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41) Angel face
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Mrs. Tremayne is mysteriously poisoned with gas, ambulance driver Frank Jessup meets her refined but sensuous stepdaughter Diane, who quickly pursues and infatuates him. Under Diane's seductive influence, Frank is soon the Tremayne chauffeur, but he begins to suspect danger under her surface sweetness. When he shows signs of pulling away, Diane schemes to get him in so deep he'll never get out.
Author
Series
Shaker novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the country--and her own household--on the brink of civil war, pampered gentlewoman Charlotte Vance hatches a plan to avoid her new stepmother and win back her man by joining the Shaker community at Harmony Hill. Little does she know that this decision will lead her down a road toward unforeseen peace--and a very unexpected love.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king's heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know...
44) Lizzie
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
©2018
Language
English
Description
A modern-day reimagining of the story of Lizzie Borden, casting her as a shy seventeen-year-old whose blackouts become worse after her father and stepmother try to prevent her from studying to be a chef.
Author
Series
Disney villains volume 8
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lady Tremaine, widowed and raising two headstrong girls alone, finds herself falling for a dashing knight from a far-off land who is looking for a stepmother for his own young daughter. But stepmothers in the Many Kingdoms never tend to fare well...and Lady Tremaine may be destined for a not-so-happily ever after"--
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Cuenta la historia de Paz (Fernanda Castillo), una mujer a punto de llegar a los 40 años que tiene una vida agobiada y llena de problemas con su jefe, con su pareja y con su malcriado hijastro. Paz nunca se atreve a expresar sus sentimientos, hasta que un día recurre a una extraña terapia que la hará reflexionar sobre todo aquello que la detiene y decide decir la verdad "sin pelos en la lengua" a todas las personas que la rodean.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Christine Heppermann's powerful collection of free verse poems explore how girls are taught to think about themselves, their bodies, their friends--as consumers, as objects, as competitors. Based on classic fairy tale characters and fairy tale tropes, the poems range from contemporary retellings to first person accounts set within the original stories. From Snow White cottage and Rapunzel's tower to health class and the prom, these poems are a moving...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the prizewinning author of Mr. Fox, the Snow White fairy tale brilliantly recast as a story of family secrets, race, beauty, and vanity. In the winter of 1953, Boy Novak arrives by chance in a small town in Massachusetts, looking, she believes, for beauty-the opposite of the life she's left behind in New York. She marries a local widower and becomes stepmother to his winsome daughter, Snow Whitman. A wicked stepmother is a creature Boy never...
50) Court of swans
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In medieval England, after her seven brothers are falsely accused of murder and treason, eighteen-year-old Delia flees their cruel stepmother and becomes a seamstress at Westminster Palace, hoping to gain their release, with Sir Geoffrey's assistance.
51) Hostage three
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Amy, her father, and her stepmother becomes hostages when Somalian pirates seize their yacht, but although she builds a bond with one of her captors it becomes brutally clear that the price of life and its value are two very different things.
Author
Series
Undead novels volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vampire queen and nightclub owner Betsy Taylor is surprised to find she has a twenty-year-old half sister who happens to be the devil's daughter.
53) Fairest of all
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 1
Language
English
Description
After moving to a new house, ten-year-old Abby and her younger brother Jonah discover an antique mirror that transports them into the Snow White fairy tale.
54) Me and Ms. Too
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For as long as Molly can remember, it's always just been her and Dad. Dad, who likes to splash in the pool, who likes to spin at the park, who bakes the best cookies around. But that was before Dad married Ms. Too. Ms. Too doesn't like to splash. She doesn't like to spin. And she can't bake anything. "But Molly, you used to love Ms. Too." That was before, when she was Molly's favorite librarian. Now everything has changed. But as Molly and Ms. Too...
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It is just past ten o'clock on a cold Friday evening when Rebecca and her husband Jack's doorbell rings. Outside is a woman who introduces herself as Jack's ex-girlfriend Cara. And she's holding the hand of a shivering, blue-eyed, four-year-old girl. Who she claims is Jack's daughter. Rebecca is shocked to discover he has a child from his last relationship - even one he hadn't known about. Because becoming parents isn't part of their life plan. They...
56) Ever after
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A young woman of the 16th century stands up to her scheming stepmother and works miracles on the lives of everyone around her, including the crown prince of France.
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
©2016
Language
English
Description
"Escape into Snow White's spectacular story. With an evil queen and her magic mirror, seven whimsical dwarfs and their sparkling mine, this deluxe storybook retelling of the classic animated film is a treasure to behold."--Back cover.
Publisher
Binge Box
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Bombshell: Based on a true story. A group of women decide to take on Fox News head Roger Ailes and the toxic atmosphere he presided over at the network.
Tully: When mother Marlo gives birth to her third baby, she wasn't expecting to hire a nanny to help with the newborn. Her brother contracts the services of young Tully as a nanny on Marlo's behalf, however. At first Marlo thinks of having a nanny as an unnecessary indulgence, but as the two women...
Author
Publisher
Minerva Rising Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The memoir Mother-Daughter Banquet explores the concept of motherhood. After losing her mother at the age of nine, Alice Bloch becomes a surrogate mother to her four younger siblings. In turn, a formidable triumvirate of grandmother, stepmother, and aunt step into the maternal role to fill the void in Bloch's development as a woman and as a writer. Diving deep into her specific memories of growing up as a Jewish lesbian in mid-twentieth-century Ohio,...
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