Kingsley Baby Trilogy


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Every family has its secrets…Prepare to be shocked and seduced by these three tales of deception, passion, and long-awaited revenge. The Hero's Son Valerie Snow is desperate to clear her wrongfully convicted father of the abduction and murder of the young son of a powerful Memphis family. But the justice-seeking journalist hits a blue wall of silence. The son of the cop who helped put Valerie's father away thirty years ago, Lt. Brant Colter now isn't sure they caught the right man. Can he protect Valerie from a killer determined to bury the truth forever? The Brother's Wife Giving up Jake McClain was the hardest thing Hope ever had to do. But the Memphis PI put his life on the line every day and she couldn't risk losing the man she loved. Marrying Andrew Kingsley was her second mistake. Now Andrew is dead—and a stranger claims he's Andrew's twin brother, vanished for thirty years. But there's something disturbingly familiar about Adam Kingsley… The Long-Lost Heir Bradlee Fitzgerald was just a child when her best friend Adam Kingsley disappeared. Rumors of foul play swirled around the Kingsleys' palatial Memphis estate. Thirty years later, as one man fights to clear his name and another man awakens dangerous desire, what Bradlee inadvertently witnessed comes back to haunt her as she's drawn into an unholy maze of retribution and murder.




The Brother's Wife


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A second chance at first love... Jake McClain had always loved Hope...even after she married Andrew Kingsley. And he knew she loved him — but after her policeman father had been killed, she couldn’t bear to love a man in danger. So Hope became a Kingsley, entering a world of wealth and privilege far removed from Jake’s honest eyes. Now Andrew is dead...and an identical stranger has arrived at the Kingsley mansion. He says he’s Adam Kingsley, home after thirty years. But his eyes follow Hope, and he knows secrets only Andrew would know. Has the husband Hope never loved returned to claim her? And how can Jake, the man she never stopped loving, save her? Originally published in 1999.




Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain


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Animals, Museum Culture and Children’s Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century—be they alive, stuffed or fossilised—and the development of children’s literature at this time. Children’s literature emerged as dizzying numbers of new species flooded into Britain with scientific expeditions, from giraffes and hippopotami to kangaroos, wombats, platypuses or sloths. As the book argues, late Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian children’s writers took part in the urge for mass education and presented the world and its curious creatures to children, often borrowing from their museum culture and its objects to map out that world. This original exploration illuminates how children’s literature dealt with the new ordering of the world, offering a unique viewpoint on the construction of science in the long nineteenth century.




No Sweeter Heaven


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Cultures clash and sparks fly when a willful Frenchman and an untamed British heiress meet in this historical romance in the Pascal trilogy. An orphan raised by a British lord, handsome Frenchman Pascal LaMartine is notorious for keeping his heart’s desires secret. British heiress Elizabeth “Lily” Bowes is equally infamous for her wild spirit and refusal to wed. They have nothing in common—until the day Lily accidentally lands at Pascal’s feet and changes both their lives forever. Brought together by destiny, threatened by shadows of the past, and drawn into a dangerous battle of wits, Pascal and Lily have no reason to trust each other. But as their indifference evolves into something else entirely, they soon learn how perilous passion can be . . .




E. Nesbit's Psammead Trilogy


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The year 2006 marks the hundredth anniversary of book publication of the final volume of the Psammead trilogy-Five Children and It (1902), The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904), and The Story of the Amulet (1906)-a remarkable series of fantasy novels for children by an equally remarkable writer, Edith Nesbit. Written by both established and new scholars in England, Canada, and the United States, the essays in this collection employ differing critical strategies and place Nesbit in various contexts to assess her achievement. --form publisher description.




Sara's Child : Book 1 of The Sara Colson Trilogy


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Sara Colson,a woman with a dark secret. Her life was a lesson in torment, her death a nightmare of rape and torture. Catherine Colson was almost ten when she witnessed her mother's terrifying death. A troubled soul, Catherine is defensively hostile. At first glance she is rude and brash, but take a look beneath the surface and she is so much more. Having grown up being called a freak due to her exceptional IQ and photographic memory. Catherine has little self-worth and even less confidence. Except in her work - in that she takes great pride and works hard to achieve success. A chance meeting at a client's office brings Catherine to the attention of Logan Sayers, and he is fascinated by her. Tall and broad, he plays prop-forward for a local rugby team and doesn't take crap from anyone - except Catherine. Sparks may fly between them but it all adds to the passion and the mystery that is Catherine Colson - Sara's Child.




Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture


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Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.




A Book of Life


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Peter Kingsley is famous as both a historian and a teller of the future long before it appears. Exquisitely written, his Book of Life is a wide open door into the timeless magic and unfathomable mystery we have managed to forget.




The Gulliver Giant


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Sandy beaches, tiny arrows, and knee-high trees. What has the Library turned into this time? The Nightingale Library pages are up against armies of tiny people on the island of Lilliput from Gulliver's Travels. Meanwhile their giant arch enemies have lost track of their giant pet monkey, who's loose in the Library!




Victorian Children’s Literature


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This book reveals how the period’s transforming identities affected by social, economic, religious, and national energies offers rich opportunities in which to analyze the relationship between identity and transformation. At the heart of this study is this question: what is the relationship between Victorian children’s literature, its readers, and their psychic development? Ruth Y. Jenkins uses Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to uncover the presence of cultural anxieties and social tensions in works by Kingsley, MacDonald, Carroll, Stevenson, Burnett, Ballantyne, Nesbit, Tucker, Sewell, and Rossetti.