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Royal Spyness mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
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Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, thirty-fourth in line for the throne, flat broke, bolts from Scotland to London and breaks off her engagement. Wondering what to do when an arrogant Frenchman-who was trying to rob the family estate-winds up dead in the bathtub.
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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.
Author
Series
Inspector Bill Slider mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
346 p. ; 22 cm.
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
229 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
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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The Company volume 9
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A new member of the Gentlemen's Speculative Society, Edward learns that a secret world flourishes beneath the surface of London's society. He becomes a Victorian super-assassin, fleeing across the Turkish countryside and honing his fighting skills against clockwork opponents.
11) The look
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When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.
12) Sapphire blue
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Ruby red trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
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Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers.
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen, the out-of-work and hungry are demanding change. In a genteel Camberwell villa -- a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and servants -- impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life -- or how far-reaching the disturbances will be.
14) Ruby red
Author
Series
Ruby red trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
15) The demands
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Series
Tom Thorne novels volume 10
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Detective Tom Thorne is forced to re-consider an old case when a grieving father takes one of Thorne's colleagues hostage and demands to know the truth about how his son died in prison from the man who put him away.
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Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Miramax Books : Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
462 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Nathaniel, a magician's apprentice, summons up the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Lovelace.
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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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