When her guardian's will commands that Lady Catriona Hennessy and Richard Cynster will marry within a week, a battle of wits ensues between the independent young lady and the arrogant rake with a scandalous reputation.
Manners and customs
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Auteur:Williams, Megan K.Sommaire:Far from the Tuscan Sun… is Saving Rome. Megan K. Williams, a Rome-based writer and correspondent, knows just how far. In her debut collection, Williams serves up the Eternal City as you’ve never seen it before, turning an insider’s eye...
- Auteur:Saint-Pierre, AnnetteSommaire:
De mère québécoise et de père autochtone, Martha essaie de prendre sa place dans le monde des Blancs et de cacher son ascendance métisse. Blessée par la vie, Martha fait marche arrière. Pourquoi sa mère est-elle venue au Manitoba et...
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Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:In the vein of Downton Abbey, Jane Austen's beloved but unfinished masterpiece-often considered her most modern and exciting novel-gets a spectacular second act in this tie-in to a major new limited television series. Written only...
- Auteur:Jacobs, AnnaSommaire:
In 1820 Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his best workers. Annie Gibson's family is one of them, but when Annie's mother dies her world changes and not all for the good...
- Auteur:Burroughs, AugustenSommaire:
Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten...
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Auteur:Edwards, IsabelSommaire:Biographical account of pioneer life in the Bella Coola region of British Columbia, near Lonesome Lake in the 1930s and 1940s, including trapping and fishing.
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Introduced by Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker finalist novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing From one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mysticism, and noir...
- Auteur:Lahiri, JhumpaSommaire:
A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, NPR. The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times bestseller Unaccustomed Earth. Rome—metropolis and monument,...
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Continues the mid-nineteenth-century Lancastrian saga of extraordinary heroine Annie Gibson, begun in 'Salem Street', and 'High Street'.
- Auteur:Goulding, MattSommaire:
An innovative new take on the travel guide, Rice, Noodle, Fish decodes Japan's extraordinary food culture through a mix of in-depth narrative and insider advice. In this 5000-mile journey through the noodle shops, tempura temples,...
- Auteur:Barker, NicolaSommaire:
Two novels from Nicola Barker, published together in a single volume. 'Small Holdings': it's all go in a little oasis of nature, in this stirring tale of subterfuge among the shrubbery – plus 'Reversed Forecast...
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Auteur:Grainger, JeanSommaire:Robinswood Estate, County Waterford, Ireland. 1946. Years of neglect and abandonment have left the family seat of the Keneficks almost derelict, but the new Lord Kenefick and his charming young wife Kate are determined to breathe life...
- Auteur:Croucher, LexSommaire:
This audiobook is narrated by Bessie Carter, known for her television roles as Prudence Featherington in Bridgerton and as Violet Woodhouse in Beecham House. Bridgerton meets Gossip Girl with a dash of Jane Austen, in this Regency-era...
- Auteur:Proust, MarcelSommaire:
Here are the first two volumes of Proust’s monumental achievement, Swann’s Way and Within a Budding Grove. The famous overture to Swann’s Way sets down the grand themes that govern In Search of Lost Time: as the narrator recalls his...
- Auteur:Proust, MarcelSommaire:
Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust is the story of a young boy's journey through life. It is suggested that the ambiguous, unnamed narrator is partially autobiographical. The narrator experiences several romances, which lead...
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Auteur:Chesney, MarionSommaire:Jean Lindsay was always the object of ridicule, until news of her unexpected inheritance spread and someone wants her dead! With the marquess nearby to save her pretty neck, Jean finds herself smitten. And her hero can't help but find...
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Auteur:Gayle, A. B.Sommaire:Fresh from backwoods Minnesota, actuarial student Ben Dutoit is ecstatic to land a job with Sydney Sutherland Family Insurance, one of the few companies that offers life insurance to people in the high-risk category. The fact that he...
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Auteur:Lee, Robert E.Sommaire:Robert E. Lee, the famed Confederate forces commander and icon of the South, is a towering figure in U.S. and military history. The son of a famed Revolutionary War officer, his path to greatness included graduating at the top of his...
- Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:
Après la mort de leur père, Elinor et Marianne s'installent avec leur mère et leur jeune sœur à la campagne. La famille se trouve très démunie ; il devient urgent de marier les deux sœurs afin de leur assurer un bel avenir....
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