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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1980, and Lillian Waters is hitting the road for the very last time. Jaded from her years in the music business, perpetually hungover, and diagnosed with career-ending vocal problems, Lillian cobbles together a nationwide farewell tour featuring some old hands from her early days playing honky-tonk bars in Washington State and Nashville, plus a few new ones. She yearns to feel the rush of making live music one more time and bask in the glow...
82) The hunter
Author
Series
Victorian rebels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Emotion could get elite empire assassin Christopher Argent killed. He prides himself on showing no emotion, but his irresistible new target, Millicent LeCour, is about to change everything. Only by falling into the secret assassin's arms can Millie hope to survive when she learns his true mission. Can love save two lives before danger strikes?
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now-destitute plantation; Juneau Jane, her illegitimate free-born Creole half-sister; and Hannie, Lavinia's former slave. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following dangerous roads rife with ruthless vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war...
88) The Duke is mine
Author
Series
Happily ever afters (Eloisa James) volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
89) Rebel
Author
Series
Women who dare volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Valinda Lacey's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon, she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life - and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a deeply personal interest in rebuilding the city. Raised by...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose returns with a dazzling new novel set in the glamorous world of 1950s New York publishing, the story of a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg-an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive, dangerous new world.
91) Trespasses
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
1405: The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Anneke Sheldrake suddenly finds her family bankrupted when her father's ship is swept away at sea. Forced to find a way to provide for herself and her siblings, Anneke rejects an offer of marriage from a despised cousin and instead turns to her late mother's family business: brewing ale. Armed with her mother's recipes, she then makes a bold deal with her father's aristocratic employer, putting her home and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the bestselling author of Prayers for Sale, an inspiring celebration of sisterhood on the perilous Overland Trail "If you are an adventuresome young woman of high moral character and fine health, are you willing to travel to California in search of a good husband?" It's February, 1852, and all around Chicago, Maggie sees the postings soliciting "eligible women" to travel to the gold mines of Goosetown. A young seamstress with a small daughter...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In 1860, Alexander Ferguson, a newly ordained vicar and amateur evolutionary scientist, takes up his new parish, a poor, isolated patch on the remote Scottish island of Harris. He hopes to uncover the truth behind the legend of the selkies--mermaids or seal people who have been sighted off the north of Scotland for centuries. He has a more personal motive, too; family legend states that Alexander is descended from seal men. As he struggles to be...
Author
Series
Boscastle family volume 8
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"What is a neglected wife to do while her husband disppears on clandestine missions and unknown gambits? Play the spy game herself, if only to fill lonely nights once flush with erotic delight. When Eleanor Prescott married the handsome infantry officer who pursued her between missions, she anticipated anything but a six-year estrangement. Now the enigmatic hsuband who fired her body with his sensual touch is back -- to woo her, win her, and unwrap...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
When Mairi MacGregor, who is part of a secret alliance, arrives in London in search of information, she comes face to face with Connor Grant, a warrior from the Highlands who left her behind to serve in the King's army, and even though she still longs for him, she cannot forgive his betrayal.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Since being named "London's Lord to Land" by a popular ladies" magazine, Nicholas St. John has been relentlessly pursued by every matrimony-minded female in the ton. So when an opportunity to escape fashionable society presents itself, he eagerly jumps only to land in the path of the most determined, damnably delicious woman he's ever met! The daughter'a of a titled wastrel, Lady Isabel Townsend has too many secrets and too little money. Though she...
99) Here we are
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1959, and something magical can be witnessed at the end of the pier in beach town Brighton, England. Jack Robbins, Ronnie Deane, and Evie White are performing in a seaside variety show, starring as Jack Robinson the compere comedian, and The Great Pablo and Eve: a magic act. By the end of the summer, Evie's glinting engagement ring will be flung to the bottom of the ocean and one of the trifecta will vanish forever. All three friends...
100) One house over
Author
Series
Neighbors (Mary Monroe) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: A solid marriage, a thriving business and the esteem of their close-knit Alabama community - Joyce and Odell Watson have every reason to count their blessings. Their marriage has given well-off Joyce a chance at the family she's always wanted - and granted Odell a once-in-a-lifetime shot to escape grinding poverty. But all that respectability and status comes at a cost. Just once, Joyce and Odell want to break loose and taste...
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