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Heavenly tyrant / by Zhao, Xiran Jay,author.;
After suffering devastating loss and making drastic decisions, Zetian finds herself on the seat of power in Huaxia, but she has also learned that her world is not as it seems. Revelations about an enemy who dangles one of her loved ones as a hostage force Zetian to share power with a dangerous man she cannot simply depose. Despite their mutual dislike and distrust, the two must work together to take down their common enemy and stoke a revolution against the systems of exploitation that plague their world.014+.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Queer fiction.; Science fiction.; Young adult fiction.; Novels.; Imaginary wars and battles; Mecha (Vehicles); Teenagers; Imaginary wars and battles; Mecha (Vehicles); Teenagers;
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Poirot. [videorecording (DVD)] / by Christie, Agatha,1890-1976.Mysterious affair at Styles.Videorecording.; Fraser, Hugh.; Jackson, Philip.; Suchet, David.; Acorn Media (Firm); Granada International (Firm); London Weekend Television, ltd.;
David Suchet, Hugh Fraser.A war-wounded Hastings travels to the Styles St. Mary estate of his friend John Cavendish. The Cavendish household is wrought with tension due to the marriage of John's widowed mother to a suspicious younger man. Hastings runs into his old friend Hercule Poirot, and when the estate's troubles turn deadly, the friends unite to solve the case.PG.DVD ; Dolby Digital sound ; full screen presentation.
Subjects: Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.; Detective and mystery television programs.; Poirot, Hercule (Fictitious character); Television adaptations.;
© c2000., Acorn Media,
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Good duke gone wild / by Bennett, Bethany(Romance author),author.;
"As a widow, Caroline Danvers has carved out a content existence, working at her family's bookshop and writing erotic novels under a pen name. Her life is simple, but her imagination is a vast wonderland of desire and romantic tales inspired by a handsome customer-a duke who will never know she exists. Dorian Whitaker, Duke of Holland, is known for two things: his role as a diplomat in the war, and his famous love match with his now-dead wife. Except, his blissful marriage was a lie. All he wants now is to be left alone. When Dorian hires a bookshop to handle the liquidation and donation of his wife's library, he's thrown together with an utterly desirable bookseller who upends his hard-won peace, and sends him on a hunt for the identity of his dead wife's lover. However, when faced with the choice of attaining closure in his old life, or beginning a new one with a working-class woman who harbors her own secrets, the duke must decide where his heart truly lies, and if that heart is capable of trusting again"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; Adultery; Letters; Man-woman relationships; Nobility; Regency; Secrecy; Widowers; Widows; Women authors; Women booksellers;
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Your presence is mandatory : a novel / by Vasilyuk, Sasha,author.;
"A riveting debut novel of family secrets, based on real events, about a Jewish, Ukrainian veteran with a secret that could land him in the gulag, and his wife and children who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them. Yefim Shulman, husband, father, grandfather, and war veteran, was beloved by his family and his coworkers. But in the days after his death, his widow finds an old letter to the KGB in his briefcase. Yefim had a lifelong secret, and his confession letter reveals what he'd hidden from all who knew him. Your Presence Is Mandatory moves between Yefim's struggles as a Ukrainian Jew in Hitler's Germany, his years concealing from the Soviet authorities and his family the choices he made to survive the war, and the effect his coverup had on the lives of his wife Nina and two children in Donbas, Ukraine between WWII and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. From Germany's prison camps and forced labor system to the Soviet culture of pride and paranoia, Sasha Vasilyuk grapples with the crushing weight of history on one family, and what grace they find in the course of their survival"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Family secrets; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Veterans; World War, 1939-1945;
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The rancher / by Schmidt, Anna.;
The world is changing, and the West isn't as wild as it used to be. Trey Porterfield welcomes a new era of law and order--and the influx of settlers coming to the Arizona territory. But not everyone is willing to see the old ways change, and as the cattlemen and the herders take sides, a full-blown range war may be inevitable. There's only one way Trey can see to bring peace to his feuding neighbors. Marry the enemy. Nell Stokes is a young widow fighting just to stay alive. In Trey, she sees a chance to heal old wounds and start over. Love was never in the cards, yet as Trey and Nell fight to unite the feuding land, they'll discover a passion neither could have expected...and a danger far greater than either has ever known.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Western fiction.; Historical fiction.; Ranchers; Widows; Man-woman relationships;
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Three hours in Paris / by Black, Cara,1951-author.;
"Three Hours in Paris is the story of Kate Rees, the young American markswoman who has been recruited by British intelligence to drop into Paris on the dangerous business of trying to assassinate the Führer. A country girl from rural Oregon--a grieving widow with no spy training but a vendetta and a lot of gumption--now has the state of the entire war in her hands. When the hit goes badly wrong, Kate is on the run for her life-all the time wrestling with the suspicion that the whole operation was a set-up. Beloved author Cara Black--author of the New York Times bestselling Aimée Leduc Parisian private investigator series--brings Occupation-era Paris to vivid life in this pulse-pounding, richly detailed story about one young American woman with the moxie to take on Hitler himself"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Spy fiction.; Historical fiction.; Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945; World War, 1939-1945; Snipers; Attempted assassination;
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The kitchen front : a novel / by Ryan, Jennifer,1973-author.;
"From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio program called The Kitchen Front is putting on a cooking contest--and the grand prize is a job as the program's first-ever female co-host. For four very different women, winning the contest presents a crucial chance to change their lives. For a young widow, it's a chance to pay off her husband's debts and keep aroof over her children's heads. For a kitchen maid, it's a chance to leave servitude and find freedom. For the lady of the manor, it's a chance to escape her wealthy husband's increasingly hostile behavior. And for a trained chef, it's a chance to challenge the men at the top of her profession. These four women are giving the competition their all--even if that sometimes means bending the rules. But with so much at stake, will the contest that aims to bring the community together serve only to break it apart?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Recipes.; Cooking; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Death to the Emperor / by Scarrow, Simon,author.;
AD 60 Britannia. The Empire's hold on the province is fragile ... The king of the Iceni is dead and a proud kingdom is set for plundering and annexation. But the widow is Queen Boudica, a woman with a warrior's heart. If Boudica calls for death to the emperor, a bloodbath will follow. Macro and Cato each face deadly battles against enemies who would rather die than succumb to Roman rule. The future of Britannia hangs in the balance"--Publisher.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Cato, Quintus Licinius (Fictitious character); Macro, Lucius Cornelius (Fictitious character); Romans;
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The loyal heart / by Gray, Shelley Shepard,author.;
"Robert came to Galveston to fulfill his promise to a dying man and look after his widow. He didn't expect to find love in the unlikeliest of places.Robert Truax, former Second Lieutenant and Confederate officer in the Civil War, made a promise to his comrade Phillip Markham. If anything happened to Phillip, Robert would look after his beloved wife, Miranda. She was his life, his world, his everything.After the war, Robert is left to pick up the pieces and fulfill his pact. When he arrives at Miranda's home in Galveston, Texas, things are worse than he imagined. Phillip's name has been dragged through the mud, everyone in town believes him to be a traitor, and his widow is treated as an outcast. Even more disturbing is her emotional well-being. Miranda seems hopeless, lost, and so very alone. Robert had thought his duty would be simple. He would help Miranda as quickly as possible in order to honor a promise. But the moment Robert laid eyes on her, his plans changed. He's mesmerized by her beauty and yearns to help her in any way he can.He makes it his duty to protect Miranda, turn her reputation around, and to find some way to help her smile again. But it doesn't prove to be an easy task Robert knows something about Phillip that could shake Miranda to the core and alter her view of the man she thought she knew so well. "--
Subjects: Religious fiction.; Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Confederate States of America. Army; Widows;
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The right sort of man / by Montclair, Allison,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In a London slowly recovering from World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair--The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, quick-witted and impulsive, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, practical and widowed with a young son, are determined to achieve some independence and do some good in a rapidly changing world. But the promising start to their marriage bureau is threatened when their newest client, Tillie La Salle, is found murdered and the man arrested for the crime is the prospective husband they matched her with. While the police are convinced they have their man, Miss Sparks and Mrs. Bainbridge are not. To clear his name--and to rescue their fledging operation's reputation--Sparks and Bainbridge decide to investigate on their own, using the skills and contacts they've each acquired through life and their individual adventures during the recent war."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Businesswomen; Dating services; Marriage; Murder;
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