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From the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed comes a novel that shows how someone with a 'perfect life' can lose it all-and then find everything. Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel, the plain-Jane "good girl,"...
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2008
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English
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After her mother died, vivacious Katey Tyler fled her dull Connecticut town, hoping to meet her relatives in England and find adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe. She had no idea that her life-changing travels would have both in spades, as well as danger and intrigue, when she catches the eye of ship owner Boyd Anderson and inadvertently stumbles upon a high-stakes kidnapping. When Sir Anthony Malory's young daughter is abducted from London's...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Bestselling author Patrick Gale's quirky and hilarious novel of English country life is "a ridiculously crazy tour de force" ( Publishers Weekly ). The town of Barrowcester-pronounced "Brewster"-is English as can be. From its cozy little pubs to its immaculate cathedral close, the quiet city seems straight out of the pages of Thomas Hardy. For American academic Evan Kirby, it's paradise, a welcome escape from the United States, where he was haunted...
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Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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The President is coming to London but a fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President. Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in to protect the president, with one very special recruit named Sara Gideon.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The bestselling, Thurber-prize winning author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap by chronicling the beleaguered Professor Fitger as he leads the annual "Experience Abroad" to London and beyond with eleven clueless undergrads in tow. Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only Professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual...
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Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2009
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English
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Ellie Lerner, having felt like her career and marriage were on hold since the death of her infant daughter, moves from Boston to London to try and help her deceased friend's daughter cope with the effects of seeing her mother murdered and finds her life being transformed.
8) Red rabbit
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
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English
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It is very early in Jack Ryan’s career—so early that he has not yet even become an analyst for the CIA. But a series of nasty encounters with an IRA splinter group has brought Ryan to the attention of the CIA’s Deputy Director and his British counterpart. They offer him his first job as a freelance analyst, and he readily accepts. Debriefing a high-level Russian defector, however, he comes across an unbelievable plot: top Soviet...
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HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Book 2 in the fan favorite Mad Morelands series from New York Times bestselling author Candace Camp! Though Kyria Moreland is beautiful enough to earn the sobriquet "The Goddess" and rich enough to attract London's most sought after gentlemen, she has yet to find love and refuses to marry without it. When she receives a strange package under mysterious circumstances, she is confronted with danger, murder and a handsome American whose destiny is...
11) The wonderful
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"A sweeping and turbulent drama about the anxieties of postwar Britain, where one strong and inspirational young woman looks to find her place, no matter the cost. Sometimes, the truth lies in fiction It's hard to be an American girl in 1957. Especially when your dad's job means you have to move four thousand miles from home. Especially if you'd rather play baseball than wear a dress. Especially if you see your mom fraying a little more from anxiety...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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Quirky and fun-loving American heiress Daisy Bowman is the last unmarried Wallflower. Her exasperated father has informed her that if she can't find a husband by the end of her third London season, she will be forced to marry a man she hates-the ruthless entrepreneur Matthew Swift. Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, so she decides to do whatever it takes to marry someone . . . anyone . . . other than Matthew. What she doesn't count...
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With his Inspector Troy series, John Lawton has been compared to top historical espionage writers such as John le Carre and Len Deighton. Brilliantly re-creating London in the time of ration tickets and bread lines, Bluffing Mr. Churchill is a blistering page-turner. It is 1941. Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an SS officer, has just fled Germany with Hitler's henchmen on his trail. Stahl's man in the American embassy, the...
14) The exile
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Day After Tomorrow and The Day of Confession comes The Exile, an all new heart-pounding thriller
The Los Angeles Police Department's famed 5-2 squad boards a commuter train in an attempt to take a cold-blooded killer into custody. John Barron, the newest and youngest member of the elite LAPD unit, learns quickly that the 5-2 has their own deadly system of justice, and that even the slightest protest...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isn$1 (Bt sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait...
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HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Now A Hallmark Channel Original Movie It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman teetering on the verge of thirty must be in want of a husband. Not true for Manhattanite Elizabeth Scott. Instead of planning a walk down the aisle, she's crossing the pond with the only companion she needs -- her darling dog, Bliss. Caring for a pack of show dogs in England seems the perfect distraction from the scandal that ruined her teaching career,...
17) Posted to Death
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NYLA
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Simon Kirby-Jones Mysteries #1 From the New York Times bestselling author of the Cat in the Stacks Mystery Series, a traditional British village cozy mystery serieswith a twist! Sure to revolutionize the traditional British cozy and win the hearts of fans everywhere. Publishers Weekly A delightful English village whodunit filled with some of the most eccentric characters youll ever run across in a mystery novel. The Denver Post Amateur sleuth, Simon...
18) A Dangerous Man
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HQN
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Perfect for fans of the smash-hit Netflix series Bridgerton!
"A clever mystery adds intrigue to this lively and gently humorous tale, which simmers with well-handled sexual tension." -Library Journal
As an American, Eleanor has always been looked down on by London society, considered too strident and opinionated to fit in with the ton. Now, at the death of her husband, she has been appointed trustee to his estate, and his family is furious....
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Fans of Laura Lippman and A. S. A. Harrison will love this haunting psychological thriller. For twenty years, Henry Evans has been haunted by the memory of Francesca, the one that got away. When he travels to England to reconnect with his long-lost love, what he finds is a horrific shock: Francesca has been imprisoned for murdering her five-year-old son. But Henry refuses to believe Francesca is guilty, even if she did confess -- in chilling detail...
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