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Janelle Taylor
GOLDEN TORMENT 2/1984 ISBN: 082171323X The instant Kathryn saw Landis Jurrell, she didn't know what to fear more: the fierce lumberjack or the torrid emotions he ignited in her. The independent beauty had traveled to the Alaskan wilderness to search for her father.
WHISPERED KISSES 3/1990 ISBN: 0821729128 Texas heiress Laura Leigh Webster thought she was prepared for the perils she and her guardian, Lord Chadwick Hamilton, might face on their exotic African safari. The beautiful blonde never dreamed her biggest worry would be a beast of the two-legged variety - Jace Elliot, their handsome, mysterious guide. Chad warned her Jace was a dangerous man with a criminal past, not a man to trust...or love. But now that fate had placed her in Jace's strong hands, Leigh was stunned to realize there was nowhere she'd rather be! Jace studied the golden-haired temptress with caution and desire warring in his emerald eyes. With that tawny skin and those lush curves, she was too perfect to be true. What was she doing here with his old enemy? Was she really Chad's ward or just very tempting bait meant to lure him back to England and the trumped-up charges that awaited him there? He would soon see how innocent she really was...he would sample every silken inch of her, discover her every womanly desire, and learn all her sweet secrets. For he would conquer her resistance with ecstasy's fire and...Whispered Kisses...
Elswyth Thane
EVER AFTER 1945
KISSING KIN 1948
THE LIGHT HEART 1947
THIS WAS TOMORROW 1951
Elswyth Thane
THIS WAS TOMORROW 1951 The author's sixth Williamsburg novel features the rise of a European dictator, the pitall of appeasement, and the tense and fearfully expectant daily life in a great capital of democracy.
Angela Thirkell
ANKLE DEEP 1933 Fanny Turner is a crafty woman who "would have felt sentiment of an infuriated kind" if her family duties had ever interfered with her frenetic social life. One weekend she invites Valentine Ensor, a divorced school friend of her husband Arthur, for a weekend, along with an older couple, the Howards, who bring along their daughter, the somewhat dour Aurea Palgrave. Aurea is now married and living quite unhappily in Canada, but Arthur had once been in love with her. The weekend is a somewhat predictable time of star-crossed love and slight misunderstandings that lead nowhere. Fanny is quite forward, and although she is married claims that one should always carry on with several men at once because "If you only care for one you'll always get hurt." (Publishers Weekly)
AUGUST FOLLY 1936 The village of Worsted is staging Hippolytus. Inevitably the most absurd romances bloom. Boorish young Richard Tebbins, just down from Oxford, falls in love with Mrs. Dean, mother of nine, whose oldest so loves Richard's sister, who loves...Amidst a series of comic catastrophes, everyone manages to redeem themselves.
BEFORE LUNCH 1939 When a tea shop and garage are proposed for pristine Pooker's Place, the residents of Barsetshire join together to stop its construction. People fall in love, sometimes with the wrong partners, but everything works out properly in the end.
THE BRANDONS 1939 Replete with youthful nonsense and middle-aged folly, people fall in love with the wrong persons and are determined to misunderstand one another. But given time and kindness, the Brandons sort out their difficulties.
CORONATION SUMMER 1937 This witty historical novel follows 17-year-old Fanny's journey to London for the six weeks of coronation festivities in the summer of 1838, when young Victoria assumes the throne in England. Happily the pomp and pageantry of London do little to distract Fanny from the more familiar concerns of matchmaking and courtship.
THE DEMON IN THE HOUSE 1934 Thirkell continues the saga of the irrepressible Tony Morland. An actual boy must be lurking somewhere in the background as it would be impossible to make up such a monumental Pest. Grown ups and children alike are ground into submission by his everlasting chatter and overweening 'self-esteem'. Only Dr Ford, whose conversation with Tony is confined to the phrase 'Shut up' and Sylvia Gould, the swimming instructor, who exposes Tony's vaunted diving ability as phony, come anywhere near even temporarily quashing him. Tony and his silent friend Donk (but how could he be otherwise around Tony?) are referred to as the 'little boys' at age thirteen and Rose, age fourteen, is comforted by Mrs Morland while holding her on her lap; how times have changed!
THE FORTUNE OF HARRIETTE 1936
THE GRATEFUL SPARROW 1935
HIGH RISING 1933
O, THESE MEN, THESE MEN! 1934 A roman à clef about the end of a marriage
POMFRET TOWERS 1938 The competition between Phoebe's and Alice's mothers is intense. Both are published authors, and both are moving their daughters to best advantage. Mrs. Rivers comes up short. Pomfret Towers is the quintessence of manners gone awry--just a bit.
SUMMER HALF 1937 Philip Winter is disastrously engaged to Rose Birkett; Everard Carter is smitten by Kate; and Noel Merton befriends boisterous Lydia Keith.
THREE HOUSES 1931 A reminiscence of growing up in the English countryside in the 1890s
TROOPER TO THE SOUTHERN CROSS 1934 Major Bowen is a fine upstanding Australian officer. He has survived the First World War-Egypt, Gallipoli, France-and found a dinkum Pommie missus in London. After the Armistice he and Celia set out for God's Own Country on the troop ship 'Rudolstadt'. With them are other officers and their families, plus 800 odd rioting diggers and a gang of prisoners on the lower decks. Theirs is a dry ship, ingeniously sabotaged by the Germans-and a long, long journey lies ahead....
WILD STRAWBERRIES 1934
Jodi Thomas
CHERISH THE DREAM 4/1993 ISBN: 1557738815 They cherished a moment in time when dreams triumphed on the wings of love... From childhood through nursing school, Katherine and Sarah were best friends. Now they set out to take all that life had to offer - and were swept up in the rugged, positively breathtaking world of two young pilots, men who took to the skies with a bold spirit. And who dared them to love. Together they embraced a tumultuous world where luck and desire meet. Where the winds of war challenged their hearts. And where passion soared beyond their wildest dreams.
Michele Yount Thomas
ECHOES OF THE HEART 3/1996 ISBN:0786002433 Society heiress Laurel Willard has abandoned all hope of finding a suitable husband until she meets romantic, brooding Derek Tregarth at a glittering gala ball which soon leads to marriage and a growing suspicion that her husband is not what he seems.
Rosie Thomas
ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED 1991 ISBN: 0553088149 Their mothers are twins, and cousins Clio Hirsh and Lady Grace Stretton look nearly identical. But beneath the fathomless blue-gray eyes, dark hair, and soft ivory shin, the two could not be more different. Clio is the clever dreamer, the daughter of a professor who raised her with liberal ideas and a passion for family, while pampered, defiant Grace, daughter of an earl, grew up at the country estate of Stretton knowing she had the power to enslave any man. When the First World War shatters the comfort of their lives, the childhood friends follow very different paths. Rebellious Clio chooses a bohemian life and searches for excitement with abandon, haunting the nightclubs and studios of London's demimonde, throwing herself into her work at a literary magazine...and finally falling in love. For Grace, destiny draws her in another direction. A torrid affair creates family friction; a hasty marriage brings only brief happiness but opens unexpected doors, as she rises from heartbreak to become one of the first women members of Parliament.
Victoria Thompson
WINDS OF FORTUNE 1/1995 ISBN:0821748319 When fate brought them together on the Florida coast during the Spanish-American War, Sean Tate and Maud Campbell knew they had found something special. The son of a wealthy Texan, Sean needed to find out what being Roosevelt Rough Rider could show him about being a man. As one of Clara Barton's nurses, Maud hungered for freedom and a life of her own. In the days to come, Maud and Sean would discover how passion could transform their lives. Then, in one shattering moment, a desperate lie would destroy Maud's faith - and drive her from the arms of the man she was forever destined to love....
Alexandra Thorne
INTIMATE STRANGERS 8/1992 ISBN: 0553295195 At thirty-two Jade Howard was facing a world of shattered dreams: once a bestselling novelist with all of Hollywood at her feet, she was now the critics' favorite target. And all she wanted was to get away... But they say you should beware of what you wish for, for in a picturesque hotel in Santa Fe, Jade will slip into a flame-colored dress - and wake up in another woman's life, with another woman's friends, her home...and her husband. He is an intimate stranger, tall, dark, devastating - and hell-bent on driving his wife to adultery and divorce. It almost works...until Duncan Carlisle falls in love again, with the ravishing interloper he thinks is his wife. How can Jade tell him that the lady in his bed and in his heart is not who she seems? It is a risk she must take, and soon...before the real Megan Carlisle returns... before time itself tries to wrench two lovers apart.
PAST FORGETTING 4/1992 ISBN: 0450567656 When Jade Howard buys a 1920s dress, she is plunged into a life beyond her control and thrown together with the man of her wildest dreams and desires.
Nicola Thorne
THE BLACKBIRD'S SONG 12/2001 ISBN:0727857770 1-year-old Peg Hallam has arrived in London to carve a career for herself in Fleet Street. She is torn between her strict morality and her desire to experience city life.
THE BROKEN BOUGH 1/2001 ISBN:0727856812 In the early 1900s beautiful Cathy Read was widowed and has since struggled to make ends met. Despite a new marriage, Cathy's hardships only increase and the outbreak of war in 1914 brings new stresses to the family.
CASHMERE 6/1982 ISBN:0385176449 The novel of a woman who dared to want it all! She was more woman than Scotland had ever known. The war that took her brother's life and broke her father's spirit had stripped her family of its fortune. But Margaret wouldn't give up...In the dazzling salons of London and Paris, she learned the secrets of fashion that would made the Dunbar name great again. And in the arms of a man who knew passion, she learned the secret that can make a woman's heart soar...In a world where women were denied both love and power...she dared to want it all!
IN THIS QUIET EARTH 4/1998 ISBN:0727853015 When old Sir Guy Woodville dies, his son Carson, just back from the war, takes responsibility for the family, but the task is not an easy one. The Woodville estate is deep in debt and in need of urgent repairs. His stepmother has taken up with a wealthy baronet but appearances can be deceptive.
NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE 2/1985 ISBN:0246123265 An engrossing novel which takes place in Egypt, the Sudan, the US and England during the years 1898-1915.
OH, HAPPY DAY! 12/2002 ISBN:072785903X It is the summer of 1932 and Ed Hallam and Maisie celebrate their marriage in style at Ryland Castle. Maisie, formerly a nightclub dancer seems to have achieved respectability. But has she? Or will her former life send shockwaves through the family.
PAST LOVE 11/1998 ISBN:0727822217 Bart Sadler had always been the black sheep of the Dorset town of Wenham, held responsible for the death of Laurence Yetman and the ruin of Sophie's reputation. The people of the town unite in disapproval, except Deborah, Sophie's daughter. Bart senses a kindred spirit - but can she trust his claim to be reformed?
THE RECTOR'S DAUGHTER 5/1992 ISBN: 0434228052 An enthralling and colourful saga of turn-of-the-century Dorset life.
THE WATER'S EDGE 6/2002 ISBN:0727858327 In 1926 Peg Hallam is engaged to a man who has long admired her, but whom she is not quite sure she loves. Potentially, this would seem to be a recipe for disaster, and indeed the cracks begin to show during the General Strike in May, which Peg actively participates in. She is unexpectedly thrown into violent contact with an opponent who is none other than Hubert Ryland, heir to her stepfather's employer, Lord Ryland - and someone she has long and secretly felt attracted to. The resulting complications and the effect on her family and Hubert's family brings her close to the water's edge.
WHERE THE RIVERS MEET 10/1982 ISBN: 0246114096 When Margaret Dunbar's eldest brother lost his life in France in 1918, the family knitwear firm lost an heir. But it gained an heiress: Margaret, who proved herself brave in the face of despair, and passionate in the face of coldness and betrayal. Margaret never forgot she was a Dunbar; she never forgot that she came from the Scottish border town which nestled in the heather-covered hills. Yet she transformed a stick-in-the-mud business into an internationally famous center of haute couture. Despite every setback in love, in war, and in peace, Margaret Dunbar was a heroine who transcended her time.
A WIND IN SUMMER 1/1991 ISBN:0246137630
YESTERDAY'S PROMISES 2/1986 ISBN:0246126612 Here is a novel of magnificent grandeur, stunning in its portrayal of Britain and the Colonies from 1920 to 1937. "Never Such Innocence" introduced the Askhams, the Lighterhams and the Bolingbrokes, three families of different classes and different expectations. "Yesterday's Promises" introduces their children and grandchildren-hopeful for the future, yet tormented by the past.
Marcella Thum
THE THORN TREES 5/1991 ISBN: 0449132838 An extraordinary woman, an exotic land, and a romance destroyed by murder... Hoping to end her vagabond theatrical life forever, actress Kate Cantrell leaves the London stage for Africa. There, she is to marry Roger Westmacott. Met at the station in Mombasa by Roger's partner, Cody Prentice, Kate finds herself strangely attracted to the tough-talking American as he is drawn to her willowy beauty and self-assured style. But Kate's new life is not all she had hoped it would be. It doesn't take long for her to see what Roger is really like - weak, incompetent, and unforgivably cruel to the natives. Then tragedy strikes: Roger dies mysteriously, and all the evidence points to Kate as his murderer. Abandoned by everyone - including Cody - she if forced to prove her innocence and to stake her claim to her beloved Africa and a new life....
Brenna Todd
THE LOCKET(#621) 11/1994 ISBN: 0373706219 As Erin Sawyer stared at the antique portrait of Della Munro, she felt a bond between them, A bond that linked them to the man whose face she saw in her dreams. When Erin finally met Waite MacKinnon, the man with the compelling eyes, she realized she wasn't dreaming at all. She had somehow landed in the 1920s, and now everyone thought she was Della, the adulterous wife of a very powerful and dangerous man. If Waite would believe she wasn't Della, he could help her return to her own place and time. But that would mean leaving him in the past when she very much wanted him in her future...
Lindsay Townsend
A SECRET TREASURE 12/2003 ISBN: 0786257385 Every time she was with Julio Falcone, Eve Burnett was torn between her own happiness and the dread that he was a threat to her family's safety on the island of Rhodes in the 1930s. For Falcone is Italian, and a representative of the Fascist authorities who control the island. He may be handsome and charming, but he is still a policeman and Eve's brother David is involved with the resistance. With war looming, Eve must take every precaution to protect her family.
Jennie Tremaine
DAISY 1/1980 ISBN:044011683X Daisy Jenkins never expected to be anything more than a trespasser on the idyllic lawns of Marsden Castle. Then, suddenly, she was admitted into the magic circle of the Earl and Countess of Nottenstone, to await the arrival of the notorious Lord Chatterton, her father---a stranger whose very name was foreign to her.
GINNY 8/1980 ISBN:044012820X Poor Ginny Bloggs! She had inherited a fortune, a magnificent country estate, and her benefactor's disgruntled relatives - a quartet of querulous schemers - who were horrified to find themselves suddenly at the mercy of a low, common girl, a total stranger - the coal merchant's daughter! Poor Ginny Bloggs! The handsome Lord Gerald de Fremney himself had pledged to keep the unruly relatives at hand. He thought he understood thoroughly modern women. Her reluctant guardians thought they understood society. Poor Ginny Bloggs! As delicate as a china doll, as bold as brass. She understood them all. She would have to teach them what it meant to be a lady.
KITTY 10/1979 ISBN:0440149819 In a brilliant social season, Edwardian London's dizzying whirl had its share of surprises. The latest was Kitty Harrison, once achingly poor, suddenly an heiress--and now, thanks to her determined mother, about to become a Baroness. Life should be easier now, but then there was the handsome Lord Chesworth to consider and the attempt on her life...
LADY ANNE'S DECEPTION 1/1986 ISBN:0449209008 When Lady Anne Sinclair vowed to marry before her spoilt beauty of a sister, she had no idea the 'anyone' would be the Marquess of Torrance. Long the darling of the ton - and considered quite the confirmed bachelor - he succumbed to Annie's charms and, almost magically, made her his wife. But Annie's lifelong battle for attention had ill-prepared her for married life. In a tipsy reverie on her wedding night, she blurted out her real reason for marrying the Marquess - and her husband's formidable pride shut the door on any further communication. Only a crisis of major proportions could bring the headstrong newlyweds together. And no less than the chancellor of the exchequer, with sinister political ambitions known only to himself, embroiled Annie in a dangerous plot that taught her the truth about her wifely sentiments.
LUCY 4/1980 She was a lady's maid who longed to be a lady and capture the heart of Andrew, Viscount Harvey. With the help of Hamish MacGregor, the wily old butler, Lucy's dreams may come true!
MOLLY 7/1980 ISBN:0440158567 She dared to spurn London's prize catch. She was a cheeky American upstart who thought beauty, brains, and bravery were enough to conquer London society. Well, he'd show her! Nobody, but nobody, spurned Lord David Manley, the most eligible bachelor in town. Soon she'd be trembling in his arms, desperately in love with the man she dated to mock. David Manley always got his way, and Miss Molly Maguire was a challenge he couldn't resist! But Lord David had never met the likes of this headstrong heiress who fought like the devil, looked like an angel, and had all London dangling on a string.
POLLY 5/1980 ISBN: 0440170338 Polly was determined to have Peter--and her dream. He wouldn't betray her now...Would he?
POPPY 4/1982 ISBN:0440169690 Poppy Duveen rose from the slums of London's East End to become one of the most popular stars of the stage. And she gives it all up to marry Freddie Plummett, the only "gentleman" she'd ever known. But when Freddie dies, Poppy finds herself alone in the castle of Freddie's formidable uncle, the dazzling Duke of Guildham. Poppy can't ignore her attraction to the handsome Duke, who obviously sees her as a poor relation and common waif. Poppy will show him-and the whole arrogant Plummett family-by returning to the stage and conquering London as a star once more.
SALLY 1982 ISBN: 0440175232 She was an honored guest in a palatial country home. 'Aunt Mabel,' lovelorn columnist of Home Chats magazine, had been summoned to prevent the Duchess of Dartware's son, Paul, from a marriage worse than death. Who would have guessed that behind Aunt Mabel's acid pen and ageless wisdom lurked eighteen-year-old Sally Blane...determined to make the handsome marquess her own! But how could she compete, wearing false wrinkles and a white wig? It was a challenge worthy of Sally herself: to conquer the upper crust of Dartware and enchant her newfound Prince Charming, without giving 'Aunt Mabel's' secret away...
SUSIE 11/1981 ISBN:044018391X Poor little Susie. A beautiful dreamer, she imagined herself happy in a rose-covered cottage, only to find herself mistress of a great damp castle and wife to the elderly Earl of Blackhall. Luck, not the lecherous earl, contrived to spare her. She was a wealthy young widow on her wedding night. But her trials had just begun. The old countess was determined to turn the simple miss into a sophisticated lady, while handsome Sir Giles was determined to unmask her as a dangerously cunning minx. Sweet, naive Susie. Luck had brought her a fortune she'd never wished for, but what happy accident could make her innocent dreams of love come true?
TILLY 6/1981 ISBN:0440186374 The Beast. That was what they called her. With her plump body and rough tomboy ways, she was more like a clown. It was hopeless. Poor, penniless Tilly could only sit among the chaperons as paid companion to the spiteful Lady Aileen and dream. But suddenly Phillip, Marquess of Heppleford--the most eligible bachelor of them all--up and married her. He meant to keep his freedom, fulfill the conditions of his father's will, and shock his aunts. He never imagined he'd return from a scandalous adventure in Paris to find a seductive beauty...a beauty who had learned that loving well is the best revenge.
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