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Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
USA Today bestselling author Cathy Maxwell delivers another passionate romance in which marriage is based on convenience not love, and only desire can get in the way.
"There is no impulse more delicious than 'temptation' . . . or more troublesome."-Cathy Maxwell
Marry the local vicar-a stodgy man with six impossible children. Never! Deborah Percival is determined to discover passion in a man's arms, not duty in a dull marriage. And when she...
43) Say You're Sorry
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Language
English
Description
Joe O'Loughlin investigates the murder of a married couple during a horrible London blizzard, but does not believe that the prime suspect--a troubled young man who reported the killings but cannot explain why he was at the crime scene--is really the killer.
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Physical Desc
409 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
If the Truth is Revealed, Will She Lose All She's Grown to Love? An orphanage in the slums of London is the only home Sarah Matthews has ever known. When she is suddenly whisked away to a wealthy widow's home in the prestigious Mayfair district, Sarah can't fathom what has happened. Why would this elderly woman, a stranger, want her company? But Dorothea Blake has reasons she isn't revealing. As Sarah blossoms into a young woman, the secret Mrs. Blake...
Author
Series
Family upstairs volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sequel to: The Family Upstairs.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell comes an intricate and affecting novel about twisted marriages, fractured families, and deadly obsessions in this standalone sequel to the The Family Upstairs. Early one morning on the shore of the Thames, DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene of a gruesome discovery. When Owusu sends the evidence for examination, he learns the bones are connected to a cold...
47) One step too far
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
48) Private games
Author
Series
Private volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
49) Rutland Place
Author
Series
Publisher
Fawcett Crest Press
Pub. Date
1983
Language
English
Description
Things are not what they seem in fashionable Rutland Place, where secrets that are never discussed at tea include murder When her mother asks her help in finding a lost locket with a compromising picture, neither Charlotte Pitt, nor her mother, has any idea that the locket may be at the center of a bizarre chain of events leading to murder. Arriving at her mother's home at Rutland Place, Charlotte discovers that other residents of the exclusive...
Author
Series
Charlotte and Thomas Pitt volume 27
Language
English
Description
When evidence of a mole within the Special Branch is discovered, Thomas Pitt realizes that he cannot trust anyone; while his boss, Victor Narrawy, learns that Charlotte's aunt's friend might have unearthed war-provoking secrets.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Published in 1850, David Copperfield is Charles Dickens' eighth novel and the one that most closely follows the author's own life. A coming of age story, it describes David's life from childhood with a difficult stepfather, his schooling, his entry into the workforce, his courtship and marriage(s) and his eventual success as an author. Filled with colorful characters like Wilkins Micawber and Betsey Trotwood, and unforgettable villains like Uriah...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the "Prime Minister's private army" are called in, augmented by an extraordinary...
54) Leading lady
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tales of London is set in the fascinating world of the London theatre at the close of the nineteenth century. Wardrobe mistress Bethia Rayborn incites the wrath of Muriel Pearce Holt, the new leading lady at London's Royal Court Theatre. Muriel plots revenge, but in scheming to steal Bethia's true love, she may lose the truest love she has ever known.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Psychologist-sleuth Maisie Dobbs is called in by Sir Cecil Lawton to investigate the mystery behind the death of his wife's aviator son during World War I, a mission that brings her face to face with a college friend with ties to the missing pilot.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just in time for Sherlock Holmes’s 166th birthday, the fifth installment in national bestselling author Vicki Delany’s Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery takes Sherlockania to the max with a Holmes convention and historic 221 Baker Street.
Gemma Doyle and her friends travel to London for a Sherlock Holmes convention–but will Gemma’s father take the fall for a felonious forger’s fatality?
The 6th of January is Sherlock Holmes’s birthday,...
60) Funeral in blue
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Formats
Description
When two women are found strangled in the studio of a London artist, including the wife of Dr. Kristian Beck, who is accused of the killing, William Monk, his wife Hester, and their close friend, Lady Callandra Daviot, set out to clear their friend's name.