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10001) Gray matters
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Thirty-something New Yorker, Gray shares just about everything with her wisecracking brother, Sam: old movies, swing dancing and--much to her surprise--an attraction to his gorgeous new girlfriend, Charlie. Never having realized she might be gay, Gray's confusion turns to desperation as she follows the "expert" advice of clueless friends, shrinks and strangers.
10002) Love in Unlikely Places
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Plenty of young men had noticed Emma's smooth auburn hair and her quick intellect, but at twenty-six years of age, she was still single, much to the bewilderment of her Amish community. "She's just too picky," they said, and she supposed they were right. Most did not know that she had been in love once, and had wound up brokenhearted. When she becomes a nanny for an English (non-Amish) family along the coast of North Carolina, her world opens up...
10003) Fallen skies
Author
Pub. Date
2019 .
Description
Lily Valance is determined to forget the horrors of the war by throwing herself into the decadent pleasures of the 1920s and pursuing her career as a music hall singer. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters, a decorated veteran, she's immediately drawn to his wealth and status. And Stephen, burdened by his guilt over surviving the Flanders battlefields where so many soldiers perished, sees the possibility of forgetting his anguish in Lily, but his...
10004) Resurrection: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
When Gemma Bastain receives a telex that her archaeologist father has been found dead in Cairo, she flies from ravaged post-World War II London to Egypt to bury his ashes and close his affairs. As Gemma sifts through his office at the Egyptian Museum, she is soon aware that she's being watched by at least one man who wants something her father had. When she stumbles upon her father's last and most closely guarded project, she becomes convinced that...
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
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Description
A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Tita and Pedro are passionately in love. But their love is forbidden by an ancient family tradition. To be near Tita, Pedro marries her sister. And Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion for Pedro through preparing delectable dishes. Now, in Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion. Her creations bring on tears of longing, heated desire, or chronic pain, while Tita and Pedro wait for the moment to fulfill their most hidden...
10007) Christmas at the palace
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Katie, a former professional ice skater, is hired by the king of San Senova, Alexander, to help his daughter in a Christmas ice skating performance. As Katie spends time in the castle and with the king, she and Alex begin to develop feelings for each other and ultimately fall in love. But will the tradition-loving people of San Senova allow their king to make a foreigner their queen?
10009) The lady and the highwayman
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
In 17th century England an English aristocrat (Hugh Grant) is forced to become a highwayman and falls in love with a young girl (Emma Samms) he has sworn to protect after her brother is beheaded by Cromwell. He not only saves her from a brutal husband, but helps her at the court of Charles II.
10010) The gay divorcee
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
In one of their best loved, most charming song and dance comedies, Fred and Ginger demonstrate just how they became known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award-winning hit The Continental.
10011) Covet
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Chris and Claire Canton's marriage is on life support. Out of work for a year, Chris retreats to a dark place where no one can reach him. When he's offered a job that will keep him away from home four nights a week, he dismisses Claire's concern that time apart could be the one thing their fragile union can't weather. Police officer Daniel Rush goes home to an empty house every night. He pulls Claire over during a routine traffic stop. When Claire...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
A love story in reverse: 'How I met your mother' is a comedy about Ted and how he fell in love. When Ted's best friends Marshall and Lily decide to tie the knot, it sparks the search for his own Miss Right. Helping him in his quest is his bar-hopping "wing-man" Barney, a confirmed bachelor with plenty of wild scemes for picking up women. Ted's sights are set on the charming and independent Robin, but destiny may have something different in mind. Told...
10015) Ball of fire
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
10017) Ai yori aoshi: Volume 6
Author
Series
Ai yori aoshi volume 6
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In Kaoru's dream, Aoi announces that she can no longer stay with him. But the declaration turns into a revelatory nightmare when Aoi's father decides it's time for her to start seeing other men before committing to Kaoru.
10018) It's a wonderful life
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
A man is prevented from committing suicide by an elderly angel, who takes him back through his life to see what good he has done, and how the world would be if he had not been born.
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Description
In the uproarious Eighth Season, the arrival of baby Marvin reminds Marshall and Lily of things they need, like sleep, better jobs and sex. Meanwhile Barney uses his playbook to win over Robin, but not her scary dad. Marshall tries to right a wrong in court in hopes of becoming a judge, and Robin's past is judged. Ted designs an amazing building, and also has designs on Barney's half-sister. But does he meet his future wife?
Pub. Date
©2007
Description
Monty is a blue-collar mechanic who enlists the help of a successful-but-lonely attorney while trying to gain custody of his three daughters from his treacherous ex-wife and her larcenous boyfriend. Along the way, the working relationship between the blue collar dad and his uptown attorney grows into something more. As these two people try to overcome their different backgrounds, they find love. Monty struggles to protect his children from abuse and...