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Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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3 stars
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"'[B]rilliant, timely, funny, heartbreaking.'--Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You; Bridget Jones's Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into...
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"Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone's magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing and loving family of misfits - staff and guests alike. But Tilly's childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away from the only home she'd ever loved to boarding school with little...
5. Queenie
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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For young Queenie, life in the backstreets of Whitechapel was a lesson in survival - Hitler's bombs hit those with nothing the hardest. When danger strikes close to home, Queenie finds an ally in Mrs. O'Leary, whose two sons are the kingpins of the East End. But while the O'Leary's are the light in Queenie's life, fate has a different path in store. Now married to the useless Albie Butler, Queenie is raising her children to fight their own battles....
6. Queenie
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Publisher:
Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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A cheeky portrait of an old-fashioned young woman's assimilation into the modern world Set in 1960s New York, this piquant coming-of-age story concerns a teenage girl, Queenie, raised to become a "kept woman" in an exceedingly comfortable and well-adjusted-yet insular and retrograde-household. After enrolling in college, Queenie confronts new understandings, both personal and political, and gradually becomes cognizant of the dated values imparted...
7. Queenie
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Publisher:
PTP Book Division
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
English
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Queenie is one of six rescued wolves. Walking slowly to the den, dug out under a large boulder, I crawled in using my flashlight. There they were, six of them, staring at me. They did not seem frightened but whined a little. I picked each one up and looked them over one at a time and they seemed in pretty good shape, staring intently at me with their penetrating eyes. This was such an amazing experience. It's likely the bounty hunters poisoned their...
8. Queenie
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Publisher:
Astral Cultural
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
Portuguese
Description:
Eleito um dos 100 melhores livros de 2019 pela Time Um dos livros mais esperados de 2019 de acordo com a WOMAN'S DAY, NEWSDAY, PUBLISHER WEEKLY E BUSTLE "Brilhante, atual, engraçado, comovonte" Jojo Moyes, autora de Como eu era antes de você Um dos lançamentos mais comentados de 2019" Guardian "Um livro sensual, arrebatador e atual, com um olhar irnico sobre o romance e a independência de mulheres negras." Observer "Candice Carty-Williams é uma...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Perfect comes an exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold Fry's incredible journey"--
"When Queenie Hennessy is told she has days to live she sends a letter on pink paper in which she bids goodbye to Harold Fry. It is a letter that inspires an unlikely walk, a cast of well-wishers and the examination of many lives unlived. But there...
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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A historical graphic novel inspired by the life of Harlem's legendary mobster, Stephanie Saint-Clair Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and headed for the United States, eager to make a new life for herself. In New York she found success, rising up through poverty and battling...
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Publisher:
Pajama Press
Pub. Date:
2019
Lexile measure:
570L
Language:
English
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"Busy observing the world, Queenie Quail is often admonished to keep up with her parents and nine siblings. When Queenie's watchful eye spots a cat in the grass, she rescues her family from danger and teaches them the value of slowing down."--
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Publisher:
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date:
2025, c2023
Language:
English
Description:
"To Queenie, home is Peachy, the little peach-walled house she's lived in forever, all art deco and flaky paint. Always a provider of solace. But when she and her mom have to move out, suddenly one temporary move follows another, from a retirement village to a flood-prone old camper van to a shared home, sometimes with just her father's guitar under her arm and some budding lyrics in her head. Along the way, the change-resistant Queenie discovers...
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Publisher:
Heritage House
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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The chaotic, confusing, funny, and inspiring story of ten-year-old Queenie and her mission to fit in and make friends at her new school while figuring out how to manage her ADHD. When ten-year-old Queenie and her family move from small-town Ontario to a glitzy suburb of Vancouver, she is desperate to fit in and make a best friend for the first time in her life. With her creativity and bubbly personality, Queenie arrives at Western Canada Preparatory...
14. Queenie's Place
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Publisher:
T K Books
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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Guilt momentarily forgotten, I whipped around to face Tom. "My God, what kind of place have you brought us to? What kind of people would advertise their own racism?" Billy leaned over the seat. "How come they spelled clan with a k? *** From the moment military wife Doreen Donovan sees the "Welcome to Klan Country" sign outside Goldsboro, North Carolina, it's one culture shock after another. Set in rural North Carolina in the early 1970s, Queenie's...
15. Queenie's Song
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Publisher:
ReadersMagnet LLC
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
Shy and withdrawn, ten-year-old Aimee seems an ordinary, under-achieving girl until a series of events force her discovery of the extraordinary powers that abide within us all. When Aimee is suddenly orphaned on her tenth birthday, she is sent to live with her only living relative, Aunt Delilah, whom she barely knows. And that is where she meets Queenie - a sassy, outspoken waif of a girl who reveals herself solely to Aimee. Queenie both goads and...
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Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Hers was a face that "launched a thousand ships," a so-called exotic beauty who the camera loved and fans adored. Her nomination for The Dark Angel marked the first time the Academy recognized a performer of color. Almost ninety years before actress Michelle Yeoh would triumph in the same category, Oberon, born to a South Asian mother and white father...
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Series:
Queenie and Arthur volume 3
Publisher:
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Arthur doesn't always remember where he buried his bone, or what he was doing before he started scratching his ear, but he never forgets three important facts: 1) Bacon is delicious 2) He loves his humans, twins Bro and Harmony, with all his heart 3) Queenie the cat is out to destroy him So when Queenie wins first place in a feline beauty contest at the county fair, Arthur expects her to be snootier than ever. (Even though she barely beat out another...
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Publisher:
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"Gorgeous and curvaceous, with cascading black hair and signature red lips, Regina Benuzzi is Queenie B: a culinary goddess with Michelin Star restaurants, a bestselling cookbook empire, and multimillion dollar TV deals. She had it all. Until she didn't. After an epic fall from grace, Queenie B vanishes from the public eye, giving up everything: her husband, her son, and the fame that she'd fought to achieve. Her shows are in rerun, her restaurants...
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Publisher:
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
Queenie searches the garden near her home, trying to find her favorite bone. It's here that she meets a new friend named Harley, who she enjoys playing with all day. However, when it comes time to part ways, Queenie realizes that Harley doesn't have a home of her own. It's here that all their adventures begin!