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... life has been turned upside down. She’s lost her job, witnessed a murder, possibly committed a few felonies ... London’s Soho has always been home, but the lack of a job and entanglement in a murder offer little choice but to board the Queen Mary for New York. But first class on the luxury liner is no safe ...
... bad-ass experience that way. A friend suggests she get a job on The Glorious Fool, a ship that has seen a lot of ... much to my delight. Devi is initially pretty bored in her new job and isn't sure she'll make it a whole year if all she ...
... abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can ... and her own medical issues led her to leave a demanding job. Wintering explores how she not only endured this ... the hardships that arise before the ushering in of a new season. Katherine May Wintering: The Power of Rest and ...
Though Ann Leckie's new novel involves larger issues of political intrigue and ... from the home (and even the planet). They give Enae a job to do that will take hir out into the universe. Enae is ... where he comes from. He keeps his head down and does his job, but knows there's something missing. When he's ...
... memory, emotion, and time. Dirty Computers are feared in New Dawn, a totalitarian regime where thoughts are a ... memories: happy, sad, good or bad. This seems like a cool job, but the idea that whoever controls our memories ... dystopian novels like The Handmaid's Tale , Brave New World , Fahrenheit 451 , and 1984 where the government ...
... Things . In this novel set in early Twentieth Century New York, a young woman, who is displayed by her father as a ... life in Germany during World War II, a young teacher, newly married to a military surgeon, struggles to keep her ... food writer and restaurant critic, a young woman gets a job as an assistant at a food and cooking magazine in New ...
... at the height of and in the epicenter of the epidemic, 1988 New York City. Kevin Doyle lost his beloved partner, ... funeral, of one of his closest friends, Kevin loses his job and then drinks himself into the hospital. Now he's ... face his feelings and figure out how to start to build a new life without Francesco. The pain and rage of Kevin and ...
... Popular audiobook narrator and actress Julia Whelan's new novel is about a famous audiobook narrator and actress ... all too well. But really, the universal need to adjust to new realities is something we all face in different ways. ... back to Los Angeles and finds out that she's landed the job of a lifetime duet narrating the "lost" books of a ...
... man as part of a business transaction and moves with him to New York City. Danticat, Edwidge. Everything Inside . ... the lives of migrants from Haiti. Ellmann, Lucy. Ducks, Newburyport . This large stream-of consciousness novel is ... novel, an Indian-American pharmaceutical rep loses his job, renames himself after Don Quixote, and uses his old ...
... historical mystery set in 1921, a white woman escapes from New York City with a gunshot wound and a large pile of cash; ... even more racist, is an African-American man who lands a job as an attorney at a powerful law firm and fears for the ... young woman from urban Bangalore, India loses her job and moves to a rural area in Kashmir to find an old ...
... and nervous about An Easy Death the first in a brand new trilogy. Would my old Harris excitement return? Or the ... is back. An Easy Death introduces readers to a whole new world and time and a great set of characters, centering ... of her team, killed on her last assignment, she takes the job. And the shootouts ensue (interspersed with magic and ...
... on the moon where he's currently living. He's taken a job as a barrista and though he sings along to the music of ... Dyesi convinces him to enter the competition to become a new god. Phex is skeptical, but figures he's got nothing to ... as Phex ventures out of his taciturn shell to not only form new connections but find his own strength as a leader was ...
... them both safely home to South Africa. Cook, Diane. The New Wilderness . In this dystopian novel, a couple whose ... finds himself in financial trouble, and takes on one last job to try to pay off his bills. Dimaline, Cherie. Empire ... tells the story of a suicidal young writer who takes a job as a personal assistant to a famous Hollywood actress ...
... and each poppy seed on her cake, but she also had a job she liked - teaching grade schoolers - and she even ... way she meets Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (19 letters), finds a new place in her family and a new role in life. This charming, bittersweet novel hit all ...
... to Princeton, 1775-1777 . Bazelon, Emily. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass ... Crisis and Its Lessons . Bilefsky, Dan. The Last Job: The “Bad Grandpas” and the Hatton Garden Heist . ... Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us . The Stonewall Reader . Ed. by New York Public Library. Thompson, ...
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... she’s a shaman, she is immediately called upon to use her newfound powers of oneness with the City to rescue it from a ... description to get me started. Sharon is a pretty brand-new shaman who is still struggling to understand just what ... but unsure just how to go about such a thing. Her day job as a barrista certainly doesn't fulfill her (especially ...
Anne Capestan knew she’d be punished for her itchy trigger finger, but ... the Parisian police commissaire was lucky to still have her job, but is stunned when she learns that she is to lead a ... for an American audience. Translator Sam Gordon does a fine job rendering the original into comprehensible English while ...