Morgan, Jude
Summary: In this Regency comedy of manners self-reliant Lydia Templeton rejects the county's most eligible bachelor but years later, when her ward proves surprisingly tricky to manage, discovers that her own spinster's heart may not be the closed book she thought it was.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2007
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Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chevalier 2019Chevalier, Tracy
Summary: 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2019
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Summary: "Everyone has secrets. He wants all of hers. Meet the man next door ... After years of military service, Evan Miller wants a quiet life. The small town of Ravenswood seems perfect--until he stumbles upon a vicious web of lies with his new neighbour at its centre. Ruth Kabbah is rude, awkward, and--according to everyone in town--bad news. Thing is, no-one will tell Evan why. Does she perform...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nixon House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIBGrimes, Martha.
Summary: Presents two novellas, including "Hotel Paradise," an exploration of the emotional isolation and identity quest of adolescence, and "The Train Now Departing," in which the female protagonist is embroiled in darkness by the man in her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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Summary: Bridget Jones takes readers on a tour of a hilarious year-in-the-life of a confused thirty-something singleton who would have all the answers if she could just lose seven pounds, stop smoking, and attain inner poise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FIEFielding, Helen
Contents: ch. 1. Happily ever after -- ch. 2. Jellyfish at large -- ch. 3. Doooom! -- ch. 4. Persuasion -- ch. 5. Mr. Darcy, Mr. Darcy -- ch. 6. Italian job -- ch. 7. Mood-swinging Singletons -- ch. 8. Oh baby -- ch. 9. Social hell -- ch. 10. Mars and Venus in the dustbin -- ch. 11. Thai takeaway -- ch. 12. Strange times -- ch. 13. Gaaah! -- ch. 14. For better or worse? -- ch. 15. Excess Christmas spirit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.P. Dutton 1981
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Summary: Divorced American Charlotte Kinder takes a trip to Regency staged Pembrook Park in Kent where she plays parlor games, learns country dances, and even lets herself be courted by her assigned suitor, the brooding, magnetic Mr. Mallery. But her vacation becomes more Northanger Abbey when she catches a fleeting glimpse of a dead body in a secret room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury USA 2012
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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: You know how it is. Saturday afternoon. You wake up and you can't move. I blinked and the floaters on my eyeballs shifted to reveal Tyler in her ratty old kimono over in the doorway. 'Way I see it,' she said, glass in one hand, lit cigarette in the other, 'girls are tied to beds for two reasons: sex and exorcisms. So, which was it with you?' Laura and Tyler are best friends who live together,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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Summary: When Maggie Carpenter moves to London, she meets Hugh and is soon riding around in a Ferrari, living the high life. But there's Samir. Now she's torn between her dream guy and the one always in her thoughts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Loveday Cardew prefers books to people. If someone looks carefully, they might glimpse the first lines of the novels she loves most tattooed on her skin. But there are some things Loveday will never, ever show anyone. Into her hiding place, the bookstore where she works, come a poet, a lover, and three suspicious deliveries. Someone has found out about her mysterious past. Will Loveday survive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: With her hotly anticipated third installment, Bridget Jones: Mad about the boy, Fielding introduces us to a whole new, enticing phase of Bridget's life, set in contemporary London, including the challenges of maintaining sex appeal as the years roll by, and the nightmares of drunken texting, the skinny jean, the disastrous e-mail cc, total lack of Twitter followers, and TVs that need ninety...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FIEEvans, Harriet
Summary: An irresistibly engaging new novel about a romantic young woman who suffers severe heartbreak and swears off love--only to risk her chance at happiness with a truly amazing man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Downtown Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EVAGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when he's sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the man's uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trio's digging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012