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Valerie Sherwood’s "These Golden Pleasures" follows a captivating woman known as "That Barrington Woman" as she travels from Kansas across Baltimore, Georgia, the Klondike, and the South Seas. In San Francisco’s glittering atmosphere of 1906, she finally confronts the secret longing that has driven her all her life, hoping to name and claim the love she has yearned for all along.
First publish date: 1977
Genre: Romance/Historical Romance
Authors: Valerie Sherwood
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