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Author
Series
Trapped romances volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 18 cm
Description
After her brother disappears in Paris at the height of the Terror, Lady Hero Fanshawe disguises herself as a boy and risks her life to find him, with the aid of William Ducasse, Viscount St. Aubrey, who has secrets of his own.
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
254 pages
Description
Eça de Queiros's superlative novel The Illustrious House of Ramires (originally published in 1900) is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Margaret Jull Costa. The favorite novel of many Eça de Queiros aficionados, this late masterpiece, wickedly funny and yet profoundly tender, centers on Gonçalo Ramires, heir to a family so aristocratic that it predates even the kings of Portugal. Gonçalo--charming but disastrously effete, idealistic...
23) Royal flush
Author
Series
Royal Spyness mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
To avoid scandal, Lady Georgiana is shipped home to Castle Rannoch where her summer plans include honoring a promise to Her Majesty to keep Castle Rannoch's divorceé houseguest from seducing the Prince of Wales. She's also been coerced into helping Scotland Yard with a top-secret mission--namely keeping an eye on the shooting party at Balmoral and preventing someone from shooting the Prince. And Georgie must manage all this without strangling her...
Author
Series
Malory-Anderson family saga volume 9
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
361 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Hot-headed American sea captain Boyd Anderson runs to the aid of his brother-in-law's kidnapped daughter, only to lock horns with a fellow rescuer, the adventure-seeking Katey Tyler.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tony and Brenda Last and their son, John Andrew, live an idyllic life in the huge Victorian house that is the symbol of Tony's family pride. The chance arrival of a penniless scrounger irrevocably shatters the gentle balance of their lives.
26) Bright ruin
Author
Series
Dark gifts trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 400 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Description
"Magically gifted aristocrats rule--and commoners are doomed to serve. But a rebellion threatens the old order. The dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage and Tarnished City concludes. In a world where the lower classes must endure ten years of forced service to unfairly advantaged, magically powered rulers, a teenage boy dreams of rebellion, his older sister yearns for love and knowledge, and a dangerous young aristocrat seeks to remake the...
28) Snow & poison
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Known as Snow White, Lady Sophie has led a sheltered life in the mountains of Bavaria. Until now. Her father, the widowed Duke Maximilian, is at last remarrying, and on the day of his historic wedding, Sophie is making her high-society debut. At the ball, Sophie charms the dashing Prince Philip, heir to the Spanish throne. But as Philip and Sophie start falling deeply in love, the king of Spain loses his temper. His wish is that Philip would marry...
29) Gosford Park
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As a hunting party gathers at a country estate, no one is aware that before the weekend is over, someone will be murdered - twice! The police are baffled but the all-seeing, all-hearing servants know that almost everyone had a motive.
30) Gilded cage
Author
Series
Dark gifts trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"For readers of Victoria Aveyard and Kiera Cass comes a darkly fantastical debut set in a modern England where magically gifted aristocrats rule--and commoners are doomed to serve. NOT ALL ARE FREE. NOT ALL ARE EQUAL. NOT ALL WILL BE SAVED. Our world belongs to the Equals--aristocrats with magical gifts--and all commoners must serve them for ten years. But behind the gates of England's grandest estate lies a power that could break the world. A girl...
Author
Series
Harlequin Bianca volume 1179
Publisher
Harlequin Ibérica, una división de HarperCollins Ibérica, S.A
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
156 pages ; 17 cm.
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Appears on list
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Three friends who met at an elite English boarding school take on the town-and the ton-one by one, in this sparkling new series about love, loss, and lustrous gemstones, from New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather . . .
A FINE ROMANCE…
Diana Sommerville seems to have it all-beauty, brains, and vast wealth, thanks to her family's ownership of a diamond mine abroad. But when her beloved brother dies in battle and leaves a lion's share of...
Author
Series
Dandy Gilver murder mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Receiving a letter from a woman who fears that her husband is planning to kill her, Dandy Gilver goes undercover as a maid and uses her aristocratic connections and prowess to discern the truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
"As the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens. She never doubted romance would be in her future, too. The storybooks offered endless possibilities. And as she grew older, Izzy crossed them off ... Now Izzy's given up yearning for romance. She'll settle for a roof over her head. What fairy tales are left over for an impoverished twenty-six year-old woman who's never even been kissed?"--Page...
35) Tarnished city
Author
Series
Dark gifts trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
402 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Description
"MAGIC COMPELS. WE BLEED. The captivating dystopian trilogy that began with Gilded Cage continues. In a modern Britain where magic users control wealth, politics--and you--an uprising has been crushed. In its aftermath, two families will determine the country's fate. The ruthless Jardines make a play for ultimate power.And the Hadleys, once an ordinary family, must find the extraordinary strength to fight back. Abi Hadley is a fugitive. Her brother,...
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"In Victorian England, a wealthy young widow encounters the pleasures--and scandalous pitfalls--of a London social season as she welcomes her sister from New York for her first London season. When the police receive an anonymous letter implicating her inher husband's death, she begins to wonder if he was murdered, might she be next"--
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The Honorable Miss Fenella Grantley has a secret: she's been taking drama classes and longs to be an actress. Ladies of her standing don't appear on stage, but Fenella has never been one for society's rules. She's quite excited to take on the challenge of reading the leading role in a new play until she meets the playwright. Toeing the line between infuriating and irresistible, his first impression leaves a lot to be desired. Edward Tremayne, illegitimate...
38) Only beloved
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 7
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"For the first time since the death of his wife, the Duke of Stanbrook is considering remarrying and finally embracing happiness for himself. With that thought comes the treasured image of a woman he met briefly a year ago and never saw again. Dora Debbins relinquished all hope to marry when a family scandal left her in charge of her younger sister. Earning a modest living as a music teacher, she's left with only an unfulfilled dream. Then, one afternoon,...
Author
Publisher
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.
Author
Series
Ivy Pocket volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Fate intervenes when Ivy is called to the sickbed of a dying duchess and is charged with delivering a mystical (and possibly cursed) diamond necklace to the utterly revolting Matilda Butterfield for her twelfth birthday"--
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