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Aristocracy (Social class) England Fiction England London England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction FICTION / Historical / General London (England) Fiction Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Relations entre hommes et femmes Romans, nouvelles, etc Romance fiction Secrecy FictionForsyth, Kate
Summary: Set in Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies. May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction ForsythJohnson, Sadeqa
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her daughter. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed onto her like a birthright. Eleanor Quarles arrived in Washington, DC with ambition and secrets. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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Summary: In 1930s Burning Cove, California, Maggie Lodge hires PI Sam Sage to find the person posing as her boss, known only as Dear Aunt Cornelia. As far as Sam is concerned, Maggie is reckless and in over her head. Maggie, on the other hand, is convinced that Sam is badly in need of guidance and good advice. Sam is haunted by his past, which includes a marriage shattered by betrayal and violence....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIBradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: James Falconer, a tycoon and a self-made man, seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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Summary: Controlled by a domineering mother and an over-opinionated family, Valency Stirling awakens on her twenty-ninth birthday resigned to dull existence. Her only escape is the Blue Castle of her imagination. But when an unexpected letter changes everything, Valency breaks the bonds of fear and finds purpose in a whole new life that turns the Blue Castle of her dreams into a reality.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MONAllende, Isabel
Summary: Sponsored by the poet Pablo Neruda to flee the violence of the Spanish Civil War, a pregnant widow and an army doctor unite in an arranged marriage only to be swept up by the early days of World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ALLCreel, Ann Howard
Summary: In 1917, after Arlene Favier's home burns, she must support her family and takes a job as an ambulance driver in a trailblazing, all-female team of doctors and nurses bound for war-torn France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CREHoffman, Alice
Summary: The Owens family has been cursed in matters of love for over three-hundred years but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger, the curse is already at work. A frantic attempt to save a young man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HOFRoberts, Nora
Summary: "Inheritance is the first in The Lost Bride Trilogy by #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts--a tale of tragedies, loves found and lost, and a family haunted for generations. 1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC ROBQuinn, Julia
Summary: Meet Our Hero ... Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past ... and the key to his future. The problem is--it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. Meet Our Heroine ... All the town agreed:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIJeffries, Sabrina
Summary: As a viscount's heir, Rafe Wolfford must take a wife but one not too independent and not inclined to delve into his escapades as a spy. The forthright Lady Verity is altogether the wrong choice, or is she?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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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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Summary: Prudence Ryland is kidnapped and wakes up in a room next to a dead man. It's obvious she's being framed for the man's murder. Prudence knows who is responsible, but will anyone believe a Psychic Dream Consultant? No one is more shocked than Prudence when Jack Wingate says he'll help her. But who will protect Prudence from her growing fascination with this enigma of a man?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: In 1857, a young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need, facing a harrowing journey. Once there, she realizes her employer and his wife are keeping secrets from her, and she must ferret out the truth to protect their young daughter. First Carrie must confront the demons in her own past, with the help of the man she's come to love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Threatened by powerful enemies, William Blackburn, Earl of Ketterham, lives in exile in the Scottish Highlands with his daughter Vanessa. When she comes of age William urges her to return to her mother in England to make her debut. Raised with all the advantages and freedom a boy would have, Vanessa doubts she can fit into the mold of a proper young lady. Still, she agrees to re-enter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2019
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Summary: Every dashing young man in London's ton is vying for Lady Caroline Hawke's hand, except one. Handsome, delectable rou©♭ Prince Leopold of Alucia can't quite remember who Caroline is and the insult is not to be tolerated. So Caroline does what any clever, resourceful lady of means would do to make sure a prince remembers her: sees that amusingly risqu©♭ morsels about Leo's reputation are printed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction London 2020Moyes, Jojo
Summary: "Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYQuinn, Julia
Summary: A funny thing happened ... Unlike most men of his acquaintance, Gregory Bridgerton believes in true love. And he is convinced that when he finds the woman of his dreams, he will know in an instant that she is the one. And that is exactly what happened. Except ... She wasn't the one. In fact, the ravishing Miss Hermione Watson is in love with another. But her best friend, the ever-practical Lady...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC QUIHoffman, Alice
Summary: One brilliant June day when Mia Jacob can no longer see a way to survive, the power of words saves her. The Scarlet Letter was written almost two hundred years earlier, but it seems to tell the story of Mia's mother, Ivy, and their life inside the Community, an oppressive cult in western Massachusetts where contact with the outside world is forbidden, and books are considered evil. But how...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA Fiction HoffmanBalogh, Mary
Summary: Devlin Ware is called home from exile, and reunites with Gwyneth Rhys, the woman he loved and then lost. It is Gwyneth's love that he needs. But is Devlin's war-hardened heart even capable of offering her love in return?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Anton Addison-Rice is determined to help his neighbor Edith leave her abusive marriage. As Anton falls hopelessly and selflessly in love, Edith fears both her husband finding her and Anton getting hurt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction HydGreeley, Molly
Summary: Charlotte Collins is the respectable wife of a vicar. Then she makes the acquaintance of Mr. Travis, a local farmer and tenant of Lady Catherine, who makes her feel appreciated, heard, and seen. With her sensible nature confronted, and her own future about to take a turn, Charlotte must now question the role of love and passion in a woman's life, and whether they truly matter for a clergyman's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREHelprin, Mark
Summary: Navy Captain Rensselaer runs afoul of the US president, who demotes him. But he takes the assignment in stride, having fallen in love with a woman who becomes his beacon in his challenging new mission.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Secretly drawn to her best friend's brother for years, Penelope Featherington believes that she knows everything about Colin Bridgerton, until she stumbles upon his deepest secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017