Jillian Cantor
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
"In Poland in 1891, Marie Curie (then Marya Sklodowska) was engaged to a budding mathematician, Kazimierz Zorawski. But when his mother insisted she was too poor and not good enough, he broke off the engagement. A heartbroken Marya left Poland for Paris, where she would attend the Sorbonne to study chemistry and physics. Eventually Marie Curie would go on to change the course of science forever and be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.But what...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
2020
Formats
Description
In this contemporary romcom retelling of Jane Austen's Emma by USA TODAY bestselling author Jillian Cantor, there's nothing more complex—or unpredictable—than love.
When math genius Emma and her coding club co-president, George, are tasked with brainstorming a new project, The Code for Love is born.
George disapproves of Emma's idea of creating a matchmaking app, accusing her of...
When math genius Emma and her coding club co-president, George, are tasked with brainstorming a new project, The Code for Love is born.
George disapproves of Emma's idea of creating a matchmaking app, accusing her of...
4) Margot
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In a reimagining of the life of Anne Frank's sister Margot, Margie Franklin, working as a secretary at a Jewish law firm in Philadelphia, finds her carefully constructed life falling apart when her sister becomes a global icon.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm
Description
On her sixteenth birthday, Sky and River, the boy with whom she has shared Island since she was a toddler, are "rescued" and taken to California, where Sky is separated from River, forced to live with a grandmother she has just met, and learn new rules for survival.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Battling writer's block, once-rising literary star Olivia Fitzgerald is offered a high-paying ghostwriting opportunity by a reclusive mega billionaire who wants her help in writing a book that reveals a shocking secret about his grandmother and Daphne duMaurier, trapping her in a gothic mystery of her own.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A tale based on the story of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the only Americans put to death for espionage during the Cold War, traces the experiences of their friend and neighbor, who takes in the couple's young sons when they are arrested by the FBI in 1950.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (8hr.,47min.,52sec.))
Description
A sweeping historical novel that spans Germany, England, and the United States and follows a young couple torn apart by circumstance leading up to World War II—and the family secret that may prove to be the means for survival.Love brought them together. But only time can save them…In Another Time is a beautiful novel about love and survival, passion and music, across time and continents.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 19 cm.
Description
Throughout her freshman year of high school, fourteen-year-old Melissa struggles to hold onto memories of her deceased father, cope with her mother's return to dating, get along with her sister, and sort out her feelings about her best friend, Ryan.