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5481) Maid of deception
Author
Series
Maids of honor volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1559 England, Beatrice and her fellow Maids of Honor, Queen Elizabeth I's secret all-female guard, must rely on their charm and deadly spying skills to investigate a brewing Scottish rebellion.
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes love finds you where you are, and other times it meets you across distant shores as four women discover in these four historical stories linked by a shared gold pendant. More Than Gold (New South Wales, 1851) by Carolyn Miller: Josephine Wilkins is headstrong and heartbroken--why else would she have left all she knew to follow her brother's dreams of finding gold across the seas? Daniel Jardine is simply seeking adventure, in a land far...
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Join the Bridgertons, and the rest of the ton, as they pore over (and gossip about) Lady Whistledown's latest musings. The elusive Regency-era gossip columnist -- popularized in # 1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's Bridgerton novels, now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix - reveals society's most recent secrets in this second glittering anthology, following the New York Times bestseller, The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown....
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Readers journey across America and through time in these moving and romantic stories from top Christian historical romance writers. Karen Witemeyer's "Worth the Wait" takes place at Harper's Station women's colony, where a young mother faces the past in order to trust again. In Jody Hedlund's "An Awakened Heart," a young woman and a new minister spar over how to help the needy in New York's tenements. And in Elizabeth Camden's "Toward the Sunrise,"...
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"HEARTS SEWN WITH LOVE by Darlene Panzera Gold Bar, California, April 1850 During the California gold rush, a beautiful seamstress finds her heart torn between the men who want to marry her and the one fortune hunter who won't. WOVEN HEARTS by Jacquolyn McMurray New York City, 1911 A shirtwaist factory fire survivor struggles to provide for her family despite the disastrous misguided intentions of the handsome union organizer who tries to help. A...
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
A Mexican "Grapes of Wrath," based on a family story, from the award-winning author Pam Muñoz Ryan.
Esperanza pensaba que siempre viviría con su familia en su rancho en México, y que siempre tendía hermosos vestidos y una linda casa llena de sirvientes. Pero una tragedia inesperada las obliga a ella y a su madre a escapar a California en la época de la Gran Depresión, y a asentarse en un campamento para trabajadores agrícolas mexicanos.
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Series
Cullen's Celtic Cabaret volume 4
Publisher
Gold Harp Media
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The opportunity of a lifetime lands in Peter Cullen's lap and nothing is going to stop him taking full advantage, not even the misgivings of his wife. Cullen's Celtic Cabaret has been flying high, but the real goal, the secret desire of Peter's heart, America, is finally, incredibly, looking like a reality. The troupe are not at all prepared for what awaits them in prohibition era Atlantic City and they are dazzled by the bright lights. Keeping discipline...
5490) The gilded age Christmas
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Celebrate a Gilded Age Christmas! In Amanda McCabe's A Convenient Winter Wedding, marrying Connor O'Neill is about survival for penniless heiress May Van Der Berg. The distant self-made millionaire is far from the passionate husband she once dreamed of except for that scorching kiss! In Lauri Robinson's The Railroad Baron's Mistletoe Bride, after years of family estrangement, romance blooms when Kurt invites store clerk Harper and their shared niece...
5491) Hasaharorim
Author
Publisher
Ma'ariv Book Guild
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
עברית
Description
A high-ranking Jewish detective in Berlin in 1932, Willi Kraus finds his murder investigation of an oddly deformed and mysterious young woman made difficult by his superiors and several disturbing events.
5492) Kitty Bennet's despair
Author
Series
Mrs Darcy entertains volume 4
Publisher
Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Lizzy Darcy's spring house party is becoming a Pemberley tradition. This year her family and friends will meet four-month-old Marcus Darcy, as well as celebrating Georgiana's engagement to Dominic Sanford. Lizzy will have the pleasure of all her sisters' company - but is apprehensive at the thought of her mother and Lady Catherine being at Pemberley at the same time... Recently-promoted Major Richard Turner plans to propose to Kitty Bennet during...
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A novel from the acclaimed author of The Tiger Queens, for readers looking for "strong and determined female protagonists" (Historical Novel Society) and "a sprawling historical saga" (Renee Rosen)... We are the women who loved Alexander the Great. We were lovers and murderers, innocents and soldiers. And without us, Alexander would have been only a man. Instead he was a god. 330s, B.C.E., Greece: Alexander, a handsome young warrior of Macedon,...
5494) Island of blue dolphins
Author
Publisher
Playaway/Findaway World
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
5495) Ravished
Author
Language
English
Description
From the cozy confines of a tiny seaside village to the glittering crush of the a fashionable London soiree comes an enthralling tale of a thoroughly mismatched couple . . . poised to discover the rapture of love.
There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout the unscrupulous thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. But when Harriet summoned Gideon...
There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout the unscrupulous thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. But when Harriet summoned Gideon...
Author
Series
Scandalous society brides volume 3
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Her unattainable guardian. The man she secretly yearns for! This Season, Eleanor Jennings must find a husband. Her guardian Hugh Ashforth, the autocratic and devastatingly alluring Duke of Kendal, has made that abundantly clear. The only flaw in his plan...? Eleanor's scandalous longing for him! Hugh might consider her off-limits and dangerously innocent, but Eleanor can see the pain and secrets he hides. Can Eleanor be brave enough to make Hugh see...
5499) To have and to hoax
Author
Series
Regency vows volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In this fresh and hilarious historical rom-com, an estranged husband and wife in Regency England feign accidents and illness in an attempt to gain attention--and maybe just win each other back in the process. Five years ago, Lady Violet Grey and Lord James Audley met, fell in love, and got married. Four years ago, they had a fight to end all fights, and have barely spoken since. Their once-passionate love match has been reduced to one of cold, detached...
5500) From the red fog: 1
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Born in darkness, a young boy steps into the light. Raised in a cellar steeped in solitude, his entrance into English society at the turn of the nineteenth century is anything but painless. From place to place he journeys, seeking companions who share his unusual interests. But always, always a red fog follows, consuming everything in its path"--Back cover.