Beautiful, headstrong Imogen Waterstone has recruited the darkly infamous Earl of Colchester to help her seek revenge for the murder of her best friend. As they set a trap for the villain, Imogen and Colchester fearlessly encounter the...
Great Britain
- Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:
- Author:Waltman, JeroldSummary:
In a thorough and well-documented study of the American and British experience with minimum wage legislation, Prof. Jerold Waltman describes and analyzes the operation of current minimum wage policies and politics in both countries....
- Author:Eliot, GeorgeSummary:
Through Dorothea and other townsfolk, Eliot shows how various human passions interrelate with Victorian society.
- Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
St. Martha’s College, Cambridge, had been staggering along on a shoestring for decades. Then alumna Alice Toon leaves her old school a huge fortune. The dons immediately fall to fighting over the spoils. The Virgins, led by Dame Maud...
- Author:Gordon, GrahamSummary:
Biography of Jem Mace the father of modern boxing and the first worldwide sports star.
- Author:Thomas, Peter, Tracy, NicholasSummary:
Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. Despite the coming social reforms undertaken at home, the world of the Georgian British Empire was nothing if not class-conscious and leery of outsiders. But Anthony...
- Author:Maddox, BrendaSummary:
"Who is Margaret Thatcher? Her influence on politics is well documented - not least by Lady Thatcher herself. What kind of person was she that she could overcome her background, the snobbery of Oxford University and then of the...
- Author:Barr, DamianSummary:
Long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize and The Sunday Times' selection for Memoir of the Year. "This amazing book tells the story of an appalling childhood with truth and clarity unsmudged by self-pity. It grips from beginning to end...
- Author:Shearing, GeorgeSummary:
"Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the "Shearing sound"―the recordings of his historic late 1940s quintet. Together with his unique...
- Author:Fleming, IanSummary:
Mr. Big, master of crime and SMERSH operative, crushes those he cannot possess--like his beautiful prisoner, Solitaire, and her would-be saviors James Bond and Felix Leiter. All three are marked as victims in a trail of terror that...
- Author:Springer, NancySummary:
Young Lionel, minstrel in the outlaw band of Rowan Hood, daughter of Robin, tries to find his courage when she is abducted from Sherwood Forest.
- Author:Laurence, Patricia OndekSummary:
Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously...
- Author:Blackwood, JessieSummary:
Sequel to Per Ardua After months of physiotherapy, Group Captain Jack Ratigan has regained some of the mobility lost in a plane crash at the end of World War II. But six years later, he still requires the care of his cousin’s butler,...
- Author:Richards, Keith, Fox, James, Hurley, JoeSummary:
Autobiography of the guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards. With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards lived the original rock and roll life. He tells his story of life in the crossfire...
- Author:Cooper, IsabelSummary:
In Victorian England, gossip is often as precious as gold. But the Highlanders are a more mysterious bunch. And if anyone found out what Stephen MacAlasdair really was, he'd be hunted down, murdered, his clan wiped out. As he's called...
- Author:Willig, LaurenSummary:
L’OEillet rose est «une comédie vraiment exquise». En voici maintenant la suite «terriblement brillante et amusante» mettant en vedette Éloïse Kelly, étudiante au doctorat à Harvard, qui est sur le point de démasquer l’espion le plus...
- Author:Hutton, CallieSummary:
Drake, duc de Manchester, a recours à l’agence matrimoniale pour dénicher l’épouse parfaite. Il désire une femme posée, sophistiquée, digne du titre de duchesse. Mais plus que tout, il désire une femme qui ne recherche pas l’inutile...
- Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:
A royal birth, a nobleman's death, and a scarlet woman's murder In March 1279 Edward I takes a break from hammering the Welsh and bearing down on England's Jews to vacation in Gloucestershire. The royal party breaks the...
- Author:Byrd, SandraSummary:
Miss Eleanor Sheffield is a talented evaluator of antiquities, trained to know the difference between a genuine artifact and a fraud. But with her father's passing and her uncle's decline into dementia, the family business is...
- Author:Lawrence, D. H.Summary: