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On a Turning Tide by Ellie Dean
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCliffehaven, October 1944As the Allied troops draw closer to victory, life at Beach View Boarding House is still full of uncertainty.Rosie’s plans for her wedding to Ron Reilly are plagued with misunderstandings. And when Ron takes on a secret assignment just days before they are due to say their vows, it seems their plans for a future together may be doomed... -
![Flights of Fancy by Jen Turano]()
Flights of Fancy by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMiss Isadora Delafield may be an heiress, but her life is far from carefree. When her mother begins pressuring her to marry an elderly and uncouth duke, she escapes from the high society world she's always known and finds herself to be an unlikely candidate for a housekeeper position in rural Pennsylvania. Mr... -
![Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I by Nodar Dumbadze, نودار دومبادزه]()
Granny, Iliko, Illarion, and I by Nodar Dumbadze, نودار دومبادزه
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Granny, Iliko, Illarion and I" was the first book written by Nodar Dumbadze (1928-1984), a major Georgian writer. The book, which has a strong autobiographical element, tells about the wartime childhood of an orphaned Georgian boy, and about his youth and studies at Tbilisi University...Categorized as:
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![Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917 by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton]()
Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty, 1485-1917 by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThen look no further. Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty is the book for you. Here, at last, for the first time, are the full scripts of one of British television's funniest comedies... -
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![The Most of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse]()
The Most of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe most lavish P. G. Wodehouse collection ever published. In addition to Wodehouse's best known and beloved Jeeves and Bertie stories, The Most of P. G. Wodehouse features delightful stories about The Drones Club and its affable, vacuous members: Mr... -
![The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. 1: Thank You, Jeeves / The Code of the Woosters / The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse]()
The Jeeves Omnibus Vol. 1: Thank You, Jeeves / The Code of the Woosters / The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'It beats me why a man of his genius is satisfied to hang around pressing my clothes and whatnot,' says Bertie. 'If I had Jeeves's brain I should have a stab at being Prime Minister or something... -
![Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus]()
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsis as original and vibrant as its protagonist... -
![What Ho! The Best of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse]()
What Ho! The Best of P.G. Wodehouse by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPublished to mark the 25th anniversary of PG Wodehouse's death, this is the first major new selection of his work to be published for a generation. This anthology of stories, novel-extracts, working drafts, articles, letters and poems gives a fresh angle on the twentieth century's greatest humourist. In his introduction, Stephen Fry writes: "What a very, very lucky person you are... -
![Life at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Life at Blandings by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsP.G. Wodehouse entices us into the demesne of Blandings Castle - an apparent paradise where it is eternal high summer, with jolly parties, tea on the lawn and love trysts in the rose garden. But for Clarence, ninth Earl of Emsworth, there is always something to disturb this tranquil scene... -
![Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams]()
Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsPorter Osborne Jr. is a precocious, sensitive, and rambunctious boy trying to make it through adolescence during the depression years. On a red-clay farm in Georgia he learns all there is to know about cotton chopping, hog killing, watermelon thumping, and mule handling. School provides a quick course in practical joking, schoolboy crushes, athletic glory, and clandestine sex... -
![The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald]()
The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Great Brain faces the challenge of life at a strict Catholic boarding school with daring exploits and money-making schemes...Categorized as:
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![Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust]()
Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain by Marcel Proust
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIncluding THE GUERMANTES WAY and CITIES OF THE PLAIN... -
![A Governess Should Never... Deny a Duke by Emily Windsor]()
A Governess Should Never... Deny a Duke by Emily Windsor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“So tell me, Miss Beaujeu, why should I employ you as governess?”A question to rouse fear within the breast of any prospective governess but for Isabelle, a lady with impeccable references and tightly pinned hair, it barely raises a brow... -
![King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood]()
King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this raucous tale, the Knight, the Duke, the Queen--and eventually the whole court--all try to lure King Bidgood from his cozy bathtub, but he won't get out! Will anyone be able to solve this problem?In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of a Caldecott Honor favorite, this new edition features a hardcover book and a musical CD with six original songs ranging in style from a minuet to a... -
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![Extinction by Thomas Bernhard]()
Extinction by Thomas Bernhard
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe last work of fiction by one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Extinction is widely considered Thomas Bernhard’s magnum opus. Franz-Josef Murau—the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family—lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends...Categorized as:
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![The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll]()
The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe New York Times Book Review praised Brendan O'Carroll's first novel, The Mammy, as "Cheerful...as unpretentious and satisfying as a home-cooked meal...with a delicious dessert of an ending... -
![Uncle Dynamite by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Uncle Dynamite by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom boyhood his has been a gay and happy disposition, and in the autumn of his life he still retains the fresh, unspoiled mental outlook of a slightly inebriated undergraduate.A keen matchmaker and intrepid impersonator, Lord Ickenham is in his element when at large on a sweetness-and-light-spreading excursion... -
![The Best Short Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry]()
The Best Short Stories of O. Henry by O. Henry
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe more than 600 stories written by O. Henry provided an embarrassment of riches for the compilers of this volume.The final selection of the thirty-eight stories in this collection offers for the reader's delight those tales honored almost unanimously by anthologists and those that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite storyteller... -
![The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll]()
The Chisellers by Brendan O'Carroll
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Mrs. Browne trilogy became an instant bestselling success in author Brendan O'Carroll's native Ireland. Similarly, when Plume introduced The Mammy (the first book in the series, May 1999) in the United States, it was greeted with overwhelming enthusiasm from American readers. Fans of Agnes Browne craving further hilarious and heartwarming adventures will be delighted with The Chisellers... -
![Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser]()
Flashman and the Mountain of Light by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis ninth volume of The Flashman Papers, faithfully edited and transcribed by Fraser, finds that Sir Harry Flashman is back in India, where his saga began. This time, our hero is sent by Her Majesty's Secret Service to spy on the corrupt court of Lahore, on India's Northwest Frontier. Flashy's most challenging exploit yet is as politically shrewd and thoroughly lewd as ever... -
![The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer]()
The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe year is 1898, and the best con man in Adenville, Utah, is the infamous twelve-year-old Tom Fitzgerald, "The Great Brain." A year at the Catholic Academy for Boys certainly hasn't dulled Tom's love for money—he's no sooner off the train than he begins scamming his own brother! By the end of his summer break, Tom has tricked all of his friends out of everything they own...Categorized as:
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![The Great Brain Does it Again by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer]()
The Great Brain Does it Again by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAs entertaining as ever...readers will fall happily under The Great Brain's spell."-- "School Library Journal...Categorized as:
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![Wildly Daring by Emma V. Leech]()
Wildly Daring by Emma V. Leech
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bold Miss and her beloved dog… Lady Cara Baxter is a scandal waiting to happen. She knows it. Her family know it. The only question is when and what kind of scandal she will fall into, though undoubtedly her dog, Sultan, will be at the heart of it. Cara doesn’t care. The marriage mart is a bear bait, and not half so much fun as she thought it would be... -
![Meeting Her Match by Jen Turano]()
Meeting Her Match by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMiss Camilla Pierpont, a renowned matchmaker and influential member of the New York Four Hundred, has vowed never to marry after suffering a devastating heartbreak during her debut years ago. However, when she is nearly abducted along the Hudson River, she finds herself rescued by an annoyingly outspoken, albeit fascinating, gentleman who challenges her in a manner she wasn't expecting... -
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![Village Diary by Miss Read]()
Village Diary by Miss Read
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe enchanting follow-up to Village School, Miss Read's beloved first novel, Village Diary once again transports us to the picturesque English village of Fairacre. Each chapter describes a month in the life of the village school’s headmistress, Miss Read. As the villagers prepare for their country pageant, Fairacre welcomes many newcomers, such as the headstrong Amy, Mr... -
![Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes]()
Mama's Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe charming adventures of the Mama of an immigrant Norwegian family living in San Francisco. This bestselling book inspired the play, motion picture, and television series I Remember Mama... -
![Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhen Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and finds himself engaged to the imperious Lady Florence Craye, disaster threatens from all sides... -
![Bell Hammers: The True Folk Tale of Little Egypt, Illinois by Lancelot Schaubert]()
Bell Hammers: The True Folk Tale of Little Egypt, Illinois by Lancelot Schaubert
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Schaubert recounts a mischievous man's eight decades in Illinois's Little Egypt region in his picaresque debut BELL HAMMERS. Remmy's life of constant schemes and a lifelong feud with the local oil drilling company proves consequential. This is a hoot."- Publisher's Weekly🏆 finalist for Glimmer Train's Fiction Open.PRANKS. OIL. PROTEST. JOKES BETWEEN NEWLYWEDS... -
![The Re-education of Mr. Darcy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Alexa Douglas]()
The Re-education of Mr. Darcy: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Alexa Douglas
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”– Mark TwainElizabeth Bennet is the daughter of one of New York’s first families. When her grandparents take her and her sisters on a journey abroad, she is not surprised to encounter anti-American prejudice among the members of the English upper class... -
![Blandings Castle by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Blandings Castle by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFans of P. G. Wodehouse's comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of hilarity borders on obsession. Overlook happily feeds the obsession with four more antic selections from the master... -
![Hester on the Run by Linda Byler]()
Hester on the Run by Linda Byler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket... -
![A Match of Wits by Jen Turano]()
A Match of Wits by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter his departure from New York two years ago to meet up with his almost-fiancee, Zayne Beckett is the last person Agatha Watson wanted to stumble upon in her travels as a reporter with the New York Tribune . Quite pathetically bedraggled, he clearly needs to be taken in hand and sent back East to his family... -
![Young Men in Spats by P.G. Wodehouse]()
Young Men in Spats by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThese eleven stories describe the misadventures of the delightfully idle "Eggs," "Beans," and "Crumpets" that populate the Drones club: young men wearing spats, starting spats, and landing in sticky spots. For the first of his many appearances in the Wodehouse canon, Uncle Fred comes to what he believes to be the rescue... -
![The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart]()
The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Man Who Came to Dinner...and stayed and stayed and stayed! Sheridan Whiteside, the man who came to dinner, throws out insults with a voluminous precision volley. Maggie Cutler, his secretary, is described by Whiteside as an aging debutante supporting her two-headed brother... -
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![You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman]()
You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAt first the Sycamore family seems mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is really verklempt... -
![The Illumination of Ursula Flight by Anna-Marie Crowhurst]()
The Illumination of Ursula Flight by Anna-Marie Crowhurst
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBorn on the night of an ill-auguring comet just before Charles II's Restoration, Ursula Flight has a difficult future written in the stars.Against the custom of the age she begins an education with her father, who fosters in her a love of reading, writing and astrology... -
![The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell]()
The Kindly Ones by Anthony Powell
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over three hundred characters, is a unique evocation of life in twentieth-century England.The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth Widmerpool and others, as they negotiate the intellectual, cultural and social hurdles that stand between them and the “Acceptance World... -
![Dorothy by Anya Wylde]()
Dorothy by Anya Wylde
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAnya Wylde is back with yet another Fairweather sister novel full of comedy, adventure and, of course, toe curling romance. The Fairweather sisters adore each other and always stand by one another. But when circumstances force Dorothy May Fairweather to marry Lord William Edmund Huxley, the man her best friend is in love with and the Duke’s arch enemy, things change... -
![Alexander at the World's End by Tom Holt]()
Alexander at the World's End by Tom Holt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen his father dies, and he is reduced at a stroke from prosperity to penury, Euxenus decides to leave Athens and seek his fortune elsewhere. As a philosopher and intellectual of some note, he has no difficulty getting a job as tutor to a young prince in the wealthy but utterly provincial court of King Philip of Macedon. The young prince is called Alexander, and the rest is history... -
![An Advantageous Marriage: A thrilling Regency romance by Alice Chetwynd Ley]()
An Advantageous Marriage: A thrilling Regency romance by Alice Chetwynd Ley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fun and flirty Regency romance! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Jane Aiken Hodge and Jane Austen. The scheming Turville family have met their match… 1816, England The aristocratic Turvilles had always deplored an unfortunate connection with Trade through the marriage twenty years previously of the Baron’s brother with the daughter of a Yorkshire manufacturer... -
![Sun on the Stubble by Colin Thiele]()
Sun on the Stubble by Colin Thiele
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA story about growing up in rural South Australia during the Great Depression, combining great humour and drama in its affectionate portrayal of people in a particular time and place. First published in 1961, Sun on the Stubble has proved to be an enduring classic of modern Australian children's literature...Categorized as:
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![The Marquess Next Door by Virginia Heath]()
The Marquess Next Door by Virginia Heath
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA dashing new neighbor…Temptation on her doorstep!To avoid an unwanted suitor at a ball, Hope Brookes asks another gentleman to rescue her. He obliges—with a surprisingly passionate kiss! He's revealed as her sinfully handsome new neighbor, Lucius, Marquess of Thundersley, and they forge a friendship over their balconies... -
![Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress]()
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFamily tumult and nationwide social unrest converge to shake the world of 12-year-old orphan Peejoe Bullis in the summer of 1965, "when everybody went crazy in Alabama...Categorized as:
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![The Promise by Ann Weisgarber]()
The Promise by Ann Weisgarber
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the author of The Personal History of Rachel Dupree , shortlisted for the Orange Award for New Writers and longlisted for the Orange Prize. 1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal... -
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![Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin]()
Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt’s October, 1904 in Paris, France. Young Albert Einstein and young Pablo Picasso meet at a bar to discuss philosophy, politics and women... -
![At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell]()
At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe fourth novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of...Categorized as:
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![Seven Brides for Beau McBride by Amy Barry, Eva Kaminsky]()
Seven Brides for Beau McBride by Amy Barry, Eva Kaminsky
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings9 hours, 54 minutes From the beloved author of Kit McBride Gets a Wife and Marrying Off Morgan McBride comes a ‘sweet, hilarious and totally delicious’ love story (Hannah Grace). Beau McBride wants a wife, and his meddling little sister Junebug is itching to find him a mail-order bride. But why stop at just one? Beau McBride reckons he’s ready for marriage... -
![Soup by Robert Newton Peck]()
Soup by Robert Newton Peck
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town...Categorized as:
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![Never Love a Cowboy by Lorraine Heath]()
Never Love a Cowboy by Lorraine Heath
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"I would not make a good husband. I do, however, make an excellent lover . . . " Harrison Bainbridge, the second son of an English earl, left his home seeking a scandal-free life away from society's stuffy restraints. Then he arrives in Texas, never expecting that a sassy saloon-keeper's daughter would capture his eye. With her outspoken ways and flashing eyes, Jessye Kane is more than tempting...Categorized as:
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![Daughters of Castle Deverill by Santa Montefiore]()
Daughters of Castle Deverill by Santa Montefiore
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIt is 1925 and the war is long over. But much has been lost and life will never be quite the same. Castle Deverill, cherished ancestral home to the Deverill family in the west of Ireland, has burned to the ground. But young and flighty Celia Deverill is determined to restore the sad ruins to its former glory...
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