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1) Dodger
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horsedrawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's... Dodger. Seventeen-year-old Dodger may be a street urchin, but he gleans a living from London's sewers, and he knows a jewel when he sees one. He's not about to let anything happen to the unknown girl -...
2) London
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
829 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized survey of the history of London, interweaving the events of two thousand years with the adventures of six families whose succeeding generations lived in the city from the time it was a Celtic encampment through its emergence as England's preeminent metropolis.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever. Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with...
Author
Series
Bryant and May volume 18.5
Publisher
Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 474 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Why does [the] rainy, cold, gray city [of London] capture so many imaginations? Could its very unreliability hold the key to its longevity? The detectives are joined by their boss Raymond Land and some of their most disreputable friends, each an argumentative and unreliable expert in their own dodgy field. Each character gives us a short tour of odd buildings, odder characters, lost venues, forgotten disasters, confusing routes, dubious gossip, illicit...
Author
Series
Lord John Grey volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xi, 494 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1758, in the heart of the Seven Years ́War, Britain fights by the side of Prussia in the Rhineland. For Lord John and his titled brother Hal, the battlefield will be a welcome respite from the torturous mystery that burns poisonously in their familyś history. Seventeen years earlier, Lord Johnś late father, the Duke of Pardloe, was found dead, a pistol in his hand and accusations of his role as a Jacobite agent staining forever a familyś honor....
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