Rosalyn Landor
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Hugh Prentice has never had patience for dramatic females, and if Lady Sarah Pleinsworth has ever been acquainted with the words "shy" or "retiring", she's long since tossed them out the window. Besides, even if Hugh did grow to enjoy her company, it wouldn't matter. A reckless duel has left this brilliant mathematician with a ruined leg, and now, unable to run, ride, or even waltz, he could never court a woman like Sarah, much less dream of marrying...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Sir Richard Kenworthy has less than a month to find a bride. He knows he can't be too picky, but when he sees Iris Smythe-Smith hiding behind her cello at her family's infamous musicale, he thinks he might have struck gold. She's the type of girl you don't notice until the second--or third--look, but there's something about her, something simmering under the surface, and he knows she's the one. Iris Smythe-Smith is used to being underestimated. With...
43) The maid
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
"The girl who led an army, the peasant who crowned a king, the maid who became a legend. It is the fifteenth century, and the tumultuous Hundred Years' War rages on. France is under siege, English soldiers tear through the countryside destroying all who cross their path, and Charles VII, the uncrowned king, has neither the strength nor the will to rally his army. And in the quiet of her parents' garden in Domrémy, a peasant girl sees a spangle of...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Ismay thinks of that terrible day, and she often does, she remembers Heather coming down the stairs–her dress wet, her face as still and white as a porcelain mask. Sometimes the memories return in a dream: climbing the stairs, following her dripping-wet sister to the upstairs bathroom–but when Heather opens the door they are standing in a marble chamber on the edge of a glassy lake. Ismay watches as a white thing floats toward them,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Worm, a young orphan boy who works at the local clinic, sees Eloise being kidnapped by two men in the days leading up to Christmas, he immediately recruits Squeaky Robinson to help rescue her. But as they track Eloise down, they're surprised to hear that she does not, in fact, wish to be rescued. Instead, Eloise intends to bring the kidnappers, who drew her father into their shady business deals and then murdered him, to justice. The kidnappers...
Author
Series
Bevelstoke series volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
"Delightful."
—Nora Roberts
A perennial New York Times bestselling author, whose books have reached as high as #1, Julia Quinn returns with Ten Things I Love About You, another clever, witty, and delightful historical romance. Author Jill Barnett calls the incomparable Quinn, "Truly our contemporary Jane Austen," Time magazine says her books are, "Smart, funny"—and this absolutely delicious tale of a beautiful
...47) Simply love
Author
Series
Simply quartet (Mary Balogh) volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anne Jewell, a teacher at Miss Martin's School for Girls, is on summer holiday in Wales when she meets and falls in love with Sydnam Butler, a hero from the Peninsular Wars. He's unlike any man she's ever met before but he harbors scars from his past. When she returns to the school, she makes a surprising discovery that causes her to test Sydnam's love.
48) It's in his kiss
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
"Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past ... and the key to his future. The problem is--it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. All the ton agreed: there was no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. She's fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken,...
49) Heartless
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Life has taught Lucas Kendrick, Duke of Harndon, that a heart is a decided liability. Betrayed by his elder brother, rejected by his fiancee, banished by his father, and shunned by his mother, Luke fled to Paris, where he became the most sought-after bachelor in fashionable society. Ten years later, fate has brought him back home to England as head of the family who rejected him. Unwilling as he is to be involved with them, he must assume responsibility...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove, published by Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages : genealogical tables ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
Abigail Westcott's dreams for her future were lost when her father died and she discovered her parents were not legally married. But now, six years later, she enjoys the independence a life without expectation provides a wealthy single woman. Indeed, she's grown confident enough to scold the careless servant chopping wood outside without his shirt on in the proximity of ladies. But the man is not a servant. He is Gilbert Bennington, the lieutenant...
Author
Series
Bedwyn saga volume 6
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
365 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Though his five younger siblings are now happily wed (see, e.g., Slightly Married, Slightly Sinful), Wulfric Bedwyn, the Duke of Bewcastle, isn't looking for a mate when he accepts an invitation to a country house party in Balogh's finale to the Bedwyn series.
Author
Series
Bridgerton series volume 8
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except ... She wasn't the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers...
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Language
English
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Description
In "The Railway Children", a young family must leave their comfortable London life for a house in the country when their father is taken away unexpectedly. Roberta, Peter and Phyllis spend their days at the nearby train station, befriending the station master and porter and many of the passengers. Waving goodbye to the departing London train each day and sending their love to their father who is detained there, they strike up a friendship with a kindly...
Author
Series
League of beastly dreadfuls volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great-aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
Author
Series
Hathaways volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
414 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Paid companion Catherine Marks is attracted to her employers' older brother, Leo Hathaway, despite their constant bickering, so she agrees to a marriage of convenience with him, but the secret she is hiding threatens them both.
Author
Series
Six Tudor queens volume 4
Publisher
Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
498 pages : genealogical tables ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Newly widowed and the father of an infant son, Henry VIII realizes he must marry again to ensure the royal succession. Forty-six, overweight, and suffering from gout, Henry is soundly rejected by some of Europe's most eligible princesses. Anna of Kleve, from a small German duchy, is twenty-four, and has a secret she is desperate to keep hidden. Henry commissions her portrait from his court painter, who depicts her from the most flattering perspective....
58) Someone to hold
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
513 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Camille Westcott, who has been declared illegitimate and without a title, moves to Bath to teach at an orphanage, where she meets artist Joel Cunningham, for whom she feels a mutual contempt until things take a passionate turn.
Author
Series
League of beastly dreadfuls volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Anastasia, Ollie and Quentin have barely managed to escape the nefarious clutches of C.R.U.D. when they are brought to the underground Cavelands. There Anastasia finds out she is Caveland royalty, and that her family figures into a centuries old scandal that began with the disappearance of her grandfather.