Tavia Gilbert
361) Dragon fall
Author
Series
Dragon Falls volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After witnessing a supernatural murder at an outdoor fair, Aoife Dakar encounters a sarcastic demon dog and a gorgeous dragon shifter who introduce her to a fantastical new world in which she learns just how hot a dragon's first burns.
Author
Publisher
Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Amelia Norman challenged the idea that the fallen woman of the nineteenth century was inevitably 'ruined.' This book shows how the desperate act of this aspiring murderess came to momentarily embody the anger and anxiety felt by many people at a time of economic depression and expanding expectations for equal rights"--
Author
Publisher
Bibliomotion
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"No-Drama Leadership aims to influence corporate and organizational leaders to recognize the impact of changing times resulting in the need to place priority on a new type of leadership development that focuses not only on the outer game of results but on the inner game of leadership growth"--
364) Perfected
Author
Series
Perfected volume 1
Publisher
Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As soon as the government passed legislation allowing humans to be genetically engineered and sold as pets, the rich and powerful rushed to own beautiful girls like Ella. Trained from birth to be graceful, demure, and above all, perfect, these "family companions" enter their masters' homes prepared to live a life of idle luxury. Ella is happy with her new role as playmate for a congressman's bubbly young daughter, but she doesn't expect Penn, the...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Born to prominent but dysfunctional Nashville parents, Bezellia Grove leans on disregarded African-American servants as substitute family figures and incites wrath from both groups when she pursues an interracial relationship.
366) Perfectly famous
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As a mother and a famous author, Ward DeFleur has it all. She lives in a beautiful estate in picture-perfect Connecticut, along with her teenage daughter, Stevie, where nothing can go wrong. Until, one night, when Stevie is brutally murdered and Ward's entire world is shattered. Consumed by panic and grief, Ward vows never to put pen to paper again. Enter Bree Bennett. Bree is a recently-divorced, former-journalist-cum-housewife, desperate to fill...
Author
Series
Amish brides of Pinecraft volume 1
Publisher
Avon Inspire
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A young Amish woman finds herself torn between the man she's pledged to wed and the man her heart desires"--
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes, beloved and treasured Christian practices go horrifyingly wrong, extending violence rather than promoting its healing. In this bracing book, Lauren Winner provocatively challenges the assumption that the church possesses a set of immaculate practices that will definitionally train Christians in virtue and that can't be answerable to their histories. Is there, for instance, an account of prayer that has anything useful to say about a slave-owning...
369) All waiting is long
Author
Series
Publisher
Kaylie Jones Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Violet helps her sixteen-year-old sister, Lily, travel to an infant asylum in Philadelphia so Lily can have her child in secret. They do not know the asylum's physician is experimenting on the girls with eugenics. After five years, both women are back in Scranton finding their way in marriage and engagement and grapple with their worth and virtue.
370) Take the lead
Author
Series
Dance with me volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up in foster care, Officer Traci Lucky had a rough start to life, but things are looking up now that she's found a place in Bridgeport with two sisters she never knew she had. One night while on the job Traci finds Gwen, a pregnant teen caught up in a dangerous world of drugs, and takes her straight to the hospital. There Traci encounters the oh-so-charming Dr. Matt Rossi, who surprises Traci with his compassion--and his movie-star good looks....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
As the twenty-first century enters its second decade, foreign wars, the lingering recession, and a caustic political environment are taking their toll on Americans. But the party hasn't ended for Aidan Cole and his friends, a band of savvy, if cynical, New York journalists and bloggers who thrive at the intersection of media and celebrity. At wine-sodden dinner parties or in dimly lit downtown bars, their frenetic talk-of scoops and page views, sexual...
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Examines the corporate practice of gathering massive amounts of data on consumer behaviors, needs, and desires, and using it to influence decision making and determine how much individuals will pay based on how much they are able to.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2002, c1987
Language
English
Description
In these wonderfully funny and poignant stories, Willett's eccentric, complex characters think and do the unconventional. Soft, euphonic women gradually grow old; weak, unhappy men confront love and their own mortality; and abominable children desperately try to grow up with grace. With a unique voice and dry humor, Willett gives us a new insight into human existence, showing us those specific moments in relationships when life suddenly becomes visible.
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