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Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Charley would do anything to keep her wages coming in and support her impoverished sisters and nephews--even if that meant working in Italy for the demanding and commanding Duke Raphael Della Striozzi. Raphael couldn't understand why a woman like Charley dressed in dime-store clothes. It was going to be straight off to a designer boutique for her! But it was in Raphael's bedroom that Charlotte's complete transformation took place--from shy, dowdy...
44) My Lord Beast
Author
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Lilias Merrit had few options with her father's fortunes in ruins: marriage to a local farmer she would never care for, or employment elsewhere. Choosing the latter, she hires on as nursemaid to Lord Breme, a man rumored to have murdered his wife. Though at first Lilias half believes the rumors, given his lordship's tempers, as she gets to know him, she becomes aware of two truths. He could not have harmed his wife, and she cannot imagine life without...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 36
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Includes "My brother Paul."
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
In the robust economy of the 1990s, it is easy to forget the 37 million people, mostly women and children, living below the federal poverty level. [The author], a policy fellow at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute, brings this issue to the forefront of the national debate. After all, she points out, poor women are raising a large part of the nation. [She] bases her research on years of observation and working relationships with poor women in community...
Author
Series
Library of America ; 313
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Already a frequent contributor of well-crafted stories to The New Yorker when he turned to the larger canvas of the novel, John O'Hara wrote with unusual acuity about the power of status and class in American life. His reputation as a novelist rests largely on four extraordinary books published from 1934 to 1940. These early novels, like those of his contemporaries Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, dramatize the longings and dashed hopes of...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Heart's Victory: "Once, Cynthia 'Foxy' Fox pursued racecar driver Lance Matthews, who dismissed her teenage attentions as a simple crush. Now a professional photographer, she is assigned to cover the racing circuit--and seeing him again thrills her even as she finds his dangerous career unnerving. Lance cannot believe the awkward girl he once knew has become a confident and desirable woman. And fate has given him the opportunity to discover who...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Women's House of Detention, Greenwich Village's most forbidding and forgotten queer landmark, stood from 1929 to 1974, imprisoning tens of thousands from all over New York City. The little-known stories of the queer women and trans-masculine people incarcerated in this building present a uniquely queer argument for prison abolition. The "House of D" acted as a nexus, drawing queer women down to Greenwich Village from every corner of the city....
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