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Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction Dating (Social customs) Fiction Grande-Bretagne Histoire 1811-1820 (Régence) Romans, nouvelles, etc Great Britain Great Britain History Regency, 1811-1820 Fiction London (England) Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Manners and customs Nobility FictionWood, 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 WOOChevalier, Tracy
Summary: "In 1486, Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers in Murano, Italy. As a woman, she is not meant to blow glass--but when her father dies, she teaches herself to make beads in secret, and her work becomes the cornerstone of the Rosso family fortunes. Skipping like a stone through the centuries, we follow Orsola and her family as they live through creative triumph and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEHadlow, 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 HADDavis, Lindsey
Summary: "In Lindsey Davis's next book in the beloved Flavia Albia Series, Desperate Undertaking, a mad killer (or killers!) is strewing bodies around in the most gruesome of manners and, true to form, it is up to Flavia Albia to determine what is really going on and stop this bacchanal of death. In the first century, under Domitian's reign, strange and brutal goings on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAVCarey, Peter
Summary: The two-time Booker Prize-winning author now gives us a wildly exuberant, wily new novel that circumnavigates 1954 Australia, revealing as much about the country/continent as it does about three audacious individuals who take part in the infamous 10,000-mile race, the Redex Trial. Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in southeastern Australia. Together they enter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARBarry, Jeff
Summary: To what lengths will a father go to save his daughter? John, a former POW in WWII, thinks women are smarter than men. The three women in his life agree, especially when he brags about knowing more Shakespeare than anyone else in Hope Springs, Mississippi. Big John is overly proud of the only seven words of Shakespeare that he knows: The prince of darkness is a gentleman. When Big John and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenleaf Book Group Press 2024
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Summary: "London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of London's upper crust. At a ball thrown by her oldest friend, Lady Walter, she expects the scandal, gossip, and secrets. What she doesn't expect is the dead body in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Fiction Schellman 2020Leigh, Eva
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 LEIBeanland, Rachel
Summary: Richmond, Virginia 1811. It's the height of the winter social season. The General Assembly is in session, and many of Virginia's gentleman planters, along with their wives and children, have made the long and arduous journey to the capital in hopes of whiling away the darkest days of the year. At the city's only theater, the Charleston-based Placide & Green Company puts on two plays a night to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BEACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAScottoline, Lisa
Summary: "Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as best friends, despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoing a novelist, Marco a handsome cyclist with a secret, and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy. Soon their friendship ripens to romance, and Marco and Sandro vie to win Elisabetta. Meanwhile war threatens the world, and Mussolini leads Italy down a dark path. Harsh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SCOScottoline, Lisa
Summary: "Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCOCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SCORiley, 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 RILSeales, Julia
Summary: "Beatrice Steele lives a perfectly agreeable life with her mother, father, and two younger sisters--Louisa and Mary. But she is obsessed with the true crime cases she reads about. If anyone found out, she would be deemed a morbid creep and banished from respectable society forever. Eligible bachelor Edmund Croaksworth is set to attend the approaching ball, and the Steele family hopes that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SEABurrowes, 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 BURPeckham, 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 PECSteel, Danielle
Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC STEShaw, Tucker
Summary: New York City, 1990. Film fanatic Adam is seventeen and on his first date, quickly falling in love with Callum like the movies always promised. Fashion-obsessed Ben is eighteen and has just left his home upstate after his mother discovers his hidden stash of gay magazines. When Callum disappears, it leaves Adam heartbroken. Ben finds out his new world is more closed-minded than he thought. In a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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Summary: "Can Lady Philippa Ware forgive the man who once shattered all her youthful dreams? Discover the passionate and heartwarming new novel on the redemptive power of love from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. Philippa, elder daughter of the Earl of Stratton, grew up eagerly anticipating a glittering debut and a brilliant marriage. Then her brother caught their father out in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BALSpufford, Francis
Summary: A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUBell, 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 BELKleypas, Lisa
Summary: Falling for a dashing stranger, young widow Phoebe, the daughter of Lord St. Vincent and Evie Jenner, is horrified to discover that he is the bully responsible for her late husband's boarding-school misery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kleypas 2019Hornby, Gill
Summary: A richly imagined novel inspired by the true story of Anne Sharp, a governess who became very close with Jane Austen and her family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HORRiley, Vanessa
Summary: When she stumbles upon the body of her neighbor Stapleton Hendersons wife, Lady Abigail Worthing, expecting to be under suspicion due to her skin color and her mother's notorious past, teams up with Henderson and together they dive into the treacherous waters of London's high society to find the truth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILArmstrong, Kelley.
Summary: "Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martin's Minotaur 2024