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Miss Peregrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous....
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English
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The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film directed by John Ford.
Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful—before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story of a...
Huw Morgan remembers the days when his home valley was prosperous, verdant, and beautiful—before the mines came to town. The youngest son of a respectable mining family in South Wales, he is now the only one left in the valley, and his reminiscences tell the story of a...
3) Slammerkin
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English
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Mary Saunders desire to lead a life of luxury leads her to prostitution at a young age, until she is taken in by a childhood friend of her mother's, who tries to help Mary turn over a new leaf.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to escape the unwanted advances of a cruel master, chambermaid Annie Morgan runs miles through stormy weather to find sanctuary at the home of Reverend and Mrs. Davies. Without family and tainted by scandal, she's in dire need of a new identity and an occupation to match. Equally bleak is the future of Evan Powell, a miner who harbors dreams of escaping the black mines that are slowly killing him and finding refuge under the promised blue...
Author
Series
Fiona Griffiths mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Orion Books, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It started out as nothing much. A minor payroll fraud at a furniture store in South Wales. No homicide involved, no corpses. Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths fights to get free of the case, but loses. She's tasked with the investigation. She begins her inquiries, only to discover the corpse of a woman who's starved to death. Looks further, and soon realizes that within the first, smaller crime, a vaster one looms: the most audacious theft in history....
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Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
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Australia, 1814 As a young child bound for a strange country, Sarah Whitaker dreamed of life with her father on his sprawling Australian ranch. But her hopes were shattered when she learned of his death and of her new role as heiress of the largest sheep farm in New Wales. Orphaned in a land greatly populated by petty criminals exiled from England, the future seemed grim. But now, ten years later, Sarah has defied the odds and become a successful...
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English
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"Meet Otto and Cecil, two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather--and killing the help. Murder is the family business, after all. ... However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable cavalcade of escaped...
8) Among others
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
302 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled -- and her twin...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
218 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Over the years, Gwen Anderton's quaint bed and breakfast has served as a vacation spot, an escape, a fortress, a haven. For each guest it is something different, tied to their very personal reasons for being there. Her current guests are no exception. Brian McNaught, a gruff, abrasive Scotsman, takes his meals in his room, rebuffs all overtures of friendship,a nd disappears into the Welsh hills each day. He's a lawyer and it's rumored that he's had...
Author
Series
Fiona Griffiths mysteries volume 4
Publisher
CreateSpace independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
576 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A marine engineer who tumbles off a cliff path on a windy night. A burglary where everything taken was returned by the thief. The suicide of a man in love with life. An accident, a mystery, an unexplained tragedy. And nothing at all to connect them. Until Detective Constable Fiona Griffiths, searching for something -- anything -- to take her mind off the tedious job of evidence-cataloguing she's been assigned to, starts to wonder if all three incidents...
11) The dead house
Author
Series
Fiona Griffiths mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Sheep Street Books
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
477 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a young woman is found in an old 'dead house' -- the annexe where the dead were stored before burial in medieval times -- of a tiny Welsh church, it seems that past and present have come together in a bizarre and horrifying way. For DC Fiona Griffiths, the girl -- a murder victim whose corpse was laid out with obvious tenderness -- represents an irresistibly intriguing puzzle, given Fiona's unusual empathy with the dead. And when...
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Series
Oscar Wilde volume 4
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
421 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Oscar Wilde and the Nest of Vipers opens in the spring of 1890 at a glamorous reception hosted by the Duke and Duchess of Albemarle. All London's haut monde is there, including the Prince of Wales, who counts the Albemarles as close friends. Although it is the first time Oscar and Bertie have met, Oscar seems far more interested in Rex LaSalle, a young actor, who disarmingly claims to be a vampire... However, what begins as a diverting evening ends...
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleanor de Lacy has been bartered: her hand in marriage in exchange for a truce with her father's sworn enemy. Now the headstrong beauty must leave her ancestral home and the man she secretly loves to become the wife of the infamous Welsh King Brach Goch. Tales of this cruel leader paint a chilling picture of a ruthless warrior���all Eleanor knows for certain is that he is the villain responsible for the vicious attacks on her people and the...
Author
Series
Fiona Griffiths mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
At first, the murder scene appears sad, but not unusual: a young woman undone by drugs and prostitution, her six-year-old daughter dead alongside her. But then detectives find a strange piece of evidence in the squalid house: the platinum credit card of a very wealthy — and long dead — steel tycoon. What is a heroin-addicted hooker doing with the credit card of a well-known and powerful man who died months ago? This is the question that the most...
Author
Series
Fiona Griffiths mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
400 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
D.C. Fiona Griffiths is facing the prospect of a dull weekend when the call comes in, something about illegal dumping in a Cardiff suburb. But when she arrives on the scene she finds, in a garage freezer, a severed human leg, complete with a pink suede high-heeled shoe. South Wales police are able to ID the body part as that of a young woman who went missing five years earlier; a young woman who once made a living as an exotic dancer. All at once,...
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