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Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRPrice, Tirzah
Summary: Eighteen-year-old aspiring chemist Elinor Dashwood and her younger sister Marianne, a budding detective, work together to solve the mystery of their father's murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen 2022
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Summary: Two children trapped in the same attic, almost a century apart, bound by a shared secret. Early 1900s London: Taken from his homeland, twelve-year-old Celestine spends most of the time locked away in the attic of a large house by the sea. The only time Celestine isn't bound by confines of the small space is when he is acting as an unpaid servant to English explorer Sir Richard Babbington, As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAYWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: "London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2024
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Summary: "England, 1882. In Victorian London, two children with mysterious powers are hunted by a figure of darkness-a man made of smoke. Sixteen-year-old Charlie Ovid, despite a brutal childhood in Mississippi, doesn't have a scar on him. His body heals itself, whether he wants it to or not. Marlowe, a foundling from a railway freight car, shines with a strange bluish light. He can melt or mend flesh....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIRWells, Christine
Summary: "World War II London: When Victoire "Paddy" Bennett first walks into the Admiralty's Room 39, home to the Intelligence Division, all the bright and lively young woman expects is a secretarial position to the charismatic Commander Ian Fleming. But soon her job is so much more, and when Fleming proposes a daring plot to deceive the Germans about Allied invasion plans he requests the newlywed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WELLowell, Joanna
Summary: "When an artist and a duke cross paths in the bustling London slums, an unlikely love story begins and their lives will be forever changed. Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover quickly comes to the aid of the naked drunkard she stumbles upon one evening in the Shoreditch slums. If only she could banish his lovely form from her dreams as easily. Instead, she finds herself compelled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOWSelznick, Brian
Summary: The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SELSewell, Anna
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collector's Library 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SEWNovoa, Gabe Cole
Summary: Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he'll be married by the end of the year. It doesn't matter that he's needed a decade of tutors to hide his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2023
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHIFollett, Ken
Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken
Summary: "The spinning jenny, a device that reduced the amount of work required to produce cloth, was patented in 1770 and a new era of industry changed lives everywhere. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a young man unexpectedly inherits a failing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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Summary: When two masterminds--Mary, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, and Ada, the daughter of Lord Byron--are brought together by fate, they make a shocking--and magical--discovery that draws the attention of a mad scientist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HANCookson, Catherine.
Summary: The story of a woman whose fateful choices as a young woman exact a terrible toll not only on her life, but on the lives of those dearest to her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOCornwell, Bernard.
Summary: In the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes sotrmed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate of all England--and the course of history--depended upon one man, one king.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION CornwellKizis, Deanna
Summary: In a park of Regency-era London, Penelope, a little pug, gets separated from her Lady and is found by Lady Diggleton, so Penelope does her best to mind her manners in order to stay with her new Lady.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Summary: Penelope the Pug accompanies Lady Diggleton to Windsor Castle, but when the Queen's diamond ring goes missing and the snooty dog Duchess stands accused, Penelope finds a way to prove her innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024
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Summary: In 1817 England, teenagers Thalia, Charis, and Kallie navigate a London Season gone awry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC EVEBorman, Tracy
Summary: In March of 1603, as she helps to nurse the dying Queen Elizabeth of England, Frances Gorges dreams of her parents' country estate, where she learned to use flowers and herbs to become a much-loved healer. When King James of Scotlant succeeds to the throne Frances is only too happy to stay at home. His court may be shockingly decadent, but his intolerant Puritanism see witchcraft in many of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BORHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HOPFollett, Ken
Summary: "International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with The Pillars of the Earth and World Without End, two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett's magnificent new epic, A Column of Fire. In 1558, the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press Large Print 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FOLFollett, Ken
Summary: "It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined: A young boatbuilder's life is turned...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Follett 2020Lambdin, Dewey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999