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81) Titans
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping new drama from the beloved, bestselling author of Roses. Texas in the early 1900s, its inhabitants still traveling by horseback and barely familiar with the telephone, was on the cusp of an oil boom that, unbeknownst to its residents, would spark a period of dramatic changes and economic growth. In the midst of this transformative time in Southern history, two unforgettable characters emerge and find their fates irrevocably intertwined:...
82) Single dads club
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Single father Rowan Quinn moves to a tight-knit coastal community in South Africa to give his son the family he never had and meets a former heiress who makes it her personal mission to induct him into the town's circle of single dads to give him the support he needs.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As heiress of Rosings Park, Anne de Bourgh's health is of utmost importance to her mother, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Thus, following a recent fire at Rosings Park, the young woman is spirited away to Brighton to take the cure. While there, Anne becomes acquainted with Mr. Owen Talbot, a charming man with whom Anne feels an immediate connection, notwithstanding their differing stations. However, despite their growing esteem for one another, Anne's...
Author
Series
Leonid McGill mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Leonid McGill's spent a lifetime building his reputation as a private investigator in New York. His seemingly infallible instincts and inside knowledge of the crime world make him the ideal man to help when Phillip "Catfish" Worry comes knocking. Catfish is a ninety-four-year-old Mississippi blues-man who needs Leonid's help with a simple task: deliver a letter revealing the black lineage of a wealthy heiress and her corrupt father. The opportunity...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
2019: Andie Figuero is a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historic houses. Lucia "Lucky" Sprague, who still lives in Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse. 1899: Ellen Daniels has been hired to give singing lessons to Miss Maybelle Sprague, a naive young Colorado...
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Forced to marry an American heiress to save his family, Graeme Parr, Earl of Montclair, vowed their marriage would be in name only. Abigail Price thought handsome, aristocratic Graeme was her knight in shining armor, rescuing her from her overbearing father. But when she was spurned by her husband on their wedding night, Abigail fled home to New York. Now, years later, Abigail has returned. But this sophisticated, alluring woman is not the drab girl...
Author
Series
Manor cat mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When a dinner party turns deadly, the feisty Lady Cecilia Bates and intuitive cat Jack are on the case, in this first entry to an exciting new historical-mystery series. England 1912. Danby Hall is the only home Lady Cecilia Bates has ever known. Despite the rigid rules of etiquette and her mother the Countess of Avebury's fervent desire to see her married off, Lady Cecilia can't imagine life anywhere else. But now, with an agricultural depression...
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"To Lady Wilhelmina Bettesford, the "game" of finding a husband is a competitive sport she wants no part of...until her much-younger step mama forces her to play it. So when her stepmother asks sexy barrister Bram Townsend to pretend to woo the amateur astronomer to boost Wilhelmina's popularity, it's up to Wilhelmina to navigate a fake courtship that will keep the family from forcing her into a marriage--any marriage--before she finally receives...
Series
Criterion collection volume 736
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Opposites attract with magnetic force in this romantic road-trip delight, about a spoiled runaway socialite and a roguish man-of-the-people reporter who is determined to get the scoop on her scandalous disappearance. The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the...
Author
Series
Somerset stories volume 3
Publisher
Perfectly Proper Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A reckless Victorian heiress sets her sights on a dashing ex-naval lieutenant, determined to win his heart as the two of them embark on a quest to solve a decades-old mystery in USA Today bestselling author Mimi Matthews's sequel to her critically acclaimed novels The Work of Art and Gentleman Jim.Lieutenant Charles Heywood has had his fill of adventure. Battle-weary and disillusioned, he returns to England, resolved to settle down to a quiet, uneventful...
Author
Series
Somerset stories volume 4
Publisher
Perfectly Proper Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A chance meeting between the sheltered daughter and the forward-thinking son of rival Victorian families sparks a forbidden romance. Shy and stammering Meg Burton-Smythe has spent the whole of her life living on the fringes of local society. She's more comfortable with her daydreams than she is with people. But when a dashing, golden-haired hero rides to her rescue one morning, she dares to hope that her dreams might finally come true. There's only...
Author
Series
Rules for the reckless volume 5
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The next steamy historical romance in USA TODAY bestselling and RITA award-winning author Meredith Duran's "wonderfully indulgent" ( Publishers Weekly ) Rules for the Reckless series. A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL... Trapped in the countryside, facing an unwanted marriage and the theft of her fortune, Jane Mason is done behaving nicely. To win her freedom, she'll strike a deal with the most dangerous man she knows--a rising star in politics, whose dark good...
Author
Language
English
Description
Emmeline and William Pershing have enjoyed a perfectly convenient marriage for eight years. When Emmeline's grandfather, the Duke of Welshire, summons them-- and demands they bring their two children. Who don't exist-- Emmeline invented them to fulfill the agreement for living at Winnover Hall. The solution? borrow two orphans to call their own. What could go wrong?
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sowerby, England, 1802. Miss Genevieve Wilde--a magistrate's daughter and independent heiress--is determined to meet life's challenges all on her own, just as her late father had taught her. So when her father's pocket watch is stolen, she will do anything to get it back, especially when the local authorities prove incompetent. Upon reading an advertisement in the paper, she takes a chance and contacts a thief-taker to find the watch. It's a choice...
95) Midnight lace
Series
Publisher
Turner Classic Movies
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this woman-in-peril suspense film, set in London, the sanity of a newlywed heiress comes into question when, after a number of unwitnessed near-fatal accidents and life-threatening phone calls, she claims to be the target of a stalker. As time passes and her reports of more calls and a visit from a mysterious stranger nobody else sees are met with skepticism by everybody, the woman begins to unravel and becomes increasingly paranoid, suspecting...
97) The golden gate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change. In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont Hotel after a drink in the bar when a presidential candidate is assassinated in one of the rooms upstairs....
Author
Series
Victorian grand tour volume 2
Publisher
Saltair Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"She's engaged to his brother. The only way to protect her is to engage her affections himself. Mining heiress Lucy Maldon is determined to track down her fiancé and make him fall in love with her, even if it means chasing him across the Continent. Walter, Lord Chelmsford, has no intention of being found. Peter Chelmsford lives in his brother's shadow. When his older brother decides to go on Grand Tour and leave his bride-to-be behind, Peter accompanies...
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