Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a shocking past and her dangerous new patient. Brooklyn psychiatrist Dr. Caroline Strange is certain she knows what's best for her patients, her family, and pretty much everyone else, but that all changes when a troubled young man arrives for his appointment and makes a pair of alarming confessions: I am going to kill someone, and I know who you really...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At twenty-two years old, Sydney is enjoying a great life: She's in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her best friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers that Hunter is cheating on her--and she's forced to decide what her next move should be. Soon, Sydney finds herself captivated by her mysterious and attractive neighbor, Ridge. She can't take her eyes off him or stop listening...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May's cousin, the beautiful and exotic Countess Ellen Olenska, is introduced into their circle. The Countess brings with her an aura of European sophistication and a hint of perceived scandal, having left her husband and claimed her independence. Her worldliness, disregard for society's...
4) HEARTBREAKER
Author
Language
English
Description
"Michelle Cabot has inherited her father's Florida cattle ranch -- and a pile of debt, most of which is owed to her neighbouring rancher and arch-nemesis, John Rafferty. But while John thinks he now holds the cards over the spoiled rich girl he once despised, Michelle, desperate to run the Cabot ranch -- the only thing she has left -- all by herself, has other ideas... They may be locked in battle, but are the tough rancher and feisty beauty losing...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set up governments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to the rest of Europe, as prominent European leaders like...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A Finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. In Derricotte's own words: "How do you gain access to the / power of parts of yourself you / abhor, and make them sing / with beauty, tenderness, and compassion? / This is the record of fifty years / of victories in the reclamation / of a poet's voice."
The story of Toi Derricotte is a hero's odyssey. It is the journey of a poetic voice that in each book earns her way to home, to her own commanding...
Author
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When an advice columnist's picture-perfect life implodes, she opts to go rogue in this hilarious, heartwarming romance from the author of Meet Me in Paradise. Violet Covington pens Dear Sweetie, the most popular advice column in the state of North Carolina. She has an answer for how to politely handle any difficult situation...until she discovers her husband, Sam, has been cheating on her. Furious and out of sensible solutions, Violet leaves her...
9) You kill me
Publisher
Genius Products
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He is a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not the touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel, a woman who is dangerously...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a major motion picture starring Lucy Hale and Nat Wolff.
A pair of romantic flameouts meet at a dull wedding and wind up entwined in a deserted coatroom. Shockingly, Jane and John decide not to have sex.
Instead, they embark on a far more dangerous endeavor: sharing the stories of their past love affairs. They tell each other everything, aiming for radical honesty over polished seduction. Jaded as they may be, these two sense that
...11) PAPER MONEY
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"An explosive novel of high finance and underworld villainy from Ken Follett, the grand master of international action and suspense. Look out for Ken's newest book, A Column of Fire, available now. Crime, high finances, and journalism are interconnected in this early thriller by the author of On Wings of Eaglesand Lie Down With Lions. In one suspenseful, action-packed day, fortunes change hands as an ambitious young reporter scrambles to crack the...
13) Deadly blessings
Author
Series
Alex St. James mystery volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Language
English
Description
It's not often Alex St. James has a story like this fall into her lap, only to have it snatched away again. As news researcher at Midwest Focus Television in Chicago, she'd been set to interview a young Polish immigrant woman, pregnant by a Catholic priest. When the woman is found murdered, and Alex tries to investigate, her boss abruptly reassigns her to a fluff piece, so he can give the hot murder story to the station owner's nephew. But anyone...
14) Just love me
Publisher
Facets Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Polish
Description
The love life of a young, hip architect who is torn between two women.
Author
Publisher
Między Słowami
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Polish
Description
Nowy Jork, miasto drapaczy chmur, urokliwych restauracji, rozświetlonych alei i ludzi w ciągłym biegu. Miasto, które spełnia marzenia. Lou przyjeżdża tam, by nauczyć się nowych rzeczy. Wie, jak wiele kilometrów dzieli ją od Londynu, w którym mieszka Sam, jej nowy chłopak. Wie, że świeży związek może nie przetrwać próby odległości. Właśnie wtedy poznaje Josha. Jasne staje się, że każda decyzja, którą podejmie w kwestii...
16) Zmuś Mnie
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novel volume 20
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Albatros Andrzej Kuryłowicz S.C
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Polish
Description
" 'Why is this town called Mother's Rest?' That's all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It's a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular place to go, and...
17) Kiedy odszedłeś
Author
Language
Polish
Description
Gdy cos sie konczy, cox nowego sie zaczyna. Nie mysl o mnie za czesto... Po prostu zyj dobrze. Po prostu zyj. Will Tyle ze Lou nie ma pojecia, jak to zrobic. I trudno jej sie dziwic. A jednak Kiedy odszedles to nie tylko historia o podnoszeniu sie po utraconej milosci, lecz takze inspirujaca opowiesc o nowych poczatkach. Pamietajac o obietnicy zlozonej ukochanemu, Lou stara sie znajdowac nowe powody, dla ktorych warto czekac na kazdy kolejny dzien.
Louisa...
Author
Language
Polish
Description
"Dawson Cole i Amanda Collier. Chłopak z nizin społecznych, wychowany w rodzinie cieszącej się jak najgorszą sławą w całym hrabstwie Pamlico. I dziewczyna z przeciwnego bieguna społecznego pragnąca zostać nauczycielką. Różnice wynikające z pochodzenia, wychowanie, nieprzychylni ludzie - wszystko to sprawiło, że tych dwoje nie mogło być razem, choć oboje bardzo tego pragnęli. Dawson, który w młodości niechcący zabił człowieka,...
Author
Publisher
Wydawnictwo WAB
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Polish
Description
"The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice--her truth--was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey--and the strength at the core of one of the greatest...
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary.The powerful first-person narratives of this collection show us a world where gender exists along a spectrum,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request