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• Love, Lies and Spies

  Anstey, Cindy,

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  In the early 1800s, when her father sends her to London for a season, eighteen-year-old Juliana Telford, who prefers researching ladybugs to marriage, meets handsome Spencer Northam, a spy posing as a young gentleman of leisure. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A School for Unusual Girls

  Baldwin, Kathleen,

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  Scientific-minded Georgiana Fitzwilliam is sent to a school for unusual high society girls for the ostensible purpose of being reformed into a respectable lady, but is instead secretly enlisted into the war effort alongside Lord Sebastian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Three Wishes

  Bergren, Lisa Tawn,

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  Zara Ruiz is a normal California girl on the verge of graduating from high school and thinking about her dawning future. But when dusk brings a shattering loss--and she discovers a priceless object in the shallows of a tide pool--she is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet

  Farrant, Natasha,

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  Jane Austen's story of the Bennet sisters, as told from the perspective of Lydia, the wild child, who pursues the handsome, but irresponsible Lieutenant George Wickham, and finally catches him.

• My Lady Jane

  Hand, Cynthia, 1978-

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  Edward is the King of England. He's also dying, which is inconvenient, as he's only sixteen and he'd rather be planning his first kiss than who will inherit his crown. Jane, Edward's cousin, is far more interested in books than romance.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Legacy of Kings

  Herman, Eleanor, 1960-

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  Katerina, on a mission to kill the queen, falls in love with Alexander, Prince of Macedonia. Jacob will go to unthinkable lengths to win Katerina, even if it means having to compete with Hephaestion, a murderer sheltered by the prince. And…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

  Lee, Mackenzi,

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  Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wait for Me

  Leech, Caroline,

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  On her father's farm in Scotland in 1945, Lorna Anderson's life consists of endless chores, rationing, knitting Red Cross scarves, and praying for an Allied victory. So when Paul Vogel, a German prisoner of war, is assigned as the new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Valiant

  Livingston, Lesley,

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  The daughter of a proud Celtic king is captured and sold to a training school for women gladiators under the patronage of Julius Caesar, circumstances that put her survival in the hands of an enemy who was responsible for her sister's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Girl of Astor Street

  Morrill, Stephanie,

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  When her best friend Lydia disappears, Piper Sail goes searching for answers in the dark underbelly of 1924 Chicago, uncovering deep corruption that may lead back to her affluent neighborhood.

• These Vicious Masks

  Shanker, Tarun,

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  In 1882 England when her beloved sister Rose vanishes, Evelyn, bored with society and its expectations, embarks on a search for Rose, encountering the reclusive, young gentleman Sebastian Braddock, who is also looking for Rose and claiming…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Girl About Town

  Shankman, Adam,

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  When fate brings Lulu and Freddie together in 1930s Hollywood, sparks fly--and gunshots follow.

• Into the Dim

  Taylor, Janet, 1967-

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  Sixteen-year-old Hope Walton travels back in time to help rescue her mother, a member of the secret society of time travelers, who is trapped in twelfth-century England in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine. This is followed by Sparks of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• And I Darken

  White, Kiersten,

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  A girl child is born to Vlad Dracul, in Transylvania, in 1435. Rejected by her father and ignored by her mother, Lada is sent with her younger brother, Radu, to be raised in the Ottoman courts. They meet Mehmed, son of the sultan, and form…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Maid of the King's Court

  Worsley, Lucy,

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  Her father, Baron of Stone, announced his twelve-year-old daughter Eliza Rose Camperdowne would soon wed the son of the Earl of Westmoreland, in hope to revive the distressed family fortune through her marriage.