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2) Tar baby
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A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts...
Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts...
3) Model misfit
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Geek girl (Holly Smale) volume 2
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"My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a geek." MODEL MISFIT is the sequel to award-winning No. 1 UK debut GEEK GIRL. Harriet Manners knows a lot of facts. She knows that humans have 70,000 thoughts per day. She knows that Geek + Model = a whole new set of graffiti on your belongings. And that the average person eats a ton of food a year, though her pregnant stepmother is doing her best to beat this. But Harriet doesn't know where she's going...
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Geek girl (Holly Smale) volume 5
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She knows that fourteen squirrels were once detained as spies.
She knows that both chess and snakes and ladders were invented in the same country. And for once, Harriet knows exactly how her life should go. She's got it ALL planned out. So her friends seem less than happy, Harriet is determined to Make Things Happen!
6) The bachelor
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Henry Saxton-Brae has it all – a titled, self-made millionaire, his fiancée just happens to be a supermodel. To top it all, he's just bought Hanborough Castle. Flora Fitzwilliam has been summoned to restore Hanborough to its former glory. She soon discovers that it's not just the house that needs fixing, and Flora seems to be the only person who sees the real Henry Saxton-Brae. Can she make Henry see that his bachelor days are behind him?
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#1 New York Times-Bestselling Author: The best of friends, Toots, Ida, Mavis, and Sophie have been there for each other through thick and thin...
Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry has her quirks, but no one would ever question her loyalty. So it's no surprise when Toots decides to extend her stay in Charleston to help care for her ailing housekeeper.
Though the Charleston air is drenched with...
Teresa "Toots" Amelia Loudenberry has her quirks, but no one would ever question her loyalty. So it's no surprise when Toots decides to extend her stay in Charleston to help care for her ailing housekeeper.
Though the Charleston air is drenched with...
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Geek girl volume 3
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Harriet a un petit copain merveilleux (le sublimissime Nick), des amis géniaux (Nat et Tobie) et elle entre dans quelques jours au lycée, autant dire qu'elle est HEU-REUSE! Mais son débordement d'endorphines est
de courte durée car son père a trouvé du travail... à New York! En l'espace de vingt-quatre heures, Harriet quitte l'Angleterre et se retrouve dans une ville triste et perdue de la grande banlieue new-yorkaise, avec une professeure...
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Veronique Vincent is a star. At age 22, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet, despite being the consummate professional, Veronique wants little of the glamorous life that modelling affords her. The beloved daughter of a hardworking single mother, she has always preferred spending time at home or with her kind-hearted boyfriend to...
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Moving in with Emily, a model and sugar baby, dating rich older men for money, and the other sugar babies, mixed-race 21-year-old Agnes is drawn deeper and deeper into their world of high-paid sex work where she finds herself searching for fulfillment just as desperately as she was before.
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Geek girl volume 1
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Sincèrement. Je préfère savoir que lors d'un éternuement, tous les organes s'arrêtent, le coeur compris, qu'une cuillerée à café d'étoile à neutrons pèse des milliards de tonnes, ou que le merle bleu ne voit pas la couleur bleue. C'est sûrement pour ça que je n'ai pas beaucoup d'amis et qu'un «fan» a écrit GEEK au marqueur rouge sur mon sac. Alors que feriez-vous à ma place si une agence de mannequin vous repérait ? Et vous proposait...
18) The imago stage
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Having spent her traumatic childhood in front of the television and her youth modelling in Paris, our narrator retreats from the world, cultivating her existence as an image through her virtual reality avatar. But when her mother becomes gravely ill, she is forced to leave her cocoon and re-enter the real world.
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On a river deep in the Mexican jungle stands Xanadu, a wellness center that is home to The Mandala, an ardent spiritual group devoted to self-help guru Paul Bentzen and his enigmatic wife Kali. When Paul suddenly dies, his entire estate-- including Xanadu-- is left to his estranged niece Sveta, a former model living in New York City. She travels to Mexico to pay her respects, and Xanadu seems like a secluded paradise. But the mystical façade wears...
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SACRAMENTO BEE
New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King, beloved for her acclaimed Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, consistently writes richly detailed and thoroughly suspenseful novels that bring a distant time and place to brilliant life. Now, in this thrilling new book, King leads readers into the vibrant and sensual Paris of the Jazz Age—and reveals the darkest...
New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King, beloved for her acclaimed Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, consistently writes richly detailed and thoroughly suspenseful novels that bring a distant time and place to brilliant life. Now, in this thrilling new book, King leads readers into the vibrant and sensual Paris of the Jazz Age—and reveals the darkest...
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