Author: Mary Brendan
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472044088
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Dishonourable intentions on his mind! Beatrice Dewey keeps falling for unsuitable men... She believes the man she loved, Hugh Kendrick, is lost to her for ever, and now her new fiancé has cancelled their wedding!
Author: Julia Justiss
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460306929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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“So wonderfully different from the usual spinster trope . . . the divine prose is simply swoon worthy . . . A magnificent debut to a new series!” —Fresh Fiction (Fresh Pick) Once a rake . . . Known as “Magnificent Max,” diplomat Max Ransleigh was famed for his lethal charm until a political betrayal left him exiled from government and his reputation in tatters. He seems a very unlikely savior for a well-bred young lady. Except that Miss Caroline Denby doesn’t want to be saved . . . she wants to be ruined! To Caroline, getting married is tantamount to a death sentence, and meeting the rakish Max at a house party seems the answer to her prayers. Surely this rogue won’t hesitate to put his bad reputation to good use? “Outrageous and refreshingly inventive, with a lady in distress, an available rogue, and a marriage of convenience for all. Justiss encapsulates the period, language and mores of the Regency era with great skill.” —Romantic Times (4 stars)
Author: Louise Allen
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1472043715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
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A JOURNEY INTO PLEASURE... The night before dissolute Lord Denham is about to embark on his Grand Tour he meets an unexpected complication. In boy’s clothes that barely conceal her delectable curves, his childhood friend Lady Althea Curtiss – desperate to escape an arranged marriage – arrives, demanding free passage!
Author: Brian Cowan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300133502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Author: Janet Schaw
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429016949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already established themselves in the colonies. ""Journal of a Lady of Quality"" is Janet Schaw's account of this voyage through letters to a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.
Author: Diane Gaston
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 0373297416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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Raising the stakes… As the unacknowledged son of the lecherous Lord Westleigh, John "Rhys" Rhysdale was forced to earn a crust gambling on the streets. Now he owns the most thrilling new gaming establishment in London. Witnessing polite society's debauchery and excess every night, Rhys prefers to live on its fringes, but a mysterious masked lady tempts him into the throng. Lady Celia Gale, known only as Madame Fortune, matches Rhys card for card and kiss for stolen kiss. But the stakes are raised when Rhys discovers she's from the very world he despises.…
Author: Charlotte Featherstone
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 0373776624
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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When she agrees to allow the Marquis of Alynwick help her solve the mystery surrounding her ancestor's ancient diary, Elizabeth, the blind daughter of a duke, finds it hard to remember his betrayal as they work together.
Author: Virginia Heath
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1488021775
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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A rake’s wager to steal kisses from a sullen lady yields an unexpected payoff in this Christmas Regency romance. Notorious rake Henry Stuart, Earl of Redbridge, is certain he’ll win his Christmas bet—until he learns he’ll be stealing Lady Elizabeth Wilding’s kisses. A woman who refuses to be charmed! Once jilted, Lizzie must guard her heart, because the ton is unaware of her scandalous secret—her son! Despite their increasing attraction, she can’t risk the persistent Hal bringing down her defenses. But when her former fiancé returns, Lizzie realizes that perhaps Hal’s the one man she can trust—with her heart and her son . . .
Author: Janice Preston
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 1474089607
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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A convenient bride Can he be the groom she deserves?
Author: Broadus Mitchell
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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