Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1925. In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O'Dea became Archie Christie's mistress, luring him away from his devoted and well-known wife, Agatha Christie. The question is, why? Why destroy another woman's marriage, why hatch a plot years in the making, and why murder? How was Nan O'Dea so intricately tied to those eleven mysterious days that Agatha Christie went missing?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Aviva Grossman, an ambitious congressional intern in Florida, makes the mistake of having an affair with her boss -- and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the beloved congressman doesn’t take the fall. But Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins: slut-shamed, she becomes a late-night talk show punch line, anathema to politics. She sees no way out but to change her name and move to a remote town in Maine. This time,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Inspector Montalbano enjoys simple pleasures: delicious food, walks along the water, the occasional smoke — yet these are just the backdrop to his duties as a detective. His latest case is the killing of the wealthy Cosimo Barletta. Thought to be a widower living out a quiet life by the sea, Cosimo’s sudden death, by gunshot to the neck, opens up his past to scrutiny. What Montalbano uncovers is Cosimo’s trove of salacious photographs, used...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Natasha Leonova's beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection, immersed in rarefied luxury, while he pursues his activities in a dark world that she guesses at but never sees. Her home is the world, often on one of Vladimir Stanislas's spectacular yachts manned by scores of heavily armed crew members. Natasha's job is to keep Vladimir happy, ask no questions,...
Author
Publisher
Samhain Pub
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
266 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The long way home could be the shortest road to ruin. The king of Scotland is in a snit. Which means Britt MacKinnon, proud Captain of the King's Guard, has an onerous task: fetch Alexander's favorite paramour back to the royal bed -- now. Never mind that the crown should be about the business of getting a legitimate heir. Especially since England's Edward I would love nothing more than to seize an empty Scottish throne. When the handsome soldier...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Antoinette, a schoolteacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holiday with her married lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When she learns that Vladimir has to cancel because his wife organized a surprise hiking vacation, Antoinette decides to follow their tracks, accompanied by a protective donkey named Patrick.
Author
Series
Tudor novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Boleyn comes to the court of King Henry VIII, where she falls for the dashing king, and begins to enjoy her growing role as unofficial queen, however, she soon realizes she is merely a pawn in her family's ambitious plots as the king's interest begins to turn towards her best friend and rival, her sister, Anne.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mysterious Jay Gatsby embodies the American notion that it is possible to redefine oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsby's youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated with the display of enormous wealth in which Gatsby revels, finds himself swept up in the lavish lifestyle of Long Island society during the Jazz Age.
Author
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
357 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Pinchot Meyer was a longtime lover of John F. Kennedy. She was also the ex-wife of a CIA chief and the sister-in-law of the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee. She was a painter, a socialite, and a Bohemian in Georgetown during the Cold War who believed in mind expansion and took LSD with Timothy Leary. She also ended up dead in an unsolved murder a year after JFK's assassination. The diary she kept was never found. Until now..."--Back cover....
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
548 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Who really murdered Mary Pinchot Meyer in the fall of 1964? Why was there a mad rush by CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton to locate and confiscate her diary? What in that diary was so explosive? Had Mary Meyer finally put together the intricate pieces of a plan to assassinate her lover, President Kennedy, with the trail ultimately leading to the CIA? And was it mere coincidence that Mary was killed less than three weeks after the release...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request