Wilde.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your...
Author
Language
English
Description
Geraldine McEwan stars as Lady Bracknell with Simon Russell Beale as Jack in Oscar Wilde’s dazzling masterpiece.
To avoid tiresome family engagements, Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented Bunbury, an invalid friend whose bedside he is frequently obliged to attend. At the same time, his friend Jack Worthing has invented a wicked brother called Ernest to disguise his own misdemeanours. When Algernon poses as Ernest, confusion
...Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Jubilee, Texas. Ex-champion bull rider-turned-cutting-horse cowboy Joe Daniels isn't quite sure how he ended up sleeping in a horse trough wearing nothing but his Stetson and cowboy boots. But now he's wide-awake, and a citified woman is glaring down at him. His goal? Get rid of her ASAP. The obstacle? Fighting the attraction he feels toward the blond-haired filly with the big, vulnerable eyes. When out-of-work wedding planner Mariah...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A touch of silk: "Manhattan columnist Kay Freemont has made a career out of writing about sex and relationships, yet spends her nights alone. So when sexy Alaskan bachelor Quinn Scofield places an ad in her magazine to find a wife, Kay can't resist the opportunity to finally see what all the hype is about. Though city girl Kay was only looking for a red-hot fling, she's beginning to feel right at home, both in the small town of Bear Creek--and in...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In the first in a dazzling new series, Lori Wilde welcomes us to Cupid, Texas, where every wish for love comes true . . . "When it hits, you just know . . ." Natalie McCleary couldn't believe her eyes -- a lean-muscled, darkly tanned, nearly naked man stood in her path . . . and then it hit her: love. Everyone always told her it would hit like a thunderbolt, and she never believed them. But now she knew: practical, sensible Natalie was head over...
Author
Language
English
Description
Everyone in town knows that Christmas in Twilight has a way of bringing lovers together...but will its magic bring this pair from "I won't" to "I do?"
Everyone in town knows that Christmas in Twilight has a way of bringing lovers together . . . but will its magic bring this pair from "I won't" to "I do"? Wearing a too-tight "Santa Baby" costume held in by a double pair of Spanx, Paige MacGregor runs headlong into a gorgeous, grey-eyed hunk of a long,...
10) All out of love
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Football star Pierce Hollister has fame, fortune, and beautiful women who'll do anything for him . . . whether he asks them to or not. But when it all comes crashing down, Pierce finds himself back home, running the ranch in Cupid, Texas, wondering how it all went wrong. But one thing is right: Lace Bettingfield. The former plain-Jane has turned into a luscious knockout--trouble is, she won't even give him the time of day no matter how many passes...
12) Paige not found
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When she discovers her parents had a chip implanted in her brain that keeps track of her location and brain activity, Paige dons her noise-canceling headphones and sets out to find the other kids in the study to show them what's been done to them.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Moonglow Cove, Texas was once home of the Clark sisters, brought up by their grandmother at the Moonglow Inn and nicknamed "The Moonglow Sisters." Then, a wedding-day betrayal tore them apart, and they scattered across the globe, and away from each other. But the sisters have at last come home. There's Maddie: smart, sensible, and stubborn. Shelley, who ran off to find her bliss. And Gia, a free-spirit determined to keep the peace, and whose impending...
17) A useful woman
Author
Series
Rosalind Thorne mystery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the novels of Jane Austen, this new mystery series set in 19th-century London introduces the charming and resourceful Rosalind Thorne, a woman privy to the secrets of high society--including who among the ton is capable of murder... The daughter of a baronet and a minor heiress, Rosalind Thorne was nearly ruined after her father abandoned the family. To survive in the only world she knew, she began to manage the affairs of some of London...
Author
Series
Rosalind Thorne mystery volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Rosalind Thorne Mysteries--inspired by the novels of Jane Austen--continues as the audacious Rosalind strives to aid those in need while navigating the halls of high society... Rosalind Thorne has slowly but assuredly gained a reputation as "a useful woman"--by helping respectable women out of some less-than-respectable predicaments. Her latest endeavor is a tragedy waiting to happen. Desperate Margaretta Seymore is with child--and her husband...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
There's nothing like summer in Manhattan. The days are long and the nights are even longer. But when the lights go out on the city, fireworks explode. . .
Night at the Museum by Lori Wilde
Art restorer Ria Preston knows a thing or two about beauty. And when she discovers her neighborhood crush, gregarious Wall Street advisor Vic Albright, is locked overnight in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with her,...
Night at the Museum by Lori Wilde
Art restorer Ria Preston knows a thing or two about beauty. And when she discovers her neighborhood crush, gregarious Wall Street advisor Vic Albright, is locked overnight in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with her,...