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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
288 pages cm
Description
Molly Pohlig's The Unsuitable is a fierce blend of Gothic ghost story and Victorian novel of manners that's also pitch perfect for our current cultural moment. Iseult Wince is a Victorian woman perilously close to spinsterhood whose distinctly unpleasant father is trying to marry her off. She is awkward, plain, and most pertinently, believes that her mother, who died in childbirth, lives in the scar on her neck. Iseult's father parades a host of unsuitable...
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Nature is putting on a dance recital...come watch! From award-winning author-illustrator Robin Page, SHALL WE DANCE? is a beautiful exploration of how and why different animals move their bodies. Whether it's to find a mate, repel a predator, or just forfun, readers will learn the reason and purpose behind each animal and critter's graceful, exuberant, or playful moves. And they might even want to get up and join in the dancing fun!
6) High society
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this sophisticated musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.
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Formats
Description
"MISCHIEF AND THE MARQUESS by Sylvia Day: Justin, the Marquess of Fontaine, and Lady Sophie Milton-Riley are completely ill-suited to one another. But they will have to prove it in order to end their mothers' insistence that they should marry. Yet the more they attempt to demonstrate how wrong their union would be, the more surprisingly, irresistibly right things feel." --back cover
"THE DUKE'S TREASURE by Minerva Spencer: Plain, prickly Josephine...
10) Mary B: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Description
The overlooked middle sister in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice c asts off her prim exterior and takes center stage in this fresh retelling of the classic novel. I will tell you the story of how I knew myself to be plain and therefore devoid of the one virtue which it behooves every woman to have. What is to be done with Mary Bennet? She possesses neither the beauty of her eldest sister, Jane, nor the high-spirited charm of second-born Lizzy. Even...
Author
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
224 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Love: The Psychology of Attraction offers answers to your burning questions: How should I present myself online? What are red flags in a first phone call? Is it time to meet family members? And, it answers some unexpected questions, too: Is chemistry predictable? Do I have a "lifestyle type"? With every quiz, assessment, and inviting infographic, Love: The Psychology of Attraction guides you toward deeper, more satisfying relationships that can lead...
13) The proposal
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Believing her romantic prospects are over after losing her husband in an accident and suffering a fall that leaves her with a limp, young Lady Gwendoline strives to be happy for others and finds an unexpected second chance at love.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 8
Description
Laura has her first experiences as a teacher, and is courted by Almanzo Wilder.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Princess Leonie Kolburg, aged nineteen and heir to a faded European spaceship, enters the engagement season hoping only to save her family from financial ruin, but is soon falling for her first, rejected love.
18) Dragon kiss
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 7
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Despite obstacles, an ice dragon named Audun pursues the love of his life--a human girl who can transform into a dragon using magic.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
428 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Yale University ornithologist Richard Prum?reviving Darwin's own views?thinks not. Deep in tropical jungles around the world are birds with a dizzying array of appearances and mating displays: Club-winged Manakins who sing with their wings, Great Argus Pheasants who dazzle prospective mates with a four-foot-wide cone of feathers covered in golden 3D spheres, Red-capped Manakins who moonwalk. In thirty years of fieldwork, Prum has seen numerous display...
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