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Summary: Washington, D.C., 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss whose facade of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: "From the bestselling author of If I Were You comes a nostalgic and endearing holiday story that reminds us that sometimes, the most meaningful gifts are the ones we least expect and don't deserve. Best friends Audrey Barrett and Eve Dawson are looking forward to celebrating Christmas in postwar America, thrilled at the prospect of starting new traditions with their five-year-old sons. But when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2021
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Summary: Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boardinghouse where secrets hide. But when Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship. When an act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2024
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Summary: Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, an all-female boardinghouse where secrets hide. But when Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship. When an act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at an upscale department store called Goode's, are run off their feet selling ladies' cocktail dresses during the busy season. But in Sydney in the 1950s, there's always time to pursue other goals... Patty, in her mid-thirties, has been working at Goode's for years. She's married to Frank, who eats a steak for dinner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction St. John 2020Yi, Chi-min
Summary: American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC YICallahan, Michael
Summary: "For a small-town girl with a big dream in 1955, there is no address more glamorous than New York's Barbizon Hotel. Laura, a patrician beauty from Smith, arrives in its vaunted halls to work at Mademoiselle for the summer. Her hopelessly romantic roommate Dolly comes from a working-class upstate town to attend secretarial school. Vivian, a brash, redheaded British bombshell with a disregard for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2015