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Bancroft Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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This 1854 novel focuses on a portrait of Mademoiselle de Malepeire, which hangs in Dom Gérusac's home in the countryside of southern France just before the first French Revolution. Noted for her beauty, Mademoiselle de Malepeire had been painted by her well-to-do suitor, who was enthralled with her beauty and able to disregard her cold and haughty demeanor. Her eventual love story is pieced together in Dom Gérusac's home as many unexpected guests...
82) The heiress hunt
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Knickerbocker scoundrel Harrison Archer returns to New York to discover that his deceased father has bankrupted his estranged family. To save them from ruin, he's forced to quickly find and marry an heiress. For a matchmaker, Harrison turns to the one woman he wishes he could marry: his childhood friend and true love, Maddie, who once broke his heart and is now engaged to a duke. When her best friend Harrison left for Paris without a word, Maddie...
83) Always: a novel
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English
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Torn between two men, Kailey Crane is faced with an impossible choice: embrace the bright future she has with her new fiancé, or dedicate herself to reclaiming a past love that may be gone forever. When Kailey met Cade ten years ago, their attraction was immediate and intense, but it all ended suddenly, leaving Kailey devastated. Now Cade is another homeless soul; his mind has suffered in the intervening years. When they meet, Kailey helps Cade begin...
85) Duke seeks bride
Author
Series
Love on holiday volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Duchess of Waverly's personal secretary, Miss Aurelia Graves, mistaken for her employer until Alexander Fennessey learns the truth, agrees to let others think she's the duchess for a fortnight, while making it clear she has no interest in marrying him, until the tables turn, and he wants to marry her.
87) A duchess a day
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Awakened by a kiss volume 1
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English
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"An heiress with a plan... Lady Helena Lark has spent years trying to escape her wedding to the vain and boring Duke of Lusk. She's evaded, refused, even run away. When her family's patience runs out, they pack her off to London to walk down the aisle. But Helena has another idea: find a more suitable bride to take her place, even if she must look for a replacement duchess every day. A bodyguard with a job to do... Declan Shaw, better known as The...
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English
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A funny and affirming illustrated guide, in New Yorker cartoonist Sarah Akinterinwa's signature style, that offers a unique approach to finding love (or not).
This illustrated dating guide by cartoonist Sarah Akinterinwa, rooted in her experiences as a Black woman in her late twenties, encourages readers to be introspective, honest, and practical in their love lives. Through vignettes with scenes from modern dating, the book's...
This illustrated dating guide by cartoonist Sarah Akinterinwa, rooted in her experiences as a Black woman in her late twenties, encourages readers to be introspective, honest, and practical in their love lives. Through vignettes with scenes from modern dating, the book's...
89) Promised
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Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Fooled by love once before, Margaret vows never to be played the fool again. To keep her vow, she attends a notorious match-making party intent on securing the perfect marital match: a union of convenience to someone who could never affect her heart. She discovers a man who exceeds all her hopes in the handsome and obliging rake, Mr. Northam. There's only one problem. His meddling cousin, Lord Williams, won't leave Margaret alone. Condescending and...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Heiress Winnifred Humphries refuses to marry the odious man her parents have chosen. She'll marry for love or not at all. But how does a woman know a man truly loves her? Needing answers, she sets out to discover the marriage habits of London's aristocrats. Yet when her friends kidnap a lord for research, Winn knows they've gone too far. Now she's facing a wickedly handsome scoundrel who wants revenge. Lord Asher Holt has the perfect plan to free...
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Ice planet barbarians volume 5
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tiffany doesn't care about all the attention she's getting from the alien men, but there is one particular hunter she can see herself with--if only she can find a way to move forward from the past... It's hard being the most popular girl on the ice planet. The alien men are falling all over themselves to impress me in the hopes that I'll take them to my furs. But they don't know my secrets. And they don't realize that behind my smile, I just wish...
93) Eve of man
Author
Series
Eve of man volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"On the first day, no one really noticed. All those babies wrapped in blue blankets--not a pink one in sight. On the third day, people were scared--a statistic-defying abundance of blue. Not just entire hospitals, not only entire countries, but the entire world. Boys. Only boys. Until Eve. The only girl born in fifty years. The savior of mankind. Kept protected, towering above a ruined world under a glass dome of safety until she is ready to renew...
94) Barbarian's mate
Author
Series
Ice planet barbarians volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Josie has always dreamed of finding The One, but the hunter chosen for her is nothing like what she expected (or wanted)-but he might be exactly what she needs. "Resonance" is supposed to be a dream-that's when your soulmate is chosen for you. And every woman on the ice planet has hooked up with a big, hunky soulmate of their own-except me. So do I want a mate? Heck yeah. More than anything, all I've ever wanted is to be loved by someone. But the...
95) Dark illusion
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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At any other time, Julija Brennan would find solace in the quiet of the Sierra Mountains, but now the mage is in the race of her life. Having broken free from her controlling family, Julija's attempt to warn the Carpathians of the coming threat has failed and put a target on her back-and those who are hunting her are close behind.... After centuries locked away in a monastery in the Carpathian Mountains, Isai Florea can't believe he's finally found...
96) Only ever yours
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions--wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure...
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Series
Runaway royals (Alyssa Cole) volume 1
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English
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"When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true. But it's nothing like she imagined. Shanti and her husband may share an immediate and powerful attraction, but her subjects see her as an outsider, and everything she was taught about being the perfect wife goes disastrously wrong. A king must rule with an iron fist, and newly crowned King Sanyu was born perfectly fitted for the gauntlet, even if he wishes...
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Series
Blackwater brides volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, needs a prostitute. Not in the usual way, however. His wealthy uncle's will promises to divide his huge fortune among his nephews if each rescues a fallen woman . . . by marrying her! And since Jasper's estates were already mortgaged to the hilt before he inherited them, when he catches a pretty young prostitute trying to pick his pocket, he immediately makes his proposal. Clarissa Astley is not at all what Jasper...
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Christmas hope series volume 10
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Thirty-two-year-old Amy Denison volunteers at Glory's Place, an after school program where she meets seven-year-old Maddie, a precocious young girl who has spent her childhood in foster care. Unbeknownst to Amy, Maddie is a mini-matchmaker, with her eye on just the right man for Amy at Grandon Elementary School, where she is a student. Amy is hesitant - she's been hurt before, and isn't sure she's ready to lose her heart again - but an unexpected...
Author
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Emma y Jesse, novios de la secundaria, se casan y construyen una vida por sí mismos, lejos de las expectativas de sus padres en Massachusetts. Viajan por el mundo, viven la vida al máximo y aprovechan cada oportunidad de aventura. En su primer aniversario, Jesse está en un helicóptero cuando desaparece sobre el océano Pacífico. Solo así, se ha ido para siempre. Emma deja su trabajo y regresa a Massachusetts en un esfuerzo por rehacer su vida....
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