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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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Description
Ten years after one terrible night in Paxos, Greece, Julie, the classic "yummy mummy" of high society, is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage, stricken with anxiety and perfectionism until she meets a therapist who gives her hope for a different future.
Author
Series
Josephine Tey mystery volume 10
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During the mass evacuation from London in September 1939, a little girl vanishes without a trace and Josephine struggles with the chaos and uncertainty of war"--
3) Deadly game
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Harry Taylor and his unconventional Met team search for a lead when a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, in the new novel from the legendary British actor.
4) Dark Rise
Author
Series
Dark Rise volume 1
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are in ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Only the Stewards remember, and they keep their centuries-long vigil, sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns.
Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. When an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, Will is ushered...
Author
Series
Black Butler volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As high society's social calendar opens up and the Season draws to a close, London is gripped by fear. Someone has taken to stalking women of the night and painting the town red...in their blood. But while the name on everyone's lips is "Jack the Ripper," the name on Queen Victoria's lips is Phantomhive. Summoned to London to clean up the mess created by this madman, young earl Ciel Phantomhive arrives with his extraordinary butler Sebastian, at his...
Author
Series
Black Butler volume 4
Publisher
Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
187 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
London--the capital of the Great Empire--is once again under siege, as a string of bizarre attacks on British citizens returned from India sends rumors flying and casts a pall upon Queen Victoria's rule. Sent in by Her Majesty, young Earl Phantomhive and his most capable butler, Sebastian, follows a trail that collides head-on with an Indian youth who claims to be a prince. And this prince possesses an extraordinary butler of his own! As an intense...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Hannah and Eric Rosenthal are devout Jews living in North London with their three children and Eric's father Yosef, a Holocaust survivor. Both intellectually gifted and deeply unconventional, the Rosenthals believe in the literal truth of the Old Testament and in the presence of God (and evil) in daily life. As Hannah prepares to publish a sensationalist account of Yosef's years in war-torn Europe--unearthing a terrible secret from his time in the...
Author
Series
Black Butler volume 5
Publisher
Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
174 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
For an impeccable butler like Sebastian Michaelis, the word "impossible" is just not in his vocabulary. Everything demanded of him under the English sun is well within his grasp. But do his talents extend to things under the scalding Indian sun? As Harold West Jeb's plan to use Agni, Prince Soma' s superhuman butler, in a curry battle to win himself a Royal Warrant is exposed, Earl Ciel Phantomhive sets Sebastian to the task of creating an incomparable...
Author
Series
Black Butler volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Terrorizing its populace, Jack the Ripper has shaken London to its very core. But when Sebastian Michaelis, singular butler of the Phantomhive house, lays bare the madman's true identity, all that is left for him to do is eliminate the perpetrator in the name of the Queen and Phantomhive. But inhumanly efficient skills don't guarantee victory when the opponent is just as supernaturally gifted! And though Sebastian may be able to save Ciel from physical...
Author
Series
Black Butler volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press, LLC
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just a stone's throw from London lies the manor house of the illustrious Phantomhive earldom and its master, one Ciel Phantomhive. Earl Phantomhive is a giant in the world of commerce, Queen Victoria's faithful servant... and a slip of a twelve-year-old boy. Fortunately, his loyal butler, Sebastian, is ever at his side, ready to carry out the young master's wishes. And whether Sebastian is called to save a dinner party gone awry or probe the dark...