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"Meet Melanie Pepper, a spirited twenty-something who lives in the scruffy end of South London, works at the world's most boring job, and spends her time lusting after a sexy, commitment-phobic, pop-star wannabe in leather trousers. Join her and her best friend, Fran, in the treacherous trenches of today's singles scene as they cope with Amanda-envy"--Jacket.
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"Two people. One house. A year that changes everything. Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It's December, and she's taking a room in a crumbling, but grand, Notting Hill house-share with four virtual strangers. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don't kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the connection is clear. She starts planning...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Take an administrative snafu, a bad breakup, and what shall heretofore be known as "The Hot-Tub Incident", and you have got two unprepared sophomores on a semester abroad. For American party girl Tasha, an escape to Oxford may be a chance to ditch her fame as a tabloid temptress, but wading deep in feminist theory is not her idea of a break. Meanwhile, the British half of the exchange, studious Emily, nurses an aching heart amid the bikinis and beer...
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"1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better..." - Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1814 . . . . But this time the gossip columnists have it wrong. Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry - he's...
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Mistaken for a notorious thief known for seducing men to distraction while on holiday, Margaret Stredwick, longing for adventure, eagerly plays along until she returns to her ordinary life, soon discovering that her grand flirtation with the Duke of Merleton won't be secret for long.
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Meet me romances volume 1
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"Victoria and Oliver's pretend engagement dissolve[s] as their very real chemistry threatens to upend all their carefully laid-out secrets"--
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"Ruined debutante Prudence Thorogood lost everything when she was ousted from polite society...Now she'll do anything to take back what's hers...Accepting a scandalous offer from Lord Savage seems like the perfect solution to disguise her criminal intentions...Leo Ramsgate, Marquess of Savage, has everything except for a heart...until he meets the reserved Miss Thorogood. Not one of his previous lovers has ever beguiled him the way she does." --
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Lady Maggie Hawkins, a political cartoonist who draws under a male pseudonym, makes the man who betrayed her, Simon Barrett, Earl of Winchester who is a rising star in Parliament, the laughingstock of the town until she discovers the truth of what happened years ago.
11) Lord Gray's list
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The London List volume 1
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The creation of Evangeline Ramsey, the London List saved her and her ailing father from destitution. But the paper has given Evie more than financial relief. As its publisher, she lives as a man, dressed in masculine garb, free to pursue and report whatever she likes--especially the latest disgraces besmirching Lord Benton Gray. It's only fair that she hang his dirty laundry, given that it was his youthful ardor that put her off marriage for good....Lord...
12) 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.
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Everyone knows that Colin Bridgerton is the most charming man in London . . . Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friend's brother for . . . well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret . . . and fears she doesn't know him at all. Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed...
14) Reckless
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Victorian fairy tale trilogy volume 2
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When Kat Adair plunges into the waves to rescue a drowning man, it is just the beginning of an odyssey that will sweep the fisherman's daughter into danger and desire. Convinced she is in love with the man she saved, Egyptologist David Turnberry, she feigns amnesia, thus enabling her to linger among the highborn. Hunter MacDonald, rugged archaeologist, is wise to her little charade -- and determined to protect his best friend. Undaunted, Kat stows...
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Considered "London's Most Elusive Bachelor," Brandon, Marquess of Hullworth, finally finds a woman worth his time in Ellie Parrish, a quirky, opinionated lady who drives him absolutely wild, but she believes she's in love with someone else.
"Elodie Parrish can feel spinsterhood breathing down her neck. That's the trouble with waiting for the marquess next door her entire life. But Ellie knows if she gives him one last Season, he'll finally propose....
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Edgar Road used to be your typical London street; a road full of people who barely said a word to one another. Then Alfie came along – a big grey ball of fur who changed the lives of every family he met, and brought a community together. But now a new family have moved into Edgar Road and they, more than anyone else, need Alfie’s help. Can he bring light to their darkest times? Or is it already too late to stop them from falling apart?
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"London society is harsh for a young woman with no family connections who has to work for a living. But when Daisy Merrick is sacked from yet another job, the feisty and outspoken miss comes up with a plan that could give her a future beyond her wildest dreams. There's only one problem. Her success depends on a man, the most infuriating, impossible, immovable man she's ever met..."--p.[4] of cover.
18) Beguiled
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Ally realizes the charming highwayman, who waylays her coach in the woods, is the nobleman she's been betrothed to marry since childhood and insists on joining him in a murder investigation of outspoken antiroyalists in the final years of Queen Victoria's reign.
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Name: Kate Cassidy. Location: London. Sexual experience: none. Kate's virginity is not something billionaire Theo Knox ever wanted to know about. He swore to protect her after her brother's death, but when he sees Kate's dating profile all he can think about is how much he's tempted to unravel her! Kate is mortified when Theo discovers her secret. Yet she can't resist his tantalising offer to introduce her to pleasure beyond her wildest imagination!...
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"She came for a job. What she'll get is the performance of a lifetime. Aspiring playwright Winnie D'Angelo has spent the past seven years waiting in the wings, working as a personal assistant to celebrated, feminist playwright, Juliette Brassard. But when an experimental theatre company in London, England decides to stage Juliette's most renowned play, accompanying her mentor across the pond could finally be Winnie's moment in the spotlight -- assuming...
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