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Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she moves to Bath she sees mystery and intrigue all around her. This is one of Austen's early works, a broad comedy about learning to distinguish between fiction and reality
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English
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"When the Nazi Blitzkrieg subjugated Europe in World War II, London became the safe haven for the leaders of seven occupied countries--France, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg, Norway, Czechoslovakia and Poland--who fled there to avoid imprisonment and set upgovernments in exile to commandeer their resistance efforts. The lone hold-out against Hitler's offensive, Britain became a beacon of hope to the rest of Europe, as prominent European leaders like...
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Series
Call the midwife trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2013], c2005
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
The second installment in the three-volume work that chronicles the author's life as a midwife in London's East End interweaves her own experiences with descriptions of the lives of the city's poorest citizens who grew up in the dismal workhouse.
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Peaky Blinders meets Ocean's 8 in The Forty Elephants, an epic novel set in Roaring Twenties London, based on the real-life, all-female gang of the same name who specialized in crime as high art, targeting posh department stores and elites.
London in the 1920s is no place for a woman with a mind of her own. Gang wars, violence, and an unforgiving world have left pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambling to survive in The Mint, the gritty neighborhood
...5) Skeleton Key
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Alex Rider adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Reluctant teenage-spy Alex Rider, on a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
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English
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"After sixteen novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her memoir tackles such difficult, poignant, and fascinating family memories as her paternal grandfather's shellshock, her mother's evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father's torturous assignment to an explosives team during...
8) Dracula
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Harker is sent to see a client of his company in a distant part of Europe. The castle is deserted and the Count is a very strange host. But little does young Jonathan suspect that he and the people closest to him are about to be put into the worst danger and the most gruesome terror that anyone can imagine! Now they must track and destroy Dracula before he finds and destroys each of them!"--Book back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Four years after Alfie Summerfield's father left London to become a soldier in World War I he has not returned but Alfie, now nine, is shining shoes at King's Cross Station when he happens to learn that his father is at a nearby hospital being treated for shell shock.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In 1909 London, as the world of debutante balls and high society obligations closes in around her, seventeen-year-old Victoria must figure out just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.
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Enola Holmes mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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After fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes seeks the missing Duquessa Del Campo in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century London, she finally reaches an understanding with her brothers Sherlock and Mycroft.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"On April 18th, 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. For more than half a century, Woolf's suicide has been attributed to alleged depression; bipolar disorder; her impaired mental state after two of her London apartments had been bombed during the Second World War's brutal Blitz. With Adeline--a ... reimagining of the events that brought Virginia...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Relates what becomes of Ermengarde and the other girls left behind at Miss Minchin's School after Sara Crewe leaves to live with her guardian, the Indian gentleman.
14) Time's convert
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Series
All souls universe volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Set in contemporary Paris and London, and the American colonies during the upheaval and unrest that exploded into the Revolutionary War, a sweeping story that braids together the past and present. On the battlefields of the American Revolution, Matthew de Clermont meets Marcus MacNeil, a young surgeon from Massachusetts, during a moment of political awakening when it seems that the world is on the brink of a brighter future. When Matthew offers him...
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Series
Scarlett and Browne volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Scarlett McCain is a shoot-first ask-questions-later kind of outlaw. She scrapes by on bank heists, her wits - and never looking back. She's on the run from her latest crime when she comes across Albert Browne. He is the sole survivor of a horrific accident, and against her better judgement, Scarlett agrees to guide him to safety. This is a mistake. Soon there are men with dogs and guns and explosives hot on their heels. Scarlett's used to being...
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Series
Mackenzies volume 12
Publisher
JA/AG Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"When Evie McKnight slams into Jamie Mackenzie on a quay on Southampton, she flashes back to the day she accidentally knocked him into the river Cam. When she fished him out again, he shocked her with a searing, bold kiss before walking away in dripping wet shirt and kilt. Evie has no business reveling in memories of Jamie then and the nearness of him now--she is betrothed to a respectable man from a respectable and wealthy family. But Jamie appears...
17) Revenge
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Series
David Shelley volume 1
Language
English
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"Former SAS soldier David Shelley was part of the most covert operations team in the special forces. Now settling down to civilian life in London, he has plans for a safer and more stable existence. But the shocking death of a young woman Shelley once helped protect puts those plans on hold. The police rule the death a suicide but the grieving parents can't accept their beloved Emma would take her own life. They need to find out what really happened,...
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Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 10
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"Rafe Khatchadorian takes his troublemaking ways across the pond and gets lost in London!"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"London, 1938. In the suburbs of the city, a young housewife has become the eye in a storm of chaos. In Alma Fielding's modest home, china flies off the shelves and eggs fly through the air; stolen jewellery appears on her fingers, white mice crawl out of her handbag, beetles appear from under her gloves; in the middle of a car journey, a turtle materializes on her lap. The culprit is incorporeal. As Alma cannot call the police, she calls the papers...
20) Stars
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Series
Wendy Darling (Colleen Oakes) volume 1
Publisher
SparkPress, a BookSparks imprint
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Wendy Darling has a perfectly agreeable life with her parents and brothers in wealthy London, as well as a budding romance with Booth, the neighborhood bookseller's son. But one night, while their parents are at a ball, the charmingly beautiful Peter Pan comes to the Darling children's nursery, and dazzled by this flying boy with god-like powers they follow him out of the window and straight on to morning into Neverland, an intoxicating island of...
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