Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
Godmothers to one another's children, four women who married into a prosperous Italian family must come together, despite secrets and betrayals, when their husbands are forced to leave them during World War II, pitting them against notorious gangsters who run the streets of New York City.
Filomena is a clever and resourceful war refugee with a childhood secret, who comes to America to wed Mario, the family's favored son. Amie, a beautiful and dreamy...
Author
Language
English
Description
Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy, her...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Patience Portefeux, fifty-three, an underpaid Franco-Arab judicial interpreter for the Ministry of Justice who specialises in telephone tapping. Widowed after the sudden death of her husband, Patience is now wedged between university fees for her two grown-up daughters and nursing home costs for her ageing mother. She's laboured for twenty-five years to keep everyone's heads above water. Happening upon an especially revealing set of police wiretaps...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Megascope
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A historical graphic novel inspired by Harlem's legendary mobster, Stephanie St. Clair. The story tackles the themes of colonization, corruption, police violence, and radical identity, but above all, Queenie celebrates the genuis of a woman forgotten by history.- From back cover
Author
Series
Tita Rosie's kitchen volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The next riveting mystery in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen series by Mia P. Manansala, Agatha Award-winning author of Arsenic and Adobo. Lila Macapagal's godmothers April, Mae, and June-AKA the Calendar Crew-are celebrating the opening of their latest joint business venture, a chain of laundromats. However, what should've been a joyous occasion quickly turns into a tragedy when they discover the body of Ninang April's niece, recently arrived from the...
Author
Publisher
Three Rooms Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
What happens when Tinker Bell is in love with both Peter Pan and Wendy? In this sparkling re-imagining of Peter Pan, Peter and Wendy's granddaughter Hope Darling finds the reclusive Tinker Bell squatting at the Darling mansion in order to care for the graves of her two lost friends after a love triangle gone awry. As Hope wins the fairy's trust, Tink tells her the truth about Wendy and Peter--and her own role in their ultimate fate. Told in three...
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new Survivor's Club novel from the New York Times bestselling author. The Survivors' Club: Six men and one woman, all wounded in the Napoleonic Wars, their friendship forged during their recovery at Penderris Hall in Cornwall. Now, for one of them, striking a most unusual bargain will change his life forever.. Ralph Stockwood prides himself on being a leader, but when he convinced his friends to fight in the Napoleonic Wars, he never envisioned...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Raven and Beast Boy are more than just the coolest group of teenaged superheroes in Jump City--they're the Teen Titans! And everyone's favorite pizza-loving super-team is always ready for the next awesome adventure. The Titans will go head-to-mouth with a pair of robotic teeth controlled by an alien virus, help cure Starfire's super gross, super-powered Tamaranean flu and face off against Teen Titans East in an epic baseball...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Quinn never expected that her best friend's courageous decision to be a single mother by choice would end up transforming her own life in this poignant novel from USA Today bestselling author Robin Wells. When Quinn Langston's best friend unexpectedly passes away, Quinn knows she'll do anything to protect Brooke's three-year-old daughter Lily and her grandmother Margaret. Not only is Quinn the little girl's godmother, but they are the family she...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In her first year of motherhood after an unplanned pregnancy, Cate is constantly exhausted, spiraling into self-doubt and postpartum anxiety. Her husband, Sam, seems oblivious, but maybe she'd prefer he reamin in the dark. How can she admit the unthinkable--the she misses her freedom? In contrast, Hannah continues to endure round after round of unsuccessful IVF treaments. The process is taking its toll on her physically and emotionally--and, she...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes a captivating original novel set between Disney's Maleficent and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, in which newly-queened Aurora struggles to be the best leader to both the humans and Fair Folk under her reign; her beau, Prince Phillip, longs to get to know Aurora and her kingdom better; and Maleficent has trouble letting go of the past"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author Brownsville and Amigoland--a stunning and timely new novel about a Mexican-American family in a Texas border town who reluctantly become involved in smuggling immigrants into the United States. Brownsville, Texas, has a dangerous reputation: it sits on the U.S. side of the bridge into Matamoros, Mexico, a city controlled by notorious cartels. But that isn't why 12-year-old Orly doesn't want to visit. Though he's still grieving...
Author
Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 6
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Electra d'Aplièse is a top model who seems to have it all: beauty, fame, and wealth. But beneath the glittery veneer, she's cracking under all the pressure. When her father dies, she turns to alcohol and drugs to ease the pain. As friends and colleagues fear for her health, Electra receives a shocking letter from a stranger who claims to be her grandmother. In 1939, New Yorker Cecily Huntley-Morgan arrives in Kenya's Lake Naivasha region for the...
Author
Series
One dozen daughters volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Valdemar series and romantic fantasies like Beauty and the Werewolf and The Fairy Godmother. JAMES MALLORY and Lackey have collaborated on six novels. Now. these New York Times and USA Today bestselling collaborators bring romance to the fore with The House of Four Winds. The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince's future is assured,...
In Marina
Didn't find what you need? Items that were published more than six months ago and which are not owned by AACPL can be requested from other Marina libraries in Maryland.
Didn't find a newly published title?
Looking for a title that was published in the past six months? You can submit a purchase suggestion. Please do not submit purchase suggestions for titles that have not yet been published. Submit Request