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The author of Venus Envy takes you on a riotous ride back to one woman's future...
In a delightful contemporary farce with a riotous twist, Rita Mae Brown welcomes you to Virginia's horse country, where a fox hunt is about to lead a 1990s woman, Cig Blackwood, into a 1690s adventure of the heart. Infidelity, single motherhood, family betrayal, and the thrill of the hunt (in many varieties) are hilariously and poignantly played...
In a delightful contemporary farce with a riotous twist, Rita Mae Brown welcomes you to Virginia's horse country, where a fox hunt is about to lead a 1990s woman, Cig Blackwood, into a 1690s adventure of the heart. Infidelity, single motherhood, family betrayal, and the thrill of the hunt (in many varieties) are hilariously and poignantly played...
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Series
Brides series (Deeanne Gist) volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
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"Set in 1640's Colonial Virginia, a marriage of convenience becomes most inconvenient when the bride proves more than the planter had bargained for"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Lady Elizabeth "Liberty" Lawson, daughter of the British lieutenant governor of the Virginia Colony, seems to have her life in order. But colonial Williamsburg is a powder keg on the verge of exploding, and her fiance's cousin Noble Rynallt carries the flame of revolution in his heart. Will she stay true to her English roots, or side with Noble and the radical revolutionaries?
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Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1989, c1981
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Left on their own in seventeenth-century London, three impoverished children draw upon all their resources to stay together and make their way to the Virginia colony in search of their father.
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English
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"Virginia Colony's most eligible woman is busy matchmaking for a ship of brides, though she has no interest in finding her own mate. Will she reconsider when new revelations about the colony's most eligible landowner come to light?"--
1634. There are too many men and far too few women in James Towne. Selah Hopewell already has her hands full assisting her father in the family's shop. She has no wish to wed-- but she's put in charge of an incoming...
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Their stations could not have been more different: a Scottish laird and a simple lass. When a tragedy forces both to colonial Virginia as indentured servants, can a love thwarted by tradition come to life in a new land?" --
Magnus MacLeish and Lark MacDougall grew up on the same castle grounds. Magnus is now laird of the great house and the Isle of Kerrera; Lark is but the keeper of his bees and the woman he is hoping will provide a tincture that...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
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IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Traveling to the New World in 1606 as the page to Captain John Smith, twelve-year-old orphan Samuel Collier settles in the new colony of James Town, where he must quickly learn to distinguish between friend and foe.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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""Caught between the warring French and English on Canadas rugged shores in 1755, Sylvie Galant is forced from her Acadian home and family and is alone in colonial Virginia. Now the enemy soldier who once tore her world apart might be the key to restoring her shattered past""--
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