aristocracy

Penelope Deveraux is sent to India to let the scandal surrounding her hasty marriage die down and is plunged into a strange world of intrigue and danger where the only person Penelope can trust is not her husband, but the dashing Alex Reid.

Chekhov's last play, written in 1904, tells the story of an aristocratic Russian family that struggles to maintain their status in a changing world as they are faced with the prospect of selling the family estate to a land developer in order to pay off their debts.

Explores how the Bush family used all its resources to create a political dynasty that has used the White House to further its family and ideological agenda, revealing how four generations of the family have ascended the ladder of national power since World War I.

Seventeen-year-old Alexandra must adjust her personality for her mother's expectations of an aristocratic lady--in order for her to attract a suitable husband--but when Alex decides to help the brooding and handsome Gavin solve the mystery behind his father's death, she risks her heart along with her reputation.

An unabridged republication of the late nineteenth-century Swedish play about a young aristocrat who seduces her father's valet.

Told in separate voices, teenaged Eliza Monroe, the daughter of a future United States President, Hortense de Beauharnais and Caroline Bonaparte, relatives of Napoleon I, and Madeleine, daughter of an actress, come together at L'Acad?mie Nationale ? St. Germain in the turmoil of 1799 France.

Safely back in 1803 England, Merlin's Irregulars are more confident, proud, and powerful, but class distinctions complicate their relationships until the mages are called upon to rescue a vitally important French scientist and his family from Nazi-occupied France.

A serving girl, disappointed that her childhood friend is becoming a copy of his proud and unforgiving father, the Duke, helps him to see that the unicorn sought by the Duke's hunting party is too precious to kill.

After her father breaks up her engagement to the unscrupulous Sir Geoffrey Blandon, Lady Rose Summer attends a last-chance soiree at Telby Castle in order to find a husband, but when a guest is found dead under mysterious conditions, Rose teams up with investigator Harry Cathcart to solve the murder.