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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1946 London, the proprietors of the Right Sort Marriage Bureau--Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge--must deal with fallout from the war as they each contend with disruptions in their personal lives, especially Iris whose past exploits have come back to haunt her.
Author
Series
Sparks & Bainbridge mysteries volume 1
Sparks and Bainbridge mystery volume 1
Sparks and Bainbridge mysteries volume 1
Sparks and Bainbridge mystery volume 1
Sparks and Bainbridge mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a London slowly recovering from the ravages of World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair -- The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, avuncular and unmarried, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, practical and widowed with a young son, are determined to achieve some independence and do some good in a rapidly changing world. But the promising start to their marriage bureau is threatened...
Author
Publisher
E.E. Kilbourne
Pub. Date
2012-
Physical Desc
volumes <1- > ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Abstracts from the Oglethorpe echo "consist[ing] of deaths, marriages, legal notices, sheriff's sales, elections, jury lists, unclaimed letters left in various post offices, and other information of value to genealogists"--Introd. (v. 1).
Author
Series
Sparks & Bainbridge mysteries volume 5
Sparks and Bainbridge mysteries volume 5
Sparks and Bainbridge mystery volume 5
Sparks and Bainbridge mysteries volume 5
Sparks and Bainbridge mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the immediate post-war days of London, two unlikely partners have undertaken an even more unlikely, if necessary, business venture - The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. The two partners are Miss Iris Sparks, a woman with a dangerous - and never discussed - past in British intelligence and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, a war widow with a young son entangled in a complicated aristocratic family. Mostly their clients are people trying to start (or restart)...
10) A royal affair
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"More goes wrong than could be imagined when Iris Sparks and Gwendolyn Bainbridge of The Right Sort Marriage Bureau are unexpectedly engaged to dig into the past of a suitor of a royal princess in Allison Montclair's delightful second novel, A Royal Affair. In London 1946, The Right Sort Marriage Bureau is just beginning to take off and the proprietors, Miss Iris Sparks and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, are in need of a bigger office and a secretary...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"To escape a forced marriage, Cora Taylor travels from England to the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of her brother, who is working as a teacher in a mission school. She hopes to find a place where her nursing skills and independent ideas will be accepted and appreciated, but nothing prepares her for the wild mixture of isolation, community, brokenness, and hope within these mountains...or in the person of Jeb McAdams. Returning from the devastation...
12) King Zeno
Author
Publisher
MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, 1918. An ax murderer is terrorizing the city; the widow of a crime boss is hoping to legitimize the family business with her role in the construction of the Industrial Canal; a young African American jazz cornetist of prodigious talent is struggling to make a living from the music while working on the canal project; and a New Orleans patrolman, haunted by memories of WWI, vows to find the ax murderer and save his marriage--all while a...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
397 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper ... Venice. Caroline's quest: to scatter Juliet "Lettie" Browning's ashes in the city she loved and to unlock the mysteries stored away for more than sixty years. It's 1938 when art teacher Juliet Browning arrives in romantic Venice. For her students, it's a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eva is excited for a visit from her sister Alice, who lives in Suffolk with her husband and three children. But when Alice arrives alone, desiring a break from her family, Eva becomes concerned. Her dismay deepens as Alice starts spending time with a former beau, Keenan Ripley, who owns the nearby pear orchard. At the same time, Phoebe's sister Julia, now a widow and pregnant, is in a fretful state, and Phoebe struggles to be helpful to her. When...
19) Ellis Island
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sweethearts since childhood, Ellie Hogan and her husband, John, are content on their farm in Ireland -- until John, a soldier for the Irish Republican Army, receives an injury that leaves him unable to work. Forced to take drastic measures in order to survive, Ellie does what so many Irish women in the 1920s have done and sails across a vast ocean to New York City to work as a maid for a wealthy socialite. Once there, Ellie is introduced to a world...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage, an eventful month-by-month account in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony. At this story's start, Moody, a recovering alcoholic and sexual compulsive with a history of depression, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question "Would you...
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