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Sebastian Hunter has shown his last hand at the card table. Nights once spent womanizing and gambling are now spent in the dark shadows of Blackloch Hall, staring out onto the wild windswept Scottish moors. That is, until the mysterious Phoebe Allardyce, his mother's new and far-too-pretty companion, interrupts his brooding. After catching her thieving, the master of the house has no choice but to keep a close eye on this provocative little temptress....
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Yan Ling tries hard to be servile-it's what's expected of a girl of her class. Being intelligent and strong-minded, she finds it a constant battle.
Proud Fei Long is unimpressed by her spirit-until he realizes she's the answer to his problems. He has to deliver the emperor a "princess." In two months can he train a tea girl to pass as a noblewoman?
Yet it's hard to teach good etiquette when all Fei Long wants to do is break it, by taking this tea...
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"Calista Langley operates an exclusive "introduction" agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning--a black mirror, a funeral wreath, a ring set with black jet stone. Each is engraved with her initials. Desperate for help and fearing that the police will...
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It is 1508, and Francesco is a reluctant houseboy to Michelangelo, but when he sees a woman being pulled from the Tiber he is shocked to realize that he knows her. The woman in the river is one of Imperias ladies, and against his will, Francesco becomes involved in the search for the truth about her death. Meanwhile, rising waters flood the citys streets, turning Romans into refugees and the Coliseum into an emergency refuge, and...
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What do these people - from George-Étienne Cartier and Emily Carr to Tommy Douglas, Margaret Atwood, and Elijah Harper - have in common? Each, according to Charlotte Gray, has left an indelible mark on our country. Deliberately avoiding a top down approach to our history, Gray has chosen people whose ideas have caught her imagination, ideas that over time have become part of our collective conversation. She also highlights many other Canadians, past...
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Season for scandal volume 3
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A beautiful card counter and a handsome casino owner strike up a tenuous business deal but find it hard to keep their hands off each other.
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Out of the brothel...Wrongly accused of theft, innocent Celina Shelley is cast out of the brothel she calls home and flees to Quinn Ashley, Lord Dreycott, for safety. But the heat in the daredevil adventurer's eyes tells Lina that the danger is just beginning....And into the rake's bedroom! Lina dresses like a nun, looks like an angel, but flirts like a professional-and the last thing Quinn expects to discover is that she's a virgin!
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Seduced, abandoned and pregnant, Arabella Shelley is determined her baby's father will support them. Horrified to discover his death, she is shocked at the demand of his brother, the handsome, inscrutable Viscount Hadleigh. To legitimize her unborn child, she must marry him, instead! To be pleasured by the viscount! As Bella struggles with her unfamiliar, luxurious new lifestyle, and her scandalous desire for her stranger of a husband, will she find...
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Gentlemen of temptation volume 1
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Welcome to a London Gaming Hell like no other. A place where anonymity is your security-no names, no faces, no strings. But that doesn't mean no surprises . . .
Lucas Mayfield, the Eighth Earl of Heightford, couldn't be more pleased with the private club that is his brainchild. But when a young courtesan at the club's masquerade appears far too innocent, his suspicions are raised-along with his interest. . . . Until her gleaming hair tumbles down...
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Sophie Chesterton goes to all the right parties, wears all the right clothes and knows all the right people. But she is starting to feel that her life doesn't amount to much and that her 'friends' are anything but. All she wants to do is make her father proud, but one evening and her whole life changes. Suddenly, she is scraping a living, living with four smelly boys and eating baked beans from a can. She believes she wants her old life back, but...
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Alva Smith, her southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and built 9 mansions, hosted grand balls, and arranged for her daughter to marry a duke. But Alva also defied convention for women of her time, asserting power within her marriage and becoming a...
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Upon the death of her beloved father, Deidre Miller is left penniless and alone. Her choices are few: if she is to survive, she has no choice but to assume domestic work. So when she is taken on as a maid in the vast manor of the powerful Hampton family, Deidre is determined to prove her mettle. But when she catches the eye of the young master of the house, she is set upon an unexpected new path. LDS fiction. Adult. Unrated.
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Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her children, Irene and Vincent. The effects of Abel's decision...
14) Dear Evelyn
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Dear Evelyn follows a seventy-year-long wartime marriage, and explores how two very different people come together to shape and reshape each other over a lifetime.
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Call the Midwife volume 2
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When twenty-two-year-old Jennifer Worth, from a comfortable middle-class upbringing, went to work as a midwife in the direst section of postwar London, she not only delivered hundreds of babies and touched many lives, she also became the neighbourhood's most vivid chronicler. Woven into the ongoing tales of her life in the East End are the true stories of the people Worth met who grew up in the dreaded workhouse, a Dickensian institution that limped...
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Scotland, 1930s. Three mysteries, written between 2015 and 2017, in which PIs Dandy Gilver and Alec Osborne tackle cases in a dance hall, a convent, and a castle. Includes Dandy Gilver and the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom, Dandy Gilver and a Most Misleading Habit, and Dandy Gilver and a Spot of Toil and Trouble. 2017.
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