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An unlikely proposition

2024
As another Season begins in 1818 London, recently widowed seventeen-year-old Eleanor and her hired companion Thalia navigate both new and old relationships.

In Myrtle peril

2023
"Myrtle Hardcastle's search for a missing heiress, presumed lost at sea, runs aground when a murder in plain sight has no apparent victim"--Provided by publisher.

The case of the disappearing duchess

2022
After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.

Set me free

2023
Three years after being kidnapping from her home in Martha's Vineyard, fourteen-year-old Mary Lambert receives a letter from Nora O'Neal, a servant in the house where she was held, who tells her of an eight-year-old girl where she is now employed whom Nora believes to be a deaf-mute, but who is being treated as insane, and asks Mary to come and teach the nameless child; a little scared, but intrigued, and bored with domestic life, Mary agrees--only to find that there is more to the child's story, and that freeing her from a world of silence and imprisonment may be more dangerous than anyone anticipated.
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The legend of the gathers

protectors of light
Set in Corning in the year 1880 and follows the adventures of young Jacklyn "Jack" Styles and a rather curious pug named Fetch as they discover mysterious lights appearing throughout Corning.

The righteous

2022
". . . Odette faces a vampire's final death. The Court of the Lions have done everything they can to save her but have failed. A healer from the Sylvan Vale could help her, but only Arjun Desai, as a half fey, can cross the boundary between realms. The Sylvan Vale is a world Arjun despises, and in return, it despises him. But knowing it could save Odette, he returns to the Vale with all haste, leaving the mirrored tare between the two worlds open and unwittingly setting the stage for both love and war. It's mere days until Pippa Montrose is to wed Phoebus Devereux and become a member of his well-heeled family, offering salvation to her own. But Celine is missing. Pippa has no idea where her best friend has gone, but she's certain it's in the company of vampire S?bastien Saint Germain and that Arjun can lead her to them. Pippa enjoins the help of Eloise, the daughter of a powerful sorceress, to discover the gateway Arjun uses to travel between worlds. Pippa, tired of hesitating in life, marches right through in search of her friend. But what she discovers on the other side is a dangerous, duplicitous world full of mischief and magic she doesn't understand, and most unexpectedly, she finds love"--Back cover.

Ada Lovelace cracks the code

2023
"One day [Ada Lovelace] encounters a mysterious machine, and from that moment forward Ada imagines a future full of possibility"--Provided by publisher.

The old curiosity shop

1995
Little Nell, a young girl in Victorian England, is uprooted from her secure and innocent childhood and cast into a world of evil when she and her grandfather are pursued relentlessly by the evil and loathsome dwarf Quilp.

Middlemarch

a study of provincial life
1991
Provides a portrait of English provincial life in the nineteenth century, focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family.

Little Dorrit

1992
The story of a family and the system of debtors' prisons as symbols of the social and psychological imprisonment of 19th century England.

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