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20 fun facts about women of the Middle Ages

2016
Readers will engage with women's lives during an important historical period.

Anne's house of dreams

Gilbert Blythe, Anne's true love, has finished medical school and she returns to Green Gables to marry him.

Marriage of a Thousand Lies

2017
Lakshmi, called Lucky, is an unemployed millennial programmer. She likes to dance, to have a drink or two, and she makes art on commission. Fifty bucks gets you high-resolution digital images of anything you want (orcs, mermaids, cos-playing couples in sexy boudoir scenes) and a nice frameable print. Lucky's husband, Krishna, is an editor for a greeting card company. Both are secretly gay. They present their conservative Sri Lankan-American families with a heterosexual front, while each dates on the side. When Lucky's grandmother has a nasty fall, Lucky returns to her mother's home to act as caretaker and unexpectedly reconnects with her childhood best friend and first lover, Nisha. Nisha has agreed to an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't know, but finds herself attracted to her old friend. The attraction is mutual and Lucky tries to save Nisha from entering a marriage based on a lie. But does Nisha really want to be saved? And what does Lucky want, anyway? It doesn't always get better. To live openly means that Lucky would lose most of the community she was born into--a community she loves, an irreplaceable home. As Lucky, an outsider no matter what choices she makes, is pushed to the breaking point, Marriage of a Thousand Lies offers a moving exploration of friendship, family, and love, shot through with humor and loss".

Hadrian

emperor of Rome
2018
Conducting massive city-building projects, fortifying the borders of the empire, and other feats christen Hadrian as the third of the Five Good Emperors.

La Seleccion

America Singer is chosen to compete in the Selection, a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince, but all she really wants is a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her.

La Elite

Sixteen-year-old America Singer is one of only six girls still competing in the Selection; but before she can fight to win Prince Maxon and the Illean crown, she must decide where her own heart truly lies.

La elegida

As her Selection approaches its finish, America must decide where her heart truly lies, and Prince Maxon must pick one winner to wear the crown.

Behind closed doors

2016
"Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace: he has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Picture this: a dinner party at their perfect home, the conversation and wine flowing. They appear to be in their element while entertaining. And Grace's friends are eager to reciprocate with lunch the following week. Grace wants to go, but knows she never will. Her friends call -- so why doesn't Grace ever answer the phone? And how can she cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim? And why are there bars on one of the bedroom windows? The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?"--Provided by publisher.

The princess and the frozen peas

A beautiful princess tries to avoid marrying an ugly old king by pretending to sleep well each night despite the best efforts of the king's servants to disturb her rest with peas and other things that start with the letter P. Includes puzzles and notes for adults.

The star-touched queen

Maya is forced into an arranged marriage by her father, the Raja, that makes her the queen of Akaran. She's surprised to find the compassion and desire she feels with her new husband, Amar. And though she seems to have found her voice as the queen, she also finds herself in a dangerous position in which she must unravel secrets that span multiple lifetimes in order to save herself and those she loves.

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