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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Two bounty hunters vie to capture a revenge-seeking waitress wanted for car theft. One hunter is Stephanie Plum of New Jersey, the other is her arch-enemy Joyce Barnhardt.
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"Victorian socialite Clara Stanton strives to protect her eccentric family's reputation, but that proves to be difficult when her grandfather takes off on a flight of fancy. Thrown together with vagabond tinker Theodore Kingsley, Clara sets off to followher grandfather's whimsical adventure and finds love along the way"--
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
326 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Description
"November 1914. Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of The Resolute-a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now marooned on ice one hundred miles from the shore of the continent. An eighteen-year-old American, Clara has told the crew she's a twenty-one-year-old Canadian. Since the war broke out, sentiment toward Americans has not been the most favorable, and Clara will be underestimated enough simply for being a woman without...
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Disney Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm.
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Magically transported to Never Land, twins Marlene and James get a chance to stay forever with the charismatic Peter and his Lost Boys, but when they find themselves at odds for the first time and their memories start fading, they must make an impossible choice.
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
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Material world (Alexis J. Hall) volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
"Fake amnesia. Real feelings? Real problems. Sam Becker loves-or, okay, likes-his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git. Jonathan Forest should never have hired Sam. It was a sentimental decision, and Jonathan didn't...
7) Deadly game
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Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Description
DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations--but he's great at catching criminals. And all his unorthodox skills will be needed as an extraordinary situation unfolds on his doorstep: a metal box of radioactive material is found at a dump in Stepney, East London, but before the police can arrive it is stolen in a violent raid. With security agencies across the world on red alert, it's Harry and his unconventional team from...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
510 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds--and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family live a gilded life, little realising how precarious their privilege is, just one tweet away from disaster. George, the patriarch, is a stalwart of television interviewing, a 'national...
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"A sweeping and gorgeously rendered exploration of grief and yearning, following the fracturing of an multinational family in the wake of its patriarch's death. In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, devouring Grenfell Tower and the makeshift lives it houses-those of London's immigrants, its refugees, its working class. At the same time across town, another spark...
10) Piglet: a novel
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Outside of a childhood nickname she can't shake, Piglet's rather pleased with how her life's turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she's got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fianc�e, Kit, whose rarefied family she actually, most of the time, likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals she's always cooking....
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Jane Eyre has no interest in a husband. Eager to make her own way in the world, she accepts the governess position at Thornfield Hall. Though her new employer, Edward Rochester, has a charming air—not to mention a handsome face—Jane discovers that his smile can sharpen in an instant. Plagued by Edward's mercurial mood and the strange wails that echo through the corridors, Jane grows suspicious of the secrets hidden within Thornfield...
12) Bombshell
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Series
Hell's belles volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
394 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
After years of living as London's brightest scandal, Lady Sesily Talbot has embraced the reputation and the freedom that comes with the title. No one looks twice when she lures a gentleman into the dark gardens beyond a Mayfair ballroom, and no one realizes those trysts are not what they seem. No one, that is, but Caleb Calhoun, who has spent years trying not to notice his best friend's beautiful, brash, brilliant sister. If asked, he'd say he's been...
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Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
346 pages : plans, genealogical table ; 22 cm
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"Doce dias. Doce pistas. Que empiece el juego. Desde que su madre murio, hace 21 anos, Lily Armitage no habia regresado a la mansion familiar, hasta que recibe una invitacion de su tia para volver a participar en la tradicion de su familia: el juego de Navidad. Cual es el reto? Descifrar doce pistas y encontrar doce llaves junto a sus primos y parientes. Este ano el premio es mucho mas tentador, ya que consiste en la escritura de la casa. Son doce...
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In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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"In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her back in the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts. What antique would you kill for? Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English...
16) Mi policia
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Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 23 cm
Description
Es en Brighton en la decada de 1950 cuando Marion ve por primera vez a Tom. El le ensena a nadar, la guia suavemente a traves del agua a la sombra del famoso muelle de la ciudad y Marion queda prendada, decidida a que su amor por si solo sera suficiente para ambos. Unos anos mas tarde, cerca del Museo de Brighton, Patrick conoce a Tom. Patrick esta enamorado y abre los ojos de Tom a un nuevo mundo glamoroso y sofisticado de arte, viajes y belleza....
17) The invocations
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"Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider—that her murdered sister is gone forever and there is nothing she can do about it. Rather than grieving and moving on, Zara decides she will do whatever it takes to claw her sister back from the grave—even trading in the occult. Jude Wolf may be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. After a deal with a demon went horribly wrong,...
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Once upon the East End volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
"London, 1832: Isabelle Lira may be in distress, but she's no damsel. Since her father’s death, his former partners have sought to oust her from their joint equity business. Her only choice is to marry—and fast—to a powerful ally outside the respected Berab family’s sphere of influence. Only finding the right spouse will require casting a wide net. So she’ll host a series of festivals, to which every eligible Jewish...
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Little school by the sea volume 4
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xii, 269 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...
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Agatha Raisin mysteries volume 34
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 242 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm.
Description
"Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin--the star of her own hit T.V. series--is back on the case again in Dead on Target. A visit to the local village fete for a spot of fun and relaxation turns into a nightmare for Agatha Raisin when she discovers the body of the local landowner in the woods--with an arrow in his chest and trousers round his ankles. Agatha's old adversary, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes,...
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