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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.
62) Coffin's ghost
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English
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Everyone has a few ghosts in their closets, but John Coffin, Chief Commander of the Second City of London's Police believes that his are all safely tucked away. In fact, recently recovered from a gunshot wound, Coffin is hoping for a calmer life with his actress-wife, Stella Pinero.
However, life has other plans for him. Coffin learns that all of his ghosts are not behind him when a parcel containing dismembered limbs is found outside a woman's refuge....
63) The river knows
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Amanda Quick comes a delightful romp filled with breathtaking suspense, dazzling wit, and steamy Victorian passion . . .
The first kiss occurred in a dimly lit hallway on the upper floor of Elwin Hastings's grand house. Louisa Bryce never saw it coming. Of course, handsome, wealthy Anthony Stalbridge couldn't possibly have had romantic intentions. The kiss was merely meant to distract the armed guard about to...
65) The tinderbox
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Laurence Schofield heads to London after seeing television footage of a homeless woman who may be his daughter, who disappeared six years ago, but his journey into London's seedy underside opens his eyes to the dangers his daughter may be facing and forces him to realize his daughter may be gone forever.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Seven years after witnessing the murders of three children in a cave in Greenwich, England, twenty-year-old Anita Naidu relates the events of the tragedy to a psychologist and reflects on her friendship with an angry, verbally abusive boy named Kyle and an obese outsider named Denis.
69) Cargo of eagles
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English
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A lively British mystery from "one of the greatest mid-20th-century practitioners of the detective novel" (Alexander McCall Smith).
Strange things are happening in Saltey. The little village on the Essex coast is invaded by bikers and a parade of peculiar visitors, a newly released prisoner is rumored to be in the area, Mr. Lugg has bought a bungalow there, the Saltey Demon is on the loose again . . . and Albert Campion is looking for the disappearance...
70) Dark justice
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English
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A fabulous contemporary thriller from the master of the genre - the author of the international bestsellers Midnight Runner, A Fine Night for Dying and Bad Company. Sean Dillon is back in another heart-stopping, adrenalin-laced adventure. When the president's right hand men foil a plan to assassinate him. Sean Dillon is called upon to trace the would-be killer's history. It appears the assassin is British with Muslim connections, and suddenly Dillon...
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English
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Sophie Kinsella's debut is a rollicking romp through the perils of shopping and spending, spending, spending! Becky can't resist a sale, and she's only a little overdrawn on her VISA. Besides, that new scarf is just too cute to pass up. Readers will laugh aloud at Becky's retail adventures as she finds new and creative ways to relieve her increasingly burdensome credit card debt. Emily Gray's narration bounces along with Becky and her buying whims,...
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c1960
Language
English
Description
Dalamatians Pongo and Perdita launch an all-out rescue effort when their puppies, along with dozens of others from throughout London, fall into the clutches of Cruella De Vil, who is looking to make herself a nice new spotted fur coat.
Author
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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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The psychologically charged affairs between residents and servants on a posh London street escalate to violence involving a handsome valet who is sleeping with a lord's wife and daughter, an au pair who aids her mistress's affair, and a disturbed gardener.
78) Black plumes
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English
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A classic from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. "One of the best books by a mystery novelist whose work is always of first rank." -The New York Times
Something is afoot at the Ivory Gallery in London. A string of suspicious incidents-a Kang-Tse vase broken, a specially commissioned catalog burned, and now a painting slashed-has young Frances Ivory on edge. She suspects that the instigator is her stepsister's husband, Robert Madrigal, but...
79) Neverwhere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.
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