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Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Retiring in Barbados, widower Peter Ducksworth concludes he must divide his land between his three daughters. Feeling snubbed by his youngest daughter, he declares that she receive hers only after his death and so sets in motion a discord in the family.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
[A] sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan -- merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Suddenly sent from their home in Brooklyn to Bird Hill in Barbados after their mother can no longer care for them, sisters Phaedra and Dionne spend the summer of 1989 living with their grandmother Hyacinth, a midwife and practitioner of the local spiritual practice of obeah.
Author
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The bride is a doll. The groom is the perfect gentleman. But the rest of the wedding party? They're the stuff of nightmares. Rich? Check. Vapid? Double check? Entitled? Not enough checks in the world. But maid of honor Franchesca Baranski takes her duties seriously. Kidnapped groom? She's got this. Rude attendees? Just watch her handle them. So when she meets the best man with a big attitude and an even bigger checkbook? Yeah, there's no way she's...
Author
Series
Mick Sever mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Language
English
Formats
Description
Congressman Shapply, a former music insider who now leads the crusade against offensive lyrics in rap songs, is attacked and murdered in front of his Washington, DC, home. His son, Nick, is arrested and charged with the murder. But veteran music journalist Mick Sever, Nick’s best friend, believes his claims of innocence. With the help of an old flame, Mick must penetrate the bizarre Shapply family—the icy matriarch Alicia, the disturbed daughter...
Author
Series
Fairmile novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in 17th-century England"--
"The "sweeping" (Parade) and "superb" (People) Fairmile series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and...
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