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A Country Miss A Country Miss Emily Hendrickson Charity Lonsbury was a poor country girl when she fell in love with the rich and sophisticated Marquess of Kenrick. With the help of her unconventional aunt, a rabbit named Roscoe and a hothouse of o… OL1000245W
The Dashing Miss Fairchild The Dashing Miss Fairchild Emily Hendrickson While traveling to Bath, Miss Clare Fairchild discovered a baby in her carriage, and determined to take the child with her. Her arrival with a baby caused disagreeable Bath gossip, but the intriguing… OL1000247W
Queen of the May Queen of the May Emily Hendrickson "Young Lady Samantha Mayne had no desire to be a proper young lady. Let her cousin Emma dress in fashionable gowns, attend glittering balls, and hunt a mate in the marriage mart. Samantha preferred t… OL1000277W
Born Of The Sun Born Of The Sun Joan Wolf The love story of Celtic princess Niniane and Saxon prince Ceawlin is the heart of the novel. When Ceawlin is forced into exile, he and Niniane find refuge with her people. Ceawlin, a gifted leader, … OL100043W
The Counterfeit Marriage The Counterfeit Marriage Joan Wolf Enchantingly beautiful Catherine Renwick had good cause to despise darkly handsome, insufferably arrogant James Pembroke, Earl of Allandale. It was this deplorable man who on a night of wild debauche… OL100044W
Love Unwilling Love Unwilling Shirl Henke The Californios #2 A riveting historical romance that captivates the reader from the first page, Love Unwilling is the story of two men--and the two women bound to them by destiny and passion--who m… OL1000546W
The Rebellious Ward The Rebellious Ward Joan Wolf Only a girl as captivating as Catriona Maclan could have overcome the scandal of her birth to shine as the most sought-after young lady of the London season. Only a girl as daring as Catriona would h… OL100054W
Southern Secrets Southern Secrets Marcia Martin Donna parker EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS. EVERY PASSION HAS A PRICE... Savannah King lived in the grandest mansion in Kingsport, and her family was the richest and most powerful. To Danny Sawyer, the housekeep… OL1000576W
South Of Paradise South Of Paradise Marcia Martin One woman, three identities, one devastating secret. Richard Adams is struck by Victoria Blackwood's beauty and charm the first time he sees her. But before he can act on the attraction, she disappea… OL1000578W
Last Highwayman, The Last Highwayman, The Katherine O'Neal Known for her shocking love affairs, Christina Wentworth-Gibbons, the celebrated mistress of the Crown Prince and an intimate of Oscar Wilde, meets her match in the Brighton Bandit. The Last Highway… OL1000600W
The dance The dance Christopher Pike The party was over. Alice McCoy was dead -- a depressed girl who'd taken a loaded gun to her head. At least that was what everyone thought. Everyone except Michael Olson. He knew it was no suicide. B… OL1000643W
The Party The Party Christopher Pike Several high school students, transferred to a new school when their old one closes, invite classmates, new and old, to a party. One of the girls is found dead. Was it suicide or murder? OL1000809W
Berserker Man Berserker Man Fred Saberhagen [Berserkers][1]: Relentless, remorseless, pity less, tireless, adaptive, cunning, self replicating, artificially intelligent, genocidal doomsday weapons of a long forgotten interstellar war between t… OL100120W
The passion according to G.H The passion according to G.H Clarice Lispector The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, … OL1002138W
Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas Machado de Assis "New translation of Machado's famous novel is for the most part faithful and readable. However, work has occasional odd errors and omissions, and fails to give sufficient attention to Machado's rhyth… OL1003017W
Dom Casmurro Dom Casmurro Margaret Jull Costa,Robin Patterson,Anne-Marie Quint,0,Machado de Assis,John A. Gledson,João Adolfo Hansen "At last, a new translation of Machado's masterpiece that is complete (unlike Scott-Buccleuch's 1992 version - see HLAS 54:5078 - which omitted key chapters) and highly readable. Gledson produces a m… OL1003040W
Quincas Borba Quincas Borba Bookmark Star Bookmark Star Publishing,Machado de Assis,Fernando Vaz "Updated translation of another Machado classic, with excellent accompanying essays, is a welcome addition to his work available in English. Rabassa provides a more informal, less strained tone than … OL1003079W
Il fu Mattia Pascal Il fu Mattia Pascal Luigi Pirandello English: The novel is about Mattia Pascal, who leaves home after one of the usual quarrels with his wife Romilda, and arrives in Monaco, where he wins thousands of pounds. So much money and a news s… OL100434W
Inversions Inversions Iain M. Banks In the winter palace, the King’s new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palac… OL100772W
The Business The Business Iain M. Banks Kate is a senior executive officer in a powerful and massively discreet transglobal organization. The character of The Business seems, even to her, to be vague to the point of invisibility. Her job i… OL100776W
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