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In a London hospital, Prudence Barrymore, a talented nurse who had once been the one of Florence Nightingale's angels of mercy in the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate this horrific crime--which intuition tells him was no random stroke of violence by a madman. Greatly helped by his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale's nurses, and barrister...
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"A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK • An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in asking: how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world of never-ending options? ("A time-bending gem"—Gabrielle Zevin; "Kaleidoscopic and bright and very, very funny." –Claire Lombardo) When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem—she's not married. She's never seen this...
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2024]
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English
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"A London season is the chance of a lifetime for Catherine Keating. But the ton’s glitter and decadence and casual cruelty threaten to crush her hopes of finding a husband before her season even begins...until she accidentally acquires one of the most scandalous men in England as a secret chaperone. Famously fiery Lord Dominic Kirke can hold the House of Commons—and any woman he chooses— in thrall. But when his house goes up in flames in the...
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Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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[2024]
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English
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To save her sister from scandal and ignite her own forbidden musical passions, a shy wallflower stages a shocking kiss with a reluctant composer, sparking a game of hearts and high society deception.
5) The switch
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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While housesitting in their dream neighborhood, young couple Elena and Adam are drawn into the orbit of beautiful artist Sophia and her husband, Finn, and when Sophia proposes to swap partners in secret, Elena experiences a sexual awakening that blossoms into an illicit—and dangerous—love affair.
"Two couples. One twisted game of love and sex. A dark domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister......
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Doves of New York volume 1
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Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"New to wealth and to London high society, American heiress Cora Dove discovers that with the right man, marriage might not be such an inconvenience after all. . . . Cora Dove and her sisters' questionable legitimacy has been the lifelong subject of New York's gossipmongers and a continual stain on their father's reputation. So when the girls each receive a generous, guilt-induced dowry from their dying grandmother, the sly Mr. Hathaway vows to release...
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Simon and Schuster
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2024.
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English
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"In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--
"A young woman searches for the truth about her sister, who boarded a ship headed to the frozen Arctic and never returned. "Lizzie Pook is a master of suspense. The story...
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2024.
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"Victorian socialite Clara Stanton strives to protect her eccentric family's reputation, but that proves to be difficult when her grandfather takes off on a flight of fancy. Thrown together with vagabond tinker Theodore Kingsley, Clara sets off to followher grandfather's whimsical adventure and finds love along the way"--
"Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, England, 1860 When Clara's ex-fiancé...
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"Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List. In a small pocket of London, between the houses of No.77 and No.79 Eastbourne Road, lies a neglected community garden. It was a beautiful thing once, a little oasis in a bustling city for neighbors by day and the local foxes at twilight. Now it's overgrown and neglected, an empty...
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Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
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[2024]
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English
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''When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens’ Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively...
11) Jaded
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Simon and Schuster
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2024.
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English
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''Successful lawyer. Dutiful daughter. Beloved girlfriend. Loyal friend. Until Jade wakes up the morning after a work event, naked and alone, with no idea how she got home. Caught between her parents who can't understand, her boyfriend who feels betrayed, and her job that expects silence, the world Jade has constructed starts to crumble. Jade thought she was everything she ever wanted to be. But now she feels like nothing at all. For fans of Queenie...
12) Fervor: a novel
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A close-knit Jewish family in London is pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch.
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Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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''A witty, feminist mystery set in the heart of nineteenth-century London, this daring adventure featuring an intrepid woman detective will thrill fans of Deanna Raybourn and Katharine Schellman. London, 1894. Albertine Honeycombe never wanted a husband and certainly not the one with fifteen children that her cousin, Aubrey, is trying to marry her off to. She reinvents herself as Countess Von Dagga, a private detective aiding the upper echelons of...
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Soho Crime
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[2024]
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English
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"For fans of Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films, this stunning, swashbuckling series opener by a powerhouse duo of authors is at once comfortingly familiar and tantalizingly new. Two unlikely allies race through the cobbled streets of 1920s London in search of a killer targeting Chinese immigrants. London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases...
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Graydon House
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[2024]
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English
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''Anuri Chinasa has had enough. And really, who can blame her? She was the unwilling star of her stepmother’s social media empire before "momfluencers" were even a thing. For years, Ophelia documented every birthday, every skinned knee, every milestone and meltdown for millions of strangers to fawn over and pick apart. Now, at twenty-five, Anuri is desperate to put her way-too-public past behind her and start living on her own terms. But it’s...
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Forever
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2024.
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English
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"Fleeing through the streets of London in a gown meant for her betrothal ball is not Lady Charlotte Lovett's finest decision. Seeking shelter at her estranged cousin's coffeeshop, however, turns out to be utterly inspired. Soon Charlotte has brewed up a plan to help create a secret backroom where women can sip coffee and debate on equal terms with men. It's also the perfect way to escape her arranged engagement. Not only will it provide income for...
17) The duchess
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Scandalous ladies of London volume 2
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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''The thrilling second book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan's amazing new high concept series, The Scandalous Ladies of London, which chronicles the lives of a group of affluent ladies reigning over glittering, Regency-era London, vying for position in the hierarchy of the ton. They are the young wives, widows, and daughters of London's wealthiest families. The drama is big, the money runs deep, and the shade is real. Life is different...
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Anya Marleigh is a singer and sitar player in Queen Charlotte's court. She is left a fortune by Dowager Countess Budleigh, one of her elderly clients who used to hire her for musical evenings. But there is a condition attached. Anya must marry before her next birthday if she wants to see any of the fortune. The executor of the will is an insufferably conceited man who must consent to her marriage—if he doesn't give his consent, the fortune reverts...
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