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Classics - St. Charles Public Library
Father's Day SHPL
OBD Audiobook Classics - Adult
Road Trip Listens SHPL
Father's Day SHPL
OBD Audiobook Classics - Adult
Road Trip Listens SHPL
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A complex and profound book, The Tale of Two Cities explores the consequences of tyranny, fate and self-sacrifice. With much of the narrative played out in Paris, during the French Revolution Dickens examines the interplay between personal action, and the flow of history. Dr Manette, having travelled to Paris finds himself imprisoned in the Bastille for 18 brutal years, unable to see his kind and loving daughter Lucy. On his eventual return to London...
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This beloved historical satire, played out in two very different socio-economic worlds of 16th-century England, centers around the lives of two boys born in London on the same day: Edward, Prince of Wales, and Tom Canty, a street beggar. During a chance encounter, they realize they are identical and, as a lark, decide to exchange garments and roles -- a situation that briefly, but drastically, alters the lives of both youngsters. Brimming with gentle...
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"In the masterful follow-up to the runaway hit All the Missing Girls--a "fiendishly plotted thriller" (Publishers Weekly)--a journalist sets out to find a missing friend, a friend who may never have existed at all. Confronted by a restraining order and the threat of a lawsuit, failed journalist Leah Stevens needs to get out of Boston when she runs into an old friend, Emmy Grey, who has just left a troubled relationship. Emmy proposes they move to...
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Jake is a New York City fireman and devoted family man. Eric is climbing the corporate ladder at the expense of his wife and children. On a fateful Tuesday in September, two strangers meet for a startling moment in a smoke-filled stairway. Only one will leave the Twin Towers alive. Will he find his way home?
The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing on top of him and his fellow firefighters.
...5) Mirror image
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When World War I breaks out, the adventurous New York heiress, Victoria, is prevented from taking part because she is married. So she changes places with her lookalike sister, Olivia, who is a homely type. Everything works, until Olivia falls in love.
6) To die for
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For fitness center owner Blair Mallory, trouble begins when a club member is murdered.
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Poison apple books volume 6
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Anna's new friend, Emma, looks just like her, but Emma is a bit of a trouble maker.
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Body movers novels volume 2
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A debutante-turned-department store clerk finds herself in trouble when her thieving doppelganger winds up dead in this romantic mystery.
With fugitive parents, a brother dodging loan sharks, a hunky cop who's made her outlaw family his business, a buff body mover looking to make a move on her and her ex-fiancé back in the picture, Carlotta Wren thought her life couldn't get any more complicated. And then . . .
Her best friend jumps...
With fugitive parents, a brother dodging loan sharks, a hunky cop who's made her outlaw family his business, a buff body mover looking to make a move on her and her ex-fiancé back in the picture, Carlotta Wren thought her life couldn't get any more complicated. And then . . .
Her best friend jumps...
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Lotus Lane volume 3
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Lulu, one of the Lotus Lane Girls, loves all things sparkly and glamorous, so when she hears about a Penelope Glitter look-alike contest she is determined to enter and win--and she is not going to let the still-unresolved problems with neighbor Mika get in the way.
10) PRINCE JOE
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New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann has thrilled audiences with her Tall, Dark and Dangerous series. Experience it here with a hero who must face the most daring adventure of all-falling in love. Love is the toughest assignment of his life… It will be the biggest challenge of Veronica St. John's career. She has two days to teach a rugged Navy SEAL to impersonate a European prince who has been targeted by terrorists....
12) Weaponized
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Kyle West is a wanted man. Having fled the country to escape the false charges filed against himself and his former boss, billionaire government contractor Christopher Chandler, Kyle's hiding in Cambodia, living on borrowed time and finding more and more reasons to be paranoid. When a mysterious stranger named Julian Robinson walks into Kyle's favorite café and offers to swap passports with Kyle, Kyle can't believe his luck. Robinson looks so much...
13) Out of my skin
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Los Angeles. A would-be movie reviewer, looking for romance, takes an assignment to write a magazine article about celebrity look-alikes. After getting to know a Steve Martin impersonator, the writer decides to undertake his own process of transformation and becomes not Steve Martin but a version of him-graceful, charming, at home in the world. Safe in the guise of "Steve," he begins to fall in love. And, that's when "Steve" takes over. Set in the...
14) Scent of truth
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An innocent suspect. A look-alike killer. Can a K-9 team crack this case? After Officer Colt Maxwell and his K-9 partner, Sampson, discover a body, all signs point to Brooke Stevens as the murderer. But Colt suspects someone's framing the park ranger--and that the killer looks exactly like her. When the imposter turns her sights on Brooke, it's up to Colt to guard her. But can they track down the truth...before innocent Brooke loses her life?
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Impulsively answering a stranger who shouts out the name of a woman she has always envied, Jenny tackles feelings of loneliness and discontent by embracing a new identity that leads to a warm circle of friends and unexpected romance before she uncovers a secret from her rival's past.
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You're invited to a creepover volume no. 20
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"Beth Picard has always felt a little different from her friends. For one thing, she doesn't remember anything about her life before she and her mother moved into the house they live in now. Then one day, Beth learns about a girl in a nearby town who looks like her-- exactly like her. Could it be a long lost sister or cousin? Does this girl hold the key to Beth's memories? And if so, does Beth really want to know the truth about her past? Does she...
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