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Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Bennet thought Fitzwilliam Darcy, her friend Georgiana's brother, was the most wonderful, handsomest man in the entire world. When he went to India to fight Britain’s enemies, she made him promise to write her along with Georgie regularly. There wasn't anything improper, since Georgiana and she had sworn to be sisters. When Elizabeth and Georgiana learned that Fitzwilliam was captured, they kept writing letters to him, so that when he was released, he would know that he had not been forgotten by those who loved him.

One man. One instrument . A wealth of music. A biography of the brilliant and tormented Polish composer Chopin, set against the rich historic background of the era.

Elizabeth planned to never remarry. She had married Mr. Collins to protect Jane when Mr. Bennet died. But would her memories of how he hurt her keep her from finding love with Mr. Darcy? Elizabeth was only 15 when Mr. Bennet died. His heir, Mr. Collins, was an awful, ugly man who mistreated the servants. Elizabeth would never let her dear Jane marry him. Never. Jane was beautiful, kind, and good. She deserved to marry someone she loved. Elizabeth convinced Mr. Collins to choose her instead.

Five-year-old Sarah doesn’t understand why she’s afraid. But she is. Frightening things keep happening in their new home. A century earlier, a servant girl with dreams of fame and fortune collided with the house’s mistress - a British aristocrat bent on securing her place in proper society. The tension between these women began with small things, built to prickly pressure, and then exploded into raging mayhem, tearing the entire household apart. Fury, vengeance, and hatred infuse the very walls of Crawley House.

Now, Emma is a back-to-school PhD student with bigger and better things to worry about. That is, until one night, exhausted, slightly tipsy, and on her way home from a party, the glaring white light of a car comes crashing toward her, changing her life forever. Instead of waking up in a 21st-century hospital, she finds herself waking up in the backwaters of London, Victorian England, 1881.

A dead trainer. A drugged Thoroughbred. In the high-stakes world of Victorian horse racing, the truth lives under the skin... Newmarket Heath, 1887. To the public, the fatal gallop of legendary trainer Henry Ashmore was a tragic accident. A horse spooked by a drainage ditch, an aging rider losing his seat. Case closed. But Henry’s daughter, Nell Ashmore, doesn't read the public form book; she reads the horse. With a ledger behind her eyes and a unique, ancestral gift for reading an animal’s pulse by touch, Nell examines the four-year-old colt Domine's Pride.

Spring 1568.The fallen Queen, Mary of Scots, has fled her homeland and come to England, placing her cousin, Queen Elizabeth in peril. Popular with Catholics, Mary may become a danger. As war rages in Europe, and Elizabeth struggles to maintain control in England, Mary is implicated in plots too...

A Christmas Surprise: Lord Robert, the Viscount of Marchwood, throws a Christmas Ball every year, and this year his daughter, Lady Audrey, has just turned 18. With the Marchwood family fortune all but gone, Lord Robert is keen to secure her a prosperous match. But when a handsome, masked stranger threatens to steal Audrey's heart, will it prove to be a good or bad Christmas surprise?

Phillip Brown wakes up one bitter November morning to find a woman near frozen on the stoop of the Baltimore home he shares with his sister and uncle. The unconscious woman eventually awakens, unwilling to share who has terrified her while she makes a recovery in the Brown home. He continues his work at the Wiest Oyster Cannery and pouring beer on occasion at his neighborhood brewery while guarding his family from dangerous criminals’ intent of silencing his discoveries about the woman.

Author Julia Harbour's debut novel reintroduces us to Adele, Jane, and Rochester in the Gothic drama we know so well. As the classic story moves forward, secrets are revealed. A heritage is denied. Passions smolder. Danger looms! Heartbreak and joy intertwine as Adele's journey reaches its startling culmination.

Elizabeth knew the real reason Mr. Darcy tried to stop Bingley from marrying Jane: He was selfish, cruel, and unfeeling. Jane and Bingley thought he had counselled against their marriage because he really believed Jane to be indifferent. The adorable pair was hopelessly naive. 

Having traveled much and tried his hand at many jobs, Alexander Kuprin ran into all sorts of people over the course of his tumultuous life. Human Types is a selection of sketches from the vast gallery of portraits he had created as part of his writing.  

Anyone who likes to go out in a little black dress can thank Coco Chanel for making it fashionable. The French designer behind the iconic brand of haute couture grew up in poverty, though. Delve into this biography to learn all about the rags-to-riches life of this fashion icon.

The slender young highwayman who held up Lord Raven's coach was shocked to discover he had made a terrible mistake. He turned and fled, but not before Lord Raven had put a bullet in his shoulder. It was then Raven's turn to be shocked. For the wounded highwayman turned out to be a beautiful young woman, the kind of woman the rakish Raven had been seeking all his life - Lady Tara. It was some time before Lady Tara could tell Raven the truth about this frightening masquerade.

Nora Calloway came home to bury her mother. She didn't expect to find the one letter her mother spent thirty years making sure no one could read.When Nora Calloway returns to Four Winds Harbor to close out her mother's estate, she braces for grief, paperwork, and the quiet exhaustion of sorting...

On the eve of a holiday, while most households prepare for a celebration, one family is faced with a separation, possibly forever. Their peace of mind, safety, and very survival suddenly become dependent on two clever children and one very unusual feline...

An escaped convict! A Contessa who is not what she seems! What are the mysteries of the Whitaker Theatre company? And –– could a baby be on the way? Where is the doctor???

Beautiful, titled, and wealthy to boot, Lady Lydia Beaufort was expected to have a spectacular London Season. There was just one problem; the eccentric daughter of the Earl of Galway had no intention of becoming the ton’s darling. Especially if it involved humoring the awful herds of fortune hunters and greedy second sons, intent on making her their bride. All Lydia wanted was to be left alone in peace, to read her beloved Lord Byron. That is, until an incorrigible rogue of a Marquess burst into her life and turned all her ideas about love upside down.

Every flower has a story.Why does the water lily float upon the surface of the lake? How did the gladiolus get its sword-like leaves? Why does the bleeding heart bloom with tiny broken hearts, and what gave the magnolia its magnificent flowers?In Tales About Flowers, Latvian writer Anna Sakse...

Young Maria Neubauer’s heart is happiest when it is singing. With dreams of performing for admiring fans across the globe, she says farewell to her German home for fame and fortune abroad. But what Maria finds in America is not quite what she had envisioned. Her hopes of being idolized are dashed when the American Civil War prevents her rise to stardom. Could God have another path for her life? Is this the love of honor she should be seeking when orphans and freed slaves are being mistreated amid a war?