Camille Di Maio
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Julianne Westcott was living the kind of life that other Protestant girls in prewar Liverpool could only dream about: old money, silk ball gowns, and prominent young men lining up to escort her. But when she learns of a blind-and-deaf brother, institutionalized since birth, the illusion of her perfect life and family shatters around her. While visiting her brother in secret, Julianne meets and befriends Kyle McCarthy, an Irish Catholic groundskeeper...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Margaret Beck is proud of her work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard sewing stars onto the Stars and Stripes, but she yearns to contribute to the war effort more meaningfully. She's angling for a promotion to the mechanic section, but she doesn't want to wait to make a difference. So with her two best friends, she decides to start a knitting club, where they will knit socks for the boys at the front. Thinking of the young men so far from the comforts of...
Author
Publisher
Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The First Emma is the true story of Emma Koehler, whose tycoon husband Otto was killed in a crime-of-the-century murder by one of his two mistresses -- both also named Emma -- and her unlikely rise as CEO of a brewing empire during Prohibition. When a chance to tel her story to a young teetotaler arises, a tale unfolds of love, was, beer, and the power of women."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After serving seventy years in prison for the murder of her sister, Eula, Della Lee has finally returned home to the Texas town of Puerto Pesar. She's free from confinement and ready to tell her secrets before it's too late. She finds a willing audience in journalist Mick Anders, who is reeling after his suspension from a Boston newspaper and in town, reluctantly, to investigate a mysterious portrait of Eula that reportedly sheds tears. He crosses...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Hearts and dreams evolve in the shadow of the once-magnificent Penn Station. Vera Keller, the daughter of German immigrants in turn-of-the-century New York City, finds her life upended when the man she loves becomes engaged to another woman. But Angelo Bellavia has also inadvertently opened up Vera's life to unexpected possibilities. Angelo's new wife, Pearl, the wealthy daughter of a clothing manufacturer, has defied her family's expectations by...