Life for Lady Adelaide Bell was easier if she hid in her older sister's shadow-which worked until her sister got married. Even with the pressure of her socially ambitious mother, the last thing she expected was a marriage of convenience...
Manners and customs
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Auteur:Quinn, JuliaSommaire:Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball-or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant...
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Auteur:Hallendy, NormanSommaire:Arctic researcher, author, and photographer Norman Hallendy’s journey to the far north began in 1958, when many Inuit, who traditionally lived on the land, were moving to permanent settlements created by the Canadian government. In this...
- Auteur:Raybourn, DeannaSommaire:
While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life in this new adventure from the New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-nominated author Deanna Raybourn....
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Auteur:Hunter, Kristi AnnSommaire:Lady Georgina Hawthorne has worked tirelessly to seal her place as the Incomparable for her debut season. At her first London ball, she hopes to snag the attention of an earl. With money and business connections, but without impeccable...
- Auteur:Beverley, JoSommaire:
When her vile brother's wicked scheming ruins her reputaion, Eleanor Chivenham is forced into a hasty marriage of convenience. She weds Nicholas Delaney, a hard-living scoundrel who is rumored to have a ravishing French mistress. Yet...
- Auteur:Campbell, Bonnie JoSommaire:
In rural Michigan, the American dream, if it ever existed, lies discarded like so much rusty scrap metal. For the inhabitants of Campbell's tales, the real truth of life can be found in industrial accidents, soul-deadening labor, and...
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Auteur:Crewe, LesleySommaire:Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest? Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she's lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d'Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher...
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Auteur:WOODS, JanetSommaire:Geneva Tibbetson's association with the Earl of Ashby goes back to her childhood, when he gave her a pendant with a blue stone. He told her that if she used it to look at a new moon through it and the landscape turned the colour...
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Auteur:Hébert, Anne, Fischman, SheilaSommaire:This is the story of Edouard, Stephane, and the spirited girl they find alone and apparently lost in Paris. When the two men offer the young Quebec girl shelter for the night, their lives are profoundly and irrevocably changed. Stephane...
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Auteur:Hennel, LeahSommaire:A stunning debut collection of photography focusing on contemporary cowboy culture and the modern ranching lifestyle throughout central and southern Alberta. Growing up in the city, Leah Hennel would spend summers with her cousins on a...
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Auteur:Brontë, AnneSommaire:Like her sister Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Anne Brontë’s classic lays bare the vulnerable position of the governess in 19th century England. Let down by irresponsible parents, ill-treated by employers, Agnes’s one chance at happiness lies,...
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Auteur:Murakami, HarukiSommaire:In 1995, the Japanese city of Kobe suffered a massive earthquake. Nearly 6,000 people died. after the quake was the imaginative response from Japan's leading novelist, Haruki Murakami: six stories, each dealing not directly with...
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Auteur:Gildiner, CatherineSommaire:In 1960, Cathy McClure, age 12, is thrown out of Catholic school. Her father’s drugstore, faced with a superhighway and encroaching chain stores, has fallen upon hard times. So the family decides to leave Lewiston, New York, for a fresh...
- Auteur:Grant, ShauntaySommaire:
À quoi ressemblait la communauté ? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline ; des champs où les garçons jouaient au football ; un étang où les en- fants faisaient du rafting ; la pêche en abondance; des immenses feux de...
- Auteur:Mitchell, W. O.Sommaire:
Set in the forties and fifties, these stories take us back to a simpler, gentler world, the one we all like to think we grew up in. The Kid at the centre of the stories is a boy on a Saskatchewan farm down Government Road from Crocus,...
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Auteur:Reid, StacySommaire:England, 1817. Miss Adeline Hays is out of options. Determined to escape marriage to a repugnant earl, Adeline plans to deliberately allow herself to be caught in a compromising position at a house party with the much kinder man she'd...
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Auteur:Green, ValerieSommaire:When Fort Victoria was first established in the mid-nineteenth century, eight pioneer families of Europe’s upper class formed the social elite of the modest colony. The self-named aristocracy of this new land, these families shaped a...
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Auteur:Murakami, HarukiSommaire:A Japanese yuppie plunges into chaos after he discovers a snapshot depicting a unique crossbreed of sheep.
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Auteur:Fowler, Therese AnneSommaire:This program includes a bonus interview with the author. A Well-Behaved Woman is the riveting audiobook about iron-willed Alva Vanderbilt and her illustrious family as they rule Gilded Age New York, from the New York Times bestselling...
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