Montero, Rosa
Summary: "Hablar de algunos de los tiranos mas conocidos del siglo XX a traves de la vision de sus esposas, amantes e hijas, y del lugar que la mujer ocupaba en sus proyectos megalomaniacos, es poder ahondar en la historia europea desde otra perspectiva y ampliar la comprension de las tragedias sociales por medio del analisis de las tragedias domesticas. Es como meterse por la puerta de atras de las...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debols!llo 2017
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 MONGramont, Nina de
Summary: "Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. 'A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GRAJunor, Penny
Summary: The esteemed royal biographer traces the unlikely and extraordinary story of the once-reviled wife of Britain's Prince Charles, detailing her roles in some of the darkest days of the modern monarchy and her role in helping restore its reputation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B CAMILLA JUNClark, Georgia
Summary: For twenty years Liv and Eliot Goldenhorn have run In Love in New York, a wedding-planning business in Brooklyn. When Eliot dies unexpectedly, he even more unexpectedly leaves half of the business to his younger, blonder girlfriend, Savannah. Liv and Savannah are not a match made in heaven, but what starts as a personal and professional nightmare transforms into something Liv couldn't begin to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLAFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: The first graphic novel based on the classic by Jazz Age author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA FIC FITStuart, Nancy Rubin
Summary: Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Stuart also introduces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 STUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FRANKLIN STUSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSteel, Danielle.
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEOstler, Catherine
Summary: Elizabeth Chudleigh lived a privileged life in 18th century England where she was part of the Hanoverian court as maid of honor to the Princess of Wales. Known for her style and wit, Elizabeth delighted and scandalized the press and public. She married twice: in secret to a young heir to an earldom and later to a duke. Eventually charged with bigamy, her trial was Georgian England's greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BRISTOL, ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH OSTRose, Jeneva
Summary: "Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He's a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah's relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple's lake house, Adam...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodhound Books 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ozu's penultimate film tells the story of three sisters who are stunned to discover that their aging father is spending time with his old mistress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ENDCaron, Leslie
Summary: Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a young girl, Gigi, is being groomed by her grandmother to become a courtesan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD GIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIGEnright, Anne
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ENRFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Fitzgerald 2004Franklin, Ariana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FRASouhami, Diana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 SOUTrollope, Joanna.
Summary: All hell breaks loose in a well-heeled English family when the father, a respected judge, announces he is leaving a forty-year marriage to marry his mistress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TROSummary: In addition to his prodigious output as a playwright, poet and theatrical producer, Bertolt Brecht maintained no fewer than three mistresses at any one time throughtout his adult life. Takes place in a single day, toward the end of his life, in the late summer of 1956, as Brecht prepares to leave his lakeside home and return to Berlin for the fall theater season. Surrounded by the women who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FARAlexander, Victoria.
Summary: Determined to prove his maturity with a home and wife and claim his inheritance, Sir Sebastian Hadley-Attwater, renowned explorer and rogue, must convince his mistress Lady Veronica Smithson, who refuses to marry, that they belong together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEChristie, Agatha
Summary: In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their fold. And the manipulative Nofret has already set about a plan to usurp her rivals' rightful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHRFitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
Summary: Though Daisy is married to the insensitive but hugely successful Tom Buchanan, Jay Gatsby still longs for his old love. 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Debolsillo 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.4 FICTION FITHerman, Eleanor
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940 HERLutz, Matilda Anna Ingrid
Summary: When a married man takes his mistress to a remote getaway and two of his sleazy associates show up, a shocking incident leaves the men running for their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2018
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE REVQuick, Amanda.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1994