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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In White Fright, acclaimed historian Jane Dailey offers a radical reinterpretation of the fight for African American rights, showing how that fight has been closely bound, both in terms of law and in the white imagination, to the question of interracial sex and marriage. White fear of black sexuality not only fueled the systems of exclusion and oppression under Jim Crow, she contends it was also a central factor driving white resistance to the civil...
1144) LOVE NOVEL
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Love in late capitalism: Ivana Sajko takes us to the frontlines of a war waged between kitchen and bedroom. He, an unemployed Dante scholar, trying to change the world and write a novel. She, once a passable actress with a vaguely rewarding theater job,now a stay-at-home mom. He is delirious with dreams of grandeur; she is on edge, a detonator bomb with a dirty laundry trigger. The rent is late, the neighbor caviling, the government astoundingly...
1145) Takane & Hana: Volume 10
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When Hana's childhood friend Okamon confesses that he's in love with her, Hana goes into a total panic! Can she possibly return his feelings? And once Takane finds out, all bets are off on how he'll react to the news!"--Page [4] of cover.
1146) Takane & Hana: Volume 13
Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But when these two utter opposites pair up, get ready for some sparks to fly!... While Hana contemplates whether or not to take Rino's advice on matters of the heart, Takane and Okamon duke it out to determine who's better suited for Hana!...
1147) Takane & Hana: Volume 16
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Hiromi idolizes his older cousin Takane and will do anything to protect him--including running away from home. Takane's got enough problems dealing with work exhaustion and Hiromi's father itching to take him down, but maybe he'll be able to find Hiromi with Hana's help!"-- cover page 4.
1148) Saga: Volume three
Author
Series
Saga (Brian K. Vaughan) volume 3
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"New parents Marko and Alana travel to an alien world to visit their hero, while the family's pursuers finally close in on their targets" --
1149) Dawn of the arcana: 11
Author
Series
Dawn of the Arcana volume 11
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Now separated from her first husband, Princess Nakaba must navigate the court of Senan on her own and decide how to handle her new husband, Prince Adel.
1150) Paper wife
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A heart-wrenching story about finding strength in a new world. Southern China, 1923. Desperate to secure her future, Mei Ling's parents arrange a marriage to a widower in California. To enter the country, she must pretend to be her husband's first wife--a paper wife. On the perilous voyage, Mei Ling takes an orphan girl named Siew under her wing. Dreams of a better life in America give Mei Ling the strength to endure the treacherous journey and detainment...
1151) Takane & Hana: Volume 14
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But when these two utter opposites pair up, get ready for some sparks to fly!... On vacation in Okinawa, Takane and Hana find their feelings growing stronger as they navigate the awkwardness of being an official couple! When a boating mishap...
1153) Set for life: a novel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
While visiting his and his wife's closest friends, John and Sophie, a creative writing professor sleeps with Sophie, but instead of succumbing to his failures as a teacher, writer and husband, he believes a love affair could be the answer to earning everything he needs to be set for life.
1154) Pride and prejudice
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Darcy sets all fair maidens' hearts aflutter, except for that of Elizabeth Bennett.
1155) Takane & Hana: Volume 11
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Takane gives Hana a surprise kiss on the nose, and now a flustered Hana is dying to know what it means! Meanwhile, Takane's cousin Yakumo wants to be reacquainted with Takane, but there's an ominous vibe about him... What exactly is he after?"--Page [4] of cover.
1156) Antoinette's sister
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte-ninth daughter and sixteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-knows her position as a Hapsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her beloved country. But not yet. The Hapsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and will soon take her place as queen. Before Josepha can journey...
1157) Bow before the elf queen
Author
Series
Elf queen volume 1
Publisher
J. M. Kearl
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Author
Series
Maidels of Morning Star volume 4
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As Jo Fussner keeps the Marketplace humming, her heart dances with a joyous secret. Jo and Michael Wengerd, a shy nursery owner from a nearby town, have fallen hopelessly in love. When Michael buys a courting buggy, Jo is sure a proposal will follow. But she'll have to work hard to gain her mother's approval-because the widowed Drusilla Fussner is convinced that marriage will bring her daughter nothing but heartache. To win Jo's hand, Michael enlists...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning author presents the history and impact of both the theatrical and cinematic versions of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and how it forced audiences to confront deeply-held concepts about relationships, sex and family.
1160) Takane & Hana: Volume 15
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After her older sister refuses to go to an arranged marriage meeting with Takane Saibara, the heir to a vast business fortune, high schooler Hana Nonomura agrees to be her stand-in to save face for the family. But when these two utter opposites pair up, get ready for some sparks to fly! Takane s mother shows up from London and causes a stir. The big question is, can she possibly accept Hana s role in Takane s life? Things don t look promising, but...
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