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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 1
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English
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Reprint. Originally published: 2007. "Berkley Prime Crime mystery"--Spine.
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Bridgerton series volume 6
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English
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"In every life there is a turning point...For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton. After a lifetime of chasing women...he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing...Now Michael is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant"--...
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Reginald Mason is a gentleman, though not by birth, a matter that pains his self-made father, Bernard Mason. An opportunity for social advancement arises in Lady Annabelle Ashton, disgraced daughter of the Earl of Havercroft, an enemy of the Mason family. The Earl is willing to marry her off to any wealthy man, even Reggie, but Reggie prefers to live the single life so Bernard issues an ultimatum: marry Annabelle or do without family funds.
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Huxtable quintet volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Balogh introduces an extraordinary family-- the fiery, sensual Huxtables. Vanessa is a young widow who has her own reason for pursuing the most eligible bachelor in London. One that has nothing to do with love. Or does it?
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2023.
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English
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"According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and asking--something a man can never do with a female patient....
6) My fake rake
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"Feast of female empowerment, positive friendships, feel-good moments, and social satire." -- NPR In the first book in Eva Leigh's new Union of the Rakes series, a bluestocking enlists a faux suitor to help her land an ideal husband only to be blindsided by real desire... Lady Grace Wyatt is content as a wallflower, focusing on scientific pursuits rather than the complications of society matches. But when a handsome, celebrated naturalist returns...
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Bridgerton series volume 1
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the first novel in the beloved Regency-set world of her charming, powerful Bridgerton family, now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince--while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood....
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Simply quartet (Mary Balogh) volume 1
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress.
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the seductive world she knows so well–Regency England–in a new novel filled with her trademark wit, sensuality, and breathtaking storytelling. With this, the first in a dazzling new quartet of novels, Balogh invites us into a special world–a select academy for young ladies–...
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the seductive world she knows so well–Regency England–in a new novel filled with her trademark wit, sensuality, and breathtaking storytelling. With this, the first in a dazzling new quartet of novels, Balogh invites us into a special world–a select academy for young ladies–...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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On the first day of Christmas, Lady Georgianna Rannoch's true love is tramping around South America. Mummy is holed up in Tiddleton-under-Lovey with that droll Noel Coward, while Georgie is snowed in at Castle Rannoch with her bumbling brother and sourpuss sister-in-law. So she contrives to hostess a posh holiday party in Tiddleton- a village right out of A Christmas Carol. But soon after Georgie arrives a fellow falls out of a tree, dead...Dickensian,...
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Huxtable quintet volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London's most notorious lover on his ability to seduce the virtuous Katherine Huxtable. For Katherine, Jasper's offer is irresistible: to make London's most dangerous rake fall in love with her. Then Jasper suddenly ups the ante by asking her to become his wife.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incomparable Danielle Steel breaks new ground as she takes us to nineteenth-century England, where a high-born young woman is forced out into the world—and begins a journey of survival, sensuality, and long-sought justice.
Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic...
Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic...
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2011
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English
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Widowed Lady Julia Winterset has just inherited a very shocking book, and now every gentleman in London seems to want it. Harrison Landingham, Earl of Mountdale, cannot permit obstinate Julia release a shameless memoir that could ruin his family's name. The only way to stop her may be equally sordid.
13) Royal flush
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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With its posh clientele gone to the country, Lady Georgiana's fledgling housecleaning business has fizzled. When her friend's suggestion that she hire herself out as a dinner-and-theatre companion ends in disaster, the penniless heiress is shipped home to Castle Rannoch. There she will honor her promise to Her Majesty to keep their American houseguest Mrs. Simpson from seducing the Prince of Wales and help Scotland Yard with a top secret mission.
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"When an ambitious entrepreneur pretends to be a lady of means, she catches the eye--and heart--of a duke... Jessica McGale's family business desperately needs investors and she's determined to succeed at any cost. But she knows London's elite will never look twice at a humble farm girl like herself. Posing as "Lady Whitfield," however, places her in the orbit of wealthy, powerful people--most notably the Duke of Rotherby. His influence and support...
15) Pegasus: a novel
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a rich historical novel of family and World War II, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel unfurls a powerful saga that spans generations and continents. This is a story of courage, friendship, and fate as two families face the challenges of war . . . and the magnificent stallion that will link them forever.
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Nicolas von Bingen and Alex von...
In a rich historical novel of family and World War II, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel unfurls a powerful saga that spans generations and continents. This is a story of courage, friendship, and fate as two families face the challenges of war . . . and the magnificent stallion that will link them forever.
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Nicolas von Bingen and Alex von...
16) A royal pain
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 2
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English
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The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which Lady Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess and conveniently place her in the playboy Prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally marry. But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise. She must draw up plans: clean house to make it look like a palace; have Granddad and her neighbor pretend to be the domestic staff; un-teach...
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Huxtable quintet volume 3
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English
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Only desperation could bring Duncan Pennethorne, the infamous Earl of Sheringford, back home after the spectacular scandal that had shocked even the jaded ton. Forced to wed in fifteen days or be cut off without a penny, Duncan chooses the one woman in London in frantic need of a husband. A lie to an old flame forces Margaret Huxtable to accept the irresistible stranger's offer. When she discovers who he really is, it's too late...
18) Silent melody
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2015
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English
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"Brimming with passion and rich in historical detail, Silent Melody is an epic love story like no other. It is the extraordinary tale of a privileged young Lady who has everything -- except her hearing. With the help of a dark and reckless Lord, she fulfills her lifelong dream of learning to dance -- and learning to love"--Amazon.com.
19) Wilde child
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"Lady Joan can't seem to avoid scandals, but her latest escapade may finally ruin her: she's determined to perform the title role of a prince in breeches, naturally. She has the perfect model for an aristocratic male in mind: Thaddeus Erskine Shaw, Viscount Greywick, a man who scorned the very idea of marrying her. For years, Thaddeus has avoided the one Wilde who shakes his composure, but he's horrified when he grasps the danger Joan is putting herself...
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2015.
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"Cavendon Women, the stunning sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' journey from a family weekend in the summer of 1926 through to the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929. It all begins on a summer weekend in July of 1926 when, for the first time in years, the earl has planned a family weekend. As the family members come together, secrets, problems, joys, and sorrows are revealed. As old...
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