Download or read book Dancing in the Duke s Arms written by Grace Burrowes and published by cJewel Books. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Do Dukes Fall in Love?Every summer the cream of society gathers at the Dukeries, named for the ducal estates concentrated in one small corner of Nottinghamshire. While the entertainments include parties, balls, and a famous boat race, the ducal hosts and their guests find heartbreak, love and happy endings. Four heartwarming stories from four bestselling authors.
Download or read book Dancing in the Duke s Arms written by Grace Burrowes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every summer the cream of society gathers at the Dukeries, named for the ducal estates concentrated in one small corner of Nottinghamshire. While the entertainments include parties, balls, and a famous boat race, the ducal hosts and their guests find adventure, passion, and happy ever afters.
Download or read book How to Dance With a Duke written by Manda Collins and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Dance With a Duke Manda Collins What's a wallflower to do when she's suddenly in need of a husband? Use all the pluck and moxie she can muster to get what she wants... Miss Cecily Hurston would much rather explore the antiquities of Egypt than the uncharted territory of marriage. But the rules of her father's exclusive academic society forbid her entrance unless she weds one of its members. To clear her ailing father's name of a scandalous rumor, Cecily needs to gain admission into the Egyptian Club—and is willing to marry any old dullard to do it. Lucas Dalton, Duke of Winterson, is anything but dull. He's a dashing and decorated war hero determined to help Cecily—even if that means looking the other way when she claims the dance card of Amelia Snow, this season's most sought-after beauty. But Lucas has a reason for wanting Cecily to join the Egyptian Club: His brother went missing during one of Lord Hurston's expeditions to Egypt. An alliance with the explorer's bluestocking daughter could bring Lucas closer to the truth about what happened...or it could lead him to a more dangerous love than either he or Cecily could have imagined....
Download or read book Dancing with the Duke written by Roxie Brandon and published by Roxie Brandon. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing value Regency two-story collection. Jam-packed with romance, love, and adventure. Charming dukes with attitudes and kind hearts. Lovely ladies who want to find love. You'll find all of this and much more in this collection. The collection includes: 1. Enchanting the Duke Edward Ridgeway, Duke of Cumberland, mourns his wife. He needs a new wife, a marriage of convenience for the sake of his children. Unfortunately, after the death of his wife, the Duke became a faithless rake and a heartbreaker. No woman of good character is willing to live under the same roof as him. Apart from the beautiful Amelia Winters. Amelia is ready to love the Duke’s children as her own, but her biggest challenge will be their father. Since his late wife died, he wants nothing to do with his children. Will the innocent Amelia win the Duke's heart? Will this be a marriage of convenience? Or has the Duke gotten more than he asked for? Could he be falling in love? 2. Enticing a Duke Miss Rebecca Harrington is living through the most unfortunate circumstances after the death of her parents. When she is offered employment as a governess for the scandalous, world-weary Duke of Daventry, little does she know that her very innocence will attract him to her like a moth to a flame. But with a jealous cousin and fiancée, can they still find their happily ever after? Enjoy this sweet Cinderella retelling!
Download or read book Dancing with the Duke written by T J Burden and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With mixed emotions, Miranda enters the castle as a maid. She had looked longingly at it from across the bluff ever since a young girl. The children teased her unmercifully, they all heard about the mad Duke that lives there. However, she did not let them upset her. This was her chance to leave the orphanage. After the strange disappearance of his father and the guilt at the tragic death of his beloved twin sister, ravaged in pain hed he becomes a recluse. As the years roll, by ghostly tales kept the mystery alive. One day the Duke decided it was time to end his isolation and decided to give a ball, the main reason to choose a wife and start his nursery. His title and all he holds dear was at stake. An avid reader Miranda asks to borrow some reading matter. While she was searching for a book in the library the Duke enters. Without knowing why he takes her in his arms and kisses her. When the Duke makes Miranda his ward, she becomes a target for his malicious cousin. To keep Miranda safe the Duke throws caution to the wind and asks her to marry him. Will the Prince give his approval for the Duke to marry out of his class? More importantly to the Duke, will Miranda accept his proposal by stepping on the dance floor for the third time?
Download or read book The Ugly Ducklings written by Manda Collins and published by St. Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These wallflowers aren’t looking for love, but when they find themselves entangled in dangerous intrigues they’ll need help from a trio of irresistible lords to unravel the truth—and tying the love knot in the process. For the first time together in one fabulous e-bundle, romance and mystery collide in Manda Collins’ Ugly Ducklings series: HOW TO DANCE WITH A DUKE: Miss Cecily Hurston would rather explore the antiquities of Egypt than the mysteries of marriage, but to gain entrance into an exclusive academic society, she needs to wed one of its dull members. Only the likeliest candidate, the dashing Lucas Dalton, Duke of Winterson, is anything but dull. He’s willing to give bluestocking Cecily what she needs, but Lucas is hiding a secret that might snuff out love’s flame before it even has a chance to burn HOW TO ROMANCE A RAKE: A wallflower among the roses of the ton, Miss Juliet Shelby is shocked when Alec, Viscount Deveril, the most handsome bachelor in London, offers to teach her to dance. Passion sparks between them, but both are keeping secrets, and Juliet’s interfering family will force them into an elopement. Can a marriage made in haste lead to happy ever after, or will unexpected danger separate the newlyweds forever? HOW TO ENTICE AN EARL: Lady Madeline Essex sought out the forbidden gambling hell as research for her novel, but instead she’s stumbled upon a grisly crime. If only she’d been discovered by anyone other than Christian Monteith, the new Earl of Gresham, the most maddening, fascinating man of her acquaintance. It will take compromise and team work for this pair to discover just what lies beneath the scene they witnessed, and when Maddie catches the attention of a ruthless criminal, Christian will do whatever he can to keep her safe--even risk their newly kindled love.
Download or read book The Silver Swan written by Sallie Bingham and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men who inherit great wealth are respected, but women who do the same are ridiculed. In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham rescues Doris Duke from this gendered prison and shows us just how brave, rebellious, and creative this unique woman really was, and how her generosity benefits us to this day.” —Gloria Steinem A bold portrait of Doris Duke, the defiant and notorious tobacco heiress who was perhaps the greatest modern woman philanthropist In The Silver Swan, Sallie Bingham chronicles one of the great underexplored lives of the twentieth century and the very archetype of the modern woman. “Don’t touch that girl, she’ll burn your fingers,” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once said about Doris Duke, the inheritor of James Buchanan Duke’s billion-dollar tobacco fortune. During her lifetime, she would be blamed for scorching many, including her mother and various ex-lovers. She established her first foundation when she was twenty-one; cultivated friendships with the likes of Jackie Kennedy, Imelda Marcos, and Michael Jackson; flaunted interracial relationships; and adopted a thirty-two year-old woman she believed to be the reincarnation of her deceased daughter. This is also the story of the great houses she inhabited, including the classically proportioned limestone mansion on Fifth Avenue, the sprawling Duke Farms in New Jersey, the Gilded Age mansion Rough Point in Newport, Shangri La in Honolulu, and Falcon’s Lair overlooking Beverly Hills. Even though Duke was the subject of constant scrutiny, little beyond the tabloid accounts of her behavior has been publicly known. In 2012, when eight hundred linear feet of her personal papers were made available, Sallie Bingham set out to probe her identity. She found an alluring woman whose life was forged in the Jazz Age, who was not only an early war correspondent but also an environmentalist, a surfer, a collector of Islamic art, a savvy businesswoman who tripled her father’s fortune, and a major philanthropist with wide-ranging passions from dance to historic preservation to human rights. In The Silver Swan, Bingham is especially interested in dissecting the stereotypes that have defined Duke’s story while also confronting the disturbing questions that cleave to her legacy.
Download or read book The Duke s Rebellious Lady written by Eva Shepherd and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His best friend’s sister Now a tempting beauty Taking Lady Daisy Springfeld to his estate to convalesce after her cycling accident is the least the Duke of Mandivale can do to help the family who has been so kind to him. But now that Daisy has grown into a beautiful, rebellious young lady, Guy knows he must suppress any lustful thoughts. Only all too soon they’ve gone beyond friendship, and the taste of the forbidden is too tempting to ignore… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Young Victorian Ladies Three spirited sisters, all highly individual, find the men who are just right for them Book 1: Wagering on the Wallflower Book 2: Stranded with the Reclusive Earl Book 3: The Duke's Rebellious Lady
Download or read book Dukes to the Left of Me Princes to the Right written by Kieran Kramer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome, dashing, delightfully wicked—the Impossible Bachelors are the most eligible men in London. But in romance, only one thing is impossible: refusing to follow where the heart leads... THEIR ENGAGEMENT WAS A FAKE. Most women would not be pleased to be labeled a spinster. But Lady Poppy Smith-Barnes isn't most women. In fact, Poppy has invented an imaginary fiancé, the Duke of Drummond, to deter unwanted suitors. A very useful fellow, this duke, until the real Drummond turns up and uses Poppy's ploy to trap her in a betrothal. WILL THEIR PASSION MAKE IT REAL? A good spy flies below the radar. Which is why being named one of the Prince Regent's "Impossible Bachelors" is so inconvenient for Nicholas Staunton. Every society female will be out to ensnare him. Nicholas needs a fiancée—and Poppy's ruse is the answer. How could he have known she'd be a brazen, sensual siren with an irresistible taste for adventure? Now nothing less will do than to convince his fiery Poppy to revoke her spinster status...for good. "Kieran Kramer pens a delightful regency confection."—Julia London, New York Times bestselling author of Courtesan's Scandal "Delicious!"—Sabrina Jeffries, New York Times bestselling author of The Truth About Lord Stoneville
Download or read book Dukes Are Forever written by Bec McMaster and published by Bec McMaster. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compromising situation forced him into marriage. But has his wife been working for the enemy all along? In a steam-fuelled world where vampires once ruled the aristocracy, a dangerous conspiracy threatens to topple the queen, and the Duke of Malloryn knows his nemesis, Lord Balfour, has finally returned to enact his plans of revenge. Malloryn can trust no one, and when incriminating photographs surface—of an enemy agent stealing a kiss from his wife—he is forced to question just why his wife, Adele, trapped him into marriage. Is she an innocent pawn caught up in a madman's games, or is she a double agent working against him? The only way to discover the truth is to seduce her himself... Adele Hamilton may have agreed to a loveless marriage in order to protect herself, but that doesn't stop her heart from yearning for more. Her husband promised her a cold marriage bed. He swore he'd never touch her. But suddenly he's engaged in a campaign of seduction—and the only way to keep her wits about her is to fight fire with fire. The ruthless beauty has locked her heart away, but can she deny the passion that flares between them? And when the truth emerges, will she be the only thing that can save Malloryn's life? Or the weapon his enemy will wield against him? The Blue Blood Conspiracy London Steampunk series: —Gaslamp Fantasy Romance —Historical Romance —Steampunk Romance —Fantasy Romance —Paranormal Romance —Vampire Romance —shifter romance —enemies to lovers romance —marriage of convenience
Download or read book Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino Volume I of 3 written by James Dennistoun and published by JOHN LANE COMPANY. This book was released on 2013 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume I (of 3) But Dennistoun's Dukes of Urbino is not merely a history of the houses of Montefeltro and Della Rovere, of-viii- their famous and most brilliant Court, and of that part of Italy over which they held dominion, but really a work in belles-lettres too, discursive and amusing, as well as instructive. It deals not merely with history, as it seems we have come to understand the word, a thing of politics—in this case the futile and childish politics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy—but illustrates "the arms, arts, and literature of Italy from 1440 to 1630." And indeed this programme was carried out as well as it could be carried out at the time these volumes were written. The book, which has long been almost unprocurable, is full, as it were, of a great leisure, crammed with all sorts of out-of-the-way learning and curious tales and adventures. Sometimes failing in art, and often we may think in judgment, Dennistoun never fails in this, that he is always interested in the people he writes of, interested in their quarrels and love affairs, their hair-breadth escapes and good fortunes. How eagerly he sides with Duke Guidobaldo, chased out of his city of Urbino by Cesare Borgia! It is as though he were assisting at that sudden flight at midnight, and, whole-heartedly the Duke's man as he was, almost fails to understand what Cesare was aiming at, and quite fails to see what Cesare saw too well—the helplessness of Italy, at the mercy, really, of the unconscious nations of the modern world. Such failures as this make his work, indispensable as it is, less valuable than it might have been, but they by no means detract from the general interest of the story. That is a quarry from which much has been hewn, and a good many of those enduring blocks which go to make up so popular and charming a work as John Inglesant came in the first instance from Dennistoun's volumes.
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf Illustrated written by Virginia Woolf and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 5586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf was one of the foremost authors of the twentieth century, whose ground-breaking novels and essays had a profound impact on modernist literature. For the first time in publishing history, Delphi Classics is proud to present Woolf’s complete works in a single edition. The eBook is complemented with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 10) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Woolf’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * ALL 10 novels, with individual contents tables * Images of how the books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories and essays * The rare play penned by Woolf, appearing in no other collection * Easily locate the essays or short stories you want to read * Includes Woolf’s memoirs and diary – spend hours exploring the author’s literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with ‘Contemporary Writers’, rare stories and essays CONTENTS: The Novels The Voyage Out (1915) Night and Day (1919) Jacob’s Room (1922) Mrs. Dalloway (1925) To the Lighthouse (1927) Orlando (1928) The Waves (1931) Flush (1933) The Years (1937) Between the Acts (1941) The Short Stories The Short Stories of Virginia Woolf The Play Freshwater (1923) The Non-Fiction The Common Reader: First Series (1925) A Room of One’s Own (1929) On Being Ill (1930) London Essays (1931) The Common Reader: Second Series (1932) Walter Sickert: A Conversation (1934) Three Guineas (1938) Roger Fry: A Biography (1940) The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942) The Moment and Other Essays (1947) The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays (1950) Granite and Rainbow (1953) Contemporary Writers (1965) Books and Portraits (1978) Women and Writing (1979) Miscellaneous Essays The Essays List of Essays and Reviews in Chronological Order List of Essays and Reviews in Alphabetical Order The Memoirs Writer’s Diary (1953) Moments of Being (1976)
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Download or read book The Dukes and Desires Series written by M. C. Beaton and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 1093 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven novels by the New York Times–bestselling author,“a romance writer who deftly blends humor and adventure” (Booklist). From a bride whose scandalous secret is revealed on her wedding day by a talking mynah bird, to a duke seduced by love letters secretly written by someone else, to an ingénue and a vicar’s wife drawn unexpectedly into the whirlwind of the London season, these seven novels are set in a world of high society scheming and passions hidden behind nineteenth-century propriety. The Dukes and Desires Series includes: The Desirable Duchess; Her Grace’s Passion; Pretty Polly; The Sins of Lady Dacey; My Dear Duchess; Lady Lucy’s Lover; and The Scandalous Marriage. “The best of the Regency writers.” —Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book THE COMPLETE WORKS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF written by Virginia Woolf and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-24 with total page 7947 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this carefully created volume of "THE COMPLETE WORKS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF". This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Contents: Content: Novels: The Voyage Out Night and Day Jacob's Room Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando The Waves The Years Between the Acts The Common Reader: Second Series Three Guineas The Death of the Moth and Other Essays The Moment and Other Essays...
Download or read book Dukes of War Books 1 2 written by Erica Ridley and published by Erica Ridley. This book was released on 2020-10-11 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fan-favorite Dukes of War series features roguish peers and dashing war heroes who return from battle only to be thrust into the splendor and madness of Regency England. The Viscount's Tempting Minx Certain individuals might consider Lady Amelia Pembroke a managing sort of female, but truly, most people would be lost without her help. Why, the latest on-dit is that rakish Viscount Sheffield is canceling the fête of the year because he hasn't time for silly soirees. He doesn't need time—he needs her! The Earl's Defiant Wallflower Oliver York returns from war to find his father dead, his finances in arrears, and himself the new Earl of Carlisle. If he doesn't marry an heiress—and fast!—he and his tenants are going to be pitching tents down by the Thames. He definitely shouldn't be trading kisses with a penniless debutante... no matter how captivating she is!
Download or read book The Dukes of War Books 1 9 Box Set written by Erica Ridley and published by Erica Ridley. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of unforgettable romances in the witty, feel-good, fan-favorite DUKES OF WAR series, from a New York Times bestselling author! The Viscount's Tempting Minx He's an unbendable lord. She's an unstoppable force. When these two clash, their winter nights will never be the same! The Earl's Defiant Wallflower Lord Carlisle must marry an heiress—and fast. He definitely shouldn't be kissing a penniless debutante...no matter how captivating she is! The Captain's Bluestocking Mistress Spinster Jane Downing wants off the shelf and into the arms of a hot-blooded man — Specifically, the dark and dangerous Captain Grey! The Major's Faux Fiancee When two stubborn best friends try to make each other call off their wedding, neither expects their fake betrothal to become true love... The Brigadier's Runaway Bride Just as she’s about to say "I do" to a duke, Sarah’s ex-fiancé returns to crash the wedding! The Pirate's Tempting Stowaway When Captain Blackheart is sent to capture treasure, the booty turns out to be a fiesty, passionate stowaway! The Duke's Accidental Wife The unflappable Duke of Ravenwood meets his match in this rollicking #9 New York Times best-seller! INCLUDES 2 BONUS NOVELLAS: A Match, Unmasked A soldier comes home from war hoping to make amends with the girl-next-door he abandoned...if she'll let him! All I Want He taught her to trust. He taught her to love. And then he left her behind without a word. Tonight he's back. Whether for a moment or forever depends on the turn of a card. Twenty-one to win—or to lose it all. Their future hinges on her dealing him the right number... AND A BONUS SHORT STORY: Dukes of War: Holiday Reunion
