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English
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In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve, and against the wishes of his disapproving father, Fingal O'Reilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. Fingal and his fellow aspiring doctors face the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital. The hours are long and the cases challenging, but Fingal manages to find time to play rugby, and to romance a fetching, gray-eyed nurse named Kitty O'Hallorhan.
5) Girl/friend
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Series
Zee files volume 3
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Everyone is surprised when Zee strikes up a friendship--and more--with Archie, the school's most elusive, handsome boy on campus, but unfortunately Zee's friends and Archie do not get along, and the more she tries to help the situation, the more tangled things get.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Sir David Attenborough reveals spectacular scenes of courting and companionship. Some species need to overcome the challenges of a vast environment just to find a member of the opposite sex. Others find themselves pitched against their neighbors in mass mating aggregations. Some must impress with complex displays. Others build extraordinary structures just to prove their worth. One thing, however, connects them all the drive to succeed at all costs....
8) Arabella
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Sourcebooks
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English
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When Arabella Tallant meets Robert Beaumaris, an arrogant bachelor, she is horrified when he accuses her of being just another in a long line of women who are interested in him only for his money. Determined to save face, Arabella tells a lie--declaring that the last thing she needs is a rich husband because she happens to be an heiress herself. When word of Arabella's "wealth" leaks out, she finds herself pursued by every fortune hunter in London--but...
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Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson's sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. She collects her crushes like ill cared-for pets, skewers...
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Metro-Goldwyn-Maryer Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Rock-a-Doodle. During a thunderstorm, Edmond's mother tells him the story of Rock-a-Doodle, a rooster named Chanticleer who leaves the farm in disgrace and heads for the big city, where he becomes a rock-and-roll star.
The pebble and the penguin. Animated film about a shy young penguin and his lady love. During the penguin mating ceremony bachelor penguins present their sweethearts with a pebble. Hubie has found a perfect pebble, but his chosen lady...
11) The proposal
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Series
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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“This is Mary Balogh at her riveting best.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber
Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoops her up in his arms after a fall, she feels a sensation that both shocks and emboldens her. Hugo is a gentleman in name only:...
Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoops her up in his arms after a fall, she feels a sensation that both shocks and emboldens her. Hugo is a gentleman in name only:...
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Mischief and matchmaking volume 1
Language
English
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"A...queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"A historical novel depicting a naïve, career-girl version of Jackie Kennedy and her iconic marriage-in-the-making to an elusive John F. Kennedy, narrated by Jack's best friend and fixer, Lem Billings."--
1951. Jacqueline Bouvier is hard at work as the Inquiring Camera Girl for a Washington newspaper. When she meets charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy at a Georgetown party, the two are soon flirting over secret phone calls, cocktails, and dinner...
16) My fine fellow
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English
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It's 1830s England, and Culinarians--doyens who consult with society's elite to create gorgeous food and confections--are the crème de la crème of high society. Helena Higgins, top of her class at the Royal Academy, has a sharp demeanor and an even sharper palate--and knows stardom awaits her if she can produce greatness in her final year. Penelope Pickering is going to prove the value of non-European cuisine to all of England. Her contemporaries...
17) Prince & knight
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Series
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A prince and a knight in shining armor find true love in each other's embrace after fighting a dragon together.
18) The princess spy
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 5
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Margaretha hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, will be her one true love, but when an injured man's brought to Hagenheim Castle claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook, she's drawn into a plot, not knowing who's telling the truth.
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Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"A whip-smart debut that follows the adventures of an entirely unconventional heroine who throws herself into the London Season to find a wealthy husband. But the last thing she expects is to find love ... Kitty Talbot needs a fortune. Or rather, she needs a husband who has a fortune. Left with her father's massive debts, she has only twelve weeks to save her family from ruin. Kitty has never been one to back down from a challenge, so she leaves home...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...