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Author
Series
Summerset Abbey trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Author
Series
Summerset Abbey trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Aristocratic and free-spirited sisters Rowena and Victoria, as well as their maid and dear friend Prudence navigate the uncertain social and political climate as Europe prepares for war.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Man Booker Prize, a masterly new novel that spans seven transformative decades in England--from the 1940s to the present--as it plumbs the richly complex relationships of a remarkable family. In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his effect on others--especially on...
4) Netherwood
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Above stairs, Lord Netherwood keeps his considerable fortune ticking over with the profits from his three coal mines in the vicinity. It's just as well the coal is of the highest quality, as the upkeep of Netherwood Hall, his splendid estate on the outskirts of town, does not come cheap. And that's not to mention the cost of keeping his wife and daughters in the latest fashions--and keeping the heir, the charming but feckless Tobias, out of trouble....
Author
Series
House of Serendipity volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
At Serendipity House, a grand mansion in 1920s London, two girls, one living downstairs as a servant and the other living in wealth upstairs, combine their fashion designing and dressmaking talents to secretly make outfits for the debutante ball and help one attendee who wants to escape high-society life.
Author
Series
Cavendon chronicles volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did over the centuries. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife Felicity and their six children: Guy, the heir, who is studying at Cambridge; their younger son Miles, attending Eton; and their four daughters Diedre, Daphne, DeLacy and Dulcie, affectionately called the Four Dees by the staff. Walter Swann,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A timeless murder mystery with the fascinating, glamorous Mitford sisters at its heart, The Mitford Trial is the fourth installment in the Mitford Murders series from Jessica Fellowes, inspired by a real-life murder in a story full of intrigue, affairs and betrayal.."--
Author
Series
Edwardian brides volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Katherine Ramsey travels to London with her family to make her debut into society and hopefully find her future husband"--
Author
Series
Lady and lady's maid mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Eva is excited for a visit from her sister Alice, who lives in Suffolk with her husband and three children. But when Alice arrives alone, desiring a break from her family, Eva becomes concerned. Her dismay deepens as Alice starts spending time with a former beau, Keenan Ripley, who owns the nearby pear orchard. At the same time, Phoebe's sister Julia, now a widow and pregnant, is in a fretful state, and Phoebe struggles to be helpful to her.
If Alice...
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