything her own civilization taught her.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
Popular podcaster Alix Summer becomes the subject of her own podcast after a woman named Josie Fair comes into her life and then disappears, leaving behind a terrible and terrifying legacy that puts her life and her family’s lives in mortal danger.
Author
Language
English
Description
Nursing student Maggie, to escape her alcoholic father, rents a room in Joan’s home and finds a glimmer of hope for a better life, including a new romance, while Joan doesn’t know what to make of the mysterious landscaper who’s been revitalizing her garden—and who seems as lost as she is.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In this groundbreaking new history of the role of American women in World War II, a top military analyst for the CIA presents the inspiring, shocking and heartbreaking stories of these servicewomen that reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of combat in the war and illustrates important realities about modern warfighting.
Author
Language
English
Description
Through in-depth interviews with renowned menopause experts and trusted authorities, Dunn peels back the layers on this still-mystifying topic with her trademark humor and unpacks the science on both hormonal and nonhormonal treatments. She provides actionable ways to improve sleep, sex, moods, mental clarity, and skin; details the latest treatments for hot flashes; and explores the best practices to stop "peezing" (that would be peeing when you sneeze)....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As WWII ends, Elise returns to Paris to reunite with her daughter only to find her friend Juliette, the woman she entrusted her daughter with, has seemingly vanished without a trace, which leads Elise on a desperate search to New York—and to Juliette—one final, fateful time.
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