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The first book in the USA Today bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea.
"History is just one damned thing after another." -Arnold Toynbee
Behind the seemingly innocuous faca... View details
The first occurred when, after another disruptive day at school, I stood in front of my head teacher, Mrs De Winter. I’d done the sullen silence thing and waited for expulsion, because I was long past...
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Enjoy unforgettable characters and irreverent laughs in the Regency series that launched the career of New York Times bestselling author Katie MacAlister You think you've got troubles?
As a spy for the Crown, Lord Harry Rosse faced clever and dangero... View details
As someone who spends her days typing away at her computer, I've come to cherish the friendships I have with women who share my love of romances, drool with me over dishy men with green eyes, and unde...
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Wanted: Wife of good family, attractive but not too beautiful, calm, reasonable and mature…for marriage of convenience. Pleasant conversationalist preferred but not required.
Simon "Devil" Dure is as cynical about love as spirited Charity Emerson is ... View details
He had been amazed when his butler, Chaney, announced that Charity Emerson was at the door. He knew that Charity was Serena’s sister, though he had never met the girl. He had been intrigued, as well, ...
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Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend
Jasper Fforde's beloved New York Times bestselling novel introduces literary detective Thursday Next and her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England-from the author of T... View details
‘. . . There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth’s future. The other v...
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According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
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You may be feeling run down and always in the same old daily round. Home and family matters are highlighted and are hanging fire. Avoid unnecessary risks. A friend is important to you. Shelve major de...
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A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Micro... View details
Galer Street School is a place where compassion, academics, and global connectitude join together to create civic-minded citizens of a sustainable and diverse planet. Student: Bee Branch Grade: Eight ...
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"When a true genius appears in the world,
You may know him by this sign, that the dunces
Are all in confederacy against him."
-Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting"... View details
A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either ...
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From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel . . .
Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He's been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940... View details
A Search Party-Wartime Headgear-The Problem of Nepotism-Royal Headgear-The Bishop’s Bird Stump Is Missing-Jumble Sales-A Clue to Its Whereabouts-Astronomical Observations-Dogs-A Cat-Man’s Best Friend-...
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Chaz Perrone may care more about Hummers than hammerheads, but he's done pretty well for himself as a marine biologist, doctoring water samples so that an agribusiness tycoon can continue dumping fertilizer into the Everglades. When Chaz suspects tha... View details
At the stroke of eleven on a cool April night, a woman named Joey Per-rone went overboard from a luxury deck of the cruise liner M.V. Sun Duchess. Plunging toward the dark Atlantic, Joey was too dumbf...
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'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris
Horry Winwood doesn't play by the rules.
So when her family are near ruin and her sister is about to enter a lo... View details
Lady Winwood being denied, the morning caller inquired with some anxiety for Miss Winwood, or, in fact, for any of the young ladies. In face of the rumour which had come to her ears it would be too pr...
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