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Remixed classics volume 9
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.
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Mischief and matchmaking volume 1
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English
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"A...queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other"--
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...Under the mistletoe! Mounting debts mean that Elanora is about to lose her family home, Grisham Hall. When her childhood friend Captain Tristan Lennox returns from war, she's embarrassed by her reduced circumstances. Especially as Tristan has made his fortune and is excited about his first English Christmas in years! But she can't help being swept up by Tristan's festive spirit-even if she should ignore the intoxicating new attraction to her old...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
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A proposition to shock the ton. And delight her rogue. Lady Persephone MacGregor is a genius with machines, but hopeless as a debutante! After a lacklustre first season, this one will be her last-and her best chance to experience sensual pleasure if she's going to be a spinster for the rest of her life... So when she meets unconventional Ransom, the charismatic yet elusive owner of a gambling den, she decides to shock him with a daring proposition!...
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"A scandalous way...to meet a duke! A Rebellious Young Ladies story. Having tarnished her reputation, Irene Fairfax flees to Devon to focus on her art. Her latest life drawing is going well-until her naked subject reveals he's not the man she thinks he is. He is, in fact, the Duke of Redcliff, a notorious rogue who seems amused by her discomfiture! This Duke might be even more of a threat to her reputation...and yet she can't help craving more"--
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"In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"In 1894, Cyrus Barker, London's premier enquiry agent, is entangled in a conspiracy to revive the American Civil War by prominent figures, long believed deceased. Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, along with his partner Thomas Llewelyn, has a long, accomplished history - he's taken on cases for Scotland Yard, the Foreign Office, and even the crown itself, fulfilling them all with great skill and discretion. None of those cases, however, are as...
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Belles of London volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Fortune favors the bold-but is a confirmed spinster daring enough to loosen the reins and accept a favor from the wicked gentleman who haunts her dreams? Lady Anne Deveril doesn't spook easily. A woman of lofty social standing known for her glacial beauty and starchy opinions, she's the unofficial leader of her small group of equestriennes. Since her mother's devastating plunge into mourning six years ago, Anne voluntarily renounced any fanciful...
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McNally Editions
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that she'd had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret would soon transfix America, for Beecher was the most famous preacher of the day, founder of the most fashionable church in Brooklyn Heights, a presidential hopeful, an influential supporter of abolition, and a leader of the campaign for women's suffrage. When Beecher tried to silence the Tiltons, it...
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Enterprising widows volume 1
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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An Enterprising Widows story. Julien Archambeau, Comte de Rocroi, has dedicated his life to reclaiming his family's lands. Only Lady Emma Greyville-Luce stands in his way. The British heiress is the new owner of the vineyard that's the final piece of his plan. But much to Julien's frustration, Emma won't relinquish what's now hers...and soon it's not just champagne corks that start to fly, but sparks of desire!
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Rizzoli Electa
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Drawing on the V & A's collection of Beatrix Potter's artwork--the largest in the world--and little-seen material from international collections, this book explores her achievements as a naturalist, artist-storyteller and sheep farmer, and her legacy in preservation of the Lake District. Potter combined scientific observation with storytelling. Packed with characters such as Jemima Puddleduck and Squirrel Nutkin, alongside botanical drawings, picture...
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S. hrg volume 117-778
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English