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Set in the Georgian period, about 20 years before the Regency, These Old Shades is considered to be the book that launched Heyer's career. It features two of her most memorable characters: Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, and L�eonie, whom he rescues from a life of ignominy and comes to love and marry.
2) Royal escape
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Georgette Heyer's vivid account of the young Charles II's escape after the crushing defeat of his army at the Battle of Worcester. Evoking the excitement and drama of the times, the narrative follows the outlaw King through Cromwell's England to eventual safety.
3) Charity girl
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A young and lovely runaway alone on the road to London Miss Charity Steane is running away from the drudgery of her aunt's household to find her grandfather. Not expecting her visit, the old gentleman is not in London but is away in the country. A scandal broth in the making When Viscount Desford encounters a lovely waif searching for her grandfather, he feels honor bound to assist her; but dashing about the countryside together, the Viscount must...
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Can an English lady raised as a "wild orchid" ever be truly tamed? When Trevor Mandeville leaves behind the drawing rooms of London and journeys to an island paradise in search of a rare orchid, he comes face-to-face with an even more shocking treasure. Stolen from her family at a young age, Joya Penn has spent most of her life running wild and free. Trevor tries to resist her charms, but soon finds himself captivated by the deliciously innocent--yet...
5) Heat wave
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California private investigator Kat Vargas lives a lonely life of danger with a painful past. Desperate for a rest, she heads to Twilight Cove, a tiny beach town. After learning that he fathered a baby in high school, Ty Chandler is eager to find her. He hears about the P.I. in his neighborhood and hires her to find his now nineteen-year-old daughter. Joining forces to hunt for the girl, they begin to fall in love. But Kat knows better than to give...
6) Venetia
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Beautiful, capable, and independent minded, Venetia Lanyon's life on her family's estate in the country side is somewhat restricted. But her neighbor, the infamous Lord Damerel, a charming rake shunned by polite society, is about to shake things up.
Lord Damerel has built his life on his dangerous reputation, and when he meets Venetia, he has nothing to offer and everything to regret. Though his scandalous past and deepest secrets give Venetia reason...
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"Hazel Wilmot calls Amanda Vickers, her former student and the editor of Roaming New England Magazine, with a story idea about a haunted New Hampshire inn. Amanda is intrigued, but before she can get there Hazel dies suspiciously in a fall while exploring the abandoned inn. Amanda decides to investigate. Accompanied by her young associate editor, Marcie Ducasse, Amanda travels to Shadsborough, and discovers that neither Hazel's death nor the stories...
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2008
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Medieval history professor Dotsy Lamb and her friend Lettie Osgood participate in an archaeological dig in Scotland, but their focus turns to sleuthing when a college student at the dig is found murdered and the head of the project dies under mysterious circumstances.
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A missing twin Something is very wrong, and the Honourable Christopher "Kit" Fancot can sense it. Kit returns to London on leave from the diplomatic service to find that his twin brother Evelyn has disappeared and his extravagant mother's debts have mounted alarmingly. A quick-minded heiress The Fancot family's fortunes are riding on Evelyn's marriage to the self-possessed Cressy Stavely, and her formidable grandmother's approval of the match. If...
10) Talk of the town
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Mandalay Florentino, arriving in Daily, Texas, to arrange a surprise "reunion concert" for "American Superstars" finalist Amber Anderson, learns that Amber has disappeared with a "bad boy" actor, and as a result, discovers the talent of Imagene Doll.
11) Betrayed
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"Lacey Fowler is distraught when her father and stepmother are killed in a car accident while traveling home to Mooresville, North Carolina from Daytona International Speedway. Her anxiety is heightened when champion stock car driver and playboy Reese Mitchell inherits part of her father's prestigious team, Southern Racing. While snooping through company files, she discovers a shortage in the company payroll. And when she finds photos of the fatal...
12) The Corinthian
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Penelope Creed will do anything to avoid marrying her repulsive cousin. Dressed in boy's clothing, she's fleeing from London when discovered by Sir Richard Wyndham, himself on the verge of the most momentous decision of his life. When Sir Richard encounters the lovely young fugitive, he knows he can't allow her to travel to the countryside all alone, so he offers himself as her protector. As it happens, at that moment Sir Richard could use an escape...
13) Cousin Kate
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In Regency England, penniless Kate Malvern is swept to her aunt's Elizabethan manor and showered with comforts. But despite the luxury of her new life, the atmosphere in the household is less than homely, and gradually it dawns on Kate that there are sinister reasons for her aunt's benevolence.
14) Dead pan
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Cake decorator Daphne Martin once again finds herself and her cakes at the center of a murder mystery. Half the town gets sick following a cake event, but for poor Fred Duncan, a bout with potential food poisoning quickly turns fatal. Now it's up to Daphne to sort through the likely suspects and figure out who frosted Fred. Book Two of Gayle Trent's cozy mystery series about a Virginia baker turned mystery sleuth.
15) Frame work
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2009
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When college teacher Sarah Brandau is invited to a literary conference in Prague, she persuades her grandmother, Edith, who raised her when her parents died, to travel from Manhattan for a reunion in the fabled city. Browsing in an antique shop, Edith is attracted to a picture with an ornate frame. But when they return to the hotel, Sarah and Edith discover they got more than they bargained for - and are in more danger than they ever could have imagined....
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Faith, Love, Family, and Courage.
On the southern frontier in 1827, newlyweds Lavinia and Thomas Jones moved into a cabin in the vast pine forests of South Georgia. Over the decades to come, their magnificent home, Greenwood, rose among the pines, and their family grew and prospered. But their faith, love, and future were tested by the joys and sorrows of a turbulent era, including the war that nearly destroyed their beloved homeland.
In the authentic...
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A routine cake delivery becomes a culinary nightmare when a small-town baker discovers her first client's dead body in this irresistible new mystery series.
It'll take more than a little sugar to convince folks Daphne Martin's freshly baked spice cake was not to blame for the mysterious death of town gossip Yodel Watson. Getting her new cake decorating business, Daphne's Delectable Cakes, off the ground is hard enough now that Daphne's moved back...
18) Newport summer
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In the late 1880s the Earl of Camberly crosses the Atlantic to Newport, Rhode Island, hoping to trade his title for an American heiress's wealth. Audrey St. Clair knows what she wants and it's not an English Earl. She offers to guide him in some investments that will save his family finances, if, in return, he will help her thwart her parents' matchmaking efforts.
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In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.