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"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he...
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When an injury forces her to return home to Fool's Gold and into the fold of her estranged family, dancer Evie Stryker, who doesn't believe in Christmas miracles, agrees to stage the winter festival and then plans to leave town, but her brother's best friend has other plans for her.
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Atria Books
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2014.
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English
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This reimagining of the "Twelve Dancing Princesses" traces the story of a family of flappers who work in a 1920s speakeasy until their suspicious father decides to marry them off, prompting a confrontation with a bootlegger from the eldest sister's past.
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"In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they're referred to as these women. These women on the corner ... These women in the club ... These women who won't stop asking questions ... These women who got what they deserved ... Ivy Pochoda creates a kaleidoscope of loss, power, and hope featuring five very different women whose lives are steeped in danger and anguish. They're connected by one man and his deadly obsession, though...
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"1925: Chicago is the jazz capital of the world, and the Dreamland Café is the ritziest black-and-tan club in town. Honoree Dalcour, a sharecropper's daughter, is willing to work hard and dance every night on her way to the top. She's socializing with celebrities, but with the temptations of bootleg whiskey, gambling, and gangsters a young woman driven by ambition might risk more than she can stand to lose. 2015: Film student Sawyer Hayes arrives...
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HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Español
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"Éugenie, Céline y Juliette: tres mujeres, tres edades, tres amigas que los azares y las adversidades de la vida han unido en un lugar sin igual, el teatro centenario en el que trabajan como voluntarias. Tres maneras de amar, aunque ninguna parezca conducir a la felicidad. Por separado, están perdidas, pero juntas tienen una oportunidad. Aferradas a sus esperanzas frente a las tormentas que les depara el destino, con la energía y la imaginación...
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Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
c2013
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Español
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In her youth, Russian dancer Luba fell for a bad man: a handsome but dangerous rare amber dealer who would disappear for months on end but expect Luba to drop everything when he called. Despite everything, Luba could not deny her attraction to the seductive Chey, but their passionate, turbulent relationship came to an end when Luba discovered a shocking secret about her lover and fled from Russia. From elite private clubs in New Orleans to the London...
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