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"When the Duke and Duchess of Kent rent neighboring Woolbrook Cottage for the winter, the Summers sisters are called upon to host three of the royal couple's male staff in their seaside house. But they soon realize they've invited mysterious secrets and the sweet possibility of romance into their home. Meanwhile, Emily Summers approaches a local publisher in hopes of fulfilling her dream of becoming an author. When he turns her down, his dashing...
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"Complications arise when Marietta's secret love letters are accidentally found by the wrong man. 1828, the London countryside. For years, Marietta Stone has harbored a secret infatuation for the handsome Frederick Finch and has poured out her deepest feelings in a series of passionate love letters that she keeps in a locked drawer. But when Marietta's private letters are accidentally delivered to Frederick's house, she must retrieve them immediately...
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Lucky ladies of London volume 1
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English
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"Lieutenant Eli Williams was supposed to be dead. In the two years since his shipwreck, his friends and family mourned him, his brother spent his savings, and his fiancaae married someone else. So, when he turns up in the middle of the London social season, he quickly becomes the talk of the town. All Eli wants is to set his life back in order and reconnect with Jane Bishop, a friend who has always meant so much more to him, before returning to sea....
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Castle Knoll files volume 1
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English
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It's 1965 and teenage Frances Adams is at an English country fair with her two best friends. But Frances's night takes a hairpin turn when a fortune-teller makes a bone-chilling prediction: One day, Frances will be murdered. Frances spends a lifetime trying to solve a crime that hasn't happened yet, compiling dirt on every person who crosses her path in an effort to prevent her own demise. For decades, no one takes Frances seriously, until nearly...
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Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Arriving in England in a desperate search of investors to keep her family business afloat, American Leonora Garrison finds fate leading her to Viscount Wren and torn between desire and duty, risks everything to be in his arms.
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JoJo and BowBow volume 8
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"JoJo is on tour! But that night at JoJo's big show, disaster strikes when JoJo's costume goes missing from the dressing room! Who could have taken it? JoJo thinks fast and the show goes on--at least until the next day, when the tabloids post images of aJoJo lookalike . . . wearing her missing costume around town! Who is the elusive doppelg�anger? And is she a superfan or superfoe? It'll take two BFFs and a perky pooch to sort out this mystery,...
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Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Detective Chief Inspector Tony Gates is an exemplary cop. He's got the best crime stats on the force and a loyal team working under him. But the head of the police anticorruption unit, Superintendent Ted Hastings, has his doubts about Gates. Is he really that good? And more importantly, is he really that clean? Hastings decides to find out and all on a new arrival to his department, Detective Sergeant Steven Arnott to help him do it. As the net tightens...
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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
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English
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When Rachel, a married and well-respected doctor living in a picturesque and affluent English village, embarks on a dangerous affair with a French painter who has a mental disorder, she finds her life blown wide open when he is accused of murdering one of her colleagues.
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Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Quick! If you don't move fast, you're going to miss him -- there he goes-- Randolph Caldecott, future famous illustrator. His sketchbook is full of hurly-burly; wild weather, frisky animals and people so sprightly they can barely hold on to the pages. But in the 1850s, there are no children's books like that. Not yet. Many are published, but their pictures look still, full of pretty poses and cluttered scenery. No one has imagined how much fun an...
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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publisher
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Large print edition.
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English
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In this mind-blowing psychological thriller SJ Watson, the internationally bestselling author of Before I Go to Sleep, explores themes of memory and identity as a young documentary filmmaker travels to a quiet fishing village to shoot a new film, only to encounter a dark mystery surrounding the disappearance of a local girl.
For generations Blackwood Bay, a quaint village in northern England, has been famous only for the smuggling that occurred along...
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BBC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Follow DI Humphrey Goodman and his fianc?e Martha as they leave London to navigate a new life together on the beautiful Devon coast. Our heroes are thrown in at the deep end as Martha pursues her dream of running her own restaurant and Humphrey takes up the vacant position of Detective Inspector at Shipton Abbott police station, an outpost of the Devon & Cornwall Police district. Quickly making an impression on his somewhat eclectic team, Humphrey...
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Chantress trilogy volume 3
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1st edition.
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English
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"Lucy faces her deadliest enemy yet as mysterious forces flood London"--
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Lady Whistledown anthologies volume 1
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
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English
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Offers a collection of romantic stories narrated by the fictional Lady Whistledown, including the tale of Susannah Ballister as she finds herself being pursued by the Earl of Renminster, the brother of her ex-beau.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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It only takes one strike . . . A powerful, beautifully illustrated feminist reworking of the classic fairy tale, from award-winning creators Emma Carroll and Lauren Child "You've got a lot to say for a little match girl." On the streets of Victorian London, Bridie uses her wit selling matches to help feed her family-but no matter how hard she works, it's never enough to stave off hunger or keep her ailing mother safe from the factory's toxins. When...
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Phoebe Kimball grew up believing in love, but after failing to find a gentleman capable of capturing her heart, she has turned more practical than romantic. She is determined to find a husband in London this Season. If only the annoying Mr. Fenwick would stop appearing every time she sets her cap at someone! When an anonymous letter arrives warning her that her current target is unsuitable marital material, Phoebe begins a relationship with the letter...
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Line of duty volume 6
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"On the way to get an informant to arrest a major suspect in a murder case, Chief Inspector Joanne Davidson noticed the abnormal situation and temporarily decided to lead the team to divert to deal with an ongoing armed robbery case, thus delaying the best way to arrest the suspect. [...] Is this a pure coincidence or a premeditated design? After understanding the relevant situation, the anti-corruption team AC-12 decided to intervene in the investigation...."--Back...
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