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Ladies of the Lake

by Haywood Smith

Published: 2010-08-31

Paperback: 400 pages

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Sisters Dahlia, Iris, Violet, and Rose?all with grown children of their own?have a complicated relationship, so when their grand - mother's will requires them to spend the whole summer?without friends or family?"camping in" at her run-down lodge on re mote Lake Clare in order to inherit th...

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Ladies of the lake : [a novel] by Haywood Smith

by Hayward Smith

Published: 2009

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Ladies of the Leisure Class: The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the Nineteenth Century

by Bonnie G. Smith

Published: 1981-10-01

Paperback: 320 pages

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Ladies with Options

by Cynthia Hartwick

Published: 2001-02-01

Paperback: 352 pages

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What happens when a bunch of nice, middle-class, midwestern ladies strike it rich? Set in Minnesota and spanning the years from 1983 to today, Ladies with Options introduces us to the members of the Mostly Methodist Club (Deborah Cohen is the "Mostly"), and the 18-year-old, pink-haired st...

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The Ladies' Lending Library: A Novel

by Janice Kulyk Keefer

Published: 2009-01-01

Paperback: 355 pages

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It is August of 1963, the year of the Taylor/Burton film epic Cleopatra, showcasing a passion too grand to be contained on the movie screen. The women of the Kalyna Beach cottage community gather for gin and gossip, trading the current racy bestsellers among themselves as they seek a brie...

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Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel

by Dermot Bolger, Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, Kate O'Riordan, Deirdre Purcell

Published: 2000-02-21

Paperback: 257 pages

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A year has passed since the closing of Finbar's Hotel, a down-on-its-heels hotel on the Dublin quays. Now, with a rock star as its new owner, it has once more opened its doors-and Finbar's has become an ultra-chic gathering spot. Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel describes one night in its n...

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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey

by Countess Carnarvon

Published: 2012-08-30

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Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's become fascinated by the rich history of Highclere, and by the extraordinary people who lived there over the centuries. One person particularly captured Fiona's...

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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle

by The Countess of Carnarvon

Published: 2011-12-27

Paperback: 310 pages

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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey tells the story behind Highclere Castle, the real-life inspiration and setting for Julian Fellowes's Emmy Award-winning PBS show Downton Abbey, and the life of one of its most famous inhabitants, Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Drawing on ...

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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal

by Vicki Croke

Published: 2006-06-13

Paperback: 400 pages

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Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret in the labyrinth of lonely cold mou...

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The Lady and the Unicorn

by Tracy Chevalier

Published: 2004-12-28

Paperback: 256 pages

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A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces—a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Paris. They appear to portray the seduction...