The Unsuitable Miss Martingale


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Lili Martingale's family sends her to London in hopes she will enter society and marry respectably. When Viscount Halpern, who's being groomed as the Marquis of Brayborne, meets Lili, he's enchanted, but his parents feel she is too far beneath his station for consideration as a future wife.




P.D. James


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British National Health Service employee Phyllis Dorothy James White (1920-2014) reinvented herself at age 38 as P.D. James, crime novelist. She then became long known as England's "Queen of Crime." Sixteen of her 20 novels feature one or both of her series detectives, Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard and private eye Cordelia Gray. Stand-alone works include the dystopian The Children of Men (1992) and Death Comes to Pemberley (2011), a sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. James's careful plotting has earned comparison with Golden Age British detective writers such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Yet James's work is thoroughly modern, with realistic descriptions of police procedures and the echoes and aftereffects of crime. This literary companion includes more than 700 encyclopedic entries covering the characters, settings and themes of her published writing, along with a career chronology, chronological and alphabetical listings of her works, and an exhaustive index.




Scandal in Venice


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Lady Elizabeth Everdean fled from England to Italy in the wake of a terrifying accident. Now, Sir Nicholas Hollingsworth has been enlisted by Elizabeth's brother to track her down. But will the unrepentant rake or the rebellious runaway win the day?




Forthcoming Books


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Lord Darlington's Darling


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Lord Darlington has been so busy with his family's dwindling estate he's had no time for society. When he absolutely must wed, he assumes it won't be too hard to find a suitable young woman, but raising his younger, orphaned siblings must come first. Abby Fairchild couldn't care less about finding a husband. But all of that is about to change.




The Marriage Masquerade


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Paired at Her Majesty's masquerade ball with a man she despises rather than endure a fourth season and gain a reputation as a spinster, Lady Lucianne Gordon is perplexed when she finds herself actually falling in love with Lord Oxenby.




The Irish Upstart


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In 1816 Ireland, Evleen O'Fallon is told by Lord Thomas Linberry that her young half-brother Patrick is heir to a vast English estate. But Patrick can only become the next Viscount Monfret if someone accompanies him to England. Suddenly, Evleen finds herself an outcast in London's "ton", and no one will marry a 24-year old Irish woman. But Lord Thomas cannot hide his attraction to the lovely lass.




The Black Benedicts


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When Mallory become the governess of Raife Benedict’s niece, she sets off for the beautiful Morven Grance, Raife’s house on the Welsh borderland. Her life becomes inextricably linked with the Black Benedicts, all of them as intriguing as they look. Yet none of them has quite the effect on her as her distant, yet alluring employer. It does not help that he does not seem the least bit interested in Mallory, a plain governess. The story set in romantic Welsh landscapes dates back to the 20th century and was written by Anita Charles, a pseudonym of the English romance writer Ida Pollock. A must-read for fans of literary romance and surprising twists of fate. Anita Charles is a pseudonym of Ida Pollock (1908 – 2013), a highly successful British writer of over 125 romance novels translated into numerous languages and published across the world. Ida Pollock has sold millions of copies over her 90-year career. Pollock began writing when she was 10 years old. Ida has travelled widely, living in several different countries. She continues to be popular amongst both her devoted fan base and new readers alike. Pollock has been referred to as the "world's oldest novelist" who was still active at 105 and continued writing until her death. On the occasion of her 105th birthday, Pollock was appointed honorary vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association, having been one of its founding members. Ida Pollock wrote in a wide variety of pseudonyms: Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell.




Bandit Algorithms


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A comprehensive and rigorous introduction for graduate students and researchers, with applications in sequential decision-making problems.




Book Review Index


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Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.