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1) Red rabbit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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It is very early in Jack Ryan’s career—so early that he has not yet even become an analyst for the CIA. But a series of nasty encounters with an IRA splinter group has brought Ryan to the attention of the CIA’s Deputy Director and his British counterpart. They offer him his first job as a freelance analyst, and he readily accepts. Debriefing a high-level Russian defector, however, he comes across an unbelievable plot: top Soviet...
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Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Ellie Lerner, having felt like her career and marriage were on hold since the death of her infant daughter, moves from Boston to London to try and help her deceased friend's daughter cope with the effects of seeing her mother murdered and finds her life being transformed.
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Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The President is coming to London but a fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President. Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in to protect the president, with one very special recruit named Sara Gideon.
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English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Something Borrowed comes a novel that shows how someone with a 'perfect life' can lose it all-and then find everything. Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma. But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, Rachel, the plain-Jane "good girl,"...
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
American Rafe Bowman travels to London at Christmastime to meet Lady Natalie Blandford, the young woman his father has chosen to be his bride, and even though Rafe knows his future stake in his wealthy father's company depends on his marrying Natalie, he cannot seem to get her cousin and companion, Hannah, out of his mind.
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English
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With his Inspector Troy series, John Lawton has been compared to top historical espionage writers such as John le Carre and Len Deighton. Brilliantly re-creating London in the time of ration tickets and bread lines, Bluffing Mr. Churchill is a blistering page-turner. It is 1941. Wolfgang Stahl, an American spy operating undercover as an SS officer, has just fled Germany with Hitler's henchmen on his trail. Stahl's man in the American embassy, the...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
American heiress Cora Cash travels to Europe in the late nineteenth century to find a titled husband and succeeds when she falls in love with and marries Ivo, the Duke of Wareham, but while her money guaranteed her the best the world had to offer in the United States, Cora finds herself struggling to understand British society and customs, and unsure whether her husband really loves her or married her just for her fabulous wealth.
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
After her mother died, vivacious Katey Tyler fled her dull Connecticut town, hoping to meet her relatives in England and find adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe. She had no idea that her life-changing travels would have both in spades, as well as danger and intrigue, when she catches the eye of ship owner Boyd Anderson and inadvertently stumbles upon a high-stakes kidnapping. When Sir Anthony Malory's young daughter is abducted from London's...
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Language
English
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Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a threat; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution to his money and marriage problems. If this were an Alfred Hitchcock movie, the solution would be obvious. Enter a stranger with wife problems of his own, who offers a violent -- and mutually advantageous -- proposal.
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19) That summer
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"From modern-day England to the early days of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, [this book] takes readers on a ... journey through a mysterious old house, a hidden love affair, and one woman's search for the truth about her past--and herself"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Hay-on-Wye, 1995. Peter Byerly isn$1 (Bt sure what drew him into this particular bookshop. Nine months earlier, the death of his beloved wife, Amanda, had left him shattered. The young antiquarian bookseller relocated from North Carolina to the English countryside, hoping to rediscover the joy he once took in collecting and restoring rare books. But upon opening an eighteenth-century study of Shakespeare forgeries, Peter is shocked when a portrait...
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