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From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle's popular Rhymes with Love series, comes And the Miss Ran Away with the Rake, a fast-paced, sensual historical romance.
Miss Daphne Dale isn't looking for love, but when she reads an advertisement looking for a "sensible lady," she can't resist. The tender dialogue with the mysterious "Mr. Dishforth" is a welcome respite from the time she must spend with Lord Henry Seldon, an infuriating rogue...
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This is not the India--or the man--that Sophie fell in love with ten years ago... Sophie never meant to come back to India, yet when her new, diplomat husband is posted to New Delhi and she steps once again onto the country's burning soil, she realizes her return was inevitable. As her ill-fated marriage begins to unravel, it sets in motion a devastating chain of events that will bring Sophie face to face with a past she's tried so desperately to...
83) Lady codebreaker
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"Washington, D.C., 1958: Grace Feldman is hiding a dangerous secret in her home - not to mention countless others in her head. Grace, a would-be Shakespeare scholar with no mathematical background, learns the art of codebreaking on the fly and becomes oneof the country's most potent secret weapons, decrypting intercepted messages during World War I, Prohibition and World War II. From her own father to her mad and mercurial first boss, from Army colonels...
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Driven by the desire to do good in the world, Hamou Badi, marked by djinns, becomes an officer of the law in Casablanca under the French Protectorate and is caught in the crossfire as the fight for Moroccan independence erupts, forcing him to choose between all he knows and all he loves.
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" 1912 London. Jessie Kenton hears her young brother, Georgie, scream in the middle of the night and wakes up the next morning to find him gone. Her parents never speak of him again. 1932. Twenty years later, Jessie is haunted by the same nightmare. Her other brother, Timothy, has inexplicably vanished from her parents' home. Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie, and convinced that the two events must be related, she sets out...
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Rhymes with love volume 4
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"As she arrives in Mayfair, Louisa Tempest is horrified when her incorrigible cat bolts from the carriage and dashes into a neighbor's house, where she comes face-to-face with the reclusive Viscount Wakefield. But even more dismaying than his foul temper is the disarray in which she finds his home. Convinced his demeanor would improve if his household were in order, Louisa resolves to put everything to rights. Much to his chagrin, Wakefield finds...
87) The Italian wife
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Russian Concubine returns with a stunning new novel set in Mussolini's Italy. Isabella Berotti is an architect, helping to create showpieces that will reflect the glory of her country's Fascist leaders. She is not a deeply political sort, but designing these buildings of grandiose beauty helps her forget about the pain she's felt since her husband was murdered years ago. One of her greatest accomplishments...
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A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most of them, including her husband. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have...