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2581) Strange unearthly things
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Jane Reye is a psychic artist. She draws what she sees, and what she sees are spirits and the supernatural. Growing up orphaned, she’s now of legal age and can no longer return to the girls’ school she’s called home for most of her life. Lost and alone after the death of her lifelong friend, she receives an invitation to partake in a study at the English manor Fairfax Hall: an investigation of the property that...
2582) The fourth rule: a novel
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
387 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
"Impossible doesn't belong in Riley Wolfe's vocabulary. He's a master of heists and disguises, whose life's work is swindling the rich out of their undeserved treasures. Now rumors surrounding a dangerous new figure of international crime are spreading through the underworld. And this ruthless collector, the Cobra, has a personal vendetta against Riley ... No matter--with the aid of his new partner, Caitlin, Riley prepares to take on the most powerful...
2583) The chimes
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Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"After the end of a brutal civil war, London is divided, with slums standing next to a walled city of elites. Monk-like masters are selected for special schooling and shut away for decades, learning to write beautiful compositions for the chimes, played citywide morning and night, to mute memory and keep the citizens trapped in ignorance. A young orphan named Simon arrives in London with nothing but the vague sense of a half-forgotten promise, to...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Eden McKinley knows she can't count on much in this world, but she can depend on Bonnie, her solid, steady, straight-A best friend. So it's a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with the boyfriend Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their final exams. Especially when the police arrive on her doorstep and Eden finds out that Bonnie's boyfriend is actually their music teacher, Mr. Cohn. Sworn to secrecy and bound by loyalty, only...
2585) This spells disaster
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Fake dating gets a magical twist in this enchanting queer romantic comedy where a witch worries that the real feelings brewing between her and her crush were sparked by an accidental love potion, and the only way out of the disastrous spell is a healthy dose of the truth--drink up, witches. Potion maker and self-proclaimed "messy witch" Morgan Greenwood is sure she was hexed at birth. Not only did she drunkenly offer to fake date the woman of her...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"After a shocking phone call from her mother, Reeva Mehta's life starts to sound like the plot of a Bollywood drama. From the outlandishly funny author of 30 Things I Love About Myself comes a hilarious, heartwarming novel about love, family, and new beginnings. Thirty-four-year-old Reeva thought her life couldn't possibly get more complicated, until her semi-famous Bollywood mother calls to tell her that she's been lying to her daughters for decades-the...
2587) A house for Alice
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"A sweeping and gorgeously rendered exploration of grief and yearning, following the fracturing of an multinational family in the wake of its patriarch's death. In the early hours of June 14, 2017, the world watches as flames leap up the sides of a residential high-rise in West London, devouring Grenfell Tower and the makeshift lives it houses--those of London's immigrants, its refugees, its working class. At the same time across town, another spark...
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Pub. Date
©2011
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158 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Tells of the Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them-- and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of all.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"Set in the Victorian era, the discovery of a mysterious powder on some clothing and a very special show ticket leads Sherlock Holmes to believe a patient isn't the only victim of a grand conspiracy. Indeed, it seems the strange disappearance of Londonerscan be explained by the performances of a Chinese magician. When other tickets are found, the detective's suspicions are confirmed..."--
2590) Protecting her heart
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
417 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Description
"London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her mother's death than Charlotte had been told. She turns...
2591) The road of the dead
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Pub. Date
2008, p2007
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (8.5 hrs.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm.
Description
Two brothers, sons of an incarcerated gypsy, leave London traveling to an isolated and desolate village, in search of the brutal killer of their sister.
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Series
Royal outsiders volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
669 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
In 1933, twenty-two-year-old Marion Crawford accepts the role of a lifetime, tutoring the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. Her one stipulation to their parents the Duke and Duchess of York is that she bring some doses of normalcy into their sheltered and privileged lives. At Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral, Marion defies stuffy protocol to take the princesses on tube trains, swimming at public baths and on joyful Christmas...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by 12 remarkable best-selling and acclaimed authors. This collection of 12 original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie's Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery ... Miss Marple...
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First edition library mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
451 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Description
"It has been nearly a year since I took up my position as curator of Lady Georgiana Fowling's collection of Golden Age of Mystery writers' first editions at her library in Middlebank House. I have learned that I need to take the good with the bad. The good- I have finally convinced Mrs. Woolgar to open up the collection to the public one day a week so that they too can share in Lady Fowling's passion. The bad- although he would not be my first, or...
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