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61) Back in society
Author
Series
The Poor relation volume 6th v
Publisher
G.H. Hall
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
62) The bone season
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the mid-21st century major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force and clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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.
64) The kiss
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a loveless marriage, Frenchwoman Isabelle cares for her daughter and dangerously ill son while pursuing a secret friendship with American power broker Bill Robinson, until a car accident tests their growing love.
Author
Series
Blackbird trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. The self-dubbed Ripper King strikes at night, leaving a trail of eviscerated bodies in his wake. Fresh off a case with potential ties to the recent rash of killings, FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter are all too familiar with a slayer set to rule with a lethal fist. And they'll stop at nothing to end his reign. The killer's...
66) Deeper
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Physical Desc
643 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Will Burrows continues to search for his lost archaeologist father in the strange underground world he has discovered, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
67) Wendy, darling
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Peter Pan returns, taking her daughter Jane instead of her, Wendy must follow Peter back to Neverland and rescue Jane--and finally face the darkness at the heart of the island.
Author
Series
Elemental masters volume 7
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fledgling Water Master Mari Prothero rebels against her expected arranged marriage at age eighteen until she learns that her family's magical heritage is actually protected by these unions.
Author
Series
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novel volume 28
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitt's quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder.
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 6
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
303 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having witnessed a suicide on a busy London street, Maisie Dobbs learns that she has been mentioned in a threatening letter to the prime minister and is subsequently recruited by Scotland Yard.
72) Tunnels
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
472 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery volume 3
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Murder has jarred London's elite. The sons of prominent families have been found at dawn in public places, partially butchered, with strange objects stuffed in their mouths. Once again, the local magistrate turns to Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, for help. Moving from the gritty world of London's docks to the drawing rooms of Mayfair, Sebastian confronts his most puzzling-and disturbing-case yet.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two people. One house. A year that changes everything. Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It's December, and she's taking a room in a crumbling, but grand, Notting Hill house-share with four virtual strangers. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don't kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the connection is clear. She starts planning...
Author
Series
Series Charles Lenox Mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Celebrating the 1866 holiday season at the side of his fiancee, amateur sleuth Charles Lenox is drawn into the double-homicide case of two reporters, an investigation that is complicated by a police ruling that the killings are unrelated.
Author
Series
Sebastian St. Cyr mystery volume 6
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sebastian St. Cyr finds himself in the realm of international intrigue when he investigates the murder of a foreign office diplomat--a murder his reluctant bride-to-be, Hero Jarvis, knows something about. Set in Regency London: July, 1812.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a servant girl is found dead, a supposed suicide, Victorian gentleman and amateur sleuth Charles Lenox is called in by his old friend, Lady Jane, to investigate and begins to suspect that the girl has fallen victim to a rare and deadly poison.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A penniless twenty-something member of the British nobility, Lady Victoria puts her sleuthing talents to work when an arrogant Frenchman, who is determined to gain control of her family's eight-hundred-year-old estate for himself, ends up dead in her bathtub.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
369 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning from the war in Iraq a changed man due to serious head injuries, British lieutenant Charles Acland rejects his former life and grows increasingly reclusive, suspicious, and aggressive, until he finds himself the prime suspect in a series of recent killings.