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362) His improper lady
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It's been a year since Tom Quick became a partner in the detective agency, Moreland & Quick, that he operates with his lifelong friend Constantine Moreland. When he catches an intruder breaking into the agency, obviously looking for something, it's clear that a new case is afoot. But this intruder wears an alluring scent, moves like a trained acrobat...and is clearly an attractive woman. After a hardscrabble childhood, Desiree Malone grew up to be...
363) A Royal threesome
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" Now in one volume-the first three "charming and lighthearted" (Kirkus Reviews) Royal Spyness Mysteries from national bestselling author Rhys Bowen, featuring the elegant, titled, and stony-broke sleuth Lady Georgiana Rannoch. Her Royal Spyness Georgie is forced to earn her keep as a housekeeper in London when the Queen summons her to spy on the playboy prince. But when a Frenchman winds up dead in Georgie's bathtub, it's her job to clear her very...
367) Black butler: 27
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Recounting the events that have transpired since his tenth birthday when his life changed forever, Earl Ciel Phantomhive discusses everything from the attack on the Phantomhive manor to the moment he made his contract with his demon butler.
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Deborah Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire, is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy, who wrote when Deborah was born, "How disgusting of the poor darling to go and be a girl." Deborah's effervescent memoir chronicles her remarkable life, from an eccentric but happy childhood in the Oxfordshire countryside, to tea with Adolf Hitler and her controversially political sister Unity in 1937, to her marriage to...
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"Regency London's most notorious gossip, Lady Whistledown, returns to tell all. Society is abuzz when the Season's most promising debutante is jilted by her intended. A concerned groom-to-be rushes back to London to win his lady's heart once and forever. A handsome rogue has a lifelong friendship -- and his heart -- tested. A young woman is cast out of her home by an insufferable yet charming marquis."--Provided by publisher.
375) The Pallisers
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A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels-called the finest sequence of fiction ever written about British Parliamentary life.
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"Drawing on thousands of memoirs, unpublished letters and diaries, and the eye-witness testimonies of belted earls and bibulous butlers, historian Adrian Tinniswood brings the stately homes of England to life as never before, opening the door onto a world half-remembered, glamorous, shameful at times, and forever wrapped in myth. The Long Weekend revels in the sheer variety of country house life: from King George V poring over his stamp collection...
377) La hija del diablo
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Aunque la joven viuda Phoebe nunca ha visto a West Ravenel en persona, tiene algo muy claro: es una persona malvada y un acosador. Hace años, en el internado, hizo de la vida de su marido un infierno y ella nunca lo perdonará por ello. Pero cuando Phoebe acude a un evento familiar, se topa con un extraño increíblemente encantador y atractivo que le produce descargas eléctricas: nada menos que el mismísimo West Ravenel. West es consciente...
378) Como dos extraños
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"La Dra. Garrett Gibson, la única médica femenina en Inglaterra, es tan atrevida e independiente como cualquier hombre. ¿Por qué no tomar sus placeres como uno solo? Sin embargo, nunca se ha sentido tentada a embarcarse en una aventura, hasta ahora. Ethan Ransom, un ex detective de Scotland Yard, es tan valiente como reservado, un asesino rumoreado cuyas verdaderas lealtades son un misterio. Durante una noche estimulante, ceden a su potente...
379) Una esposa singular
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When Laurel Herbert witnessed her husband, James, Lord Kirkland, commit an act of shocking violence, she abandoned him, but a passionate encounter ten years later causes her to rethink their estrangement.
380) From a Paris balcony
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Heartbroken and alone, Boston art curator Sarah West is grieving the recent deaths of her parents and the end of her marriage. Ultrasensible by nature, she's determined to stay the course to get her life back on track. But fate has something else in mind. While cleaning out her father's closet, she finds a letter from the famous Parisian courtesan Marthe de Florian, dated 1895. The subject, Sarah's great-great-aunt Louisa's death. Legend has it Louisa...