Hannah Curtis

A 2023 Sydney Taylor Honor Book! * A Bustle Best YA Books Out in 2022 title!

Culinary delights abound, romance lingers in the air, and plans go terribly, wonderfully astray in this gender-bent take on My Fair Lady from Jennieke Cohen, author of Dangerous Alliance—perfect for fans of Bridgerton or A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue.

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"In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years"-- Provided by publisher.

A married couple decides they will take control of their final years by exiting the world together at the age of 80-with unexpected consequences and possibilities in New York Times bestselling author Lionel Shriver's brilliantly conceived parallel-universe novel of sickness, marriage, old age, and mortality reminiscent of The Post-Birthday World. When her father dies, Kay is relieved. For ten years, she watched helplessly as Alzheimer's ravaged this...

Pride and Prejudice and Witches After a mysterious fire at their home in Regency London displaces Gentlewitch Edith Rookwood and her now much-reduced family to their ancestral seat of Netherford Hall in Kent, she faces a new threat in the form of her tenant-the chaotic and lovely Poppy Brightwell. The repairs on the old pile are prohibitive, Edith's standing is uncertain, and her inheritance has been challenged by a forgotten American...

A piercing blend of memoir, criticism, and biography examining how women writers across the centuries carved out intellectual freedom for themselves - and how others might do the same. I took off my wedding ring off for the last time - a gold band with half a line of "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath etched inside - and for weeks afterwards, my thumb would involuntarily reach across my palm for the warm bright circle that had gone. I didn't fling the...

A woman's confession about her husband sparks a dangerous cat-and-mouse game in this riveting domestic thriller. Gabby and Fred have just begun to adapt to their new life as empty nesters when Gabby makes a stunning realization: she can't stand her husband. One night at a bar, Gabby meets an enigmatic younger woman named Ellis, and in a haze of drunkenness, she confesses that she wishes Fred dead. Surely, she didn't expect anything to come of it,...

The paper is stiff and brittle with age as Kate unfolds it with trembling hands. She gasps at the pencil sketch of a rippling waterway, lined by tall buildings, curving towards the dome of a cathedral. She feels a connection deep in her heart. Venice. England, 1941. When Kate Arden discovers a secret stash of drawings hidden in the pages of an old volume of poetry given to her as a baby, her breath catches. All her life, she has felt like an outsider...

Their life looks so perfect on the surface. But the facade is beginning to crack... Nevin and Gloria both have successful careers, as well as two adorable kids and a picture-book cottage by the sea. But at forty, Nevin is experiencing some discontent. He's a successful author, but his latest plot is not for a book... As Nevin sets a plan in motion that will allow him to escape his marriage, he conspires against Gloria. But he should have thought...

How the law harms sex workers, and what they want instead Do you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice? In “Revolting Prostitutes,” sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh perspective to questions that have long been contentious. Speaking from a growing global sex worker rights movement and situating their argument firmly within wider...