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Babbage, Charles 1791-1871 Fiction Countess of Lovelace, Ada King 1815-1852 Fiction Detective and mystery stories Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character) Fiction Inventors Fiction Large type books London (England) Fiction Women private investigators England London Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Missing in action Fiction World War, 1914-1918 Psychological aspects FictionRowland, Laura Joh.
Summary: Upon learning that she has been falsely accused of plagiarism, the normally mild-mannered Charlotte Brontë sets off for London to clear her name. But when she unintentionally witnesses a murder, Charlotte finds herself embroiled in a dangerous chain of events that forces her to confront demons from her past.--From publisher description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWScott, Michael
Summary: Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCORowland, Laura Joh.
Summary: After the death of her siblings, Charlotte has few people she can trust, and feels more alone than ever. While visiting London, Charlotte goes on a tour of Bedlam, where she is sure she recognizes a struggling Mr. Slade, her long-missing ex-lover, strapped to one of the stretchers. Of course, she starts digging, and soon finds herself trying to reveal a secret that high-powered men would, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROWCarey, Peter
Summary: Museum curator Catherine's affair comes to an abrupt end with her married lover's untimely death. Denied outward grief by the nature of their relationship, Catherine retreats into isolation. Delving into notebooks more than a century old, she feels a growing connection to Henry Brandling, who in 1854 gave life to a mechanical creature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC CARCarey, Peter
Summary: Museum curator Catherine's affair comes to an abrupt end with her married lover's untimely death. Denied outward grief by the nature of their relationship, Catherine retreats into isolation. Delving into notebooks more than a century old, she feels a growing connection to Henry Brandling, who in 1854 gave life to a mechanical creature.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CARSmith, Zadie
Summary: From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story--and who deserves to be believed It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: PA FIC SMISmith, Zadie
Summary: "It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper-and cousin by marriage-of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also sceptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SMICopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fcition SmithWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: In 1930 London a deathbed plea from his wife leads Sir Cecil Lawton to seek the aid of Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and investigator. As Maisie soon learns, Agnes Lawton never accepted that her aviator son was killed in the Great War, a torment that led her not only to the edge of madness but to the doors of those who practice the dark arts and commune with the spirit world. In accepting the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS WINWinspear, Jacqueline
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINPearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens's untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends Daniel Sand to take possession of the unfinished novel. When Sand is killed, Osgood and Rebecca Sand journey to England determined to recover the manuscript and stop a murderous mastermind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Santillana 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468.3 FICTION PEAWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: London investigator Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer, listed as missing in action when World War I ends, and a mysterious nurse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: MYS WINCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Mystery WinBruen, Ken.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloodlines 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUMoore, Graham
Summary: When literary researcher Harold White is inducted into the preeminent Sherlock Holmes enthusiast society, he never imagines he's about to be thrust onto the hunt for Arthur Conan Doyle's missing diary. But after a Doylean scholar is murdered, it is Harold who takes up the search, both for the diary and for the killer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Moore 2010Pearl, Matthew.
Summary: Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickens' untimely death reaches the office of his struggling American publisher, Fields & Osgood, partner James Osgood sends his trusted clerk Daniel Sand to await the arrival of Dickens' unfinished novel. Then Daniel's body is discovered by the docks and the manuscript is nowhere to be found.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M WINChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2017Franklin, Ariana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M FRAWinspear, Jacqueline
Summary: Jacqueline Winspear's beloved gumshoe, Maisie Dobbs, returns to solve another befuddling case. On Christmas Eve in 1931, Maisie Dobbs observes a man take his own life on the streets of London. The morning after, the Prime Minister's office is sent a letter endangering the lives of many people if certain orders aren't met. Shockingly, Maisie's name is written on the list.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2009
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Summary: Maisie Dobbs must catch a madman before he commits murder on an unimaginable scale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS WINChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: "The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CHIChiaverini, Jennifer
Summary: "The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: It is the spring of 1930, and Maisie Dobbs has been hired to find a runaway heiress. But what seems a simple case at the outset soon becomes increasingly complicated when three of the heiress's old friends are found dead. Is there a connection between the woman's mysterious disappearance and the murders? Who would want to kill three seemingly respectable young women? As Maisie investigates, she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WINHinshaw, Victoria.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HINChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: "The only legitimate child of Lord Byron, the most brilliant, revered, and scandalous of the Romantic poets, Ada was destined for fame long before her birth. Estranged from Ada's father, who was infamously "mad, bad, and dangerous to know," Ada's mathematician mother is determined to save her only child from her perilous Byron heritage. Banishing fairy tales and make-believe from the nursery,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017