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"Isolated from society, Emily Bronte and her siblings spend their days inventing elaborate fictional realms or roaming the wild moors above their family home in Yorkshire. When the time comes for them to venture out into the world to earn a living, each of them struggles to adapt, but for Emily the change is catastrophic. Torn from the landscape to which she has become so passionately bound, she is simply unable to function. To the outside world,...
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"When Alex Ivanov was 12, someone tried to kill him. Now, 11 years later, they still want him dead. England, 1842. Queen Victoria reigns, Buckingham Palace is overrun with rats, and the streets of London are filled with intrigue. Alex Ivanov is a brilliant young innovator, designing cutting-edge train engines. But Alex has a secret--he isn't really Alex Ivanov. As a boy, he was pulled from the Thames, presumed drowned, with no memory of who he was....
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"From the moment the enigmatic Mr. Steele 'almost' kissed her on a Dublin street, her world was forever altered. He commands the respect of rogues and nobles alike--and Gwendolyn owes him a favor. She believes he owes her a kiss. Beckett is a lone wolf. However, he needs Gwendolyn to discover the secrets of his past. He has no choice but to seek her help--even though she threatens the walls he has carefully erected around his heart. He doesn't need...
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Emma Knightley Mystery volume 2
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"Emma's spirits are elevated after she and husband George Knightley host a joyful holiday celebration at the Hartfield estate. But it's instantly a bitter January when her father makes an unexpected announcement-he and Miss Hetty Bates have decided to marry. Not only must Emma relinquish her role as mistress of the household, but also accept the reality that the excitable Miss Bates will become her stepmother . . . More unwanted news arrives during...
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Goode's Guide to Misconduct volume 3
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"Known only as "Miss C." Constantia Cooper creates satirical cartoons for Mrs. Goode's. But her anonymity hides a more shocking secret--one that requires she remain elusive. When a scandal at the magazine threatens to expose her, Constantia packs up and flees. But in her haste, she is struck by a carriage and suffers a blow to the head. Fortunately, she's rescued by a gentleman. Unfortunately, he is all too familiar. Feigning amnesia seems Constantia's...
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Private Arrangements volume 4
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"Julian, the Duke of Hastings, is known for being aloof and utterly in control. For nine years, he's kept his distance from the only woman who ever cracked his icy exterior, burying himself in work as a top-secret government code-breaker. But when his latest assignment ensnares him in a lethal aristocratic plot, Julian has no choice but to enlist the help of his estranged wife. To all of society, Caroline Hastings is the perfect duchess. For years...
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"Daisy Hamilton's new mission for King & Co., London's premier private investigation firm, is simple: stop heiress Violetta Brand from eloping. But her case is derailed when she mistakenly holds up the carriage of Lucien Vaughan, Duke of Cranford--cynical war hero, infamous libertine, and the very man who broke her heart five years ago. Lucien's determined to see his lovestruck nephew married to Miss Brand, but the unexpected appearance of Daisy--the...
8) Longshadow
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Regency faerie tales volume 3
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Proper Regency ladies are not supposed to become magicians--but Miss Abigail Wilder is far from proper. The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail's father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved. But while Abigail is willing to match her magic against Lord Longshadow, neither her father nor high society believes that she is capable of doing...
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"Love, The Duke is the final novel in the historical romance Say I Do trilogy about dukes needing to wed to tap into their wealth.When the Duke of Hurstbourne receives a letter from his childhood friend asking him to marry his sister Ophelia, Hurst declines. He's not adverse to taking a bride, but he believes in love at first sight that stirs his desire--not marriage sight-unseen."--Amazon.com
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Dangerous damsels volume 3
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"Known as Agent A, Alice is the top operative within the Agency of Undercover Note Takers, a secret government intelligence group that is fortunately better at espionage than at naming itself. From managing deceptive witches to bored aristocratic ladies, nothing is beyond Alice's capabilities. She has a steely composure and a plan always up her sleeve (alongside a dagger and an embroidered handkerchief). So when rumors of an assassination plot begin...
11) The hidden city
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Charles Lenox volume 15
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"Against the vividly drawn backdrop of Victorian London, amateur sleuth Charles Lenox must unlock a mystery concealed in the architecture of the city itself, in this new novel from acclaimed author Charles Finch. It's 1879, and Lenox is convalescing from the violent events of his last investigation. But a desperate letter from an old servant forces him to pick up the trail of a cold case: the murder of an apothecary seven years before, whose only...
12) Hot earl summer
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Wild Wynchesters novel volume 5
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"Bold, curvy Elizabeth Wynchester loves cuddling hedgehogs almost as much as she adores vanquishing villains with the sharp blade concealed inside her cane. Despite others' opinions about her body and gender, nothing will stop her from seeing justice done. When her next mission drops her at the dastardly Earl of Densmore's castle, she's prepared to duel like gentlemen--only to be locked inside! Her trusty sword cannot defeat the castle's hidden traps......
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"She'll never say yes... Lady Drusilla Courtenay has sworn off marriage, though she still dabbles in romance, much to Society's shock. She's determined to help other women remain independent, but she lacks the means to see her vision through. When Murdoch, Earl of Cragmore, arrives on her doorstep with his niece, he makes her an offer she can't refuse ; if she assists with his niece's debut, he'll turn her dreams into reality. But accepting this bargain...
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Regency faerie tales volume 2
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Risking her immortal soul to win Mr. Benedict Ashbrooke's heart, housemaid Effie has 100 days-- and 10,000 stitches-- to make Mr. Ashbrooke fall in love and propose, she finds her greatest obstacle might be the man with whom she made a devil's bargain whose overwhelmingly good intentions stand in her way.
Euphemia "Effie" Reeves has fallen in love with Mr. Benedict Ashbrooke... but a housemaid cannot marry a gentleman. Then Effie stumbles into the...
15) Rules for ruin
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"No one betrays the Academy. But now Euphemia must decide: break the rules for her enemy, or let the rules break her heart. On the outskirts of London sits a seemingly innocuous institution with a secretive aim - train young women to distract, disrupt, and discredit the patriarchy. Outraged by a powerful politician's systematic attack on women's rights, the Academy summons its brightest - and most bitter - pupil to infiltrate the odious man's inner...
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A richly imagined novel of the Austen family by the #1 International bestselling-author of Miss Austen. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. 1820. Mary Dorothea Knatchbull is living under the sole charge of her widowed father, Sir Edward - a man of strict principles and high Christian values. But when her father marries Miss Fanny Knight of Godmersham Park, Mary's life...
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"The Academy always comes first . . . which makes marriage to its most formidable adversary an exceedingly inconvenient arrangement. Well removed from London's more curious eyes, the Benevolent Academy for the Betterment of Young Ladies strives toward one clandestine goal: to distract, disrupt, and discredit men in power who would seek to harm the advancement of women--by appropriate means, of course. When intrepid newspaper editor Miles Quincy starts...
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"A witty debut whodunit that reimagines Harriet Smith, the gullible sidekick of Jane Austen's Emma, as a spitfire con woman, hired to break off an engagement and uncover a murderer in the genteel village of Highbury"-- Provided by publisher.
Is a killer lurking in the idyllic country domain of Emma Woodhouse? No longer Emma's naïve companion, Harriet Smith is a feisty con-woman-turned-detective tasked with breaking off Frank Churchill's engagement...
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Bluestocking booksellers volume 2
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"The one thing Constance Martin wants most to avoid is a boring life. She walks her cat with a leash in Hyde Park and even called offher wedding at the altar to stop what would have been a monotonous marriage. So when an aristocratic friend comes into the store askingfor help throwing over her fiancé, Constance is both sympathetic and eager for the excitement to come. What would be more fun than plotting ways to get a stuffy--but very handsome--earl...
