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Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
407 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Why is Lady Sophia looking for a lover?
And could she seduce the most marriageable man in London? Lady Sophia Sydney would do anything to ensnare the unattainable Sir Ross Cannon. Her goal-to ruin his reputation and cause a scandal that would be the talk of all London. So she insinuates herself into his life by gaining his trust and living in his house. Every morning, her lush presence tempts him beyond all reason...the way she bends over the table...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
519 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Miss Caroline Ritter, accomplished flirt, acknowledged beauty, and ruined gentlewoman, offers lessons to any rich, noble lord too inept to attract a wife. Discard your silly affectations and your garish clothing! Learn the art of witty conversation, elegant dancing, equestrian feats and irresistible seduction at the opera! With Miss Ritter's help, you can become the most sought-after aristocrat at the ball! Send your request to the Distinguished Academy...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
85) Hasty death
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013, c2004
Edition
1st Minotaur Books pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lady Rose Summer refuses to abide by her parents' insistence that she marry. Even more distressing, she wants to work. On advice from Captain Harry Cathcart-a noble-born private investigator who knows Rose all too well-her parents agree to let Rose work as a typist and live in a women's hostel. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose imagined: When a playboy is murdered, Rose will return to high society to follow a trail of deception, rumors,...
86) Dark mirror
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
87) Back in society
Author
Series
The Poor relation volume 6th v
Publisher
G.H. Hall
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chef Carrie Ann Cole is about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--an assignment as the new personal chef to the royal family at Kensington Palace. But no sooner has Carrie Ann touched down across the pond and donned her apron than a dead body crops up beneath the royal kale beds.
89) The bone season
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the mid-21st century major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force and clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten years after one terrible night in Paxos, Greece, Julie, the classic "yummy mummy" of high society, is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage, stricken with anxiety and perfectionism until she meets a therapist who gives her hope for a different future.
93) The kiss
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Frenchwoman Isabelle cares for her daughter and dangerously ill son while pursuing a secret friendship with American power broker Bill Robinson, until a car accident tests their growing love.
94) Olivia Twist
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned at birth and living as a boy, Olivia Brownlow finds herself living as a debutante in high society after a caper goes wrong and encounters Jack MacCarron, a boy once known as the Artful Dodger.
Author
Series
Blackbird trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. The self-dubbed Ripper King strikes at night, leaving a trail of eviscerated bodies in his wake. Fresh off a case with potential ties to the recent rash of killings, FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter are all too familiar with a slayer set to rule with a lethal fist. And they'll stop at nothing to end his reign. The killer's...
96) Deeper
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Physical Desc
643 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Will Burrows continues to search for his lost archaeologist father in the strange underground world he has discovered, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
British schoolboy Ash Mistry, the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Ashoka and an agent of the goddess of death, faces the evil Lord Savage again after the villain sends his minions to capture Gemma, Ash's unrequited crush.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
295 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Duncan Kincaid, must navigate the shadowy and secretive world of London's moneyed society to discover a jewelry piece's connection to a murderer and a pair of refugees from Nazi Germany.
Author
Series
Glass and Steele volume 1
Publisher
C.J. Archer
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 sound file (09 hr., 25 min., 13 sec.)).
Language
English
Description
USA Today bestselling series. India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who'll accept her - an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
808 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Reopening her late mother's brewery when her family is bankrupted by a tragedy at sea, a woman in 15th-century London teams up with a brothel owner to protect loved ones from dangerous rivals.