03150cam a2200337 4500 1473627406 TxAuBib 20240801120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780063244764 0063244764 B0CKT8V7QD Amazon c7300f54-562c-405b-935a-830c881e2cda OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10234676 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Quinn, Kate Karyus. The Briar Club [Libby] : A Novel. HarperCollins, 2024. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2742kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p>"Quinn evocatively balances the outward cheerfulness of the 1950s with historical observations exploring racism, misogyny, homophobia and political persecution in this <strong>s</strong>harply drawn, gripping novel<strong>." - People Magazine</strong></p><br /> <p><strong>The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era.</strong></p> <p>Washington, DC, 1950. Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation's capital where secrets hide behind white picket fences. But when the lovely, mysterious widow Grace March moves into the attic room, she draws her oddball collection of neighbors into unlikely friendship: poised English beauty Fliss, whose facade of perfect wife and mother covers gaping inner wounds; policeman's daughter Nora, who finds herself entangled with a shadowy gangster; frustrated baseball star Beatrice, whose career has come to an end along with the women's baseball league of WWII; and poisonous, gung-ho Arlene, who has thrown herself into McCarthy's Red Scare.</p> <p>Grace's weekly attic-room dinner parties and window-brewed sun tea become a healing balm on all their lives, but she hides a terrible secret of her own. When a shocking act of violence tears the house apart, the Briar Club women must decide once and for all: who is the true enemy in their midst?</p> <p>Capturing the paranoia of the McCarthy era and evoking the changing roles for women in postwar America, The Briar Club is an intimate and thrilling novel of secrets and loyalty put to the test.</p> <p>A beautiful, foil cover, first edition.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-08-01 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c7300f54-562c-405b-935a-830c881e2cda&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c7300f54-562c-405b-935a-830c881e2cda&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c7300f54-562c-405b-935a-830c881e2cda&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)