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Left hand, right hand!
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Osbert Sitwell |
Volume 1 of Sitwell's autobiography, who grew up among the aristocracy in the early years of the 20th century.
"I should like to emphasize that I want my memories to be old-fashioned and extravaga… |
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The passing bells
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Phillip Rock |
The guns of August are rumbling throughout Europe in the summer of 1914, but war has not yet touched Abingdon Pryory. Here, at the grand home of the Greville family, the parties, dances, and romances… |
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The American Heiress
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Daisy Goodwin |
"Be careful what you wish for. Traveling abroad with her mother at the turn of the twentieth century to seek a titled husband, beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs t… |
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The princes
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Malgonkar, Manohar |
this book describes the changing mind set of indians before and after independece
emergence of new politicians and fading of kingdoms ..... |
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My Irresistible Earl - Inferno Club #3
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Gaelen Foley |
"The Inferno Club: In public, this scandalous society of London aristocrats is notorious for pursuing all manner of debauchery. But in private, they are warriors who would do anything to protect king… |
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Suspicion
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Alexandra Monir |
Seventeen-year-old Imogene Rockford turned away from her family and their English country manor after her parents' death, but assumes her duty as the new Duchess of Wickersham despite threats and str… |
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Castaway Hearts
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Nancy Butler |
Forced to take Miss Lydia Peartree, a frivolous socialite, on a voyage meant for his students, Captain Matthew Frobisher, who trains young men in the ways of espionage, revises his opinon of Lydia wh… |
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Keeper of the Swans
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Nancy Butler |
Diana runs away from her betrothal ball and ends up marooned on an island in the middle of the Thames. There she is saved by a mysterious man whose life is devoted to caring for the orphaned cygnets … |
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