Not Just Lovely Laura

Not Just Lovely Laura PDF Author: Jessica Spencer
Publisher: Gita V. Reddy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Laura has suitors offering for her but is secretly in love with the Duke of Wimberley. And then Laura learns a shocking truth about the duke—he is not the man he appears to be! To Anthony’s, Duke of Wimberley, utter shock, Lady Laura believe the worst about him! Growing up in the shadow of her parents’ estrangement, Laura has learnt to mask her feelings. She is also unused to company. Her father, though an earl, was a recluse. Now she must go to London during the Season where she will meet her mother - the mother she had pined for and resented in equal measure. Laura finds herself a success. She has suitors offering for her but is secretly in love with the Duke of Wimberley. She isn’t sure about his feelings. Does it even matter? The duke is most attentive to the beautiful widow, Lady Mannering. And then Laura learns a shocking truth about the duke. He is not the man he appears to be. Anthony, Duke of Wimberley is in London to find a wife for the second time. Seven years ago he had made a love match. He knows better now. He is looking for someone who will take charge of the duties of duchess and also be a mother to his daughter. His intention to guard his heart disappears as he comes to know Laura. Before he can proceed to court her, he becomes mired in perhaps the biggest Scandal of all time. To his utter shock, not only does Lady Laura believe the worst about him, she goes out of her way to thwart him!

Not Just Lovely Laura

Not Just Lovely Laura PDF Author: Jessica Spencer
Publisher: Gita V. Reddy
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Book Description
Laura has suitors offering for her but is secretly in love with the Duke of Wimberley. And then Laura learns a shocking truth about the duke—he is not the man he appears to be! To Anthony’s, Duke of Wimberley, utter shock, Lady Laura believe the worst about him! Growing up in the shadow of her parents’ estrangement, Laura has learnt to mask her feelings. She is also unused to company. Her father, though an earl, was a recluse. Now she must go to London during the Season where she will meet her mother - the mother she had pined for and resented in equal measure. Laura finds herself a success. She has suitors offering for her but is secretly in love with the Duke of Wimberley. She isn’t sure about his feelings. Does it even matter? The duke is most attentive to the beautiful widow, Lady Mannering. And then Laura learns a shocking truth about the duke. He is not the man he appears to be. Anthony, Duke of Wimberley is in London to find a wife for the second time. Seven years ago he had made a love match. He knows better now. He is looking for someone who will take charge of the duties of duchess and also be a mother to his daughter. His intention to guard his heart disappears as he comes to know Laura. Before he can proceed to court her, he becomes mired in perhaps the biggest Scandal of all time. To his utter shock, not only does Lady Laura believe the worst about him, she goes out of her way to thwart him!

Clean Regency Romance: Not Just Lovely Laura

Clean Regency Romance: Not Just Lovely Laura PDF Author: Jessica Spencer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781092692755
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Growing up in the shadow of her parents' estrangement, Laura has learnt to mask her feelings. She is also unused to company. Her father, though an earl, was a recluse. Now she must go to London during the Season where she will meet her mother - the mother she had pined for and resented in equal measure. Laura finds herself a success. She has suitors offering for her but is secretly in love with the Duke of Wimberley. She isn't sure about his feelings. Does it even matter? The duke is most attentive to the beautiful widow, Lady Mannering. And then Laura learns a shocking truth about the duke. He is not the man he appears to be. Anthony, Duke of Wimberley is in London to find a wife for the second time. Seven years ago he had made a love match. He knows better now. He is looking for someone who will take charge of the duties of duchess and also be a mother to his daughter. His intention to guard his heart disappears as he comes to know Laura. Before he can proceed to court her, he becomes mired in perhaps the biggest Scandal of all time. To his utter shock, not only does Lady Laura believe the worst about him, she goes out of her way to thwart him! Not Just Lovely Laura is Book 2 of the Sisters by Marriage Series. It follows the book, Not So Sweet Maria. The books can be read in any order and also independently.

The Poison Thread

The Poison Thread PDF Author: Laura Purcell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143134051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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"[An] uncanny Gothic mystery... Satisfying."—New York Times Book Review "A romping read with a deliciously dark conceit at its center... Reminded me of Alias Grace."—Kiran Millwood Hargrave From the author of The Silent Companions, a thrilling Victorian gothic horror story about a young seamstress who claims her needle and thread have the power to kill Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange idea: that it is possible to kill with a needle and thread--because Ruth attributes her crimes to a supernatural power inherent in her stitches. The story Ruth has to tell of her deadly creations—of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses—will shake Dorothea's belief in rationality, and the power of redemption. Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer? For fans of Shirley Jackson, The Poison Thread is a spine-tingling, sinister read about the evil that lurks behind the facade of innocence.

Death (The Four Horsemen Book 4)

Death (The Four Horsemen Book 4) PDF Author: Laura Thalassa
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781942662303
Category : Death
Languages : en
Pages : 502

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As the last horseman carries out his mission to wipe out humanity, he meets the one woman who is immune to his abilities in this long-awaited enemies-to-lovers romance.

Amber and Clay

Amber and Clay PDF Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 1536228141
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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The Newbery Medal–winning author of Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! gives readers a virtuoso performance in verse in this profoundly original epic pitched just right for fans of poetry, history, mythology, and fantasy. Welcome to ancient Greece as only genius storyteller Laura Amy Schlitz can conjure it. In a warlike land of wind and sunlight, “ringed by a restless sea,” live Rhaskos and Melisto, spiritual twins with little in common beyond the violent and mysterious forces that dictate their lives. A Thracian slave in a Greek household, Rhaskos is as common as clay, a stable boy worth less than a donkey, much less a horse. Wrenched from his mother at a tender age, he nurtures in secret, aided by Socrates, his passions for art and philosophy. Melisto is a spoiled aristocrat, a girl as precious as amber but willful and wild. She’ll marry and be tamed—the curse of all highborn girls—but risk her life for a season first to serve Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Bound by destiny, Melisto and Rhaskos—Amber and Clay—never meet in the flesh. By the time they do, one of them is a ghost. But the thin line between life and death is just one boundary their unlikely friendship crosses. It takes an army of snarky gods and fearsome goddesses, slaves and masters, mothers and philosophers to help shape their story into a gorgeously distilled, symphonic tour de force. Blending verse, prose, and illustrated archaeological “artifacts,” this is a tale that vividly transcends time, an indelible reminder of the power of language to illuminate the over- and underworlds of human history.

This Song Is (Not) For You

This Song Is (Not) For You PDF Author: Laura Nowlin
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492602914
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Ramona fell for Sam the moment she met him. It was like she had known him forever. He's one of the few constants in her life, and their friendship is just too important to risk for a kiss. Though she really wants to kiss him... Sam loves Ramona, but he would never expect her to feel the same way-she's too quirky and cool for someone like him. Still, they complement each other perfectly, both as best friends and as a band. Then they meet Tom. Tom makes music too, and he's the band's missing piece. The three quickly become inseparable. Except Ramona's falling in love with Tom. But she hasn't fallen out of love with Sam either. How can she be true to her feelings without breaking up the band? "Educators and librarians looking for fast-moving, interesting plots, in-depth characters, and meaningful themes need to add this one to their shelves."-VOYA praise for If He Had Been with Me

A Heart Adrift

A Heart Adrift PDF Author: Laura Frantz
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 1493434128
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she's never quite recovered. But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life. Captain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing the lighthouse in the dangerous Chesapeake Bay, a dream he once shared with Esmée. But when the colonial government asks him to lead a secret naval expedition against the French, his future is plunged into uncertainty. Will a war and a cache of regrets keep them apart, or can their shared vision and dedication to the colonial cause heal the wounds of the past? Bestselling and award-winning author Laura Frantz whisks you away to a time fraught with peril--on the sea and in the heart--in this redemptive, romantic story.

The Hired Girl

The Hired Girl PDF Author: Laura Amy Schlitz
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763679437
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Winner of the 2016 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A 2016 Association of Jewish Libraries Sydney Taylor Award Winner Winner of the 2016 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz brings her delicious wit and keen eye to early twentieth-century America in a moving yet comedic tour de force. Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself—because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of—a woman with a future. Newbery Medalist Laura Amy Schlitz relates Joan’s journey from the muck of the chicken coop to the comforts of a society household in Baltimore (Electricity! Carpet sweepers! Sending out the laundry!), taking readers on an exploration of feminism and housework; religion and literature; love and loyalty; cats, hats, and bunions.

Love in the Time of Contagion

Love in the Time of Contagion PDF Author: Laura Kipnis
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0593316282
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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In this timely, insightful, and darkly funny investigation, the acclaimed author of Against Love asks: what does living in dystopic times do to our ability to love each other and the world? COVID-19 has produced new taxonomies of love, intimacy, and vulnerability. Will its cultural afterlife be as lasting as that of HIV, which reshaped consciousness about sex and love even after AIDS itself had been beaten back by medical science? Will COVID end up making us more relationally conservative, as some think HIV did within gay culture? Will it send us fleeing into emotional silos or coupled cocoons, despite the fact that, pre-COVID, domestic coupledom had been steadily losing fans? Just as COVID revealed our nation to itself, so did it hold a mirror up to our relationships. In Love in the Time of Contagion, Laura Kipnis weaves (often hilariously) her own (ambivalent) coupled lockdown experiences together with those of others and sets them against a larger backdrop: the politics of the virus, economic disparities, changing gender relations, and the ongoing institutional crack-ups prompted by #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, mapping their effects on the everyday routines and occasional solaces of love and sex.

Tell Me Everything

Tell Me Everything PDF Author: Laura Kay
Publisher: Quercus
ISBN: 1529409888
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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'Glorious, hilarious and life affirming . . . I absolutely loved it' - EMMA HUGHES, author of No Such Thing As Perfect Would you entrust your life choices to someone hell-bent on avoiding theirs? Natasha has everything under control, at least that's what her clients think. As a therapist, she has all the answers but when it comes to her personal life, she seriously needs to start taking her own advice. Still living with her ex-girlfriend, Natasha's messy love life is made up of dates and one-night stands. After all, why would you commit to one person, when there is an endless stream of people waiting for you to swipe right? Besides, people always leave. But when Margot arrives on the scene, everything changes. Flailing between mending long broken relationships and starting new ones, Natasha's walking the line between self-actualisation and self-destruction... With denial no longer an option, it is time for Natasha to take control of her own happiness. ~*~ PRAISE FOR TELL ME EVERYTHING ~*~ 'A captivating read from a truly exciting talent' JUSTIN MYERS, author of The Fake-Up 'Truly joyful and uplifting . . . this is a big-hearted story about what really matters in life: friends, family and love' LUCY DIAMOND, author of Anything Could Happen 'Tell Me Everything is a book that reads like a crush, all summer and exuberance with a tight, intelligent kernel of anxiety at its core' MIKAELLA CLEMENTS & ONJULI DATTA, authors of The View Was Exhausting 'Hilarious, tender and romantic . . . with characters you'll wish were real and an ending that will leave you fully uplifted' CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLIN, author of The Staycation 'It's sweet, sexy, funny and full of adorable characters . . . The kind of book that makes you feel like everything's going to be alright!' MATT CAIN, author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle 'Laura Kay's writing is so warm and open-hearted, but also has a dry wit that makes you snort with delighted recognition' LILY LINDON, author of Double Booked