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In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances...
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Commissario Brunetti delves into the shadows of a Venetian family’s past in this “gripping intellectual mystery” in the New York Times–bestselling series (Publishers Weekly).
In A Noble Radiance, a new landowner is summoned urgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentally unearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, but a ring found nearby proves...
In A Noble Radiance, a new landowner is summoned urgently to his house not far from Venice when workmen accidentally unearth a macabre grave. The human corpse is badly decomposed, but a ring found nearby proves...
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Hagenheim volume 5
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Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Margaretha hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, will be her one true love, but when an injured man's brought to Hagenheim Castle claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook, she's drawn into a plot, not knowing who's telling the truth.
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Lost Lords volume 1
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English
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Battered by the sea, Adam remembers nothing of his past, his ducal rank, nor the shipwreck that almost claimed his life. However, he's delighted to hear that the golden-haired vision tending his wounds in his wife. Mariah's name and face may be familiar, but her touch, her warmth, feel deliciously right. When Mariah Clarke prayed for a way to deter a bullying suitor, she didn't imagine she'd find the answer washed ashore on a desolate beach. Convincing...
5) Crier's war
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Crier's war volume 1
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English
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"After the War of Kinds ravaged the kingdom of Rabu, the Automae, designed to be the playthings of royals, took over the estates of their owners and bent the human race to their will. Now Ayla, a human servant rising in the ranks at the house of the sovereign, dreams of avenging the death of her family...by killing the sovereign's daughter, Lady Crier. Crier, who was Made to be beautiful, to be flawless. And to take over the work of her father. Crier...
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Lost Lords volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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He's a bastard and a gambler and society's favorite reprobate. But to Lady Kiri Lawford he's a hero -- braver than the smugglers whom he rescues her from, more honorable than any lord she's ever met, and far more attractive than any man has a right to be. How can she not fall in love? But Damian Mackenzie has secrets that leave no room in his life for courting high-born young ladies -- especially not the sister of one of his oldest friends. Yet when...
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2013
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English
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1943: Tucked away in the idyllic hills south of Florence, the Rosatis, an Italian family of noble lineage, believe that the walls of their ancient villa will keep them safe from the war raging across Europe. Eighteen-year-old Cristina spends her days swimming in the pool, playing with her young niece and nephew, and wandering aimlessly amid the estate's gardens and olive groves. But when two soldiers, a German and an Italian, arrive at the villa asking...
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Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. At eighteen she is her father’s closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father...
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Veronica Speedwell novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Lured by the promise of a rare and elusive butterfly, the intrepid Veronica Speedwell is persuaded by Lord Templeton-Vane, the brother of her colleague Stoker, to pose as his fianc�ee at a house party on a Cornish isle owned by his oldest friend, Malcolm Romilly. But Veronica soon learns that one question hangs over the party: What happened to Rosamund? Three years ago, Malcolm Romilly's bride vanished on their wedding day, and no trace of her...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague Stoker are asked by Lady Wellingtonia Beauclerk to help with a potential scandal so explosive it threatens to rock the monarchy. Prince Albert Victor is a regular visitor to the most exclusive private club in London, known as the Club de l'Etoile, and the proprietess, Madame Aurore, has received an expensive gift that can be traced back to the prince. Lady Wellie would like Veronica and Stoker...
11) Swann's way
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Viking
Pub. Date
2003
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xxiii, 468 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The narrator interrupts reminiscences about his childhood spent in late-nineteenth-century France to recall the affair which a friend of the family carries on with young Odette de Crecy.
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Lost Lords volume 2
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English
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As the sole remaining heir to the Earl of Daventry, Alexander Randall knows his duty: find a wife and sire a son of his own. The perfect bride for a man in his position would be a biddable young girl of good breeding. But the woman who haunts his imagination is Julia Bancroft -- a village midwife with a dark secret that thrusts her into Randall's protection. Within the space of a day, Julia has been abducted by her first husband's cronies, rescued,...
13) Echo in amethyst
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Uncommon echoes volume 3
Publisher
Ethan Ellenburg Literary Agency
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 392 pages : map ; 23 cm.
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English
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Lady Elyssa despises her echoes, the creatures who look just like her and copy her every move, but her casual cruelty has brought one of the echoes to life. This echo, Hope, has witnessed Elyssa's secret meetings with revolutionaries bent on starting a war and overthrowing the king. And Hope has friends in high places.
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Lost Lords volume 4
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English
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Grey Sommers, Lord Wyndham, never met a predicament he couldn't charm his way out of. Then a tryst with a government official's wife during a bit of casual espionage in France condemns him to a decade in a dungeon, leaving him a shadow of his former self. Yet his greatest challenge may be the enigmatic spy sent to free his body -- the only woman who might heal his soul. Cassie Fox lost everything in the chaos of revolution, leaving only a determination...
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Mitford murders volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"A timeless murder mystery with the fascinating, glamorous Mitford sisters at its heart, The Mitford Trial is the fourth installment in the Mitford Murders series from Jessica Fellowes, inspired by a real-life murder in a story full of intrigue, affairs and betrayal."--
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Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
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404 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"In Dune: The Heir of Caladan, the climactic novel in the Caladan trilogy by New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, we step into the shoes of Paul Atreides. A not yet a man in years, he is about to enter a world he could never have imagined. The story that began with Duke Leto Atreides's rise to power, then continued with the consequences of Lady Jessica's betrayal, will now conclude with Paul becoming the leader that...
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Mitford murders volume 5
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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400, [3] pages ; 25 cm.
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English
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"War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid Louisa Cannon is now a private detective, working with her policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look into the disappearance of her Communist sister Jessica in Spain. But one case...
18) Everless
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Everless volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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New York Times bestseller!
"Sara Holland is a fierce storyteller. Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time." —Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of Caraval
In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency—extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor
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Dune volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
16 audio discs (19 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This is the story of Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atredies. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit.
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Series
Dune Caladan trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
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12 audio discs (15 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Leto Atreides serves the Golden Lion Throne. Where others scheme, the Duke of Caladan acts. But Leto's enemies are starting to feel that he is rising beyond his station, and House Atreides rises too high.
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