Jill Tanner
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Everyman's Library volume 360
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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"On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner, a childhood friend who, along with Briony's sister, has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have...
2) Suddenly you
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Author Amanda Briars wasn't about to greet her next birthday without making love to a man. When he appeared at her door, she believed he was a gift to herself, but something stopped him from fulfilling her wish. When Amanda discovers his true identity she is mortified. He wants to publish her first manuscript he has acquired, and having his hands on a scandal he can force her if he wishes. But Jack Devlin, the cast-off son of a nobleman and London's...
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Tudor novels (Philippa Gregory) volume 1
Tudor court novels volume 01
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 06
Cousins' war volume 06
Tudor court novels volume 01
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 06
Cousins' war volume 06
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English
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Overview: Katherine of Aragon. Known to history as the Queen who was pushed off her throne by Anne Boleyn, here is a Katherine the world has forgotten: the enchanting princess that all England loved. First married to Henry VIII's older brother, Arthur, Katherine's passion turns their arranged marriage into a love match; but when Arthur dies, the merciless English court and her ambitious parents-the crusading King and Queen of Spain-have to find a...
4) Fly by night
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Fly by night volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
Description
A twelve-year-old orphan, Mosca Mye, and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man Eponymous Clent, driven by her love of language and to find a better life.
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English
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Penniless Alicia masquerades as the widowed "Mrs. Carrington" to launch her beautiful younger sister into the ton and have her make a profitable marriage, but her plans go badly awry when she finds herself the prime suspect in a murder investigation led by handsome Tony Blake. (Baker & Taylor)
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To break a centuries-old curse, beautiful, headstrong Lady Kathleen MacDavid knows she must ignore every rule of propriety by seducing-and marrying-the Earl of Norcroft. So she sets off for London, braving scandal and ruin to achieve her goal . . . until a crazy bump on the head makes her forget nearly everything.
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Once she was the lovely, respectable Miss Delia Effington, but an impulsive decision, and subsequent disaster, forces Delia to retire from society; until one night, desperate for diversion, she attends a ball as her twin sister and finds herself dancing in the strong arms of the dashing Viscount St. Stephens. She believes that she has never met the Viscount, yet he seems so familiar. Little does she know the real game that the Viscount is playing...
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From a New York Times bestseller at "the top of her game," this story of royal pretend engagement is "historical romance at its most entertaining" (Publishers Weekly).
Pamela is a mystery Alexei is determined to solve . . .
Prince Alexei of Avalonia is a master at the art of seduction, but when a mysterious young woman he meets at a masked ball spends the night in his bed, he finds he is touched in ways he cannot forget....
Pamela is a mystery Alexei is determined to solve . . .
Prince Alexei of Avalonia is a master at the art of seduction, but when a mysterious young woman he meets at a masked ball spends the night in his bed, he finds he is touched in ways he cannot forget....
9) The Secret
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Highlands' lairds volume 2
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English
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Lady Judith Hampton, having promised her childhood friend Frances Catherine Kirkcaldy that she would come to Scotland to attend the birth of Frances' first child, is ready to go when Iain Maitland shows up to escort her from England, and by the time they reach the border Iain has already decided to take Judith as his wife, not anticipating she will have something to say in the matter, nor the truth about her father.
10) Temptress
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Impostress comes a thrilling medieval novel filled with as much steamy passion as sizzling suspense…
Dark and deadly, a mysterious man stalks the halls of Castle Calon, staying forever hidden. He calls himself the Redeemer. And no one has seen his face. Not even Morwenna, Lady of the keep.
A bloodied warrior is brought to the castle. ...
Dark and deadly, a mysterious man stalks the halls of Castle Calon, staying forever hidden. He calls himself the Redeemer. And no one has seen his face. Not even Morwenna, Lady of the keep.
A bloodied warrior is brought to the castle. ...
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English
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Cassandra Effington is one of the most delicious debutantes to ever waltz across a London ballroom. But while her identical twin sister Delia is now wed, Cassandra is still unclaimed, and everyone agrees her standards are entirely too high. So how could she possibly lose a most unseemly wager with the handsome, scandalous Viscount Berkley? The proposition: She will find him an ideal bride well before he finds her the perfect match.
12) A fine passion
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Fleeing London, Jack, Baron Warnefleet, rescues Lady Clarice Altwood from an unmanageable horse along the way, an encounter that brings him face to face with a dangerous mystery and a young woman who will steal his heart.
13) Bianca
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"Florentine silk merchant Giovanni Pietro d'Angelo and his wife want nothing more than to marry their daughters to wealthy men of distinction. But when their son's dangerous indiscretion implicates him in a tragic accident, it is their eldest daughter who must pay the price. Blackmailed by the powerful and debauched Sebastiano Rovere, the Pietro d'Angelos must give beautiful Bianca in marriage to Rovere to buy his silence. With the aid of her mother,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
840L
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English
Description
Aging, reclusive author Vida Winter, having given out multiple versions of her life story over the years, decides to finally set the record straight and engages Margaret Lea, a London bookseller's daughter, to write her biography, drawing the young woman into a tale of a governess, a ghost, a willful woman, feral twins, and a gothic mansion.
15) To distraction
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Bastion Club volume 5
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English
Description
In desperate need of a wife, Deverell, Viscount Paignton, enlists the aid of his aunt to find him the perfect wife, sending him to a country house party where he finds his prospective birde, Phoebe Malleson, with her nose buried in a book, determined to avoid marriage to promote the secret cause to which she is committed. (Baker & Taylor)
16) Let it be love
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English
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"[A] rollicking historical romance . . . the perfect holiday read" from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of When We Meet Again (Publishers Weekly).
Dashing Jonathon Effington, the Marquess of Helmsley, has had more than one lady willingly fall into his arms. But he's so delicious none has ever complained at their inevitable parting. And while Jonathon's no stranger to passion of the flesh, his heart has...
Dashing Jonathon Effington, the Marquess of Helmsley, has had more than one lady willingly fall into his arms. But he's so delicious none has ever complained at their inevitable parting. And while Jonathon's no stranger to passion of the flesh, his heart has...
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At the age of seventeen, Christian Hill impulsively defends young Dorcas Froggatt's honor - and finds himself forced into marriage. That doesn't stop him from pursuing his military career abroad, where he swiftly puts his young bride out of his mind - until the past comes back to haunt him. Not long after her traumatic marriage, Dorcas heard that her new husband died in battle. Now she's shocked to learn that he's not only still alive, but searching...
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He first appeared beneath her prison window as her savior, and ensured her release from an unjust arrest. But author and publisher Phaedra Blair quickly learns that the price of her "freedom" is to be virtually bound to her rescuer, Lord Elliot Rothwell. He came to extract a promise that she won't publish a slanderous manuscript that could destroy his family's name, and he's not above bribery, threats, or bedding her to get his way.
19) A wedding wager
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Lady Serena Grantley was born to the nobility, but fate’s whim placed her in control of her gamester stepfather, who uses her beauty to lure young men to his gambling tables. Serena even dismissed her first love, the Honorable Sebastian Sullivan, at her stepfather’s command. But when he attempts to force her into a liaison with a dissolute earl, Serena resolves to do his bidding no more. Sebastian is the only man who ever captured her heart, and...
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The headstrong and beautiful Alexandra Douglas is summoned to London from the seminary for young ladies upon the death of her father, Sir Arthur Douglas. There, the family lawyer explains to her that she and her invalid sister, Sylvia, have been left penniless, disinherited, delegitimized. Her father had divorced her mother on the grounds of insanity, making the children of the marriage illegitimate, but still allowing him to remarry. On Sir Arthur's...