Alex and the Raynhams

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Alice Dwyer-Joyce

From the cover: Let us join for a time a company of strolling players, and with them become enchanted with the world of make-believe in the isolated communities of the Highlands of Scotland. To this magical land comes Jonathan Harley, the famous actor, already very nearly spoiled by the applause of adoring audiences. Jonathan had the good fortune to fall into the company [of players who will teach him humility and his place in the world.] The lights dim; the prompter is in his corner and the curtain is about to go up.

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Norah Lofts

The Bull, a wayside tavern, weathers sixteen centuries of British history and its hardy Gilderson family proprietors serve every colorful wayfarer along the way and survive every misfortune, from plagues to Nazis.

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Sally Wentworth

To get her young brother out of serious trouble Genista needed a lot of money - and the one person who could help her was the enormously wealthy tycoon Marc Kiriakos. He agreed to help - but of course he wanted something in exchange, and what he wanted was Genista for his wife. He explained that it was a matter of convenience: he needed someone who would act as his hostess and also protect him from all the other women who were pursuing him. Genista had taken it for granted that he meant the marriage to be in name only, but it seemed she had been over-optimistic...

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Margot Early

Kal Johnson is a still-grieving widower with a young child. He can't imagine marrying again not for love, anyway. But it's becoming increasingly clear that his daughter needs someone besides him. A mother. Kal's solution is to place an ad in a local magazine. Wanted: Woman to enter celibate marriage and be stepmother to four-year-old girl. Send child-rearing philosophies to Mr. Family . Erika Blade is a woman who's afraid of love. And sex. She answers the ad, figuring she's probably the only person in the whole world to whom a "celibate marriage" would appeal. After all, she does want children but she doesn't want to acquire them in the usual way. As it turns out, Kal likes her letter and soon discovers that he likes her. More than likes. He's attracted to her. The one thing that wasn't supposed to happen.