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St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
From Anita Hughes, author of Monarch Beach, comes Market Street, a delicious story of a department store heiress, her messy marriage, and her passion for food
Cassie Blake seems to lead a charmed life as the heiress to Fenton's, San Francisco's most exclusive department store. But when she discovers her husband, Aidan, a handsome UC Berkeley professor, has had an affair with a student, she flees to the comfort of her best friend Alexis's Presidio...
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London is said to be the glittering jewel of society, a world unto itself-but to Julia Elliston it is a city of shadows. Her life is swiftly dissolving into scandal. And in Victorian society, even a whisper of scandal-substantiated or not-can be the death of a young woman's reputation. Now under the watchful eye of Lord Roy Pierson, one of most influential men in England, Julia begrudgingly accepts his protection. But Chance Macy's power is far-reaching...
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Dandy Gilver murder mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2010
Physical Desc
287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
The aristocratic amateur sleuth is caught between two rival families when the heiress to a department store goes missing.
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AvonBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[c2016].
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Description
The last woman the arrogant Duke of Trent would ever consider marrying is the adventuresome Merry Pelford--an American heiress who has infamously jilted two fiancés--but after one provocative encounter with the captivating Merry, Trent desires her more than any woman he has ever met.
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Wild Wynchesters volume 2
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
A master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester finds more than her mission at stake when her new client turns out to be the highborn lady she's secretly smitten with.
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Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
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The world has fallen into war. Ciri, the child of prophecy, has vanished. Hunted by friends and foes alike, she has taken on the guise of a petty bandit and lives free for the first time in her life. But the net around her is closing. Geralt, the Witcher, has assembled a group of allies determined to rescue her. Both sides of the war have sent brutal mercenaries to hunt her down. Her crimes have made her famous. There is only one place left to run....
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In 1915, "missing" heiress Victorine Berryman, aka "Bella Mae Goodwin," along with her film star best friend, arrives in Hollywood where she experiences the magic of the movie business as well as its dark side as she figures out who she truly wants to be.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
viii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Lady Emily retreats to her villa on the island of Santorini for a brief respite from London. But when she arrives, the housekeeper informs her that the master of the house has returned--Emily's first husband who died a decade earlier.."--
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Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
372 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Having returned from the high seas after dodging the fiancé his greedy father, the Earl of Manford, wanted him to marry, Richard Allen crosses paths with his furious fiancé and must flee with her on an ocean voyage once the Earl learns his son is alive.
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
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"New York City, 1950. Viviana Valentine is Girl Friday to the city's top private investigator, Tommy Fortuna. The clients can be frustrating, and none more maddening than fabulously wealthy Tallmadge Blackstone, who demands Tommy tail his daughter, Tallulah, and find out why she won't marry his business partner, a man forty years her senior. Sounds like an open-and-shut case for a P.I. known for busting up organized crime--but the next day, Viviana...
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2017.
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"The Witcher returns in this action-packed sequel to The Tower of Swallows, in the New York Times bestselling series that inspired The Witcher video games. After walking through the portal in the Tower of Swallows while narrowly escaping death, Ciri finds herself in a completely different world ... an Elven world. She is trapped with no way out. Time does not seem to exist and there are no obvious borders or portals to cross back into her home world....
15) The unfortunates
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The story of a prominent New York family on the cusp of ruin in the face of a matriarch's wavering health; a bumbling son's scandalous opera; and a life of wealth and inheritance belonging to a bygone era"--
16) The glass house
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Scotland, 1912. Antonia McCulloch's life hasn't gone the way she planned. She and her husband, Malcolm, have drifted apart; her burgeoning art career came to nothing; and when she looks in the mirror, she sees disappointment. But at least she will always have Balmarra, her family's grand Scottish estate, and its exquisite glass house, filled with exotic plants that can take her far away. When her estranged brother's wife, Cicely Pick, arrives unannounced,...
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Ediciones B
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
347 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
Having returned from the high seas after dodging the fiancé his greedy father wanted him to marry, Richard Allen crosses paths with his furious fiancé and must flee with her on an ocean voyage once the furious Earl of Manford learns his son is still alive.
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"Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman...
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House of Wolves volume 1
Description
The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head--thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she has a murdered father to avenge—if she can survive the killers all around her.
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Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 25 cm.
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"After an odd encounter at a grand masquerade ball, Lady Emily becomes embroiled in the murder investigation of one of the guests, a sometime actress trying to pass herself off as the mysterious heiress and world traveler Estella Lamar. Each small discovery, however, leads to more questions. Was the intended victim Miss Lamar or the imposter? And who would want either of them dead? As Emily and Colin try to make sense of all this, a larger puzzle...
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