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Oxford murders volume 1
Publisher
MacAdam/Cage
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 23 cm.
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A novel on the way we interpret events to suit our purpose. The protagonists are four people giving evidence in a murder in 17th century England. One blames the crime on too much authority, another on the lack of it. A look at the controversies of the day, from medical experiments to religious freethinking.
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
viii, 351 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Now in her twilight years, Alice Liddell looks back on a remarkable life. From a pampered childhood in Oxford to difficult years as a widowed mother, Alice examines how she became who she is--and how she became immortalized as Alice in Wonderland.
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 25 cm.
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David Swain has spent two years of his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. On the night he escapes from prison, Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home. Inspector Trave heads the manhunt for David, but his personal life becomes entangled in case because his ex-wife his having an affair with Katya's uncle.
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
x, 325 p. ; 25 cm.
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A famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence pointing to his son, Stephen, who was about to be disinherited from the family fortune. When Stephen's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, his guilt seems undeniable--but then, the revelation that the deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in Northern France at the end of World War II lends credence to Stephen's innocence.
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When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis--known as Jack--she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, facing heartbreak...
10) Gaudy night
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Publisher
Audio Partners Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
[1993]
Physical Desc
12 CDs (15 hr., 39 min.) : digitial ; 4 3/4 in.
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A reunion at Oxford ensnared mystery writer Harriet Vane in a case of a poison pen poltergeist. No one is immune to the nasty newsprint notes, not even Harriet. With Lord Peter Wimsey, she must find out what's going on.
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
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Anna Hopkins' daily walk through Oxford's picturesque Port Meadow is rudely interrupted one autumn morning when her white German Shepherd, Bonnie, unearths a bloodsoaked body in the undergrowth. For Anna it's a double shock: she'd met the victim previously. Naomi Evans was a professional researcher who had told Anna she was working on a book about a famous Welsh poet, and who offered to help Anna trace Bonnie's original owner. From her conversations...
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** Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. ** The dictionary doesn't contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone...
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"After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years. Will expects nothing more than a year off before resuming the comfortable life he's always known, but he's...
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Publisher
books4pocket
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
510 pages ; 19 cm.
Description
Un oscuro secreto familiar hizo que Sarah se marchara de Oxford a los dieciocho años. En su huida a Brasil dejó atrás una vida. Pero cinco años después, tras la muerte de su padre, se ve obligada a regresar. Quiere ver a su abuela Sylvia, la mujer que la crio de niña y que ahora sufre Alzheimer. Sarah cree que estará solo unos días, pero cuando va a la Universidad donde su padre era profesor de química descubre que él se ha pasado los últimos...
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