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Author
Pub. Date
c2004.
Description
Katchoo is a beautiful young woman living a quiet life with everything going for her. She's smart, independent and very much in love with her best friend, Francine. Then Katchoo meets David, a gentle but persistent young man who is determined to win Katchoo's heart. The resulting love triangle is a touching comedy of romantic errors until Katchoo's former employer comes looking for her and $850,000 in missing mob money. As her idyllic life begins...
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Buffy is resurrected form the dead by Willow, who thought Buffy was in a hell dimension. What the Scoobies don't know is that Buffy believed that she actually was in heaven. After being ripped from a peaceful existence, she now considers herself to be in a hell on earth. The depressed slayer secretly turns to someone who knows about death, the Buffy-obsessed Spike, and the two begin a twisted relationship.
1444) Anne of Avonlea
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Anne, now a young woman, has become a teacher in a wealthy town and dreams of meeting her ideal man.
1445) Land girls: Series 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Follow the lives and loves of the Land Girls who are working the fields for Britain during WWII in the Women's Land Army.
1447) Emma
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
In 1800s England, a well meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
1448) Bleak House
Series
Description
Tale of a long extended legal case and the havoc it wrecks in lives over various generations.
1449) Sense and sensibility
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Description
When Elinor Dashwood's father dies, her family's finances are crippled. After the Dashwoods move to a cottage in Devonshire, Elinor's sister Marianne is torn between the handsome John Willoughby and the older Colonel Brandon. Meanwhile, Elinor's romantic hopes with Edward Ferrars are hindered due to his prior engagement. Both Elinor and Marianne strive for love while the circumstances in their lives constantly change.
1450) Home for Christmas Day
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
A young woman becomes involved in a long-distance relationship with an active-duty soldier.
1452) The Buccaneers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Four young American girls journey from America to England in search of romance and adventure in this exquisite production of Edith Wharton's final book.
1453) She stoops to conquer
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Kate is a well-bred lass who passes herself off as a barmaid in order to win the heart of her stuffy suitor. Full of mistaken identities and multiple deceptions, the play pokes fun at the various masks we all wear in different social situations. Along the way, each person learns much about the nature of true love.
1455) Maame
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"It's fair to say that Maddie's life in London is far from rewarding. With a mother who spends most of her time in Ghana, Maddie is the primary caretaker for her father, who suffers from Parkinson's. At work, her boss is a nightmare and Maddie is tired of being the only Black person in every meeting. When her mum returns from her latest trip to Ghana, Maddie takes the chance to get out of the family home and finally start living. She finds a flat...
1456) Hustlers
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Inspired by a true story, Hustlers follows Destiny, a young stripper struggling to make ends meet. That is, until she meets Ramona, the club's savvy top earner, who shows her the way toward making big bucks. But when the 2008 economic collapse hits their Wall Street clientèle hard, Destiny and Ramona concoct a plan with their fellow strippers to turn the tables on these greedy power players in this wild, modern-day Robin Hood.
1457) Bernice bobs her hair
Pub. Date
1976.
Description
It's the hot summer of 1919. While visiting her cousin Marjorie, sweet-but-dull Bernice is transformed into a smooth-talking man-trap by her vampish cousin. However, the "make-over" works too well, as Bernice becomes the belle of the ball, captivating every boy's interest. . .even Marjorie's boyfriend Warren. The now worldly Bernice has the last laugh.
1458) Idol dreams: 1
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chance at love and success. When word gets out that she's a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could return to the time when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to when she was 15. Now [she] is determined to pursue everything she missed out on all those years ago-- including becoming a star!"--Page 4 of cover.
1459) Tyranny
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Anna records her struggles with anorexia--which she personifies as Tyranny, her tormentor--in her journal, and describes her efforts to overcome her deadly enemy through strength of character.
1460) Leaving home: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Fearful of emulating her isolated and timid widowed mother, Emma Roberts, herself circumspect, repressed, and brooding, leaves London for Paris to pursue her study of classical garden design. Emma is trying to live "according to the classical ideal, that of order and control and self-mastery," the very life that Brookner has so assiduously examined in each of her subtly powerful psychological novels, which now number 23. Brookner's melancholy but...
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