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Good Housekeeping Book Club
Lessons in Chemistry Read-alikes
Strong Female Characters
Good Housekeeping Book Club
Lessons in Chemistry Read-alikes
Strong Female Characters
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"From the bestselling author of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir comes a new World War II-set story of four women on the home front competing for a spot hosting a BBC wartime cookery program and a chance to better their lives. Two years into World War II, Britain is feeling her losses; the Nazis have won battles, the Blitz has destroyed cities, and U-boats have cut off the supply of food. In an effort to help housewives with food rationing, a BBC radio...
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"In London, 1939, Ada Vaughan is a young woman with an unusual dressmaking skill, and dreams of a better life for herself. That life seems to arrive when Stanislaus, an Austrian aristocrat, sweeps Ada off her feet and brings her to Paris. When war breaks out, Stanislaus vanishes, and Ada is taken prisoner by the Germans, she must do everything she can to survive: by becoming dressmaker to the Nazi wives. Abandoned and alone as war rages, the choices...
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Frederica Potter series volume 4
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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English
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The Woman in White (1859-60) is the first and greatest "Sensation Novel." Walter Hartright's mysterious midnight encounter with the woman in white draws him into a vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue. This new critical edition is the first to use the original manuscript of the novel. John Sutherland examines Collins's contribution to Victorian fiction, traces his practices as a creator of plot, and provides a chronology...
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Harte Family volume 5
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Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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A novel of family secrets, dangerous promises, and the unshakeable bond between sisters.
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
℗2015.
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English
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"In Victorian-era northern England, Charlotte Withersby, daughter of a prominent botanist, attempts to regain her role as his assistant, despite society's expectations and the presence of Edward Trimble, her father's new assistant"--
35) The country life
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Picador USA
Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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Stella Benson answers a classified ad for an au pair girl, and arrives in a tiny Sussex village. What could possibly have driven her to leave her home, job, and life in London for such a rural life? Why has she severed all contact with her parents?
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Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When a fly-by-night party girl disappears from a bar in Cornwell, her best friend, Natalie, refuses to believe that the missing woman has simply left of her own accord, a situation that is complicated by an older alcoholic's struggles to remember something he may have witnessed.
38) Enchanted
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Medieval trilogy (Elizabeth Lowell) volume 3
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Determined to bring peace to their disputing lands and avoid the weaknesses of love, warrior Simon the Loyal enters into a marriage of convenience with Ariane, a Norman heiress whose past experiences allow her no desire for men.
39) The fever tree
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
South Africa, 1880. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her father's sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men, leading her into the dark heart of the diamond mines. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating consequences.
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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The road to matrimony is fraught with difficulties and even when Lydia Bennet is convinced that she has met the man of her dreams, complications arise. When Lydia is reunited with the Bennets, Bingleys, and Darcys for a grand ball at Netherfield Park, the shocking truth about her husband may just cause the greatest scandal of all.
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