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Corduroy mansions volume 1
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Corduroy Mansions is the nickname given to a building in London's vibrant Pimlico neighborhood, home to a captivating collection of quirky characters. The author traces their amusing foibles and interactions through the ins and outs of neighborliness in all its unexpected variations.
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In this gripping child-in-danger story, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and her partner, Inspector Thomas Lynley, investigate the kidnapping of a friend's little girl from an Italian marketplace. With both her job and the life of a little girl on the line, Barbara must decide what matters most, and how far she's willing to go to protect it.
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Family upstairs volume 2
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Two women are faced with complicated mysteries that are linked to a cold case that left three people dead in a Chelsea mansion thirty years ago.
10) How it all began
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 24 cm.
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The mugging of a retired schoolteacher on a London street has unexpected repercussions for her friends and neighbors when it inadvertently reveals an illicit love affair, leads to a business partnership, and helps an immigrant to reinvent his life.
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
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London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
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Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope–she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in. That’s because Sam Kemp – in the bleakest point of her life – has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about...
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Corduroy mansions volume 2
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Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his experiences hanging out with the Abominable Snowman. Terence Moongrove's residence has become the target of New Age cosmologists. And pint-sized terrier Freddie de la Hay is being recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Follow over seven eventful days, the lives of seven major characters crossing paths in a modern urban setting with all its ironies, conflicts and discontinuities. The writing on the wall appears in letters ten feet hight, but the characters refuse to see it--and party on as though tomorrow is a dream.
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Sean Dillon thrillers volume 19
Pub. Date
c2012
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"A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary...
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 25 cm
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When a recently retired family patriarch clears out his bank account and disappears during a sweltering summer in 1976, his three children converge on their mother's home for the first time in years and track clues to an ancestral village in Ireland, where they uncover illuminating family secrets.
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Dodsworth volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Despite a dart-throwing episode at a local pub and a case of mistaken identity, Dodsworth and his mischievous duck companion receive a royal invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace during their trip to London.
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Little Brown & Co
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
390 pages
Description
William Shaw paints the real portrait of London's swinging sixties. Authentic, powerful and poignant, The Kings of London reveals the shadow beyond the spotlight and the crimes committed in the name of liberation.
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