Jenkins, Beverly
Summary: "Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JENRose, M. J.
Summary: "New York, 1910: A city of extravagant balls in Fifth Avenue mansions and poor immigrants crammed into crumbling Lower East Side tenements. A city where the suffrage movement is growing stronger every day, but most women reporters are still delegated to the fashion and lifestyle pages. But Vera Garland is set on making her mark in a man's world of serious journalism. Shortly after the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, has never been tempted to embark on an affair. Until now.... Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, as gallant as he is secretive, is rumored to be an assassin. For one exhilarating night they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: "1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "It is September 1940-a year into the war-and as German bombs fall on Britain, fears grow of an impending invasion. Enemy fighter planes blacken the sky around the Epping Forest home of Susan Shepherd and her grandfather, Bertie. After losing her parents to influenza as a child, Susan found comfort in raising homing pigeons with Bertie. All her birds are extraordinary to Susan-loyal,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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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: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Summary: "Everything has a price...Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything--or anyone--is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife--and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he's determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love--the one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "Lady Anne Deveril doesn't spook easily. A woman of lofty social standing known for her glacial beauty and starchy opinions, she's the unofficial leader of her small group of equestriennes. Since her mother's devastating plunge into mourning six years ago, Anne voluntarily renounced any fanciful notions of love and marriage. And yet, when fate puts Anne back into the entirely too enticing path...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2017
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Summary: "Wealthy squire's daughter Margaret Honeywell was always meant to marry her neighbor, Frederick Burton-Smythe, but it's bastard-born Nicholas Seaton who has her heart. Raised alongside her on her father's estate, Nicholas is the rumored son of notorious highwayman Gentleman Jim. When Fred frames him for theft, Nicholas escapes into the night, vowing to find his legendary sire. But Nicholas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: Calista Langley operates an exclusive "introduction" agency in Victorian London, catering to respectable ladies and gentlemen who find themselves alone in the world. But now, a dangerously obsessed individual has begun sending her trinkets and gifts suitable only for those in deepest mourning -- a black mirror, a funeral wreath, a ring set with black jet stone. Each is engraved with her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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Summary: Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the tomboyish Billie ran wild with Edward and Andrew. Either one would make a perfect husband, someday. There is only one Rokesby Billie absolutely cannot tolerate, and that is George. He may be the eldest and heir to the earldom, but he's arrogant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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Summary: "Having grown up on the mean streets of nineteenth-century London, Caroline St. James is used to fighting to survive. So when her beloved mother suddenly dies, the scrappy twenty-two-year-old sails to New York to settle the family score with her grandfather who had turned a cold shoulder to her mother's suffering"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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Summary: Tainted by scandal and forced to leave London for the quiet of Brighton, the Honorable Miss Clara DeLancey is a shadow of her former society self. A chance encounter brings her a healing friendship with the sisters of an injured naval captain. But Clara's mama, the Viscountess Winpoole, is appalled at the new company she's keeping. Captain Benjamin Kemsley is not looking for a wife. But his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale 2018
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Summary: In 1941, Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens--Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: William Blackburn, Earl of Ketterham, lives in exile in the Scottish Highlands with his daughter, Vanessa. When she comes of age, Vanessa returns to her mother in England to make her debut, despite her doubt about fitting into the mold of a proper young lady. Lord Montgomery Townsend, a visitor at the Countess of Dawton's home, watches his hostess try to match her estranged daughter with the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Summary: "In 1866 Catriona O'Toole arrives in the town of Franklin, Tennessee, searching for her younger brother, Ryan, who, according to his last letter, was headed for Franklin only days before the catastrophic Battle of Franklin. Ryan's last note contained a stack of cash -- enough money to bring his entire family across the ocean from Ireland. But after disease and illness tear through County Antrim...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: The three wily and beautiful McDougal sisters can swindle a man faster than it takes to lasso a calf. But their luck is running out. When the wagon carrying them to jail falls under attack, each sister is picked up by a different man. Unfortunately for Abigail, she's grabbed by a twit of a shoe salesman, Mr. Hershall Digman. After stealing his horse, she discovers the secret papers in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2013
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Summary: "1916. The two-street town of Wallace is not exactly what Ellen Webster had in mind when she accepted a teaching position in Wyoming, but within a year's time she's fallen in love -- both with the High Plains and with a handsome cowboy named Charlie Bacon. Life is not easy in the flat, brown corner of the state where winter blizzards are unforgiving and the summer heat relentless. But Ellen and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023