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Series
Duke's heiress romance volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inheriting a fortune and a new business, Rosamund Jameson matches wits with her new partner, Kevin Radnor, who proposes a marriage of convenience to get her the social status she needs and guarantees him the silent partner he wants--a plan that soon goes awry.
Author
Language
English
Description
September 1940, as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Since losing her parents as a child, Susan Shepherd has raised homing pigeons with her grandfather, Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan, but none more so than Duchess, with whom she shares a special bond. When a young pilot named Ollie Evans travels to Britain to join the Royal Air Force, his quest brings him to the National Pigeon Service, where Susan...
Author
Series
Mrs. Pargeter mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It is her characteristic generosity rather than her love of animals that finds Mrs Pargeter supporting her friend, Jasmine Angold, at a charity reception for PhiliPussies, whose worthy aim is to rehabilitate stray cats from the Greek island of Atmos into caring English homes. But the evening is to have unexpected consequences.
Author
Series
Edwardian murder mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Jack McColl novels volume 4
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the fourth and final installment of David Downing's spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins.
Author
Series
Emma of Normandy volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Marrying the much-older king of England in the year 1002, sixteen-year-old Emma of Normandy is surrounded by a treacherous court and regarded as a threat by her husband before drawing on her wits to gain a few friends and protect her station.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"World War II has finally come home to Britain, but it takes more than nightly air raids to rattle intrepid spy and expert code breaker Maggie Hope. After serving as a secret agent to protect Princess Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, Maggie is now an elite member of the Special Operations Executive, a black ops organization designed to aid the British effort abroad, and her first assignment sends her straight into Nazi-controlled Berlin, the very heart...
Author
Series
Codebreakers (Roseanna White) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the Great War, Margot spends her days deciphering intercepted messages, until a sudden loss turns her world upside down. Drake returns wounded from the field, followed by a destructive enemy. Immediately smitten with Margot, Drake convince attempts to convince her that sometimes life's answers lie in the heart.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Expected to make an advantageous marriage, Lady Margaret Montagu Scott rebels shortly before her betrothal is announced and flees, throwing herself into charitable work and befriending a group of similarly-minded, independent women.
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Speaking no English and carrying a precious photograph of the family she left behind in Germany crammed into her small suitcase thirteen-year-old Lisa escapes from Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and arrives in England in August 1939. After being adopted, her new home and life are blown apart during the Blitz. Waking up in the hospital with no memory, authorities give her a new name and dispatch her to a children's home.
72) Gabriel
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Gabriel North has spent two years allowing his family to believe him dead, while he assumes the identity of a hardworking steward on the neglected Three Springs estate. When Gabriel falls in love with Polonaise Hunt, cook at Three Springs, he realizes he must solve the mystery of who tried repeatedly to kill him, before he can ask any woman to share his life."--Author's website.
Author
Series
Ben Webster novels volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Language
English
Description
Hired to expose the criminal networks of a Russian bureaucrat who has amassed an illicit fortune, London investigator Benjamin Webster uncovers evidence that his target may also be responsible for the murder of a colleague.
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
As the United Kingdom decides whether or not to remain a member of the European Union or go its own way in September of 2017, a group of ruthless killers will stop at nothing to keep a shocking secret at the very heart of the government that could change everything in an instant from being revealed.
Author
Series
Avalon series volume 7
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 73
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Morgan le Fay (Morgaine) has to sacrifice her virginity during fertility rites, the man who impregnates her is her younger brother Arthur, who she turns against when she thinks he has betrayed the old religion of Avalon.
Author
Language
English
Description
"1939. As the wife of the King George VI and the mother of the future queen, Elizabeth--"the queen mother"--shows a warm, smiling face to the world. But it's no surprise that Hitler himself calls her the "Most Dangerous Woman in Europe." For behind that soft voice and kindly demeanor is a will of steel. Two years earlier, George was thrust onto the throne when his brother Edward abdicated, determined to marry his divorced, American mistress Mrs. Simpson....
77) Live and let die
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a crooked trail of smuggled gold leads James Bond to Harlem, New York, he encounters Mr. Big, a gangland kingpin who uses voodoo to control his vast criminal empire.
Author
Series
Hellions of Halstead Hall volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Mired in scandal after his parents' mysterious deaths, notorious gambler Lord Jarret Sharpe agrees to tamely run the family brewery for a year if his Machiavellian grandmother rescinds her ultimatum that he marry. But the gambler in him can't resist when beguiling Annabel Lake proposes a wager. If she wins their card game, he must help save her family's foundering brewery. But if he wins, she must spend a night in his bed..."--p. [4] of cover.
80) The catch
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"John Bachelor is the saddest kind of spy: not a joe in the field, not even a desk jockey, but a milkman--a part-time pension administrator whose main job is to check in on aging retired spies. Late in his career and having lost his wife, his house, and his savings after a series of unlucky choices, John's been living in a dead man's London apartment, hoping the bureaucracy isn't going to catch up with him and leave him homeless. But keeping a secret...
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