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Author
Series
Perveen Mistry volume 2
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
349 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Satara mountains southeast of Bombay, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen and the maharaja's widow. The royal...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment, (could Ben really have afforded this?) he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig...
Author
Pub. Date
9999
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
10 sound discs (12 hours) : digital, CD audio 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Read by Juliet Stevenson. Miss Marple: The Complete Story Collection gathers together in one magnificent volume all of Agatha Christie's short stories featuring her beloved intrepid investigator, Miss Marple. It's an unparalleled compendium of murder, mayhem, mystery, and detection that represents some of the finest short form fiction in the crime fiction field, and is an essential omnibus for Christie fans. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of medicine, looking at some of the unusual methods that have been used to try to make people feel better, and traces links between the medicine of the past and modern-day treatments.
Author
Publisher
Adams Media
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Adams Media hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Discover the power of natural magic and healing through herbs, flowers, and essential oils in this new guide to green witchcraft. At her core, the green witch is a naturalist, an herbalist, a wise woman, and a healer. She embraces the power of nature; she draws energy from the Earth and the Universe; she relies on natural objects like stones and gems to commune with the land on which she lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the S�uret�e du Quebec investigating a sinister plot in the City of Light On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no...
Author
Publisher
FC & A
Pub. Date
�2004
Physical Desc
viii, 382 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Did you know that you can help prevent high blood pressure, breast and colon cancer, senility and fragile bones all with one inexpensive daily supplement that keeps you healthy and strong? Or, that there's a natural way to rejuvenate your veins and arteries that can have you feeling brand new? Or, that you can overcome pain with nature's secrets to pain-free living? These are just a few of the fascinating natural cures and expert advice revealed in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie written in 1916, and first published in 1920 to rave reviews. Christie's first published novel, it introduced Hercule Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, who is settling in England near the home of his wealthy, recently widowed friend Emily Inglethorp. When the widow is found murdered via the administering of poison, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery....
13) A Demon Summer
Author
Series
A Max Tudor Mystery volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this new mystery, someone has been trying to poison the 15th Earl of Lislelivet. Since Lord Lislelivet has a gift for making enemies, no one--particularly his wife--finds this too surprising. What is surprising is that the poison was discovered in a fruitcake made and sold by the Handmaids of St. Lucy of Monkbury Abbey. The powerful Lord complains loudly to the local bishop, who asks Father Max Tudor, vicar of Nether Monkslip and former MI5 agent,...
Author
Series
A Ruth Galloway mystery volume 8
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the next Ruth Galloway mystery, a vision of the Virgin Mary foreshadows a string of cold-blooded murders, revealing a dark current of religious fanaticism in an old medieval town. Known as England's Nazareth, the medieval town of Little Walsingham is famous for religious apparitions. So when Ruth Galloway's druid friend Cathbad sees a woman in a white dress and a dark blue cloak standing alone in the local cemetery one night, he takes her as...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
" When an intricate old map is found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines, it at first seems no more than a curiosity. But the closer the villagers look, the stranger it becomes. Given to Armand Gamache as a gift the first day of his new job, the map eventually leads him to shattering secrets. To an old friend and older adversary. It leads the former Chief of Homicide for the Surete du Quebeck to places even he is afraid to go. But...
Author
Publisher
Highwater Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Children go for a walk in the woods with their elders and discover the animals of British Columbia, their names in the Nekepmxcin or Halq'emeylem languages, and the teachings they have for us."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this eighteenth-century historical mystery series opener, an English lady looks to an American anatomist's forensic skills to clear her husband's name.
The death of Sir Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. Few mourn the dissolute young man—except his sister, the beautiful Lady Lydia Farrell. When her husband comes under suspicion of murder, she seeks
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The brilliant anatomist Dr. Thomas Silkstone returns in Tessa Harris's vivid and compelling mystery series set in 1780s London. . .
It is not just the living who are prey to London's criminals and cutpurses. Corpses, too, are fair game--dug up from fresh graves and sold to unscrupulous men of science. Dr. Thomas Silkstone abhors such methods, but his leading rival, Dr. John Hunter, has learned of the imminent death of eight-foot-tall Charles Byrne,...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
If there’s one thing Lily Hong can’t stand, it’s being second best. That’s why she and Max Zhang have been bitter rivals ever since he swooped into town as the new kid with the cool clothes and his fancy downtown Chinese school and showed her up in the fifth-grade reading challenge.
She had wanted to be the one to win the pizza party for their class. Okay, so that was two years ago . . . her best friends Kelli and Lauren didn’t totally...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge finds himself caught in a twisted web of vengeance, old grievances, and secrets that lead back to World War I in the nineteenth installment of the acclaimed bestselling series. On the eve of the bloody Battle of the Somme, a group of English officers having a last drink before returning to the Front make a promise to each other: if they survive the battle ahead--and make it through the war--they will meet in Paris a year...