Lauren Wilkinson Pages: 289 Published: 2019 The book: New York, 1987; Marie Mitchell is an FBI officer. Young and black in

Vincent and her half-brother, Paul, work in the exclusive and remote Hotel Caiette on Vancouver Island. A strange message etched in acid, appears on a hotel window.
Who left the message and why? How will working at the hotel impact the lives of Vincent and Paul?
1940 and nineteen-year-old Vivian is kicked out of Vassar College. Her parents send her to live with her Aunt Peg in New York, who owns a run-down theatre. Vivian is thrown into a heady life of showgirls, late-night clubs, parties, and men, a far cry from her previous life in the suburbs.
Spain, 1491. Fatima is a concubine in the court of a sultan in the last Spanish emirate. Her best friend, Hassan, has magical powers and is the royal mapmaker. A delegation from the Spanish monarchy arrives. Within in it is a representative of the Inquisition who takes a particular interest in Fatima and Hassan. Why are they of interest to the Inquisitor? What will become of them?
It’s America in 1901. Seven-year-old January Scaller lives in an old rambling mansion in Vermont. Her father travels constantly to far-flung corners of the world so she is the ward of his employer, Mr. Locke. On a trip to Kentucky with her guardian, January discovers a magical door to another world.
Korede is a nurse in Lagos, Nigeria. She lives at home with her mother and her sister Ayoola, who is her mother’s favorite. Ayoola has murdered at least one of her boyfriends. Korede is infatuated with a handsome doctor she works with. Will the doctor notice Korede? Will Ayoola find a new boyfriend, and what will be his fate?
In the ancient Greek epic, The Odyssey, journeying home after the fall of Troy, Odysseus, encounters the witch Circe. Circe’s appearance in his story is fleeting. This wonderful novel is Miller’s reimagining and retelling of Circe’s life.
One evening in 2009, after an orchestral performance at the Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old flute player, Edwin Rist, pulled off the biggest theft ever at the British Museum of Natural History. This is the the very gripping true story of this bizarre crime.
This is the story of 12 different characters whose lives intersect at the Big Oakland Powwow. Unlike the majority of novels and stories about native Americans, this story focuses on native people living in cities.
The author grew up on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in Canada. Her memoir, which she began writing while a patient in a mental institution, is told in a collection of essays in which she seems to unravel her traumatic past to get to a more hopeful future.
The story’s narrator, a middle-aged man, returns to the area he grew up in to attend a family funeral. Having some time to kill, he goes in search of the house he grew up in, but it is long gone. He does, however, recognize a farmhouse where, when he was a lonely, bookish seven year old, he made friends with Lettie Hempstock, an unusual girl who claimed the pond in her backyard was an ocean.
Lauren Wilkinson Pages: 289 Published: 2019 The book: New York, 1987; Marie Mitchell is an FBI officer. Young and black in
Elizabeth Holmes founded Theranos in 2003. She claimed to have a blood testing machine that would make blood tests faster and less painful for patients: only a pin prick of blood was required, instead of a traditional needle draw.
But there was a problem. It was a lie. Her machine did not work.