King, Laurie R.
Summary: August 1923. All is quiet in the Holmes household in Sussex as Mary Russell works on academic research while Sherlock Holmes conducts malodorous chemistry experiments. But the peace quickly disappears as out of the past comes Dorothy Ruskin, an amateur archeologist from the Holy Land, who brings the couple a lovely inlaid box with a tattered roll of stained papyrus inside. The evening following...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1997
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Summary: "A queen, a castle, a dark and ageless threat--all await Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes in this chilling new adventure. The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous beauty who was married at seventeen into Roumania's young dynasty, Marie had beguiled the Paris Peace Conference into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2021
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Summary: Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple's longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell's faith and affection are suddenly shattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Summary: "Mary Russell is used to dark secrets--her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. Trust is a thing slowly given, but over the course of a decade together, the two have forged an indissoluble bond. And what of the other person to whom Mary Russell has opened her heart: the couple's longtime housekeeper, Mrs. Hudson? Russell's faith and affection are suddenly shattered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: M KINGunnis, Emily
Summary: A tragic death. A missing baby. A long-kept secret... 1960. Thirteen-year-old Rebecca lives in fear of her father's temper. As a storm batters Seaview Cottage one night, she hears a visitor at the door and a violent argument ensues. By the time the police arrive, Rebecca's parents are dead and the visitor has fled. No one believes Rebecca heard a stranger downstairs... 2014. Iris, a journalist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Headline Review 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUNRiley, Lucinda.
Summary: "From #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, an epic story of family secrets, love, and betrayal set in Imperial India, a magnificent English country house in the 1920s, and that same house today"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILRiley, Lucinda.
Summary: "For fans of The House at Riverton and Rebecca--a debut spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from a magnificent estate in war-torn England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist, Julia, and the prominent Crawford family whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences for generations to come. As a child Julia Forrester spent many...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RILConaghan, Brian
Summary: "All seventeen-year-old Dylan Mint wants is to keep his Tourette's in check and live as a normal teen, but during a routine hospital visit he overhears that he is going to die, and in an attempt to claim the life he has always wanted he makes a list of "Cool Things To Do Before I Cack It" and sets out to have some fun."--From Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CONEllis, Bella
Summary: Before they became legendary writers, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, and Anne Brontë were "lady detectors" in this charming historical mystery. Not yet published novelists, they have well-honed imaginations and are expert readers. And, as Charlotte remarks, "detecting is reading between the lines--it's seeing what is not there."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLSummary: Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CANMaher, Kerri
Summary: London, 1938. Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy has taken England by storm. The effervescent It Girl of London society since her father was named the ambassador, Kick dances and drinks champagne at the hottest nightclubs and attends the horse races with nobility. Billy Hartington, the future Duke of Devonshire, sweeps Kick off her feet, but the obstacles to their love are many. Kick is American,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MAHGurnah, Abdulrazak
Summary: "Abbas has never told anyone about his past--before he was a sailor on the high seas, before he met his wife Maryam outside a Boots in Exeter, before they settled into a quiet life in Norwich with their children, Jamal and Hanna. Now, at the age of sixty-three, he suffers a collapse that renders him bedbound and unable to speak about things he thought he would one day have to."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GURBear, Greg
Summary: "A sweeping Elizabethan historical fantasy from an internationally renowned author that evokes the seafaring adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson with the magic of The Bear and the Nightingale"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEARandall, Ronne.
Summary: When Jack buys some magic beans from a mysterious old man, they lead him to a place he could never have imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parragon 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE RANHoward, Rosie
Summary: Maddy fled the idyllic market town of Havenbury Magna three years ago, the scene of a traumatic incident she revisits most clearly in her dreams. Even so, when she is called back to help at the Havenbury Arms when her godfather Patrick suffers a heart attack, she is unprepared for the welter of emotions her return provokes. Psychologist and ex-army officer Ben is sure he can help Maddy to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allison & Busby 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWJewell, Lisa
Summary: On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer's favorite area for long walks and it's on one such walk that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JEWOseman, Alice
Summary: Tori Spring isn't sure how to be happy again. Then she meets Michael Holden, and they try to unmask the mysterious Solitaire (and survive high school) in Alice Oseman's stunning, unflinchingly honest debut novel, which first introduced her fan-favorite Heartstopper characters Nick and Charlie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC OSETuransky, Carrie.
Summary: "Worlds lie between the marketplaces of India and the halls of a magnificent country estate like Highland Hall. Will Julia be able to find her place when a governess is neither upstairs family nor downstairs help? Missionary Julia Foster loves working alongside her parents, ministering and caring for young girls in India. But when the family must return to England due to illness, she readily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TURSummary: In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CRODePree, Hopwood
Summary: "HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story-with charm and humor in abundance-about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to save his ancestral castle from ruin"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DEPREE, HOPWOOD DEPJeffries, Sabrina
Summary: "From New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries's first book in a series set in England in the early 1800s about an oft-widowed mother's grown children, who blaze through society in their quest for the truth about their fathers . . . and in the process find that love just might conquer all."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC JEFSummary: Set amid the teeming bustle of Victorian England, Dombey and Son is Dickens's story of a powerful man whose coldhearted neglect of his family causes his professional and personal downfall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Domby 2006Summary: This new, 1950s-set adaptation of the classic novel 'The Darling Buds of May' captures the warmth, optimism, and escapism of the Larkin family for a modern generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LARChristie, Agatha
Summary: Hercule Poirot becomes entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2016