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Jeremy Logan novels volume 4
Language
English
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Enigmalogist Jeremy Logan who specializes in investigating inexplicable phenomena probes strange happenings at the Newport, RI, mansion that houses the Symposikon think tank.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In her thirteenth full-length novel -- her most chillingly suspenseful yet -- Mary Higgins Clark, "America's Queen of Suspense," delivers a tale of brilliantly sustained terror. Set in Newport, Rhode Island, in a world of old money and proud names, Moonlight Becomes You has at its center Maggie Holloway, an independent young woman who has put personal tragedy behind her and become one of the fashion world's most successful photographers. Accompanying...
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Series
Ladies of Summerhill volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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A sweeping love story set in a lavish seaside mansion in 1901 Rhode Island. Melinda Hollister is a society lady, intent on finding a rich husband before her peers discover her quickly diminishing wealth. Nick Bryson is all business, focused on making a name for himself in his father's teamship line. Despite the marriage of their siblings, they rarely gave each other a second glanceùuntil a tragic accident results in Melinda and Nick being appointed...
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Historical fiction novel set in Newport, Rhode Island across multiple decades, from bestselling author trio--
2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer of Mansion Makeover, a popular reality show about restoring America’s most lavish historic houses. Andie has high hopes for her latest project: the once glorious but gently crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport, Rhode Island, summer resort of America’s gilded class—famous for...
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Publisher
Avalon Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Years of familial excess have depleted the Camberly family coffers. With London creditors threatening certain doom, the Earl of Camberly launches a desperate venture into Newport society, hoping to trade his title for an American heiress' wealth.
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English
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In the late nineteenth century, Newport, Rhode Island, was a cauldron of money, excess, and unapologetic greed, where reputations were made and lost in a whirlwind of parties and fancied slights. But amid the glamour of yacht races, tennis matches, and costume balls raged undeclared class warfare, scandalous doings, even madness.
In 1893, railroad mogul Sam Driver, one of the few surviving robber barons of the lawless years after the Civil War, knocks...
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1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling's home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But for more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with...
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Miss Gwendolyn Brinley accepted a temporary paid companion position for the Newport summer season, believing it would be a lark to spend the summer in America's most exclusive town. She suddenly finds her summer turning anything but amusing when her employer expects her to take over responsibilities as an assistant matchmaker. Tasked with the daunting prospect of attaining advantageous matches for her clients, Gwendolyn soon finds herself in the company...
12) Black duck
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
In 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, fourteen-year-old Ruben Hart stumbles upon a dead body washed up onshore and finds himself caught in the middle of a bootlegging war involving the captain of the rumrunner the Black Duck..
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2021.
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English
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In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Charles Lenox travels to the New York and Newport of the dawning Gilded Age to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite. London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case....
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Christy Award-winning author Nancy Moser has garnered critical acclaim for her fictionalized accounts of Martha Washington, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Jane Austen. Here Moser whisks listeners away to 1895 Newport, Rhode Island-summer playground to the elite of the Gilded Age-for a tale of unexpected romance. As the lives of an immigrant dressmaker, her socialite friend, and their unlikely suitors become entangled in a web of secrets and sacrifice,...
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Series
Ladies of Summerhill volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The chance to break the big story is all Charlotte needs to secure her future. But when the truth comes outùit may cost her the love of her life. Newport, Rhode Island, in 1900ùa glamorous resort town where the rich and famous go to see and be seen. Charlotte Hale isn't part of that world. She's a working girl, a secretary for a local newspaper, who dreams of becoming a real reporter. When her boss offers her an assignment, she jumps at the opportunity....
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