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Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction FICTION / Romance / Contemporary FICTION / Women Man-woman relationship Fiction Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Fiction Relations entre hommes et femmes Romans, nouvelles, etc Self-realization in women Self-realization in women Fiction Single womenMontgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC MONSummary: An adventure set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful U.S. mining magnate to build a railroad to his newest mines. His romance with the boss's daughter only complicates matters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TYCDickerson, Melanie.
Summary: Gisela's childhood was filled with laughter and visits from nobles such as the duke and his young son. But since her father's death, each day has been filled with nothing but servitude to her stepmother. So when Gisela learns the duke's son, Valten -- the boy she has daydreamed about for years -- is throwing a ball in hopes of finding a wife, she vows to find a way to attend, even if it's only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC DICMoyes, Jojo
Summary: Louisa Clark heads for New York and finds herself torn between her old life and her new one. As she tries to keep the two sides of her world together, Lou finds herself carrying secrets--not all her own--that cause a catastrophic change in her circumstances.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2018
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MOYLevine, Jessica
Summary: "When Anna, now living in California, is contacted by the Italian lover she knew decades before, she recalls their affair and the child she gave up for adoption. As the episode returns to haunt her--threatening the life she's built, including her marriage--the story moves back in time to her youth in Europe. Rome, 1979. Anna, twenty-two and living abroad, is involved with a man already engaged...
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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVLiasson, Miranda
Summary: "Gabby Langdon has always tried to make people happy. She even went to law school to please her father, and now she's a highly successful-albeit bored-attorney. But Gabby secretly dreams of being a writer, so for once she does something for herself--she signs up for a writing class taught by best-selling novelist Caden Marshall. There's only one problem: her brooding, sexy professor is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIAMacomber, Debbie
Summary: Joan Sample is not living the life she thought she would. Now a widow and an empty nester, Joan is content being something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to get back out into the world. With her encouragement, Joan makes big strides, taking care of her overgrown lawn, making new friends through a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MACCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC MACLowell, Joanna
Summary: "When an artist and a duke cross paths in the bustling London slums, an unlikely love story begins and their lives will be forever changed. Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover quickly comes to the aid of the naked drunkard she stumbles upon one evening in the Shoreditch slums. If only she could banish his lovely form from her dreams as easily. Instead, she finds herself compelled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOWBromley, Kate
Summary: Fashion means everything to Violet Luciano; so does finishing design school. When she lands a summer internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she knows she's got to bring her A game. The interns will be competing against each other: whoever creates the best fashion design will be offered a job at a New York label. Violet is at the top of her class, but she's one of the only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRODeveraux, Jude
Summary: "The first book of a new contemporary romance series set in the mountains of Virginia. Sparks fly as fiery Casey Reddick and brooding Hollywood actor Tate Landers clash in the Virginia summer heat. A chef who puts her career first and her love life second, Casey doesn't see what every girl in town is swooning over. She made up her mind the moment she met Tate--he's gorgeous, but stuck-up,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FICTION DEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Deveraux 2016Kleypas, Lisa
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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLEDeLuca, Jen
Summary: "The Renaissance Faire is on the move, and Lulu and Dex are happily along for the ride, in the next utterly charming rom-com from Jen DeLuca. A high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa "Lulu" Malone lives to work, and everything seems to be going right, until the day she realizes it's all wrong. Lulu's cousin Mitch introduced her to the world of Ren Faires, and when she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Romance 2022
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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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband. So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born. Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: A young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace. It's two AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city and whether she...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GIFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction GifKinsella, Sophie
Summary: Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effort. Even cooking dinner takes far too much planning. Sasha has hit a wall. Armed with good intentions to drink kale smoothies, try yoga, and find...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life forever. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other - a love that will ultimately affect the lives of all those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their union is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pan Books 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILRoberts, Nora.
Summary: For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians. Upon arriving at Jordan's impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan's forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan's shy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBLee, Robinne
Summary: "Solène Marchand, the thirty-nine-year-old owner of an art gallery in Los Angeles, is reluctant to take her daughter, Isabelle, to meet her favorite boy band. But since her divorce, she's more eager than ever to be close to Isabelle. The last thing Solène expects is to make a connection with one of the members of the world-famous August Moon. But Hayes Campbell is clever, winning, confident,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2017
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Summary: "Eight years ago, Emma Montague left behind the strict confines--and rather dull boyfriend--of her upper-crust English life and moved to New York City, where she immediately found success in finance. But her soulless, cutthroat, all-consuming job was another life she didn't want. Answering an ad on Craigslist, Emma finds a tiny beach cottage in the small town of Westport, Connecticut. It needs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Green 2016Hannon, Irene
Summary: Katherine Parker searches for peace in Hope Harbor on the Oregon coast. Zach Garrett recovers after a traumatic loss. When Katherine and Zach are recruited to help rehab a home for foster children, sparks fly.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HANHadlow, 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 HADSteel, Danielle
Summary: Now on her own, Maggie decides to face her fears, setting off on a whirlwind trip from San Francisco to Monaco. But a chance encounter reconnects her with a thrill-seeking man she's tried to forget.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Steel 2021Novak, Brenda
Summary: When her ex revenge-posted a sex tape online, up-and-coming TV anchor Emery Bliss lost her job on top of her self-esteem. Seeking solace-- and anonymity--in Silver Springs, Emery is thrown into contact with Dallas Turner. Being home for the holidays and his adoptive mother's wedding isn't where mountain climber Dallas feels most comfortable. Thanks to his troubled childhood, he would rather be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2020