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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song—written by world-famous superstar Jonesy—but Jane hasn’t had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents’ house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she’s seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight—the other...
2) The mister
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English
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London, 2019. Life has been easy for Maxim Trevelyan. With his good looks, aristocratic connections, and money, he's never had to work and he's rarely slept alone. But all that changes when tragedy strikes and Maxim inherits his family's noble title, wealth, and estates, and all the responsibility that entails. It's a role he's not prepared for and one that he struggles to face. But his biggest challenge is fighting his desire for an unexpected, enigmatic...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 39
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English
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Originally published in 1902, this is a story of deceit and betrayal, as well as of forgiveness. Milly Theale is an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. Merton Densher is the man she loves, and the magnificent, predatory Kate Croy is the woman he loves, and will conspire with against Millie.
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Rescued from the icy waters of the Thames by the enigmatic Grant Morgan, one of London's most unattainable bachelors, a lovely amnesiac--who is told that she is the notorious Vivien Rose Duvall--finds herself under Grant's protection as he sets out to unravel her past and discover the truth.
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Series
Sinful suitors volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a too-persistent suitor forces her into a marriage of convenience with Edwin Barlow, the Earl of Blakeborough, the unexpected passion that Lady Clarissa Lindsey finds with her husband is threatened by her stalker.
6) I see London
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English
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"Maggie Carpenter is a small-town Southern girl who's never been kissed. She's ready for a change..she accepts a scholarship to the International School in London, where she's suddenly mingling with the privileged offspring of diplomats and world leaders. When Maggie meets Hugh...she finds herself living the life she has always wanted...The only problem? There's someone else...Half French, half Lebanese and impossibly rich, Samir Khouri has made it...
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English
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"Tom Hazard ... may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries ... Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher ... Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 61
Language
English
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John Harmon returns to England as his father's heir. Believed drowned under suspicious circumstances--a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity--John evaluates Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colorful Victorian characters and incidents -- the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas...
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Whispers on the moors novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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In Regency England, the same time period as Bridgerton and Poldark, Patience Creighton has devoted her life to running her father's boarding school. But when the enigmatic master of the estate appears at her door, battered and unconscious, the young headmistress suddenly finds her livelihood—and her heart—in the hands of one dangerously handsome gentleman.
At twenty-five, Patience Creighton is already a spinster.
...11) It's in his kiss
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Bridgerton series volume 7
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English
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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,...
12) Once a Soldier
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in the small mountain stronghold of San Gabriel and meets her. Knowing herself to be too tall, strong, and unconventional to appeal to a man, Athena Markham has always gloried...
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Series
Palace of rogues volume 7
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A London season is the chance of a lifetime for Catherine Keating. But the ton's glitter and decadence and casual cruelty threaten to crush her hopes of finding a husband before her season even begins...until she accidentally acquires one of the most scandalous men in England as a secret chaperone. Famously fiery Lord Dominic Kirke can hold the House of Commons--and any woman he chooses--in thrall. But when his house goes up in flames in the dead...
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London beginnings volume 1
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English
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"When unfortunate circumstances leave Rosalyn Bernay penniless in 1880s London, she takes a job backstage at a theater and finds herself dreaming of a career in the spotlight. Injured soldier Nate Moran is also working behind the scenes, but he can't wait to return to his regiment in India until he meets Rosalyn."--Worldcat.org.
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English
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"London, 1865 Vera Sorokina loves immersing herself in tales of adventure, mystery, and romance. Her own days are filled with the mundane work of running the book and print shop she owns with her father. Brogan Donnelly has built a career as a penny dreadful writer, yet he feels dissatisfied. Brogan and Vera's paths cross, and the attraction is both immediate and ill-advised. When the growing criminal enterprise run by the elusiv and violent Mastiff...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Coco Martin, the adored only child of wealthy parents, has lived a charmed existence in their beautiful Manhattan home, and summers in a fabulous Hamptons house. Despite her privileged upbringing, Coco's parents instilled in their daughter their own values of hard work, honesty and kindness.
But as she's just entering her twenties, Coco's world is devastated by the sudden death of her beloved parents. Now the heir to a considerable fortune, Coco...
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English
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When notorious rake Anthony Bridgerton announces that he has chosen a prospective bride, he faces unexpected opposition when his intended's meddlesome sister Kate decides to protect her innocent sister from the wicked aristocrat.
This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London's most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry--he's even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield--the...
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The Ravenels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Achieving wealth and success through his savage ambitions, tycoon Rhys Winterborne resolves to marry shy, aristocratic Lady Helen Ravenel, who in spite of her gentle upbringing responds to Rhys' seductions with her own unexpected passions.
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Bridgerton series volume 3
Language
English
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Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball. Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, waltzing in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight. Who was the extraordinary woman? Ever since...
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Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
For as long as she can remember, Lydia Westland has dreamed of glittering London society. Finding herself at last in England, she is determined to make the most of this opportunity. Clutching her copy of ′Blunders in Behaviour Corrected′ she sets forth to find a suitably titled husband. But what she finds instead is Rhys Rhodes, a second son with a past that is anything but glittering. To Rhys, Lydia is everything he has lost - innocence, laughter,...