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A fading English finishing school is about to get a twenty-first-century makeover thanks to business-savvy Betsy Phillimore. But Betsy may have bitten off more than she can chew for she must first win over the school's snobby headmistress and its handsome but risk-averse treasurer. Returning to London also means facing her own unfinished business, as she crosses paths with her sexy girlhood crush ... and blowing the dust off clues to a lifelong mystery:...
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"In this haunting debut novel, a young woman, recently returned to London after ten years away, finds herself slipping back into her childhood and ultimately must solve the mysteries of her dysfunctional family, grief and death, love, and her very ideas of self and place in the world"--
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The continuing story of a street urchin being groomed as a lady in an alternate Regency England. She is Kim who has fallen in love with her guardian, the magician Richard Merrill, and she is about to impress him with her street smarts when his house is burgled.
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"All Betsey Dobson has ever asked is the chance to be viewed on her own merits. But in a man's world, that is the unforgivable sin. Now Betsey disembarks from the London train in the seaside resort of Idensea with only a small valise and a canary in a cage. After attempting to forge a letter of reference, Betsey was fired. Her vigorous protest left one man wounded, another jilted, and her character besmirched. But her life is about to change ... because...
5) Park Lane
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2012.
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"When eighteen-year-old Grace Campbell arrives in London in 1914, she's unable to fulfill her family's ambitions and find a position as an office secretary. Lying to her parents and her brother, Michael, she takes a job as a housemaid at Number 35, Park Lane, where she is quickly caught up in lives of its inhabitants-- in particular, those of its privileged son, Edward, and daughter, Beatrice, who is recovering from a failed relationship that would...
7) Maame
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""An utterly charming and deeply moving portrait of the joys--and the guilt--of trying to find your own way in life." --Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Meeting Maame feels like falling in love for the first time: warm, awkward, joyous, a little bit heartbreaking and, most of all, unforgettable." --Xochitl Gonzalez, New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi but in my case, it means...
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2012
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When an unexpected turn of events pushes Leopold William Victor Wolfsburg of Nirona closer to the throne, the Wolfsburgs decide to step up Amy's transformation from down-to-earth gardener to perfectly polished princess-in-waiting. Amy would do anything for Leo, but is finding her Prince Charming worth the price of losing herself?
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Darcy volume 03
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Cassandra Darcy, disowned by her family, struggles to support herself by working as a painter in bohemian London, an effort that is challenged by the unwanted advances of Lord Usborne and a cache of compromising letters written by the queen.
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When Phoebe, Mr. Darcy's niece, is shattered by an unhappy romance, she retreats to Pemberley and is joined by kind-hearted Louisa Bingley and several handsome strangers--all hopeful of winning the girls' hearts. Mischief and love triangles abound, making life as difficult as possible for anyone connected with the Darcy family.
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c2007
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When she embarks on a love affair with a man she believes to be Lord Byron, passionate and bookish Eliza Esmond is startled to learn about her paramour's true identity as the look-alike author of a successful book believed to have been written by Byron.
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