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Pub. Date
[2013], c2012
Language
English
Description
Mark Leibovich covers Washington, D.C., as chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine-and has written about the city's bipartisan lust for power, cash, and notoriety in a book that everyone who's anyone in our nation's capital is talking about: This Town. This is the story of how Washington became an occupied city, its hold on reality distorted by greed and ambition; it pulls no punches and names names, revealing the movers and shakers...
2) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller's daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. Or so everyone believes. When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda...
3) Cursed
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Serilda and Gild attempt to break the curses that tether their spirits to Adalheid's haunted castle before the Endless Moon, when the Erlking means to capture one of the seven gods and make a wish to return his lover, Perchta, from the underworld. But as the story progresses, it becomes clear he doesn't want just one god-he wants to capture all seven, and force them to bring down the veil that keeps the Dark Ones separate from...
Author
Series
Gilded wolves volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Fantastical Fiction - YA
Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
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Historical Fiction- Adult/ YA
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Paris, 1889: The world is on the cusp of industry and power, and the Exposition Universelle has breathed new life into the streets and dredged up ancient secrets. In this city, no one keeps tabs on secrets better than treasure-hunter and wealthy hotelier, Séverin Montagnet-Alarie. But when the all-powerful society, the Order of Babel, seeks him out for help, Séverin is offered a treasure that he never imagined: his true inheritance. To find the...
Author
Series
Gilded wolves volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost - one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost artifact rumored to grant its possessor the power of God. Their hunt lures them far from Paris, and into the icy heart of Russia where crystalline ice animals stalk forgotten mansions, broken goddesses carry deadly secrets,...
7) Gild
Author
Series
Plated prisoner volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Gold. Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold. Even me. King Midas rescued me. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. I'm called his precious. His favored. I'm the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. To show how powerful he is. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. And even though I don't leave the...
8) Gilded cage
Author
Series
Dark gifts trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule, and commoners are doomed to serve-for readers of Victoria Aveyard and Susanna Clarke
NOT ALL ARE FREE.
NOT ALL ARE EQUAL.
NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED.
Our world belongs to the Equals-aristocrats with magical gifts-and all commoners must serve them for ten years.
But behind the gates of England's grandest estate lies a power that could break the world.
A girl...
Author
Series
Gilded magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Heartfelt, fast-paced, and utterly absorbing, The Gilded Girl is Alyssa Colman's sparkling debut novel about determination, spirit, and the magic of friendship. Any child can spark magic, but only the elite are allowed to kindle it. Those denied access to the secrets of the kindling ritual will see their magic snuffed out before their thirteenth birthday. Miss Posterity's Academy for Practical Magic is the best kindling school in New York City-and...
10) The gilded cage
Author
Series
Prison healer novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Kiva trades one cage for another when she leaves behind a deadly prison for a deceptive palace in this dark and dangerous sequel to The Prison Healer.
11) In a gilded cage
Author
Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Irish immigrant Molly Murphy and her New York City P.I. business are in the midst of a sweeping influenza epidemic and a fight for women's suffrage that lands her in jail. Her betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, finds her, but he hardly has time to bail her out, what with Chinese gangs battling for control of a thriving opium trade. The only consolation Molly can take from her vexing afternoon in the clink is that it made her some new friends...
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This program explores our history and culture during the early 20th century, when a wave of reforms changed our political system and attempted to remedy the social and economic inequities arising from industrialization and urbanization. Progressive President Theodore Roosevelt helped set the tone of the era by supporting regulation of industry, initiating government reforms, and promoting conservation of public lands. The Progressive Era altered the...
13) The gilded hour
Author
Series
Gilded hour novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock, Anna Savard and her cousin Sophie--both graduates of the Woman's Medical School--treat the city's most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they've strived for in jeopardy. Anna's work has placed her in...
14) The Gilded Age
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The Gilded Age presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, the U.S. population doubled in the span of a single generation, national wealth expanded, and two classes rose simultaneously, separated by a gulf of experience and circumstance that was unprecedented in American life.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In the early 1900s, Sylvie Pelletier leaves her family's Colorado mountain cabin to start work at a wealthy mine-owner's manor house and is fascinated by he luxury around her until she discovers the family's philosophy is at odds with the unfair labor practices that built their fortune.
Author
Series
Blood and Ash volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Poppy never dreamed she would find the love she's found with Prince Casteel. She wants to revel in her happiness but first they must free his brother and find hers. It's a dangerous mission and one with far-reaching consequences neither dreamed of. Because Poppy is the Chosen, the Blessed. The true ruler of Atlantia. She carries the blood of the King of Gods within her. By right the crown and the kingdom are hers. Poppy has only ever wanted to control...
18) Gilded Serpent
Author
Series
Dark shores volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
-- BUT THE WAR HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN Having defeated the tyrant Urcon, Marcus struggles to form a lasting alliance with the Arinoquians. But he is plagued by the knowledge that there is a traitor among his friends, and it could cost him everything that he’s fought for. Torn between her growing allegiance to the Thirty-Seventh legion and her need to liberate her people, Teriana finds herself mired in a web of secrets. She embarks upon a path that...
Author
Series
River of royal blood volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After learning the truth of her heritage Eva is on the run with her sister Isa as her captive, but with the Queendom of Myre on the brink of revolution, Eva and Isa must make peace with each other to save their kingdom.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Did you know that when the US Constitution was first drafted in 1787, lots of Americans thought it was a bad idea? That's why Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers - to convince the American people that the Constitution was the best way forward.
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