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81) My darling duke
Author
Series
Sinful wallflowers volume 1
Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Miss Katherine Danvers has always been a wallflower. But now with her family on the brink of financial ruin, she finds herself a desperate wallflower. To save her family, she'll do anything. Luckily, she has the perfect plan... She'll impress the ton by simply announcing she is engaged to the reclusive and mysterious Duke of Thornton, Alexander Masters, and secure strong matches for her sisters. No one has heard from the duke in years. Surely he'll...
Author
Series
Lords of the Armory volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marcus Braddock, former general and newly appointed Duke of Hampton, is back from war. Now, not only is he surrounded by the utterly unbearable ton, he's mourning the death of his beloved sister, Elise. Marcus believes his sister's death wasn't an accident, and he's determined to learn the truth--starting with Danielle Williams, his sister's beautiful best friend. Danielle is keeping deadly secrets of her own. She has dedicated her life to a charity...
83) Whitefern
Author
Series
Audrina novels volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The long-awaited sequel to My Sweet Audrina, one of V.C. Andrews's strangest, most beloved books--and now a Lifetime movie! Whitefern swallowed Audrina's childhood--and now the sprawling Victorian mansion threatens her adult life too.
Author
Series
Fowler sisters volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Violet Fowler is the good sister. Responsible, faithful, she's done everything she's supposed to and still gets hurt in the end. Just when she thought her long-term boyfriend, Zachary, would pop the question, he instead breaks the news that he's considering a job transfer within the family company--in London. Ryder McKay hates Zachary Lawrence and he wants his girlfriend, and his job. So when he catches word that Violet and Zachary's relationship...
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Series
Language
English
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"As the owner of the city's most exclusive casino, Clayton Madden holds the fortunes of prominent families in the palms of his hands every night. There is one particular family he burns to ruin, however, one that has escaped his grasp... until now. She is society's darling... Florence Greene is no one's fool. She knows Clayton Madden is using her to ruin her prestigious family... and she's using him right back. She plans to learn all she can from...
87) Righteous prey
Author
Series
Prey series volume 32
Virgil Flowers novels volume 14
Prey novel volume 32
Lucas Davenport
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Virgil Flowers novels volume 14
Prey novel volume 32
Lucas Davenport
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Language
English
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'We're going to murder people who need to be murdered.' So begins a press release from a mysterious group known only as 'The Five,' shortly after a vicious predator is murdered in San Francisco. The Five is believed to be made up of vigilante killers who are very bored, and very rich. They target the worst of society, rapists, murderers, and thieves, and then use their unlimited resources to offset the damage done by those who they've killed, donating...
88) A good woman
Author
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to...
90) Alibi
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When neurotic Greg is implicated in his business partner's death, witness Marcey helps him dispose of the corpse, but quickly begins to regret it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Paris, some are dying for the latest fashion...others will kill for it. Having successfully solved two murders in the City of Lights, self-proclaimed private detectives Rachel Levis and Magda Stevens are ready to take on the world. Or at least the 3rd arrondissement. Which is good news when renowned fashion designer Roland Guipure is found lifeless outside his own birthday party in that upscale neighbourhood, dead from an apparent overdose. Rachel...
93) Northanger Abbey
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Is the father I wanted the father my children want me to be, too? Or is the father I got the father I've inevitably become? Almost everyone yearns to know their parents more thoroughly before they die, to solve some of those lifelong mysteries. Maybe, just maybe, those answers will help you live your own life. But life doesn't stop to wait. In his fifties, writer Tad Friend is grappling with being a husband and father and trying to grasp who he is...
Author
Language
English
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Description
520 In 1886 New York, a respectable architect shouldn't have any connection to the notorious gang of thieves and killers that rules the underbelly of the city. But when John Cross's son racks up an unfathomable gambling debt to Kent's Gent's, Cross must pay it back himself. All he has to do is use his inside knowledge of high society mansions and museums to craft a robbery even the smartest detectives won't solve. The take better include some cash...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The Bluth clan lives a life of excess, funded by the family credit card and paid for by patriarch George whose fortune came from the tract home development business. Oldest son George, nicknamed Gob, is an "illusionist" of minor importance who has anger management issues. Youngest son, Buster, wastes his days taking obscure graduate school courses. Daughter Lindsay is a vain socialite. The only sane family member is Lindsay's twin brother Michael,...
97) Past imperfect
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Wishing to track down a past girlfriend who claims he had fathered her child, the rich and dying Damian Baxter contacts an old friend from his days at Cambridge. The search takes the narrator back to 1960s London, where everything is changing--just not always quite as expected.
98) The last hours
Author
Series
Last hours volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the Black Death enters England through the port of Melcombe in Dorseteshire in June 1348, no one knows what manner of sickness it is or how it spreads and kills so quickly. The Church cites God as the cause, and religious fear grips the people as they come to believe that the plague is a punishment for wickedness. But Lady Anne of Develish has her own ideas. Educated by nuns, Anne is a rarity among women, being both literate and knowledgeable....
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Linda Corbet is missing and Jennie is hired to investigate. The only clue Jennie has is a fragment of a 17th century poem she finds in Linda{u2019}s room. But from that one clue her investigations will lead her to a secret Oxford society {u2013} and a hidden world of violence, excess and desire which lies behind the city{u2019}s dreaming spires.
100) Naughty on ice
Author
Series
Discreet Retrieval Agency mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The next in Maia Chance's dazzlingly fun Prohibition-era caper series featuring society matron Lola Woodby and her stalwart Swedish cook, Berta. The Discreet Retrieval Agency is doing a brisk holiday business of retrieving lost parcels, grandmas, and stolen wreaths. But with their main squeezes Ralph and Jimmy once more on the back burner, both Lola and Berta pine for a holiday out of New York City. So when they receive a mysterious Christmas card...
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