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English
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"In Grim Wolds, England, Winifred Notty takes on the role of governess at Ensor House, where she must navigate the twisted dynamics of the dysfunctional Pounds family while suppressing her own violent past; as Christmas approaches, she plans sinister gifts for her charges, revealing her true nature"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who attains eternal yourh while only his portrait grows old, hidden away in a locked room. Despite the young man's disintegration into a life of crime, his face never reflects the moral decay.
Author
Series
Jem Flockhart volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set in a crumbling 1850s London infirmary, a richly atmospheric Victorian crime novel where murder is the price to be paid for secrets kept"--
1880s London. As St. Saviour's Infirmary awaits demolition, the doctors bicker and backstab. When six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of moldering rags, it opens a long-forgotten past that will have fatal consequences. Everyone at the Infirmary has secrets...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt's sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, she makes the long journey to her aunt's home in Connemara, an all-but-forgotten town on the coast of Western Ireland. Emily soon discovers that a tragic legacy is haunting the once close-knit community. Violent storms ravage the coast and keep alive painful memories...
Author
Series
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When someone commits robbery and murder aboard the luxurious train on which Myrtle Hardcastle, her Aunt Helena, her governess Miss Judson, and cat Peony are traveling, Myrtle is determined to find the culprit.
Author
Publisher
Custom House, am imprint of WIlliam Morrow
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Custom House paperback edition.
Physical Desc
416, 24 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Costa Book Award Finalist and the Waterstones (UK) Book of the Year 2016." "I loved this book. At once numinous, intimate and wise, The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart--and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I've ever read. It is so good its pages seem lit...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Veronica Speedwell returns in an adventure filled with betrayal and deception from Deanna Raybourn, the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries. London, 1888. When archeological photographer John de Morgan mysteriously vanishes with a priceless artifact, Victorian adventuress Veronica Speedwell and her natural historian colleague, Stoker Templeton-Vane, are pulled into a dangerous world of conspiracies and ancient threats....
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
190 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Runcorn-who Anne Perry fans will remember as William Monk's ex-boss-is feeling rather lonely during his holiday on the remote, snowy island of Anglesey, off the north coast of Wales. However, he is suddenly called into action when the sister of the local vicar is discovered murdered and draped over a gravestone in her brother's churchyard. Investigating this tragic crime with the assistance of the beautiful Melisande gives him just...
9) The Lie Tree
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
Author
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
An addictive novel about power, fame, and a love that is threatened by a terrible secret. Step up, step up! In 1860s England, circus mania is sweeping the nation. Crowds jostle for a glimpse of the lion tamers, the dazzling trapeze artists, and, most thrilling of all, the so-called "human wonders." When Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders pitches its tent in a poor coastal town, the life of one young girl changes forever. Sold to the ringmaster as...
11) Timekeeper
Author
Series
Timekeeper volume 1
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
414 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate Victorian-era world controlled by clock towers, where damaged clocks can break time itself and broken clocks can stop it completely, a prodigy mechanic desperately works to save his father from a Stopped town; a series of bombings threaten all England; a boy searches desperately for a way to turn back time and relive his past; and a romance that threatens time itself ensues.
12) A grave robbery
Author
Series
A Veronica Speedwell mystery volume 9
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1850s London, beautiful young aspiring artist Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, but a chance encounter with a curiosity collector leads to a dark obsession that may destroy her world forever.
Author
Series
A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume Book 32
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Language
English
Description
Privately summoned by Queen Victoria when one of her closest confidantes is found murdered, Thomas Pitt navigates the secretive world of London society in what becomes the most dangerous case of his career.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Witnessing the fatal defenestration of neighbor Jacob Harley while caroling in 1835 London, young Charles Dickens and his fiancee, Kate, disagree about the case's chief suspect, Emmanuel Screws, an unpleasant counting-house codger with a rather colorful imagination.
London, December 1835. Charles and Kate are out with friends and family for a chilly night of caroling and good cheer. Their singing is interrupted by a body plummeting from an upper...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 3
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Orchard Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
404 p.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twenty years as a gentleman, Montmorency is glad to be free of Scarper, his wretched alter-ego, but when a young friend is caught in the middle of a murderous political plot, Montmorency may have no choice but to call upon Scarper for help.
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Orchard Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
231 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, after his life is saved by a young physician, a thief utilizes the knowledge he gains in prison and from the scientific lectures he attends as the physician's case study exhibit to create a new, highly successful, double life for himself.
Author
Series
Montmorency volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Orchard Books ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
362 p.: 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, when Montmorency and his alter ego, Scarper, reunite with Dr. Farcett, the two cooperate to capture a bomber and become involved in solving the mystery of the poisoning of a village of Scottish children.
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