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42) The murder room
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English
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The Dupayne, a small private museum on the edge of London's Hampstead Heath devoted to the interwar years 1919-39, is in turmoil. The trustees—the three children of the museum founder, old Max Dupayne—are bitterly at odds over whether it should be closed. Then one of them is brutally murdered, and what seemed to be no more than a family dispute erupts into horror. For even as Commander Adam Dalgiesh and his team investigate the first killing,...
44) Scorpia rising
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Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
45) When we touch
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English
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A sensible betrothal leads to secret passion discovered in the dangerous streets of London in the New York Times bestselling author's Victorian romance.
Queen Victoria's London is a teeming metropolis of pageantry, forbidden desire, and danger—especially in the East End, where a mysterious murderer preys on ladies of the night. What widow Lady Maggie Graham does there provides plenty of grist for the rumor mill. When...
Queen Victoria's London is a teeming metropolis of pageantry, forbidden desire, and danger—especially in the East End, where a mysterious murderer preys on ladies of the night. What widow Lady Maggie Graham does there provides plenty of grist for the rumor mill. When...
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2009
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English
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When Elspeth Noblin dies, she leaves everything to the 20-year-old American twin daughters of her own long-estranged twin, Edie. Valentina and Julia, as enmeshed as Elspeth and Edie once were, move into Elspeth's London flat and through a series of developing relationships a crisis develops that could pull the twins apart.
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Wallflower series volume 5
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English
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Arriving in London for his arranged marriage, uncivilized American rake Rafe Bowman receives lessons in London etiquette and gentlemanly behavior from four former Wallflowers during the holiday season, an effort that is complicated by the bride's unexpected ways.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Lockwood & Co. are hired to investigate Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead, while Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in a ghost jar.
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English
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Unfairly dismissed from her position as housekeeper for the grandest home in Mayfair, Mrs. King, along with an eclectic group of women, plans a daring heist on the night of the house’s highly anticipated costume ball, where she’ll get something she wants even more than money: the truth.
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English
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When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
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2014.
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English
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
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2021.
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English
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The fig tree in her parents’ garden, which unbeknownst to her bore witness to their secret meetings decades ago, is her only knowledge of a home she has never known as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.
55) Anno Dracula
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Anno Dracula volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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In an alternate history of the nineteenth century, Queen Victoria has married Count Dracula, leading to a reign of horror, while, in Whitechapel, Silver Knife, a murderer of vampire girls, threatens the new regime.
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