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By Stephanie Laurens. 2018
Felicia Throgmorton is desperate to hold together what's left of the family estate. For decades, her father was consumed by…
his inventions and now, months after his death, their finances are in ruins. Aloof and untouchable, Lord Randolph Cavanaugh is a respected and driven entrepreneur, but he yearns for more in life. Could it be that his latest investment--an invention on which he's staked his reputation--holds the key not only to his future financial success but to his heart as well? 2018.By Tessa Dare. 2017
Since his return from war, the Duke of Ashbury's to-do list has been short and anything but sweet: brooding, glowering,…
menacing London ne'er-do-wells by night. Now there's a new item on the list. He needs an heir--which means he needs a wife. When Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress, appears in his library wearing a wedding gown, he decides on the spot that she'll do. But Emma is no pushover. She has a few rules of her own. Bestseller. 2017.By Margaret Drabble. 2017
Francesca Stubbs holds our hand as we take a walk through old age and death. Fran brings us to drinks…
with her dear friends, dropping off mouth-watering suppers for Claude, her ex-husband, warm and cosy in his infirmity. She visits her daughter, Poppet, holed up as the waters rise in a sodden West Country, and texts her son Christopher in Lanzarote, as he deals with the estate of his shockingly deceased girlfriend. The questions of what constitutes a good death and how we understand it preoccupy this glittering novel. 2017.By Stephanie Laurens. 2016
To prove his worth, Caleb Frobisher, hedonistic son of a seafaring dynasty, joins a covert mission his brothers have been…
pursuing at Freetown, where he helps complete the mission's next stage. He stays on to rescue captives--among whom is Katherine Fortescue, and thus is a daredevil snared. Sequel to "A buccaneer at heart", followed by "Lord of the Privateers". 2016.By Elena Ferrante. 2015
The gripping story of a woman's descent into devastating emptiness after being abandoned by her husband, with two young children…
to care for. When she finds herself literally trapped within the four walls of their high-rise apartment, she is forced to confront her ghosts, the potential loss of her own identity, and the possibility that life may never return to normal. 2015. Uniform title: Giorni dell'abbandono.By Georgie Lee. 2015
To save his family legacy, Rafe Densmore must seize a courtesan's infamous register. No one can ever know how his…
father betrayed his country! One person stands in Rafe's way--the beautiful Cornelia, Comtesse de Vane. In the card rooms of Paris, Rafe and Cornelia made an unbeatable, intimate team. Until, convinced of Rafe's desertion, desperate Cornelia married an elderly comte. Now, returning to London an impoverished widow, she'll do anything to possess the register. Even if that means becoming Rafe's partner once again. 2015.By Julia London. 2014
Once the toast of society, Grace Cabot and her sisters now await the shame of losing high status and fine…
luxuries upon the death of the Earl of Beckington. The dire circumstances are inevitable unless, of course, Grace's wicked plot to seduce a wealthy viscount into marriage goes off without a single hitch. 2014.By Ethan Canin. 2016
Milo Andret, the genius who solved the Malosz Conjecture and won the Fields Medal for mathematics, had an unusual, even…
eerie mind from birth, but not until he moves to Berkeley in the 1970s to pursue a ph. D. does he realize the extent of his singular talents. From the drug-soaked enclaves of beatnik California to the verdant lawns of Princeton University, from turbo-charged Wall Street to the quiet woods of Michigan, his reputation as one of the century's most brilliant thinkers forms the backbone of a sweeping, epic story about family, love, passion, and Milo's fraught relationship with his son. Bestseller. 2016.By Jean Hanff Korelitz. 2017
The first woman president of an elite progressive college responds to student protests about a popular professor's tenure denial before…
the group's controversial leader emerges and shocking acts of vandalism begin to destabilize the campus. 2017.By Thomas Pynchon. 2005
Quite unexpectedly, Mrs. Oedipa Maas finds herself the executor of the estate of Pierce Inverarity, a man she used to…
know in a more-or-less intimate fashion. Oedipa leaves her home and her husband and heads to Southern California to sort through Pierce's affairs. Pierce, however, did not intend for the job to be an easy one for Oedipa, and soon she becomes ensnared in a surreal, hilarious, and puzzling world-wide conspiracy centred around Pierce's strange business partners and dealings. 2005.By Isabel Huggan. 1984
A series of stories linked by a girl growing up in a small town. In "Jack of hearts", Elizabeth is…
cast in a male role for a ballet recital, and in "Sorrows of the flesh", a crush on the science teacher turns sour when he is exposed as a wife beater. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1984.By Gillian Bradshaw. 2006
Alison Greenall's father walked out when she was a baby, and eighteen years later, she suddenly receives an invitation to…
the lab of her father's successful biotech company. Upon arriving, Alison learns that it has been broken into by pro-life activists who oppose stem-cell research. The activists also stole a mysterious anti-aging serum, leading Alison to wonder what her father is really up to. Some strong language. 2006.By Kerri Sakamoto. 1998
By Frederick Drimmer. 1985
By Adam Williams. 2005
Catherine Cabot arrives in China, trying to uncover the truth of her past. Against an uneasy political background, a love…
triangle develops between Catherine and Edmund and George Airton. As the Japanese mass themselves on the borders, waiting for an excuse to invade, Catherine unwittingly becomes the perfect tool to settle the scores of two men who will stop at nothing to wreak their revenge. Some strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some descriptions of violence. c2005.By Bernardine Evaristo. 2001
Through the bustling city of Londinium we follow Zuleika - feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants made good. Married…
at the age of eleven to Felix, a rich Roman three times her age perpetually away on business, Zuleika drifts about his villa, bored, until one night several years later when Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor, newly arrived in town, spots her at the theatre... The story is told through a fusion of poetry and fiction, history and myth. Descriptions of sex. 2001.By Jeffrey Archer. 1998
Connor Fitzgerald has worked for the CIA for twenty-eight years, although his family thinks he works for Maryland Insurance. Now…
his boss, Helen Dexter, is out to destroy him. After Connor manages to eliminate a Colombian presidential candidate, he is sent to Russia--supposedly at the president's request--to assassinate a candidate there. But Connor is the one scheduled to die. 1998.By Jeannie Lin. 2012
Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty. She lives quietly alone until the most ruthless warlord in…
the region steals her away, intent on uncovering her mystery without falling under her spell. 2012.By Sarah Mallory. 2012
Lord Darrington is not a man to be welcomed into a house of unprotected women! Even in the wilds of…
Yorkshire, Beth Forrester has heard tales of the incorrigible rake that make her toes curl. When he finds out about the dark secret she will do anything to protect, there's only one way to buy his silence - with her body! 2012.By Alexander McCall Smith. 2011
Alexander McCall Smith brings his peerless wit to this second entry featuring a motley collection of residents in London's Pimlico…
neighbourhood. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his experiences hanging out with the Abominable Snowman. Terence Moongrove's residence has become the target of New Age cosmologists. And pint-sized terrier Freddie de la Hay is being recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring. 2011.