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Wildes of Lindow Castle volume 4
Language
English
Description
While considering the duke's proposal, Lady Betsy Wilde has one last adventure in the form of a scandalous wager with Lord Jeremy Roden. --Publisher
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it's time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she sees none other than Jack, the guy whose room she snuck out of. After the joint agreement that they are absolutely not interested in each other, Jack...
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Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets... It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon - every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league... a league where the games played are of politics and empires, of economics and kings. It is a league where Capture the Castle involves real castles, where hide and seek takes place on the scale...
Author
Series
Regency vows volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The widowed Diana, Lady Templeton and Jeremy, Marquess of Willingham are infamous among English high society as much for their sharp-tongued bickering as their flirtation. One evening, an argument at a ball turns into a serious wager: Jeremy will marry within the year or Diana will forfeit one hundred pounds. So shortly after, just before a fortnight-long house party at Elderwild, Jeremy's country estate, Diana is shocked when Jeremy appears at her...
5) Hard reboot
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Kas is a junior researcher on a fact-finding mission to old Earth. But when a con-artist tricks her into wagering a large sum of money belonging to her university on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights"--
6) Secret Vows
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
In too deep... Music is Jason Cole's first love, and so far, no woman has ever come close. He's happiest writing and recording at his Oregon mountain retreat. Plus, the gorgeous new waitress at the local restaurant is another reason to enjoy spending time in the small, remote town-especially once he hears her sing.... Though she's flattered when Jason offers her a recording contract, Greer Evans says no. She can't reveal the truth-that she's there...
7) Head games
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Publisher
Dafina Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From childhood games to career challenges, Trymm, Dallas, Kohl, and Blitz have stayed the best of friends-and each others' toughest competition. These bachelors live to party up, sex it down, and get it all. And now they're betting on which of them can "date-and-dump" the most women in a month-and post the proof on social media. Winner takes all: a cool million dollars. But this game is about to get all-too-real . . . Trymm has no problem bedding...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"[Annie Londonderry] captured the popular imagination with her daring 'round the world trip on two wheels. It was, declared The New York World in October of 1895, "the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman." But beyond the headlines, Londonderry was really Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young, Jewish mother of three small children, who climbed onto a 42-pound Columbia bicycle and pedaled away into history. Reportedly set in motion by a...
Author
Series
American wonders collection volume 3
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In 1893 Washington, a headstrong beauty must rely on a rough mountain guide to get her to the top of Mt. Rainier so she can win a wager and save her beloved stepfather's failing bank. But her mountain man has hidden potential-and so, she discovers, does their future together"--
When her fellow suffragettes in Tacoma, Washington, suggest that Coraline Baxter should climb to the top of Mount Rainier to prove that a woman can do anything, she instantly...
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"London, 1872. On the day his world is turned upside down by a postcard from a lost love, Phileas Fogg ... is inspired by an article about the exciting advances in travel to take on an almost impossible wager--to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. As a man who has spent the last twenty years in a comfortable leather armchair at The Reform Club, he will need all the resilience he can muster and of course would be nowhere without the assistance...
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