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  Fever 1793

  by Laurie Halse Anderson

  During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But then the fever breaks out. Disease sweeps the streets, destroying everything in its path and turning Mattie's world upside down. At her feverish mother's insistence,... (more)
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  The Convenient Marriage

  by Georgette Heyer

  When the most eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended.
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  Devil's Cub

  by Georgette Heyer

  Intelligent, practical Mary Challoner knew wicked Dominic Alastair, Marquis of Vidal, wouldn't marry her sister, despite her mother's matchmaking schemes. So Mary coolly prepared to protect her sister by deceiving Vidal. But she certainly hadn't expected the infuriated nobleman to kidnap her! Reluctantly awakening to his responsibility—and realizing just how serious Mary was about her virtue—Vidal proposed... (more)
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  Wild Conquest

  by Hannah Howell

  Hoping to spare her family shame, spirited Pleasance Dunstan sneaks into Tearlach O'Duine's room to retrieve scandalous love letters, but when she is caught red-handed, she is forced to become his servant.