Maya Rodale
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Lady Emma Avery has accidentally announced her engagement to the most eligible man in England. As soon as it's discovered that Emma has never actually met the infamously attractive Duke of Ashbrooke, she'll no longer be a wallflower; she'll be a laughingstock. And then Ashbrooke does something Emma never expected. He plays along with her charade. A temporary betrothal to the irreproachable Lady Avery could be just the thing to repair Ashbrooke's tattered...
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"A Gilded Age heiress returns home after her disastrous marriage just in time to save her family's failing department store from the clutches of her first love, who's become Manhattan's premier retailer and has sworn to ruin her family yet still makes her heart pound.Sixteen years ago, 20-year-old Beatrice Goodwin walked away from the boy she loved"Wes Dalton, a mere associate department manager at Goodwin's Emporium, the department store her family...
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Seeking a wealthy American bride who can save his family's estate, Brandon Fiennes, the duke of Kingston, is a rogue determined to do the right thing. But his search for an heiress goes deliciously awry when an enchanting seamstress tumbles into his arms instead. Miss Adeline Black aspires to be a fashionable dressmaker--not a duchess--and not even an impossibly seductive duke will distract her. But Kingston makes an offer she can't refuse: join him...
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Theodore Prescott the Third, one of Manhattan's Rogues of Millionaire Row, has really done it this time. The only way to survive his most recent, unspeakably outrageous scandal is marry someone respectable. Someone sensible. Someone like Daisy Swann. Of all the girls in Gilded Age Manhattan, it had to be her. Daisy Swann has plans and they do not involve a loveless marriage with anyone. But when a devastating family secret threatens to destroy her...
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Wallflower volume 3
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Miss Prudence Merryweather Payton has a secret. Everyone knows that she's the only graduate from her finishing school to remain unwed on her fourth season -- but no one knows why. With her romantic illusions shattered after being compromised against her will, Prudence accepts a proposal even though her betrothed is not exactly a knight in shining armor. When he cowardly pushes her out of their stagecoach to divert a highwayman, she vows never to trust...
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2017.
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Claire Cavendish is in search of a duke, but not for the usual reasons. The man she seeks is a mathematician; the man she unwittingly finds is Lord Fox: dynamic, athletic, and as bored by the equations Claire adores as she is by the social whirl upon which he thrives. As attractive as Fox is, he's of no use to Claire . . . or is he?
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Lord Darcy is the quintessential Englishman: wealthy, titled, impossibly proper, and horrified that a pack of Americans has inherited one of England's most respected dukedoms. But his manners, his infamous self-restraint, and his better judgment fly out the window when he finds himself with the maddening American girl next door. Lady Bridget Cavendish has grand--but thwarted--plans to become a Perfect Lady and take the haute ton by storm. In her...
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Fed up with being proper, Lady Amelia escapes and finds herself in the company of Alistair Finlay-Jones. He was ordered by his uncle to wed one of the American girls, and she's stumbled right into his arms! During one perfect day in London, they fall in love. If anyone finds out, Amelia will be ruined. Then Amelia finds out Alistair was ordered to marry her . . .
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[2010]
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After her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Sophie Harlow swears off marriage and takes a job writing a column for "London Weekly," but when she is assigned to cover the wedding of the Duke of Hamilton to Lady Clarissa, the daughter of the Duke of Richmond, Sophie finds herself attracted to the groom and discovers that the bride-to-be has feelings for a foreign prince.
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2014.
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"Being good has worked out very badly for Lady Olivia Archer. All she has to show for four seasons on the marriage mart is the nickname Prissy Missy. Her prospects are so bleak that her parents have betrothed her to a stranger with a dire reputation. If Phinneas Cole--aka The Mad Baron--wants a biddable bride, perhaps Olivia can frighten him off by breaking every ladylike rule"--Page 4 of cover.
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La nouvelle et captivante série de Maya Rodale met en vedette les trois Jeunes filles les Moins Susceptibles de Londres - trois giroflées, autrement dit trois laissées pour compte, qui vont bientt faire l'envie de tous. Lady Emma Avery a annoncé par erreur ses fiançailles - au meilleur parti de toute l'Angleterre. Dès qu'on découvrira qu'elle n'a même jamais rencontré le séduisant duc d'Ashbrooke, Emma perdra son statut de giroflée, de...
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Dans ce second tome de la délicieuse série de Maya Rodale mettant en scène trois ingénues condamnées à faire tapisserie, la jeune fille la moins susceptible de Londres de provoquer un scandale décoiffe la bonne société... S'être conduite en bonne fille n'a guère servi la jeune Olivia Archer. Tout ce qu'elle a récolté au bout de quatre années à attendre le mari idéal, c'est le sobriquet de Petite Bégueule. Ses perspectives d'avenir...
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Long before clinch covers and bodice rippers, romance novels had a bad reputation as the lowbrow lit of desperate housewives and hopeless spinsters. But why were these books-the escape and entertainment of choice for millions of women-singled out for scorn and shame?
Dangerous Books for Girls examines the secret history of the genre's bad reputation-from the "damned mob of scribbling women" in the nineteenth century to the sexy mass-market paperbacks...
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2022.
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First edition.
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"Fearless reporter Nellie Bly will stop at nothing to chase down stories that expose injustices against women-even if it comes at the risk of her own life and freedom-in this exciting novel inspired by the true story of one remarkable woman. In 1887 New York City, Nellie Bly has ambitions beyond writing for the ladies pages, but all the editors on Newspaper Row think women are too emotional, respectable and delicate to do the job. But then the New...
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2020.
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"The Lady Miss Penny loves doing all sorts of things with her best friend, Milady but she loves going out to eat the most! Lady Miss Penny knows just how to behave at a restaurant. She can SIT, STAY, and PLAY like the very best pup. But when Lady Miss Penny invites all her animal friends to dinner at the fancy restaurant, she has to teach them all the Restaurant Rules from scratch. And they're not very good at following the rules"--
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As society gathers at Kingstag Castle for the wedding of the year, matrimony is in the air. But who will be the bride? With swoonworthy lords, witty ladies, eccentric relatives, a gaggle of free-spirited girls, not to mention the world's best high perch phaeton, it's a recipe for mayhem — and romance. Award winning, best-selling authors Katharine Ashe, Caroline Linden, Miranda Neville and Maya Rodale serve up delectable Regency fun and a
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