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Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A woman struggles to transform a sexual relationship into a loving one. Helene Hugel lives on a farm with an uncle in New York State and the object of her affection is Harry, the owner of a nearby bar. But Harry is only interested in sex and Helene wants love.
Author
Publisher
Blind Rabbit Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"History and fiction merge seamlessly in this thrilling historical novel based on one of America's greatest unsolved mysteries. Lewis and Clark's last journey is a classic story of honor, vengeance, and redemption."--P. [4] of cover.
523) The parting glass
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Vividly recreates the class and ethnic conflicts of early-19th-century New York City. In the 1830s, Maire O'Farren and her brother, Seanin, flee Ireland's poverty and political strife for a better life in America. Because of hostility to immigrants, Maire changes her name to Mary Ballard and assumes a British accent to secure a job as lady's maid to the rich and beautiful Charlotte Walden. Seanin, now calling himself Johnny Prior, gets a position...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Middle-aged accountant Richard Hayes of New York receives a call from his sister, announcing she just murdered her husband, under the delusion he was her abusive father. To save her neck, Hayes has the unpleasant task of revealing secrets which will besmirch the family. A first novel.
Author
Publisher
Villard
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A husband dies while copulating with his wife in their kitchen. As she is pinned by his weight, Audrey Haas uses a carving knife to cut off his penis so she can free herself. It's the start of a hilarious time as everyone tries to exploit the event to their own end, police, reporters, lawyers, feminists, book publishers and moviemakers.
527) Rounds
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1979.
Language
English
Description
Eli Silver is a pediatrician in Upstate New York who has accidentally let his only child die. The Sorensons are a childless couple who move from house to house, rebuilding old structures in an effort to rebuild their lives. Elizabeth Bean is a working woman-- unmarried, pregnant, and determined to bear her child. The lives of these people intersect, and eventually interlock, through circumstances that involve both the vagaries of bodily functions...
528) Running in bed
Author
Publisher
Two Harbors Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
The novel tells the story of a young gay advertising executive struggling to find himself and true love in 1970's New York. Author Jeffrey Sharlach paints a picture of life in New York for a gay man at that moment in history. From the streets of Greenwich Village to summers on Fire Island to the dawn of AIDS, Sharlach writes with humor, poignancy, and charm, presenting characters who are universal in their appeal. Running in Bed's incomparable, evocative...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A man haunted by the mercy killing of his wife works out his guilt by saving a life. Sam Pollack's wife was dying from cancer and begged him to be put out of her misery. Pollack, a carpenter, finds work in a foster home, becoming the children's protector against some nasty people and saves the life of one of them.
530) The catch
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
While playing cat and mouse with a husband-and-wife team of drug smugglers, DEA agent Joseph Kessler falls for the wife. He catches the husband, but the wife springs him and the hunt resumes, this time with a violent ending. By the author of Rush.
Author
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1883 and America is at a crossroads. The Civil War is nearly twenty years in the past, Reconstruction has been crushed in the South, and the Gilded Age is bringing unprecedented prosperity to some, along with radical social and class conflicts. At a tiny college in upstate New York, an idealistic young professor has managed to convince Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Confederate memoirist...
532) Secrets never die
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When a retired sheriff's deputy is shot to death in his home, his troubled teenage stepson, Evan, becomes the prime suspect. Even more incriminating, the boy disappeared from the scene of the crime. Desperate to find her son, Evan's mother begs PI Lance Kruger for help. She knows her son is innocent. Kruger and defense attorney Morgan Dane want to believe that too, but the evidence against the boy is damning. Just as the trail goes cold, another deputy...
533) The devil in denim
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As the team-owner's daughter, Maggie Jameson grew up in the New York Saints' stadium - glove, cap, hot dogs, and all. Baseball's in her blood, and she's always dreamed of the day when she would lead the Saints to victory herself. That was before her dad had to sell the team to Alex Winters. The fast-talking, fiercely attractive businessman has a baseball pedigree that's distinctly minor league. Maggie wants to hate him but his skills of seduction,...
534) Briar queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"The dark, moody, and mystical fantasy begun in Thorn Jack, the first novel in the Night and Nothing series, continues in this bewitching follow up -- an intriguing blend of Twilight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Alice in Wonderland, and A Midsummer Night's Dream -- in which Finn Sullivan discovers that her town, Fair Hollow, borders a dangerous otherworld . . . Serafina Sullivan and her father left San Francisco to escape the painful memory of her...
535) Drown her sorrows
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Sheriff Bree Taggert discovers the body of a young woman floating near the bank of the Scarlet River, a note in her abandoned car suggests suicide. The autopsy reveals a different story. Holly Thorpe was dead long before she dropped off the bridge and hit the water. As Bree and her investigator Matt Flynn delve into the case, secrets in Holly's personal life complicate their efforts to solve the murder. Holly left behind a volatile marriage,...
536) What I've done
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Haley Powell wakes up covered in blood, with no memory of the night before. When she sees a man lying in the backyard, stabbed to death, she has only one terrified thought: What have I done? Agreeing to take the case as a favor to her PI friend Lincoln Sharp, Morgan must scale a mountain of damning circumstantial and forensic evidence to prove her client innocent. Haley's fingerprints are on the murder weapon, and she has no alibi. But Morgan can't...
538) Dog, horse, rat
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
Van West returns to his family and impoverished upstate New York town in the early 1970s, an emotional casualty of Vietnam. Alcoholic and unable to hold a job, he engages in a life of petty crime, sometimes involving his younger brother, Royal. Events take a serious turn one night when, while robbing the vacation home of a wealthy family, they are surprised by the owner's son and murder him in their panic. Though no evidence links them to the crime,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a bittersweet novel about healing old wounds and finding a new place to call home. When her best friend and law partner dies suddenly, Roseanna heads to the foothills of the Adirondacks finding the perfect hideout in a ramshackle farm rich with possibilities and full of surprises"--
A high-powered lawyer in Manhattan, something snaps in Roseanna Chaldecott when her best friend and...
540) Death under glass
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"While Georgia has come to love her new hometown, her stained glass windows haven't exactly been raking in the dough. So when her best friend, Carrie, offers her the opportunity to create a made-to-order window for Wenwood's latest bed and breakfast, Georgia jumps at the chance. But when Carrie's ex-husband's office suddenly burns to the ground and Carrie's own office and apartment are robbed, Georgia has to put down her glass and cutter to get to...
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