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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Newly minted professional matchmaker Sophie Go has returned to Toronto, her hometown, after spending three years in Shanghai. Her job is made quite difficult, however, when she is revealed as a fraud--she never actually graduated from matchmaking school. In a competitive market like Toronto, no one wants to take a chance on an inexperienced and unaccredited matchmaker, and soon Sophie becomes an outcast. In dire search of clients, Sophie stumbles...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished...
644) Hearts divided
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two little girls - one white, one colored; one free, one a slave; one never afraid, the other ever looking over her shoulder - become unlikely friends in 1852, Bedford County, Virginia. Instinctively, they know they must keep their friendship a secret. Willa and Surry are both from loving families, but Surry's parents are slaves and can't protect their daughter from the plantation overseer's cruel hand. Overhearing her parents argue about "bein' free,"...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Few outsiders will ever witness the dark misdeeds of the Heavenly Host. And within this secret society, where exiled Georgian aristocrats gather to indulge their carnal desires, fewer still can match the appetite of Viscount Rohan. Now Rohan has encountered the fascination of a woman who won't be swayed. Although appalled by his dark seduction, the pure and impoverished Elinor Harriman is intrigued by the man behind the desire.
647) A winter scandal
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When plain and proper Thea Bainbridge stumbles upon a baby in the manger of her church's nativity, she is shocked. Finding a brooch bearing the insignia of Gabriel, Lord Morecombe hidden among the child's clothing, she's certain the dissolute rake is to blame. Thea sets out to reproach the arrogant lord - only to find herself utterly swept away. Gabriel maintains his innocence, but the brooch is one he remembers all too well. . . (Bestseller)
648) The Wizard of Oz
Author
Publisher
Usborne House ;Tulsa, Oklahoma
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After Dorothy's house is carried off by a tornado, she finds herself in the strange and magical Land of Oz. With the help of her new friends the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion, she must persuade the Wizard of Oz to help her get back to Kansas. L. Frank Baum's timeless fantasy is beautifully recreated in this enchanting graphic novel."--
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