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2002.
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The central plot of "Crimson Petal" involves the efforts of a young hooker (Sugar) to escape a horrendous teen life, and then find her way in a more successful metropolitan society. Her benefactor (or more appropiately , "Sugar" daddy) Rackham, has his own baggage (a mentally disturbed wife, an ill child and a very troubled brother), and his bringing Sugar into the mix both complicates and liberates his life. This isn't a happy ending story, however,...
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2019.
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"Keynote Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly's whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey along the Côte d'Azur in this page-turning novel of passion, fate, and second-chances"--
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After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
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Newlywed Grace Monroe doesn't fit anyone's expectations of a successful 1950s London socialite, least of all her own. When she receives an unexpected inheritance from a complete stranger, Madame Eva d'Orsey, Grace is drawn to uncover the identity of her mysterious benefactor. Weaving through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London, the story Grace uncovers is that of an extraordinary women who inspired one of Paris's greatest...
7) Shadowscent
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
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In the Aramtesh Empire scent is all important, and seventeen-year-old Rakel has a way with perfumes which she hopes to use to delay her father's inevitable death; Ash is a member of the imperial bodyguard, assigned to the crown prince Nisai's bodyguard; now they are all brought together on a caravan to an outer province, seeking a rare flower that can cure the poisoned emperor--but when Nisai himself is poisoned Rakel and Ash smell like the chief...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Seventeen-year-old Marie mixes perfumes to sell on market day...She wants to make enough to save a dowry for her sister, Ama, in hopes of Ama marrying well...But her perfumes are more than sweet scents in cheap, cut-glass bottles: A certain few are laced with death. Marie laces the perfume delicately--not with poison but with a hint of honeysuckle she's trained her sister to respond to. Marie marks her victim, and Ama attacks. But she doesn't attack...
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Nikki Carrington's husband leaves her for a young woman of his own race, taking their daughter with him. After her house caughts fire she moves into an apartment complex with many separated or divorced people. There she searches to find out who she really is so that she can move on with someone else.
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Reincarnationist volume 4
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Jac L'Etoile has always been haunted by the past - her memories infused with the exotic scents that she grew up with as the heir to a storied French perfume company. In order to flee the pain of those remembrances - and of her mother's death - she moved to America. Now, fourteen years later, she and her brother have inherited the company as well as its financial problems. But when Robbie hints at an earth-shattering discovery in the family archives...
13) Piglette
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Pub. Date
2020.
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Piglette can be a bit particular by her siblings' standards. She always wants everything to be perfect.
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1989.
Description
"Magical Aromatherapy by Scott Cunningham combines the modern science of aromatherapy with the ancient science of magical perfumery. Together they make a powerful system that can improve your life and bring you what you want. Already, over 170,000 people have found out how useful this book can be. You can, too! In these pages you'll discover how to use aromas from fresh and dried herbs and essential oils to make changes in your life. You can use them...
18) Wildest dreams
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Pub. Date
[1992]
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Jolletta Caressa's grandmother dies taking with her the formula for an ancient perfume. Jolletta follows her grandmother's diary over Europe in search of the formula.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
When her heightened sense of smell disappears, jeopardizing her career, Poppy Patel, a gifted Paris perfumer, returns home to tend to her grandmother's aromatic garden only to discover it has been uprooted and destroyed, while navigating family drama, childhood friendships and a former love to heal an unscented life.