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21) Scorpia rising
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Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). It’s no easy job living and working in the tourist attraction in present-day London. Among the eccentric characters who call the Tower’s maze of ancient buildings and spiral staircases home are the Tower’s Rack & Ruin barmaid, Ruby Dore, who just...
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English
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Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of the local apothecary, yearns for more adventure and experience than life in her father's shop and their small village provides. She also longs to know the truth behind her mother's disappearance, which villagers whisper about but her father refuses to discuss. Opportunity comes when a distant aunt offers to educate her as a lady in London. Exposed to fashionable society and romance -- as well as clues about her...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Just after World War II, Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth and his eccentric crew of friends. These friends are men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect and educate Rachel and Nathaniel. Their mother returns after months of silence...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers, and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when...
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Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 14
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English
Description
Police Supervisor Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte investigate a serious of gruesome beheadings in Hyde Park.
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English
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"Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The Russian supercriminal, known as the Wolf, threatens major cities around the globe with total destruction. Surveillance films reveal the involvement of another of Alex Cross's most dangerous enemies, the Weasel. Cross arrives in London and joins forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol and fights his way through a torrent of false leads, impersonators and foreign agents before he gets close to the heart of the crimes.
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English
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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....
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....
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Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 3
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English
Description
In the posh London street of Paragon Walk, a young woman is brutally raped and murdered. Once again the incomparable team of sleuths, Inspector Thomas Pitt and his young wife, Charlotte, peer beneath the elegant masks of the well-born suspects and reveal that something ugly lurks behind the handsome facades of Paragon Walk-something that could lead to more scandal, and more murder....
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Series
Neal Carey volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION -- with a New Introduction by the Author
“One of America’s greatest storytellers.” --Stephen King
Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on the streets of New York, usually on the wrong side of the law. Then he met a PI who introduced him to the Bank, an exclusive institution with a sideline in keeping its wealthy clients happy and out of trouble. They pay Neal’s...
32) Lethal white
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Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike’s office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy’s...
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Series
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt mysteries volume 12
Language
English
Description
When William Weems, obscure moneylender, is murdered Ispector Pitt is asked to investigate and discovers Weems was a vicious blackmailer who had a list of some of London's most distinguished gentlemen in his office.
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Series
Maisie Dobbs novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Birds of a feather: Birds of a Feather finds Maisie Dobbs on another dangerously intriguing adventure in London "between the wars." It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiressś old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the womanś mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill...
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English
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The seven members of the Central Anarchist Council call themselves by the names of the days of the week. But events soon cast a doubt upon their real identities, for Thursday is not the passionate young poet he appears to be, but a Scotland Yard detective. Who and what are the others?
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Series
Blue Ant trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
American design consultant Cayce Pollard is hired by a London advertiser to find the creator of an Internet montage of video snippets that is gaining cult popularity--Cayce herself one of its hooked viewers--and her search turns up unexpected clues about her father's disappearance during the September 11 attacks.
38) Wicked widow
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English
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Artemis Hunt, summoned by the notorious widow Madeline Deveridge who needs help ridding herself of the ghost of herlate husband, strikes a bargain with the widow to keep his dealings secret, but their agreement is complicated by an uncontrollable passion for each other and the realization that the ghost may be dangerous.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Description
Examines the lives of three women at different crossroads in their lives, tying their London-centered stories together in devastating retrospect. Headstrong Madeleine Heller finds herself hopelessly attracted to her sisterś fiancé. Frieda Lewis, a doctorś daughter and a runaway, becomes the muse of an ill-fated rock star. And beautiful Bryn Evans is set to marry an Englishman while secretly obsessed with her ex-husband.
40) Relics
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English
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Beneath the surface of our world, mythological creatures and their artifacts still exist -- corrupt people pay fortunes for a sliver of dragon bone, a basilisk's scale, or an angel's wing. Angela Gough is an American criminology student in London whose fiance Vince disappears, and her investigation leads her into a black market specializing in arcane relics. She meets Mary Rock, a criminal of mythic status who also wants to find Vince... to kill him....
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