Eleanor Caudill
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Language
English
Description
"The first authorized biography of the Hollywood icon draws on unpublished letters, diary entries, and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with Taylor's closest friends and family to tell the story of her remarkable life and career, from her rise to fame at age twelve, through her eight marriages, and her efforts to fight AIDS."--
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English
Description
"In 1942, London. Nancy Mitford jumps at the chance to manage the Heywood Hill bookshop while the owner is away at war. When a mysterious French officer insists that she has a story to tell, Nancy must decide if picking up the pen again and revealing all is worth the price she might be forced to pay. Eighty years later, Heywood Hill is abuzz with the hunt for a lost wartime manuscript written by Nancy Mitford. For one woman desperately in need of...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Set against the backdrop of World War II, this novel, inspired by the true story of the Council of Books in Wartime, follows three women whose fates become intertwined by their belief in the power and goodness in the written word to triumph over the very darkest moments of war."--
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Language
English
Description
"Inspired by a real-life female spy, a WWII-set novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost. "A gripping, fascinating read." --Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan 1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotna ́is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Tattooist of Auschwitz!
Inspired by a real-life female spy, a novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost.
"A gripping, fascinating read." —Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan
1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish...
Inspired by a real-life female spy, a novel about a woman challenging convention and boundaries to help win a war, no matter the cost.
"A gripping, fascinating read." —Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan
1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish...
Author
Series
Hashtag holidays ; 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a Certified Professional Organizer, everything in Paige Parker's world is as it should be. Perfect apartment, perfect office, perfect life. And now, the perfect vacation planned to honor Singles Day. After all, what's better than celebrating her pride in being single? Because who needs a man anyway? They have zero taste in quality television, leave the toilet seat up, and sleep with your best friend. No thanks. Her life is fine just the way it...
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Language
English
Description
In 1961, Margo Hightower, becoming the assistant to a society photographer, is thrown headfirst into the glamorous Jet Set world she so covets where she becomes friends with heiress and rising fashion designer Lilly Pulitzer, but when the lines between work and play blur, the golden life she desires slips from her grasp.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Political activist and anarchist author Aric McBay (Full Spectrum Resistance) toggles between the years 2028 and 2051 to give us the experience, with breathtaking realism, of what might happen in the span of just one generation to a society that is already on the brink of collapse. In 2028 environmental activists hesitate to take the fight to the extreme of violent revolution. Twenty years later, with the natural environment now seriously degraded,...
10) Perfectly hidden depression: how to break free from the perfectionism that masks your depression
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"If you were raised to believe that painful emotions are a sign of weakness, or if being vulnerable has always made you feel unsafe, then you may have survived by creating a perfect-looking life--a life where you appear to be successful, engaged, and always there for others. The problem? You're filled with self-criticism and shame, and you can't allow yourself to express fear, anger, loss, or grief. You recognize something is wrong, but you're not...