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10401) Heartless
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lady Alexia Maccon, soulless, is at it again, only this time the trouble is not her fault. When a mad ghost threatens the queen, Alexia is on the case, following a trail that leads her deep into her husband's past.
10402) The black crescent
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1950s Morocco, set during the violent end of the French protectorate, a young Berber detective investigates a political murder and finds his own place in the new world order."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Just turned twelve, Lily is the oldest of the three children in her Chinese American family living in San Francisco when the 1906 earthquake hits; her family has survived the quake, but as the city starts to burn Lily and her younger brother are separated from the others and must get to the safety of Oakland across the bay and hope that the rest of their family and friends are there waiting for them--but between the fire and the anti-Chinese violence...
10406) Death at the manor
Author
Series
Lily Adler mystery volume 3
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Regency widow Lily Adler is looking forward to spending the autumn away from the social whirl of London. When she arrives in Hampshire with her friends, the Carroways, she doesn't expect much more than a quiet country visit and the chance to spend time with her charming new acquaintance, Matthew Spencer. But something odd is afoot in the small country village. A ghost has taken up residence in the Belleford manor, a lady in grey who wanders the...
10407) The angel in the glass
Author
Series
Gabriel Taverner volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"June, 1604. When the emaciated body of a vagrant is found on the edge of the moor, it's the verdict of physician Gabriel Taverner that the man died of natural causes - but is all as it seems? Who was the dead man, and why had he come to the small West Country village of Tavy St Luke's to die cold, sick and alone? With no one claiming to have known him, his identity remains a mystery. Then a discovery found buried in a nearby field throws a strange...
10408) The royal secret
Author
Series
James Marwood and Cat Lovett volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Two young girls plot a murder by witchcraft. Soon afterwards a government clerk dies painfully in mysterious circumstances. His colleague James Marwood is asked to investigate - but the task brings unexpected dangers. Meanwhile, architect Cat Hakesby is working for a merchant who lives on Slaughter Street, where the air smells of blood and a captive Barbary lion prowls the stables. Then a prestigious new commission arrives. Cat must design a Poultry...
10409) The outcast girls
Author
Series
World's End Bureau mystery volume 02
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1881. Lily Raynor, owner of the World's End Investigation Bureau, is growing increasingly worried. Work is drying up, finances are tight and she cannot find enough for her sole employee, Felix Wilbraham, to do. So when schoolteacher Georgiana Long arrives, with a worrying tale of runaway pupils, it seems like the answer to her prayers. The case is an interesting one, and what could be less perilous than a trip to a girls' boarding school,...
10410) The sins of Lord Lockwood
Author
Series
Rules for the reckless volume 06
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Steamy romance sizzles between a resurrected earl and his repentant bride in USA TODAY bestselling author Meredith Duran's latest historical romance. BACK FROM THE DEAD, AN EARL SEEKS VENGEANCE...Liam Devaliant, Lord Lockwood, was born into a charmed life. Charismatic, powerful, and wild, he had the world at his feet--and one woman as his aim. His wedding to Anna was meant to be his greatest triumph. Instead, in a single moment, a wicked conspiracy...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Japan's enduring national legend comes to comics! This epic mission of loyal Japanese warriors to avenge their wronged master epitomizes the samurai code of honor, and 47 Ronin recounts the sweeping saga of duty and duress in all its violent grandeur. Opening with the tragic incident that sealed the fate of young Lord Asano, this graphic novel follows a dedicated group of Asano's vassals on their unwavering road to bloody vengeance.
10412) The midwife's tale
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In 1830s small-town Pennsylvania, midwife Martha Cade's world changes when she faces tense relationships, a new doctor in town whose arrival threatens her job, a town scandal, and an unexpected romance."--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...
10414) 1666: a novel
Author
Publisher
Sibylline Press, an imprint of All Things Book LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The survival story of the Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia has been remembered within the tribe for generations, but the massacre of Patawomeck men and the enslavement of women and children by land hungry colonists in 1666 has been mostly unknown outside of the tribe until now. Author Lora Chilton, a member of the tribe through the lineage of her father, has created this powerful fictional retelling. Told in first person point of view through the imagined...
10415) Sail me away home
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"As a young teacher on Martha's Vineyard, Mary Lambert feels restless and adrift. So when a league of missionaries invite her to travel abroad, she knows it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Paris is home to a pioneering deaf school where she could meet its visionary instructors Jean Massieu and Laurent Clerc--and even bring back their methods to help advance formal deaf education in America! But the endeavor comes at a cost: The missionaries'...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"2023 Pura Belpré Award Honor for Illustration! Faced with the prospect of being separated from each other, a young boy and his family make the difficult decision to leave their home and begin a journey filled with uncertainty. On the road, they meet other people like them. Families with deep roots tied to the land. Others that helped build the railroads. Some were shop owners and factory workers. Each with similar hopes and dreams. Historians estimate...
10417) Symohony of secrets
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When he is asked to authenticate a newly discovered piece from famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern Hendricks uncovers clues that indicate Delaney may have had help composing his most successful work, which makes him a target of a powerful organization who will stop at nothing to keep their secret hidden.
Author
Series
World's End Bureau Victorian mystery volume 1
Publisher
Severn House Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"London, 1880. 'I'm dreadfully afraid someone is threatening to kill my wife...' When accounts clerk Ernest Stibbins approaches the World's End investigation bureau with wild claims that his wife Albertina has been warned by her spirit guides that someone is out to harm her, the bureau's owner Lily Raynor and her new employee Felix Wilbraham are initially skeptical. How are the two private enquiry agents supposed to investigate threats from beyond...
10419) Wilderness wife
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When life collapses around you in a single day, how do you continue living? Marguerite Wadin MacKay believes her 17-year marriage to explorer Alex MacKay is strong - until his sudden fame destroys it. When he returns from a cross-Canada expedition, he announces their frontier marriage is void in Montréal, where he plans to find a society wife - not one with native blood. Taking their son, MacKay sends Marguerite and their three daughters to a trading...
10420) The secrets of winter
Author
Series
Josephine Tey volume 09
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St. Michael's Mount--and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary--interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins"--