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Series
Publisher
Lily Faire Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a London where magic is real... real, but feared. This is Eliza Braxton's London, and she has always accepted her place in it gladly. As one of the Riftborn, her magic has relegated her to the servant class, where she dutifully serves as the lady's maid in one of the most powerful households in the country. There, she uses her remarkable powers of persuasion to keep Elder Hallewell's rebelious daughter in the path to an arranged match of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lily Faire Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The death of a Resistance leader has thrown Post-Rift London into upheaval, and Eliza Braxton, a Riftborn lady’s maid with exceptional magic, has promised her help to the rebel cause. But she quickly realizes that her role as a spy in the powerful Hallewell household will place her— and perhaps even those she loves— in near-constant peril.Resistance leader Eli Turner has concocted a new scheme which, if successful, will expose to the world the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lily Faire Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The death of a Resistance leader has thrown Post-Rift London into upheaval, and Eliza Braxton, a Riftborn lady’s maid with exceptional magic, has promised her help to the rebel cause. But she quickly realizes that her role as a spy in the powerful Hallewell household will place her— and perhaps even those she loves— in near-constant peril.Resistance leader Eli Turner has concocted a new scheme which, if successful, will expose to the world the...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson, Inc
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Set in contemporary England, a grief-stricken widower determines to honor his wife's dying wish and unravel the secrets of a rundown mansion. After his wife's death, Brian Blackstone traveled aimlessly for two years. But he finally returns to confront the inheritance he doesn't want. His wife said that Castle Keep would bring him great joy; that it yields mysteries which would unlock the secrets within him. She has set up a series of riddles about...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Russian-born shopkeeper Vera Sorokina and Irish-born penny dreadful author Brogan Donnelly join forces to take down a criminal enterprise that is threatening shopkeepers in South London in 1865. Along the way, the two find love and romance as they fightfor a chance for their own "happily ever after.""--
Author
Series
Mayfield family novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"When Elliott Mayfield undertakes a 'marriage campaign' to see his wayward nieces and nephews securely married, he has no idea it will lead to a reunion with his own lost love. Peter, his eldest nephew, also finds a new love with his daughters' governessafter his wife's untimely passing."
9) The Yard
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
New to the Murder Squad, a special team of twelve detectives in Victorian London, Detective Inspector Day's first assignment is to investigate the murder of a fellow Murder Squad detective; joining Day on the hunt is coroner and forensic pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley.
10) Emma
Author
Language
English
Description
Content with her life and not interested in marriage, Emma Woodhouse, a rich and beautiful heiress, causes complications with her matchmaking schemes.
11) Resurrection row
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Some bodies just won’t stay buried . . .“For readers longing to be in 1890s London, Perry’s tales are just the ticket” (Chicago Tribune).
Lord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn’t Inspector Thomas Pitt’s usual fare. But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the...
Lord Fitzroy-Hammond of Resurrection Row has been dead and buried three weeks when he turns up sitting atop a hansom cab. Grave robbing, though a crime, isn’t Inspector Thomas Pitt’s usual fare. But when the macabre joke is repeated, and the...
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Within hours, one of the world's foremost treasure hunters has shot himself in his country mansion. And to his estranged son, young archaeologist Gideon Chase, he leaves a cryptic letter. Teaming up with an intrepid policewoman, Gideon soon exposes a secret society--an ancient international legion devoted for thousands of years to Stonehenge. With a charismatic and ruthless new leader at the helm, the cult is now performing ritual human sacrifices...
13) Hard Times
Author
Language
English
Description
Hard Times depicts the lives of ordinary people during the industrial revolution in England. Dickens brings several characters to life and weaves an interesting story about their interactions with each other. Most of these characters are poor and they live in a pollution ridden town where the economy is based on coal production.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A novel to cure your Downton Abbey withdrawal . . . a delightful story about nontraditional romantic relationships, class snobbery and the everybody-knows-everybody complications of living in a small community.”—The Washington Post
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand returns with a breathtaking novel of love on the eve of World...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
With compassion, humor, and striking insight, Amy and Isabelle explores the secrets of sexuality that jeopardize the love between a mother and her daughter. Amy Goodrow, a shy high school student in a small mill town, falls in love with her math teacher, and together they cross the line between understandable fantasy and disturbing reality. When discovered, this emotional and physical trespass brings...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Standedge Tunnel, the longest canal tunnel in England, has become one of the rural village of Marsden's main tourist attractions. Now it's also a crime scene. Six students went into the tunnel on a private boat. Two and a half hours later, the boat reappeared at the other end of the tunnel carrying only one of the students, who had been knocked unconscious" -- Provided by publisher.
19) Affair
Author
Language
English
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Description
Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex.
Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives—an arresting stranger too daring, too determined, too dangerous to be her new man-of-affairs. Still, perhaps he was the perfect person to help Charlotte investigate the recent murder of one of her clients. So she...
Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives—an arresting stranger too daring, too determined, too dangerous to be her new man-of-affairs. Still, perhaps he was the perfect person to help Charlotte investigate the recent murder of one of her clients. So she...
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