Lauren Willig
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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.
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"Tense, atmospheric, and gorgeously written, The Summer Country is a novel to savor!" – Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network
A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of The Thorn Birds and North and South, New York Times bestselling historical novelist Lauren Willig delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet-a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion...
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Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died, suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and finds a cutting from a London society magazine, with a photograph of her supposedly deceased father dated all of three month before. He's an earl, respected and influential, and he is standing...
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Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in 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. But then...
6) That summer
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"2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it's a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers only in her nightmares. But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house--with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas--bits of memory start coming back. And then she discovers...
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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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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,...