Alice: 2648 books

Theatre has a funny way of getting to the heart of who we are now and – particularly in the case of Connections – who we are going to be. Drawing together the work of nine leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2018 features work by some of the most exciting contemporary playwrights....

Claire and her mother are running out of time, but they don't know it. Not yet. Claire is wrapped up with the difficulties of her bourgeoning adulthood—boys, school, friends, identity; Claire's mother, a single mom, is rushed off her feet both at work and at home. They rarely find themselves in...

Susie Salmon is just like any other young girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There's one big difference though – Susie is dead. Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief in their different ways. Her father, Jack...

Honore Bainbridge has been courted by two men, one of whom turned out to be a traitor, the other a murderer. Banished to her family's country estate, where she will hopefully stay out of trouble, she finally meets the man she is sure is exactly right for her: Lord Ashmoor. Tall, dark, and handsome--what...

Daniel is a regular guy, with regular dreams. Tired of unsatisfying sex-based relationships, he's searching for a man who could be "the one." Or... at least, he would be searching, if he wasn't busy renovating an old, dilapidated mansion in the middle of nowhere. But it's a good job and...

“Exciting and suspenseful.” – Publishers Weekly (on Nun Too Soon) “Giulia is a sympathetic, well-drawn character who has built a full life for herself after leaving the convent, but appealing touches of the former nun remain.” – Booklist “Loweecey’s characters are colorful...

“Giulia is a sympathetic, well-drawn character who has built a full life for herself after leaving the convent, but appealing touches of the former nun remain.” – Booklist When terrified Elaine Patrick knocks on Driscoll Investigations’ door and insists her house is haunted, Giulia...

Giulia Falcone, P.I. in training, is caught in her worst nightmare: She's going back into the convent. Giulia’s former Superior General has hired Driscoll Investigations to confirm that the sudden death of a troubled young Novice was a suicide in order to squelch a lawsuit. What could have...

Hope Jones’ career and love-life are a raging dumpster fire. She’s about to lose her job as a romance cover photographer/designer if she can’t scare up a new, sexy male model ASAP—who knew hot guys were out of season? Add to all this Hope hasn’t had a date or sex in over two years…...

A film festival gone noir gives bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure and her ghostly companion a big screen caper to solve in this Haunted Bookshop mystery from Cleo Coyle, writing as Alice Kimberly. The Movie Town Theater is holding its first ever Film Noir Festival, with Pen handling...

A major new book-length visionary poem from a writer "whose poems are among the major astonishments of contemporary poetry" (Robert Polito, the Poetry Foundation) Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed...

John Robert-Henry has spent the past three decades trying to keep the Havenwood pack from imploding, but it's a stress-filled, high-stakes life that is starting to wear him down. It doesn't help that he's finally met his mate and can't even imagine a future where they could be together. Isaac...

Love is in the air and Nick seems to be the odd one out. Okay, so that's not entirely true. It's just that after living so long in the quiet, almost-empty alpha's mansion, all the extra people seem to be pairing off, and somehow Nick keeps intruding on their quiet, intimate moments. When his...

Stella Carrington, young and beautiful, feels that life is passing her by in the repressed Victorian household of her grandmother and spinster aunts. A casual flirtation shocks and horrifies the elderly ladies, and they summon Robert Crayfield, her godfather, who is an officer in the Indian Civil...