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Author
Series
Book of Ivy duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In an apocalyptic future where girls from the losing faction are forcibly married to boys of the winning faction, sixteen-year-old Ivy is tasked to kill her fiancé Bishop, although when she finally meets him, he is not the monster she has been led to believe.
3) Girl
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
I was a girl once, but not anymore - So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of...
4) Four in hand
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four in hand: After roguish Max Rotherbridge inherits the dukedom of Twyford and the Twinning sisters as wards, he must figure out a way to protect them from his disreputable friends and win the heart of the oldest sister, Caroline. The dissolute duke: After circumstances force them to marry, Taylen Ellesmere, Duke of Alderworth, leaves his new wife and disappears. Three years later, having barely survived the scandal, Lady Lucinda has placed one...
5) The shadows
Author
Series
Black Dagger Brotherhood. Main series volume 13
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Trez "Latimer" doesn't really exist. And not just because the identity was created so that a Shadow could function in the underbelly of the human world. Sold by his parents to the Queen of the S'Hsibe as a child, Trez escaped the Territory and has been a pimp and an enforcer in Caldwell, NY for years -- all the while on the run from a destiny of sexual servitude. He's never had anyone he could totally rely on... except for his brother, iAm. iAm's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. This, her mother has told her, is the only way to get a 'louding voice'--the ability to speak for herself and decide her own future. But instead, Adunni's father sells her to be the third wife of a local man who is eager for her to bear him a son and heir. When Adunni runs away to the city, hoping to make a better life, she finds that the only other option before...
Author
Series
Fool novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging--last seen in The Serpent of Venice--washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool. But the island is in turmoil. Egeus, the Duke's minister, is furious that his daughter Hermia is determined to marry Lysander instead of Demetrius, the man he has chosen for her. The Duke decrees that if, by the time of the...
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