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Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction England London England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Great Britain History Regency, 1811-1820 Fiction Grief Fiction Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Manners and customs Nobility Fiction Paris (France) FictionLester, Natasha
Summary: "Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor, but, as an orphan, never truly felt part of that world. In 1943, with WWII raging and men headed overseas to fight, she lands a publicity job to recruit women into the workforce. Her skills-persuasion, daring, quick-witted under pressure-catch the attention of the U.S. government and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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Summary: It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime. Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2023
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Lilac, Jamie
Summary: Beau Bellegarde, a second-born son, makes a deal: if he can turn Evie Clément, the unapproachable baker's daughter, into the winner of the Court Ball, making her the most desired bachelorette in Paris, he inherits the family fortune, but his target has plans of her own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LILBell, Celia
Summary: "This radiant and thrilling debut follows a passionate love affair between two noblewomen who wish to free themselves from their repressive society, whatever the cost. In 17th century Paris, everyone has something to hide. The noblemen and women and writers consort with fortune tellers in the dark confines of their salons, servants practice witchcraft and black magic, and the titled poison...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELBurrowes, Grace
Summary: Ned Wentworth will be forever grateful to the family that plucked him from the streets and gave him a home, even though polite society still whispers years later about his questionable past. Precisely because of Ned's connections in low places, Lady Rosalind Kinwood approaches him to help her find a lady's maid who has disappeared. Rosalind is too opinionated--and too intelligent--and has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BURRiley, Vanessa
Summary: "An English spy must follow his neglected wife through the streets of London as she investigates her sister's death with the aid of the Widow's Grace. Can they find common ground and learn to work together?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILWood, Laura (Laura Clare)
Summary: In 1933, seventeen-year-old Bea is invited to visit her bohemian uncle in Italy where she meets Ben, a brash young artist, who challenges her to create the perfect summer romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WOOJio, Sarah
Summary: Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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Summary: "A jilted beauty and a regretful duke discover that second chances can be divine in this diverse Regency romance for fans of Bridgerton. Aphrodite Du Bell has always resented her name. While the members of the ton, and even the queen herself, praise her warm brown skin, perfect curls, and exquisite features, Aphrodite can't help but think that living up to the literal goddess of beauty is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dell 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCADonoghue, Emma
Summary: A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONSalazar, Noelle
Summary: While preparing The Hollywood Glamour Exhibition at the Smithsonian, costume conservator Sylvia Early discovers another name beneath a label and unearths the story of Zora Hough, a talented young seamstress who left her poverty-stricken life in 1924 Jazz Age Seattle behind to realize her dreams of becoming a designer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SALHadlow, Janice
Summary: "What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HADRivers, Francine
Summary: In 1875, Kathryn Walsh settles in frontier California. Moved by the oppression of local miners, she decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper, putting her in the spotlight of Calvada's most powerful men.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIVRivers, Francine
Summary: New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to the California frontier in this sweeping, romantic tale of a displaced New England suffragette, a former Union soldier disinherited by his Southern family, and the town they join forces to save. 1875. When Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas, falling in love is the farthest thing from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
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Summary: It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime. Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STESmall, A. K.
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Alix balances her fashion internship at Paris's premier feather boutique with her grief and relationships, including an emotional love triangle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SMAIrwin, Sophie
Summary: "When shy Miss Eliza Balfour married the austere Earl of Somerset, twenty years her senior, it was the match of the season--no matter that he was not the husband Eliza wanted. Now, ten years later, Eliza is widowed. Suddenly, she is left titled, rich, and, for the first time in her life, utterly in control of her own future. She's always lived by society's conventions, but now, Eliza has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2023
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Summary: After saving the life of handsome Honorable Elliot Wingate, circus owner Josephine "Blade" Brown, who's as deadly with a knife as her nickname suggests, tries to keep a safe distance from this man who has the power to stir up her deeply buried, extremely dangerous secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SPEHall, Alexis J.
Summary: "When Viola Caroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. Shattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HALQuincy, Diana
Summary: When his American stepmother, who inherited his father's estate, is found dead, the Duke of Strickland, whom everyone knows detested the dowager duchess, fights for his castle and his reputation when Raya Darwish, the dowager duchess's heir, arrives to claim what is hers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC QUIQuinn, Julia
Summary: Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball-or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "Tabitha Seaton, to join a collective of the most brilliant, influential minds in London, needs a husband and believes a notorious, handsome gambler may be her best bet, but the stakes are higher than she could have imagined when love enters the game"-- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LEIPeckham, Scarlett
Summary: "An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an inheritance gives her the chance to fund the cause of women's rights--on the condition she must wed--she is forced to reveal a secret: she's already married. To a man she hasn't seen for twenty years. Oh ... and her husband is a duke. A horse breeder with a clandestine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PECHall, Alexis J.
Summary: "A young noblewoman must pair up with an alleged witch to ward off a curse in this sapphic romance set 1814"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2023