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Georgia Sills and Charles Ravenwood are separated on their wedding day. Their lives, instead of being comfortable and privileged as expected, become deprived and perilous. Both struggle to survive in harsh environments in England and Australia during the 1850s and beyond.In Pursuit of Happiness is a 'riches to rags' saga, where the two protagonists discover they are ill-equipped to cope with the challenges life has set them, yet they persevere through...
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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble. Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life. This position was meant to be her sister's--brilliant, kind Amy, who isn't perpetually angry, dangerously reckless, and who does (inexplicably) like children. But Amy is unwell and needs a doctor, their father is gone and their mother is useless, so here...
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"Orphaned during the Second World War, Aelish and Isabel McGuire--known as the twins of Belfast--are given over to the austere care of the Sisters of Bethlehem. Though they are each all the other has, the girls are propelled in opposite directions as they grow up. Rebellious Isabel turns her back on the church and Ireland, traveling to Newfoundland where she pursues a perilous yet independent life. Devout Aelish chooses to remain in Northern Ireland...
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Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner-and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences. A History of Fake Things on the Internet takes the long view of how advances in technology brought us to the point where faked texts, images, and video content are nearly indistinguishable from what is authentic or true. Computer...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"From New Yorker staff writer and author of The Longing for Less Kyle Chayka comes a timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself. From coffee shops to rental apartments to social media posts the world round, a sleek and deceptively simple aesthetic has come to predominate. It's in the neon signs and exposed brick of an Internet cafe in Nairobi or the skeletal, modern furniture of an...
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Ren came to Nadežra with a plan. She would pose as the long-lost daughter of the noble house Traementis. She would secure a fortune for herself and her sister. And she would vanish without a backward glance. She ought to have known that in the city of dreams, nothing is ever so simple. Now, she is Ren, con-artist and thief. But she is also Renata, the celebrated Traementis heir. She is Arenza, the mysterious pattern-reader and political rebel. And...
7) Love changes
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Urban Books
Pub. Date
©2008
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English
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"Toni and Beatrice have faced many challenges together since their childhood friendship began. That friendship is put to the test, however, when one's disloyalty to the other is revealed. Beatrice is searching for a rich man who will continue to lavish her in the high-maintenance lifestyle to which she's accustomed. The perfect world she envisions is destroyed when Toni inadvertently finds the love she has been longing for. Down-to-earth Toni believes...
8) The rom con
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Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"After a particularly brutal breakup, Cassidy Sutton has had it with dating. So when her grandmother gives her a 1950's dating guide entitled 125 Tips to Hook a Husband, she decides to turn the retro advice into an ironic "What not to do" article for Siren, the popular online women's publication she writes for. And who better to secretly test the old-fashioned tips on than Jack Bradford, chauvinistic creator of rival men's site Brawler? She'll write...