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2) The fraud
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Language
English
Description
In 1873 Victorian London, with the city mesmerized by the “Tichborne Trial,” wherein a lower-class butcher from Australia claims he is the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title, Mrs. Eliza Touchet becomes determined to find out if he’s really who he says he is or if he’s a fraud.
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Language
English
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
An epic tale-within-a-tale based on the history of Ireland finds a traditional wandering Storyteller revealing his life experiences while forging a poignant new relationship in the home of an eight-year-old boy.
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Language
English
Description
Traveling the region of Nyons with her foster father’s mobile library in 1960s France, Marie-Jeanne, who has a special gift for matchmaking, brings soulmates together each place they go, but is unable to find one for herself, wondering when love will finally come to her.
Author
Publisher
St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Returning to his village after escaping the Roman army, Spartacus is betrayed by his jealous king and forced into life as a gladiator before executing a daring overthrow and assuming leadership over an army of escaped slaves.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story and a five-million-word secret journal, this extraordinary work of fiction follows an orphaned heiress, banished from India to England, and a brilliant, troublesome tomboy who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in 1805 York where they fall secretly, deeply and dangerous in love.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While at coal baron Edward Berwind’s fete, Emma and Derrick discover murder is in attendance when a chambermaid is found dead in the coal tunnel, and, asked to assist in this investigation involving a stolen diamond necklace, discover dark deeds that must be brought into the light.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this exciting companion book to the epic The Last Kingdom series, three exclusive short stories introduce the iconic Uhtred of Babbanburgm the Saxon-born, Norse-raised warrior and rebel, immersing readers in Anglo-Saxon life in all its splendor, danger and beauty.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Manhattan, 1923. Scandalous flapper Dot King is found dead in her apartment, a bottle of chloroform beside her and a fortune in jewels missing. Dot's headline-making murder draws a clutch of lovers, parasites, and justice seekers into one of the city's most mesmerizing mysteries. Among them: Daily News crime reporter Julia Harpman, chasing the story while navigating a male-dominated industry; righteous NYPD detective John D. Coughlin, struggling...
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Series
A time for swords volume 3
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Hunlaf battles peril and intrigue on a dangerous voyage to Muslim Spain. AD 796. Sailing in search of an object of great power, Hunlaf and his comrades are far from home when they are caught up in a violent skirmish against pirates. After the bloody onslaught, an encounter with ships from Islamic Spain soon sees them escorted under guard to the city of Qadis, one of the jewels of the Emirate of Al-Andalus and the true destination of their voyage....
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Series
Fire born volume 4
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A clash of crowns pits brother against sister in the battle for ultimate power. Spring, AD 777. Sigurd Hring, new King of the Svear, is summoning all the greatest warriors of the North to his banner, promising them riches and glory. He invites Bjarki Bloodhand, the famous berserkr who can summon the fury of a wild bear in battle, to swear an oath of fealty to him. But Bjarki has already sailed away to rescue a beautiful Saxon princess. Tor Hildarsdottir,...
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Publisher
LK Wilde
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
People say you get one life, but I've lived three. I was born Ellen Hardy in 1900, dragged up in Queen Caroline's Yard, Norwich.There was nothing royal about our yard, and Mum was no queen. At six years old Mum sold me. I became Nellie Westrop, roaming the country in a showman's wagon, learning the art of the fair. And I've been the infamous Queenie of Norwich, moving up in the world by any means, legal or not. I've been heartbroken, abandoned, bought...
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Publisher
John S. Bodkin, Jr.?
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Briarhill to Brooklyn, is a novel, grounded in facts, in which Jack Bodkin tells the story of his Irish Catholic family's 1848 migration from County Galway, Ireland, to Brooklyn, New York, in the era of the Irish Potato Famine. Was it the prospect of starvation, the snows of Black '47, or the fear of typhus that made the Bodkins leave? Or was it the dream of America's freedom and opportunity that drove the family from Galway onto a ship? Their destination...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1907. On the eve of her fifth birthday, Poppy Pendleton is tucked safely in her bed; the next morning, she is gone, and her father is found dead. 1992. Though Chloe Ridell lives in the shadows of Poppy's castle home, now in ruins, she has little interest in the mystery that still captivates tourists and locals alike. She is focused on preserving the island she inherited from her grandparents and reviving their vintage candy shop. Until the day a girl...
17) Wolves of winter
Author
Series
Essex dogs trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"1347. Bruised and bloodied by an epic battle at Crécy, six soldiers known as the Essex Dogs pick through the wreckage of the fighting-and their own lives. Now a new siege is beginning, and the Dogs are sent to attack the soaring walls of Calais. King Edward has vowed no Englishman will leave France 'til this city falls. To get home, they must survive a merciless winter in a lawless camp deadlier than any battlefield. Obsessed with tracking down...
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