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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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"Set in late eighteenth-century London, this haunting debut novel features Lillian, a freakishly tall woman who struggles to fit into society because of her size and desire to wear trousers. Each morning, she wakes in her tiny maid's room in a too-small bed to the sound of a lion roaring nearby, on the Strand. One day, she investigates the sound and discovers a candlelit exotic animal emporium. When she meets the lion, there is an instant bond. At...
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Manilla
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume : map (black and white) ; 20 cm
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London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told she has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and why. Less than a mile from Bess's lodgings in the city, in a quiet, gloomy townhouse on...
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Mira/Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
[2020], ©2020.
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336 pages ; 23 cm
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"Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl--and why....
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Lord John Grey novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2007
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13 CDs (15.75 hr.) : digigtal ; 4 3/4 in.
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John Rawlings mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2002
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286 p. ; 22 cm.
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Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line--on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure...
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Benjamin Weaver novels volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2004
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ix, 381 p. ; 25 cm.
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Realizing at the moment of his conviction for a crime he did not commit that someone is determined to see him dead and another to set him free, Benjamin Weaver works to expose a conspiracy with links to the coming election.
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Tom Hawkins novels volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm
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Tom Hawkins prays for a royal pardon as he relives the espionage, underground dealings, and murder accusations that sent him to the gallows.
London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. He just always finds his way into a spot of bad luck. He probably shouldn't have told London's most cunning criminal mastermind that he was "bored and looking for adventure." Nor should he have offered to help the king's mistress in her desperate...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2010
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834 p. ; 22 cm.
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Two of Dicken's novels are republished. The first follows a group from the tranquil roads of London to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror. The second follows the life of the orphaned Pip from the wild Kent marshes through a series of events as he abandons his humble origins to begin a new life as a gentleman.
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Malloren world volume 12
Publisher
Titania Editores
Pub. Date
2013.
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445 pages ; 23 cm
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Crowther and Westerman mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2012
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382 p. ; 22 cm.
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Amateur detectives in Georgian England, Harriet Westerman and Gabriel Crowther investigate the drowning of a man in the Thames and discover that he may have been part of a plot to betray England's secrets to France.
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