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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Miss Evelyn Graves has never had a holiday. She is much too busy as the personal secretary to the Countess of Waverly. But the Duke of Ballymore Castle in Connemara, Ireland, has invited the countess to visit—and as the countess cannot travel, she has insisted Evelyn go in her stead. Except when Evie arrives, everyone mistakes her for the countess—and it’s clear the family who owns crumbling Ballymore were hoping to match the widowed countess...
3) House of men
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
Description
London, 1940. Winston Churchill has just been sworn in, war rages across the Channel, and the threat of a Blitz looms larger by the day. But none of this deters Maggie Hope. She graduated at the top of her college class and possesses all the skills of the finest minds in British intelligence, yet her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. But working for the prime minister affords her a lot of access, and Maggie...
Author
Series
Wedding dates volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can't refuse. She's excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn't expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain Private Secretary and his charming accent and unyielding formality. Malcolm Hudson has been...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
When Alex Massolini's brother is killed in Vietnam, he drops out of Columbia University and leaves his conservative family behind for Capri to become secretary to Rupert Grant, a famous British novelist and poet who dominates the island like a latter — day Prospero. Alex soon finds himself ensnared in a web of love affairs, friendships, and rivalries within the eccentric community that inhabits the idyllic beauty of the isolated Italian island.
The
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Series
Heroine complex volume 1
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Evie Tanaka is the put-upon personal assistant to Aveda Jupiter, her childhood best friend and San Francisco's most beloved superheroine. She's great at her job--blending into the background, handling her boss's epic diva tantrums, and getting demon blood out of leather pants. Unfortunately, she's not nearly as together when it comes to running her own life, standing up for herself, or raising her tempestuous teenage sister, Bea. But everything changes...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 368 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One of Mandela's three private secretaries and now working for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, "La Grange pays tribute to Nelson Mandela as she knew him: a teacher who gave her the most valuable lessons of her life. The Mr. Mandela we meet in these pages is a man who refused to be defined by his past, who forgave and respected all, but who was also frank, teasing, and direct. As he renewed his country, he also freed La Grange from a closed world of...
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English
Description
"A lush, involving novel set in the early years of the 20th century, The Age of Desire is the story of writer Edith Wharton's illicit affair and sexual awakening at the age of 45 with journalist Morton Fullerton. Her liaison impacted many lives, including Edith's well-meaning but feckless husband Teddy, and her loyal secretary and dearest friend, Anna Bahlmann. Set mostly in Paris, it recaptures an era of literary salons, chauffeured motorcars and...
12) The gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the untold story of the partnership that defined a presidency
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first biography of arguably the most influential member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration, Marguerite 'Missy' LeHand, FDR's de facto chief of staff, who has been misrepresented, mischaracterized, and overlooked throughout history...until now"--
13) Downfall
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Language
Deutsch
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Takes you into Hitler's bunker, in 1945, during the brutal and harrowing last days of the Third Reich. Seen through the eyes of Hitler's infamous secretary Gertraud (Traudl) Junge, optimism crumbles into grim realization and terror as it becomes clear that Germany's defeat is inevitable. As the Russian army circles the city, the dimly lit halls of the underground refuge become an execution chamber for the Führer and his closest advisors.
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