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41) Fortune's rocks
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In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.
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Rosalind Thorne, known among society ladies as a "most useful woman" for her discretion and connections that allow her to discover almost anything about anyone, investigates the disappearance of a valuable pearl necklace belonging to Bethany Douglas and discovers secrets swirling around the Douglas family, including fraud, forgery, blackmail, and soon, murder.
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"As the Season of 1899 comes to an end, the world is poised on the brink of profound, irrevocable change. The Earl of Dilberne is facing serious financial concerns. The ripple effects spread to everyone in the household: Lord Robert, who has gambled unwisely on the stock market and seeks a place in the Cabinet; his unmarried children, Arthur, who keeps a courtesan, and Rosina, who keeps a parrot in her bedroom; Lord Robert's wife Isobel, who orders...
45) Rebel angels
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Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 2
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Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.
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Last chance scoundrels volume 2
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2022.
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"Tabitha Seaton, to join a collective of the most brilliant, influential minds in London, needs a husband and believes a notorious, handsome gambler may be her best bet, but the stakes are higher than she could have imagined when love enters the game"-- Provided by publisher.
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Scenes of Clerical Life is the collection of the first three stories published by George Eliot, originally in Blackwood's Magazine. They all take place in the fictional midlands town of Milby and are concerned with the affect of religious reform on clergymen and their congregations.
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Severn House
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2011.
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In the autumn of 1210, Abbess Caliste is concerned about the welfare of her nuns at Hawkenlye Abbey after King John's men have taken it over, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Mannor with Josse, and Helewise's eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes missing.
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Gilded Age heiresses volume 3
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2022.
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Young widow Lady Helena March agrees to a fake engagement to the sinfully seductive Crenshaw heir to get funding for The London Home for Young Women, but when their deception starts to become real, she must make a difficult decision.
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Rogues and remarkable women volume 3
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"An English spy must follow his neglected wife through the streets of London as she investigates her sister's death with the aid of the Widow's Grace. Can they find common ground and learn to work together?"--
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Would-be wallflowers volume 2
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Giles Renwick, Earl of Lilford, has never made a fool of himself over a woman, until he meets Lady Yasmin Regnier. Yasmin is ineligible for his attentions in every way: not as a wife, certainly not as a mistress (she is a lady!), nor even as a friend, since they vehemently dislike each other. Her gowns are too low, and her skirts are dampened to cling to admittedly lovely thighs. She loves to gossip and giggle. She isn't dignified, or polite, or even...
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Marleigh sisters volume 1
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Shunned from "polite" society, Lila Marleigh, the eldest daughter of an English earl and his Indian mistress, becomes hostess of an exclusive gaming club where she meets and convinces Ivor Tristam to help her solve a violent crime, igniting a passion that shakes them both to the core.
56) Uncommon charm
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Three days after I was expelled from the Marable School for Girls, our poor Simon arrived. In the 1920s gothic comedy Uncommon Charm, bright young socialite Julia and shy Jewish magician Simon decide they aren't beholden to their families' unhappy history. Together they confront such horrors as murdered ghosts, alive children, magic philosophy, a milieu that slides far too easily into surrealist metaphor, and, worst of all, serious adult conversation....
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Thomas De Quincey mysteries volume 1
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"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir, 'Confessions of an English Opium-Eater', is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London forty-three years earlier...Desperate to clearl his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter Emily and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives." --inside front cover.
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Last chance scoundrels volume 1
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Society favorite Celeste Kilburn decides to explore life on the wild side of 1818 London, England, believing that all will be well with the scoundrel Kieran Ransome by her side as escort, but their experiences together lead to consequences that affect the possibility of their future together.
59) Bombshell
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Hell's belles volume 1
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After years of living as London's brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom, and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem. No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend's beautiful, brash, brilliant sister. If asked, he₂d say he's...
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They may be twins, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites. Penny is the life of the party—loud and outrageous, while quiet and thoughtful Lizzy is often left out of the crowd. The one trait they do share is a longing to do something spectacular with their lives, and as far as these two are concerned, there’s no better place to make their dreams come true than London. Presented with a once-in-a-lifetime house-sit at their grandmother’s...
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