Tag: London
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The Duchess: Scandalous Ladies of London by Sophie Jordan
“I liked my husband well enough . . . but I like him even better dead,” says Duchess Valencia Dedham. Now a Dowager Duchess following the death of her husband (no great loss there) and the discovery of the nearest male heir means Valencia Dedham must move out of the mansion that has been her…
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The Last Dress From Paris
London, 2017. There’s no one Lucille adores more than her grandmother (not even her mother, she’s ashamed to say). So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks Lucille to help secure the return of something precious to her, she’s happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to Paris, tasked with…
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The Splendid and the Vile. A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
When New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson (Devil in the White City; Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania) moved to New York five years ago, he had what he describes as a revelation. He had watched, horrified, as 911 unfolded on CNN. “But I wondered what was it like for…
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A Vanishing Man: Charles Finch’s Latest Victorian Mystery
Charles Lenox is a well-educated, well-connected young man, but even he, when called to the Duke of Dorset’s home after a painting is found to have been stolen, knows his place. After all, even among the aristocracy, a Duke is way above Lenox, particularly now that he has taken to detecting (after all, what…
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