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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A young couple on the brink of marriage--the charming Veblen and her fiancé Paul, a brilliant neurologist--find their engagement in danger of collapse. Along the way they weather everything from each other's dysfunctional families, to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, to an intimate tête-à-tête with a very charismatic squirrel. Veblen (named after the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term "conspicuous...
Author
Series
Bride trilogy (Mary Jo Putney) volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A lord yearning for adventure and a lonely woman longing for a home...
The daughter of a Scottish father and a Chinese mother, Troth Montgomery grew up in Macao fluent in the language and culture of both parents, but her father's sudden death condemned her to a shadowy life as an interpreter in Canton. Then Kyle Renbourne, viscount and adventurer, discovers her true identity and persuades her to be his guide for a dangerous journey into the heart...
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2006, c1999
Language
English
Description
American readers were introduced to the award-winning Sudanese author Leila Aboulela with Minaret, a delicate tale of a privileged young African Muslim woman adjusting to her new life as a maid in London. Now, for the first time in North America, we step back to her extraordinarily assured debut about a widowed Muslim mother living in Aberdeen who falls in love with a Scottish secular academic. Sammar is a Sudanese widow working as an Arabic translator...
Author
Series
Torrey Tunet mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Torrey Tunet hirs a local teenager to repair a broken window, she finds him to be unusually helpful and likable, but something's on his mind.
6) Intimacies
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses...
7) The Centre
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of "great works of literature," but mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies and living off her parents' generous allowance. Adding to her growing sense of inadequacy, her mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, has successfully leveraged his savant-level aptitude for languages into an enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. Adam...
Author
Series
Torrey Tunet mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Author
Series
Feminine pursuits volume 1
Publisher
Avon Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover's sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn't until she finds a letter from the Countess of Moth, looking for someone to translate a groundbreaking French astronomy text, that she knows where to go. Showing up at the Countess' London home, she hoped to find a challenge, not a woman who takes her breath away. Catherine St Day looks forward to a quiet widowhood once her late husband's scientific...
11) The interpreter
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Working as an interpreter for the New York City court system, Korean-American Suzy Park makes a startling discovery that casts doubt on the facts surrounding her greengrocer parents' murders five years earlier.
13) The escape
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Detta works as a translator for a Nazi-run labour camp for French workers. One winter morning in early 1945, Detta passes a group of exhausted British prisoners of war who are being force-marched westwards. The following day she receives an urgent message to contact the local priest. He is harbouring a group of escaped British prisoners of war in the manse: can she help? ... London, 1989. Miranda is a 19-year old photography student in London, in...
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