Justine Eyre
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (8 hours, 32 minutes) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A bold woman known as the "duchess of Magnus" was wagered-and won-in a card game. But the woman who arrived was her shy, quiet cousin Eleanor. Eleanor de Lacy must have been mad to agree to exchange identities with her stronger-willed cousin. She would never convince Remington Knight of the folly of this union-especially since the man seemed so determined for it to take place. Worse still, she finds Remington dazzlingly attractive-and she's charmed...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Emily thinks she's lost everything...until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most in the world. The new novel from the author of international bestsellers The Sweetness of Forgetting and The Life Intended shows why her books are hailed as "engaging" (People), "absorbing" (Kirkus Reviews) and "enthralling" (Fresh Fiction). Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad ran out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died when...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
9 sound discs (11 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes her family, everything Lydie McBride believes in is shattered. Her husband, Michael, hopes an assignment to Paris will help them reclaim their love. But Paris holds secrets and seductions for them both, including the mysteries of an alluring Frenchwoman with whom Michael will work. And Lydie's unexpected friendship with two women will enable her to find a new life. Will there be a place for the man with whom she always wanted...
Author
Series
Scandal and scoundrel volume 1
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (11 hr., 37 min., 28 sec.)) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 inch.
Language
English
Description
Lady Sophie's Society Splash. When Sophie, the least interesting of the Talbot sisters, lands her philandering brother-in-law backside-first in a goldfish pond in front of all society, she becomes the target of very public aristocratic scorn. Her only choice is to flee London, vowing to start a new life far from the aristocracy. Unfortunately, the carriage in which she stows away isn't saving her from ruin . . . it's filled with it. Rogue's Reign...
8) Enchantee
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 13 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"When smallpox kills her parents, seventeen-year-old Camille must find a way to provide for her beloved younger sister while managing their volatile brother. Relying on magic, Camille painstakingly turns scraps of metal into money to buy the food and medicine they need. But when her brother disappears with the family's savings, Camille pursues a richer, more perilous scheme at the glittering court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Using dark magic...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An unexpected summer fling could turn out to be the best decision she's ever made!
After her father loses the family fortune in an insider-trading scheme, single mom Parker Welles is faced with some hard decisions. First order of business: go to Gideon's Cove, Maine, to sell the only thing she now owns-a decrepit house in need of some serious flipping. When her father's wingman, James Cahill, asks to go with her, she's not thrilled...even if he is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"London, 1815 Olivia Wilde has resigned herself to never finding a love match. Her father has insisted she marry a man with a title, if only to increase his own standing and reputation in society. But the men her father deems acceptable are, at best, boring and uninspiring, and at worse, are as brutish as her father, and are only looking to increase their own diminishing coffers. With her future looking dismal, Olivia decides to enjoy the last few...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
307 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lizzie Nichols stuggles to find a New York City apartment with her seemingly reluctant boyfriend, fantasizes about her ideal job, and inadvertently endangers her boyfriend's career.
12) Sold
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After getting into one scrape after another in 1880s New York City, are Grayson and Felicia destined to spend the rest of their lives keeping each other out of trouble?"--
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rosalind Newbury is counting down the days until her wedding to the Duke of Marlow, a man she has only met twice. The marriage is more an agreement between two families and less a romantic connection between two hearts, but Rosalind becoming a duchess will elevate her family's status to dizzying heights. And the duke is a kind man who will care for Rosalind, even if he doesn't love her. She only has three weeks before her life changes forever, and...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1947, American historian and World War II veteran Martin Mitchell wins a Fulbright Fellowship to document the end of British rule in India. His wife, Evie, convinces him to take her, hoping a shared adventure will mend their marriage, which has been strained by war. Martin and Evie find themselves stranded in a bungalow due to violence between Hindus and Muslims. In that house, hidden behind a brick wall, Evie discovers a packet of old letters,...
18) The cellar
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2016
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally bestselling, award-winning crime writer Minette Walters, The Cellar is a harrowing, compulsively readable novel about a family of African immigrants, the Songolis, and the dark secret they keep hidden in the depths of their seemingly respectable British home. On the day Mr. and Mrs. Songoli's young son fails to come home from school, fourteen-year-old Muna's fortunes change for the better. Until then, her bedroom was a dank...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
535 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Aurelie Harcourt's father dies in debtor's prison, he leaves her just two things: his wealthy family, whom she has never met, and his famous pen name, Nathaniel Droll. Her new family greets her with apathy and even resentment. Only the quiet house guest, Silas Rotherham, welcomes her company. When Aurelie decides to complete her father's unfinished serial novel, writing the family into the story as unflattering characters, she must keep her identity...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
531 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the death of her parents, Evangeline must succeed as a schoolteacher in a remote region of Northern England in order to claim her inheritance from her grandfather and be reunited with her younger sister, Lucy. When a local bricklayer, Dermot, offers his help, she finds herself falling in love with the Irishman"--Provided by publisher.