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Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Bombay's only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex family dynamics as she seeks justice for a mistreated young woman in this thrilling fourth installment in Sujata Massey's award-winning series. India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser...
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Publisher
Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This gripping account of the highest-ranked woman in the Third Reich who, as Head Overseer of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, was personally responsible for the murder, torture and suffering of countless prisoners, explores how she became to embody the very worst of humanity."--
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Series
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Diamond Comic Distributors
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The two titans of horror and comedy unite in comics for the very first time! Dynamite Entertainment Proudly Presents... Elvira Meets Vincent Price!
Elvira is back, with her most historic AND greatest costar ever! The ghost of Vincent Price is a spirit with a mission, and only the Mistress of the Dark can help! The Apocalypse is coming, and it's going to be live-streamed for binge-watching, but a long-lost movie can save the world... if only the movie...
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"The utterly charming Emily Leverton has a dark past and is determined to leave it behind in her respectable new role as a governess. But when she is recruited by a secret network of governesses who spy on the ton, it may just be a way to redeem the darksecrets of her past. Straddling the worlds of the ton and the working class, as an ex-solider turned railroad magnate, Zach hunts killers for the Metropolitan Police by day and dutifully attends balls...
5) The familiar
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"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
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English
Description
Composed for the Paris Opéra, the romantic but ultimately tragic narrative of Donizetti's grand opera La Favorite is set amidst the Moorish invasions of Spain and the power struggles between religion and the state in the 14th century. The novice Fernand abandons his monastery having fallen in love with the noble Léonor, not knowing that she is the King's mistress and favorite. Drawing on traditions established by Rossini and Meyerbeer, La Favorite...
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Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Indonesian
Description
Set amid the political violence of late-1960s Indonesia, this film follows Nana, the beautiful wife of a wealthy plantation owner whose inner life remains with her deceased first husband, murdered in the civil war a decade prior. A survivor, Nana values her safety and material comforts, but carries out a haunted existence, dreaming of her lost love. Forced to confront her husband's blatant infidelity, Nana makes an unusual connection with his younger...
9) The agnostic
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A Christian widow is contacted by a strange man, who turns out to be the husband of her late husband's mistress"--
Language
English
Description
Adam had four sons: A beautiful young governess keeps a family from destroying itself in this sensitive, affectionate drama. Emilie Gallatin (Ingrid Bergman) a gentle and affectionate foreign girl, comes into an American home to serve as the governess for Adam's (Warner Baxter) four sons. Her devotion and innate strength sees the family through the death of Adam's wife and the financial failure of his business.
Cactus Flower: Cactus Flower is a...
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Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From Tigray to the World, A Love Story Through Food Mother-daughter duo Tekebash and Saba tell their story, and the story of their homeland, Ethiopia, through the lens of food, demonstrating how sharing food from another culture can offer us all a path forward, towards empathy and understanding, and a world that is more cohesive and connected. Born in Tigray, Tekebash escaped the civil war at the age of 17 to join other refugees in Sudan. She has...
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