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  The Boy Series: Book 3

  Every Boy's Got One

  by Meg Cabot

  To: Jane Harris Fr: Claire Harris Re: You Hi, honey! It's me, Mom. I know it's a big secret that your friend Holly and her boyfriend Mark are eloping in Italy, and that you and Mark's friend Cal Langdon (the handsome New York Journal reporter with the big book deal) are going, too, as their witnesses. But I just saw Holly's mother at the Kroger Sav-On, and I thought I'd warn you: She doesn't seem to like... (more)
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  Tulip Fever

  by Deborah Moggach

  In Tulip Fever , acclaimed author Deborah Moggach has created that rarest of novels--a literary tour de force that is also brilliantly, compulsively readable. Not since Patrick Suskind's Perfume has a work of fiction so vividly evoked a time, a place, and a passion. In 1630s Amsterdam, tulip fever has seized the populace. Everywhere men are seduced by the fantastic exotic flower. But for wealthy merchant... (more)
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  Pride and Prejudice

  by Jane Austen

  The proud and wealthy Mr. Darcy and spirited Elizabeth Bennet dislike each other at first sight. While Elizabeth's mother schemes for suitable husbands for her five daughters, his pride and her prejudice just might keep them apart. At the same time, Elizabeth's sister, Jane, and Mr. Bingley dance.
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  Abduction/Seduction Trilogy: Book 1

  The Abduction of Julia

  by Karen Hawkins

  What can a respectable Regency miss do when kidnapped by a nobleman intent on marriage? Why, marry him, of course. Julia Frant has secretly loved Alec MacLean, the wild Viscount Hunterston from afar. So when he accidentally snatches her instead of her lovely, scheming cousin for an elopement to Gretna Green, Julia leaps at the chance to make her passionate dreams come true. Alec's in no position to quibble: if he... (more)
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  The MacLaughlins: Book 1

  Anna and the Duke

  by Kathryn Smith

  Anna At the very least, anyone else in Anna Welsley's position would be satisfied. Anna is to inherit a fortune, and after a glittering London debut last Season, she is now engaged to a duke's son. Anna herself does not understand the vague feeling of dissatisfaction. While her mother industriously plans Anna's wedding, Anna herself reads poetry and wonders if what she's in is love or just an arrangement. The Duke... (more)
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  Aristocrats

  Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832

  by Stella Tillyard

  A rich social history of the 18th century that accompanies the PBS series, here is the story of four sisters — daughters of the Second Duke and Duchess of Richmond lived in magnificence as mistresses of some of the most splendid houses in England and Ireland through turbulent times, from the Jacobite Rebellion to the French Revolution. Photographs reveal the spectacular treasure trove of houses, furniture, objects... (more)
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  The Salt Letters: A Novel

  by Christine Balint

  The sensuous evocation of a young woman's sea journey from refined England to the wilds of Australia. It is 1854, and with the certainty of land behind her, Sarah flees her home for the uncertainties of life in the new colony. In steerage, she joins the other unmarried women, where the horrors of their close confinement bring an unraveling of secrets no one can control. Sarah endures, longing for her mother's... (more)
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  Pride and Prejudice (A SmartPass Audio Study Guide)

  by Jane Austen

  "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick , "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in literature. And certainly what Melville did for whaling Austen does for marriage--tracing the intricacies (not to mention the... (more)
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  Fast Track: Book 4

  The Chase

  by Erin McCarthy

  When racing for the checkered flag…Kendall Holbrook is determined to make it to the top—even with the challenge of being a woman in the male-dominated racing circuit. She doesn’t have time for romance, especially not with racing rival Evan Monroe—the man who nearly crushed her dream years ago. Tricked into meeting up with him, Kendall is experiencing all those old feelings again—and she can’t deny that... (more)