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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
Carolina Setterwall's novel recounts the intensity of falling in love with her partner Aksel, and the shock of finding him dead in bed one morning. Carolina and Aksel meet at a party, and their passionate first encounter leads to months of courtship during which Carolina struggles to find her place. She unpacks with forensic intensity the small details of life before tragedy, eager to find some explanation for the bad hand she's been dealt.
85) The legacy
Author
Series
Off-campus volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Pbk. ed.
Language
English
Description
Come for the drama, stay for the laughs! Catch up with your favourite Off-Campus characters as they navigate the changes that come with growing up and discover that big decisions can have big consequences...and big rewards.
Author
Series
Belles of London volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victorian high society's most daring equestrienne finds love and an unexpected ally in her fight for independence in the strong arms of London's most sought after and devastatingly handsome half-Indian tailor. Evelyn Maltravers understands exactly how little she's worth on the marriage mart. As an incurable bluestocking from a family tumbling swiftly toward ruin, she knows she'll never make a match in a ballroom. Her only hope is to distinguish herself...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Incisive linked stories about a lesbian couple moving from San Francisco to the Cannery Row, the heart of Steinbeck country, wonderful profiles of their new neighbors and the challenges of being strangers in a new place. A narrator, raised in a working-class Croatian American fishing family and immigrant community, enjoys an early career in labor-oriented jobs. Years later, she unexpectedly finds herself in an academic position in a white-collar...
88) Before the crown
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Offers a fictionalized account of the courtship between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip.
94) Suddenly
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In a gripping story of survival set against the stark backdrop of the Antarctic Ocean, a couple shipwrecked on an island must trust each other with their lives"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair--until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend. A devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain resembles Cary Grant, but his strident comments about Grace's doctoral thesis...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father) and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose domineering mother, Helen, is a famous feminist. Though both Yasmin's parents and Joe's mother approve of the marriage, the cultural gulf between them is vast as, it turns out, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. The novel opens as Yasmin, her parents and her brother pile into...
97) Hide: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The love story of Wendell Wilson, a taxidermist and Frank Clifton, a World War II veteran, who have kept their relationship secret. Now in old age, Frank suffers a mild stroke and together they must navigate their fears, new and old.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Neef and Danny, the only boy of color in their small Yorkshire town, form a friendship that gives way to romance as they grow up until substance abuse, poverty and racism tear them apart, and Neef tries to forget he ever existed until someone from those days comes seeking redemption.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Mr. Eternity , a darkly comic road novel about a millennial couple facing the ultimate question: how to live and love in an age of catastrophe. Young Miami couple Murphy and Eva have almost decided to have a baby when Yahweh, the Old Testament God, appears to Eva and makes an unwelcome demand: He wants her to be his prophet.
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