Lauren Willig
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"Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in 1890s New York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor house in England, they had a fairytale romance in London, they have three-year-old twins on whom they dote, and he's recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and named it Illyria. Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors, and people will gossip....
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"As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clementine Evans has finally achieved almost everything she’s been working towards—but now she’s not sure it’s enough. Her long hours have led to a broken engagement and, suddenly single at thirty-four, she feels her messy life crumbling around her. But when the family gathers for her grandmother Addie’s ninety-ninth birthday, a relative lets slip hints about a long-buried...
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Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has always been the poor cousin in a prosperous English merchant clan--merely a vicar's daughter, and a reform-minded vicar's daughter, at that. Everyone knows that the family's lucrative shipping business will go to her cousin, Adam, one day. But when her grandfather dies, Emily receives an unexpected inheritance: Peverills, a sugar plantation in Barbados, a plantation her grandfather never told anyone he owned. When...
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Eschewed by her wealthy Smith College classmates, a former scholarship student reluctantly volunteers to join a group of graduates who travel to Europe to help World War I French civilians before finding herself surrounded by desperate families in villages decimated by German bombs. "April, 1917. The Smith College Club is looking for volunteers to help French civilians decimated by the German war machine. Kate Moran reluctantly agrees to join the...
7) That summer
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St. Martin's Press
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2014.
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First edition.
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"From modern-day England to the early days of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, [this book] takes readers on a ... journey through a mysterious old house, a hidden love affair, and one woman's search for the truth about her past--and herself"--Dust jacket flap.
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Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower), has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact. He does not expect to be paired with a woman--especially not the legendary Pink Carnation. All of Portugal believes that the royal family departed for Brazil just before the French troops marched into Lisbon. Only the English government knows that mad seventy-three-year-old...
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New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig presents the third novel in her charming Pink Carnation series...
Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she started spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip-two of the deadliest spies to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France.
Not only has she unearthed secrets that will rearrange history, she's dallied...
Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she started spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip-two of the deadliest spies to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France.
Not only has she unearthed secrets that will rearrange history, she's dallied...
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A New York Times extended list bestseller in hardcover-the sensational sixth book in the national bestselling Pink Carnation series.
Whisked away to nineteenth-century India, Penelope Deveraux plunges into the court intrigues of the Nizam of Hyderabad, where no one is quite what they seem. New to this strange and exotic country- where a dangerous spy called the Marigold leaves venomous cobras as his calling card-she can trust only...
Whisked away to nineteenth-century India, Penelope Deveraux plunges into the court intrigues of the Nizam of Hyderabad, where no one is quite what they seem. New to this strange and exotic country- where a dangerous spy called the Marigold leaves venomous cobras as his calling card-she can trust only...
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"In October of 1806, the Little Season is in full swing, and Sally Fitzhugh has had enough of the endless parties and balls. With a rampant vampire craze sparked by the novel The Convent of Orsino, it seems no one can speak of anything else. But when Sally hears a rumor that the reclusive Duke of Belliston is an actual vampire, she cannot resist the challenge of proving such nonsense false. At a ball in Belliston Square, she ventures across the gardens...
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Éloïse Kelly, doctorante à Harvard, s'est attiré pas mal d'ennuis depuis qu'elle a commencé à espionner l'OEillet rose et la Tulipe noire, deux des agents les plus meurtriers à avoir arpenté les rues de l'Angleterre et de la France au dix-neuvième siècle. Non seulement elle a déterré des secrets dignes de réécrire l'histoire, mais elle a aussi dragué Colin Selwick, en quête de sa propre aventure amoureuse. Loin de s'en douter, elle...
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In a short story from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig, a woman discovers it's never too late to make things right
She's the widow of the Aviator in the Iron Mask-a British World War I hero whose exploits both on the field and off of it made the papers on two continents. But was their Armistice Day engagement really the romantic fantasy it seemed? A lifetime later, Camilla Frobisher is forced to retrace the steps of her past-all the...
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Saluée comme étant une «comédie joyeuse sans aucun temps mort», ce début éblouissant présente Éloïse Kelly, une étudiante au doctorat à Harvard qui, en quête de réponses à l'un des nombreux mystères de l'histoire, trouve quelque chose d'encore plus fascinant... Rien ne va plus pour Éloïse. Le jour o elle porte ses nouvelles bottes en daim, il pleut des cordes. Lorsque le métro tombe en panne, c'est toujours elle qui se retrouve...
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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 meurtrier de l'arsenal de Napoléon... Éloïse, étudiante en doctorat des temps modernes, a réussi le coup du siècle dans le monde universitaire en démasquant l'un des plus grands espions de l'histoire,...
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Books on Tape
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2008
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Unabridged
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English
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Lauren Willig continues the exciting, bestselling Pink Carnation series with her fourth novel, THE SEDUCTION OF THE CRIMSON ROSE, featuring Lord Vaughn, the delightfully devilish spy from The Masque of the Black Tulip, and Mary Alsworthy, the raven-haired beauty whose sister accidentally stole her suitor in The Deception of the Emerald Ring.
Determined to secure another London Season without assistance from her new brother-in-law,...
Determined to secure another London Season without assistance from her new brother-in-law,...
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Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children. Upon his return to the Isles, however, he finds that one of his daughters has vanished. Having served as second-in-command to the Pink Carnation, one of England's most intrepid spies, it would be impossible for Gwendolyn Meadows to give up the intrigue of Paris for a quiet life. But, when the Pink Carnation's little sister goes missing, Gwen reluctantly returns home to...
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"A multi-generational novel of love and loss that spans over half a century"--
1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate?...
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France, 1914. Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. Betrayal will shatter them both. France, 1942. Raised by her American grandmother in the Hotel Ritz, Marguerite 'Daisy' Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator,...