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- Transient desires / by Leon, Donna,author.;
- "In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native city, Venice, to discover the person responsible. Now, in Transient Desires, the thirtieth novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians. However,Brunetti's curiosity is aroused by the behavior of the young men, who abandoned the victims after taking them to the hospital. If the injuries were the result of an accident, why did they want to avoid association with it? As Brunetti and his colleague,Claudia Griffoni, investigate the incident, they discover that one of the young men works for a man rumored to be involved in more sinister nighttime activities in the Laguna. To get to the bottom of what proves to be a gut-wrenching case, Brunetti needsto enlist the help of both the Carabinieri and the Guardia di Costiera. Determining how much trust he and Griffoni can put in these unfamiliar colleagues adds to the difficulty of solving a peculiarly horrible crime whose perpetrators are technologicallybrilliant and ruthlessly organized. Donna Leon's Transient Desires is as powerful as any novel she has written, testing Brunetti to his limits and forcing him to listen very carefully for the truth"--
- Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Brunetti, Guido (Fictitious character); Police;
- Shy / by Porter, Max,author.;
- Things keep slipping up for Shy. All he wants is sex, spliffs and his own turntables, and for all the red noise in his mind to disappear. But again and again he spirals past his senses and ends up with his head in his hands and carnage around him. You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You mustn't hurt yourself like that. He's been kicked out of two schools, been cautioned, arrested, stabbed his stepdad in the finger and bottled a former Tumble Tots playmate, but it's the taunts and teasing of his new schoolmates that haunt Shy. Shy's got no armpit hair / Shy needs fake ID to buy fags / Got your special meds, nutcase? At Last Chance - a home for 'very disturbed young men' - he is surrounded by people who want to help him, but his night terrors aren't getting any better. The night is huge and it hurts. So tonight he's stepping into it, with the haunted beginnings of a plan.
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Guilt; Imagination; Teenage boys;
- 12 Angry Men. by Friedkin, William,film director.; C. Scott, George,actor.; Cronyn, Hume,actor.; Lemmon, Jack,actor.; MGM (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- George C. Scott, Hume Cronyn, Jack LemmonOriginally produced by MGM in 1997.Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott lead an all-star cast in this compelling look at the jury deliberations in a murder trial for which a conviction means sending a young man to death row. In the course of the deliberations, a fair-minded juror (Lemmon) exposes enough holes in the prosecution's cut-and-dry case to create a reasonable doubt and cast light on the prejudices that can too often pollute the legal system. Adapted from the classic 1957 United Artists drama.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Drama.; Motion pictures.;
- Burn the Haystack : Decode Dating, Torch the Duds, and Make Room for Men Who Matter. by Young, Jennie.;
- Most conventional dating advice tells women to date as widely as possible to find "the needle in the haystack" they are looking for. Jennie Young started the Burned Haystack Facebook group believing that was a waste of time. Just burn the haystack! In Young's eagerly awaited first book, learn how to quickly eliminate men from the pool who aren't worth your time by using her techniques to identify common toxic rhetorical patterns in men's messaging.Library Bound Incorporated
- Subjects: FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dating; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric; PSYCHOLOGY / Interpersonal Relations; SELF-HELP / Communication & Social Skills; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem;
- A single thread / by Chevalier, Tracy,author.;
- 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals. There, Violet is drawn into a society of broderers--women who embroider kneelers for the Cathedral, carrying on a centuries-long tradition of bringing comfort to worshippers. Violet finds support and community in the group, fulfillment in the work they create, and even a growing friendship with the vivacious Gilda. But when forces threaten her new independence and another war appears on the horizon, Violet must fight to put down roots in a place where women aren't expected to grow.
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Female friendship; Needleworkers; Women;
- Seven roads to revenge : a Ralph Compton novel / by Stowers, Carlton.;
- When his farm is burned to the ground and his wife and sons are murdered, Carl Novak, while keeping his young daughter safe, embarks on a dangerous mission of revenge, determined to bring the men responsible to bloody justice.
- Subjects: Western fiction.; Murder; Revenge; Farmers; Widowers; Fathers and daughters;
- The Duke and I / by Quinn, Julia,1970-author.;
- "In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable ... but not too amiable. Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. She has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen. Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Yet an encounter with his best friend's sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar. The plan works like a charm--at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: Love ignores every rule ... "--Back cover.
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Aristocracy (Social class); Man-woman relationships; Nobility;
- The Duke and I / by Quinn, Julia,1970-author.;
- "In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable ... but not too amiable. Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. She has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen. Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Yet an encounter with his best friend's sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar. The plan works like a charm--at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: Love ignores every rule ... "--Back cover.
- Subjects: Romance fiction.; Historical fiction.; Aristocracy (Social class); Man-woman relationships; Nobility;
- A single thread [sound recording] / by Chevalier, Tracy,author.; Woolgar, Fenella,narrator.; Penguin Audio (Firm),publisher.;
- Read by Fenella Woolgar.1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals. There, Violet is drawn into a society of broderers--women who embroider kneelers for the Cathedral, carrying on a centuries-long tradition of bringing comfort to worshippers. Violet finds support and community in the group, fulfillment in the work they create, and even a growing friendship with the vivacious Gilda. But when forces threaten her new independence and another war appears on the horizon, Violet must fight to put down roots in a place where women aren't expected to grow.
- Subjects: Audiobooks.; Historical fiction.; Female friendship; Needleworkers; Women;
- Age of consent / by Brainerd, Amanda,author.;
- Over the course of one year at a Connecticut boarding school and a transformative summer in New York City in the 1980s, three young women negotiate friendship, crushes, parties, privilege, and the sexual interest of older men on the journey from innocence to independence.
- Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Friendship; Sex; Boarding schools; Schools;
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