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Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), Middlemarch (1871–72), and Daniel Deronda (1876), most of them set in provincial England and known for...
2) The idiot
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The story begins when Myshkin arrives on Russian soil after a stay in a Swiss sanatorium. Scorned by St. Petersburg society as an idiot for his generosity and innocence, the prince finds himself at the center of a struggle between a rich, kept woman and a beautiful, virtuous girl, who both hope to win his affection. Unfortunately, Myshkin's very goodness seems to bring disaster to everyone he meets. The shocking denouement tragically reveals how,...
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 1
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2007
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Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, thirty-fourth in line for the throne, flat broke, bolts from Scotland to London and breaks off her engagement. Wondering what to do when an arrogant Frenchman-who was trying to rob the family estate-winds up dead in the bathtub.
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Dangerous damsels volume 3
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2023.
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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...
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Bridgerton series volume 8
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Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except ... She wasn't the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady Lucinda Abernathy, wants to save Hermione from a disastrous alliance, so she offers...
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Holiday House
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c2007
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
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A serving girl, disappointed that her childhood friend is becoming a copy of his proud and unforgiving father, the Duke, helps him to see that the unicorn sought by the Duke's hunting party is too precious to kill.
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Pennyroyal Green volume 9
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She might look like an angel . . . The moment orphaned American heiress Titania "Tansy" Danforth arrives on English shores she cuts a swath through Sussex, enslaving hearts and stealing beaux. She knows she's destined for a spectacular titled marriage-but the only man who fascinates her couldn't be more infamous . . . or less interested. But it takes a devil to know one . . . A hardened veteran of war and inveterate rogue, Ian Eversea keeps women...
9) Royal blood
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With her hateful brother, Binky, in town, Lady Georgiana Rannoch is desperately seeking an escape, which comes in the form of an invitation from the queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. The bride happens to be her old school chum, Marty. But staying in her macabre-looking castle proves to be unnerving--especially when she finds dear Marty with blood running down her chin, and a prominent wedding guest is poisoned.
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Scandalous series (Caroline Linden) volume 3
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When scandal forces her to marry Benedict Lennox, Lord Atherton, the man she detests, Penelope Weston tries to deny her attraction to the arrogant scoundrel as they start their new life together in name only.
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The Duke's men volume 4
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Pocket Books
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2015.
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374 pages : illustration ; 18 cm.
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Dominick Manton, Viscount Rathmoor, who is trying to right the wrongs of his past, agrees to help his ex-fiancée, Jane Vernon, whom he still loves, find her missing cousin, who was married to his late brother.
12) Twice tempted
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Drake's rakes volume 5
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Forever
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2014.
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xii, 379 pages ; 18 cm.
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"Georgie, back home at her estate in Eynsleigh, impatiently awaits the birth of her baby. But she has plenty to occupy her: her new chef, Pierre, has arrived from Paris, and Sir Hubert, who owns Eynsleigh, is back from his latest expedition. It's time for Georgie to throw her first house party to celebrate his return and show off her new chef. The dinner party is a smashing success. Sir Mortimer Mordred--famous author of creepy Gothic horror novels--is...
15) Glorious 39
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E1 Entertainment
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c2011
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1 videodisc (133 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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In this tense WWII-era thriller, Anne, a young woman from a political family, stumbles upon sinister evidence relating to a secret Nazi conspiracy plot and ends up caught in a deadly web of lies and betrayal.
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Thorndike Press
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c2009
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449 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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She spied him in the shadows--and in an instant, Thalia Langley knew the man before her was no saint. He might claim to be the Duke of Hollindrake's unassuming country cousin, but no man that handsome, that arresting, could be anything but an unrepentant rogue. Indeed, Lord Larken is no bumbling vicar, but a master spy in his majesty's service there to find--and murder--a notorious escaped pirate. And he's not about to let a Mayfair miss disrupt his...
17) A royal pain
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 2
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The Queen of England has concocted a plan in which Lady Georgie is to entertain a Bavarian princess and conveniently place her in the playboy Prince's path, in the hopes that he might finally marry. But queens never take money into account. Georgie has very little, which is why she moonlights as a maid-in-disguise. She must draw up plans: clean house to make it look like a palace; have Granddad and her neighbor pretend to be the domestic staff; un-teach...
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Dressmakers volume 4
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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2016]
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viii, 372 pages ; 18 cm.
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Lady Clara Fairfax, who is looking for a man who can see past her beauty, meets her match in arrogant barrister Oliver Radford, who reluctantly agrees to help her find a missing boy who has gotten involved in a London street gang.
19) Heirs and graces
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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 7
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2013.
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While in the Australian Outback grooming a newfound heir, Jack Altringham, for high society, Lady Georgiana Rannoch finds herself investigating the murder of the Duke who was found with Jack's hunting knife in his back.
20) Love and let spy
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Lord and Lady Spy series volume 3
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Jane Bonde, the Crown's best agent, finds her attraction to her new fiancé, Dominic Griffyn, distracting her from her latest mission--to find and destroy a French spy ring plotting against England.
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