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1) Basil
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Basil (1852) is a novel by Wilkie Collins. Written in the aftermath of Antonina (1850), his successful debut, Basil finds the author honing the trademark sense of mystery and psychological unease that would make him a household name around the world. Recognized as an important Victorian novelist and pioneer of detective fiction, Wilkie Collins was a writer with a gift for thoughtful entertainment, stories written for a popular audience that continue...
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"Historical romance legend and New York Times bestselling author Madeline Hunter introduces a brand new trilogy sparking with sensuality and wit, as a recently-deceased Duke's will reveals that he has mysteriously bequeathed his vast fortune to three seemingly unrelated and unknown women. In this series opener, one recipient of the inheritance - an independent detective - and the Duke's spurned nephew band together to determine the reason for the...
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In this delightful debut, a sweet romance, Politano pens a clever story-within-a-story full of Victorian intrigue and ghosts. Aurelie Harcourt's father has just died, and she is leaving the only home she has ever known, Shepton Mallet debtor's prison, with the few things he left her: a trunk full of blank notebooks and his pen name, Nathaniel Droll. Initially planning to abandon his unfinished serial novel, Lady Jayne Disappears,which she has been...
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2023.
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Navigating a fake courtship with barrister Bram Townsend to keep her family from forcing her into marriage before she finally receives the inheritance that will allow her to live as she wants, amateur astronomer Lady Wilhelmina Bettesford soon discovers their make-believe passion feels very real indeed.
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"Diana Sommerville seems to have it all-beauty, brains, and vast wealth, thanks to her family's ownership of a diamond mine abroad. But when her beloved brother dies in battle and leaves a lion's share of his estate to his best friend, Diana finds herself in a situation that seems scripted for the stage- Sharing her family home with the man she used to love-and now loathes. Worse, her unfaithful former fiance has already moved in . Rupert Lacey didn't...
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To Camilla, the trip up the Hudson to the Gothic mansion named Thunder Heights was a return to the home that had never been hers. Now her grandfather is a sick old man, anxious to make his peace with her before he dies. Impending danger, strange crosscurrents, and shadowy terror await her...
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2015.
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Honoring an arranged marriage to keep his estate afloat, the new Duke of Gage weds Lady Isabella, a beautiful woman who longs for independence, and discovers that none of his previous exploits were half as pleasurable as wooing his own wife.
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The Ravenels volume 1
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Kathleen knows better than to trust a ruthless scoundrel like Devon. But the fiery attraction between them is impossible to deny. And from the first moment Devon holds her in his arms, he vows to do whatever it takes to possess her. As Kathleen finds herself yielding to his skillfully erotic seduction, only one question remains: Can she keep from surrendering her heart to the most dangerous man she's ever known?
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2015.
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"Lucy Merryweather has inherited a fortune--and her great-aunt's list of unfulfilled wishes. What better way to honor her memory than by accomplishing as many of them as possible? And with Lucy's family an ocean away in New York, nothing stands in her way--if one ignores the private investigator hired to spy on her"--
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"After the death of her parents, Evangeline must succeed as a schoolteacher in a remote region of Northern England in order to claim her inheritance from her grandfather and be reunited with her younger sister, Lucy. When a local bricklayer, Dermot, offers his help, she finds herself falling in love with the Irishman"--Provided by publisher.
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In order to save her family's estate after her husband dies, Virginia Traylor, Countess of Barrett, in desperate need of an heir, tricks the man she once loved, Scottish warrior Macrath Sinclair, into getting her pregnant, but her clever plan quickly unravels when he discovers her deception.
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Beautiful young Charisa Templeton always loved her father's old friend the Marquis of Mawdelyn – and as a child she roamed Mawdelyn Priory with his nephew Vincent, whom she adored. Saddened to hear that the Marquis has died – she's glad his heir, Vincent, will be coming home from his army posting in India to claim his title. But then Fate strikes another blow with the news that Vincent has been killed! Reluctantly, Charisa and her father prepare...
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The beautiful Cassandra Sherburn has, everything a young lady, could possibly desire.
Slender, flame-haired and alabaster-skinned and the heiress to her father's immense fortune, her father has promised her hand in marriage to the dashing young Marquis of Charlbury, heir to the ancestral home and estates of the Duke of Alchester and she believes that she is in love with him. And, over the years she has collected newspaper cuttings about him and pasted...
14) Black silk
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Submit channing-Downes, the widow of an aged marquess is penniless and alone. Entrusted to deliver a small black box to Graham Wessit, the notorious Earl of Netham, she finds Graham wants nothing to do with his grandfather and the ruin brought upon him by his grandfather.
15) Hard times
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 20
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790L
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"Written deliberately to increase the circulation of Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, Hard Times was a huge and instantaneous success upon publication in 1854. Yet this novel is not the cheerful celebration of Victorian life one might have expected from the beloved author of The Pickwick Papers and The Old Curiosity Shop. Compressed, stark, allegorical, it is a bitter exposé of capitalist exploitation during the industrial revolution-and...
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Seven deadly sins romances volume 1
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The seven Sinclair brothers and sisters live for scandal and delight in disgrace--until their father decrees that they must reform. Propriety has never come easily, but now they have no choice.
17) Marry Christmas
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A Christmas wedding to the Duke of Bellingham. Any other socialite in Newport, Rhode Island, would be overjoyed at the prospect, but Elizabeth Cummings finds her mother's announcement as appealing as a prison sentence. Elizabeth has not the slightest desire to meet Randall Blackmore, let alone be bartered for an English title. Her heart belongs to another, and the duke's prestige, arrogance, and rugged charm will make no difference to her plans of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Washington Square (1881), by Henry James, tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, feckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three...
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