Jewell, Lisa
Summary: "This "touching, insightful, and gripping story" (Sophie Kinsella, #1 New York Times bestselling author) from the instant New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone follows a young woman searching for answers about her unknown past and the mysterious fire that irrevocably changed her life. When she was a child, Melody Browne's house burned down, destroying all her family's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JEWGeorge, Elizabeth
Summary: On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. While Lynley works on the case in London, his former colleagues Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata follow the murder trail south to the New Forest--and to an outcome that is both tragic and shocking.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M GEOSpringer, Nancy
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 SPRRobotham, Michael
Summary: When Detective Ruiz is pulled from the Thames, he has a bullet in his leg, a photograph of a missing (and presumed dead) girl in his pocket, and absolutely no memory of what happened. Nearby is a bloody boat, perhaps evidence of further damage from the night Ruiz can't remember. When his own colleagues start hounding Ruiz for answers--some even accusing him of faking amnesia--the battered and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RobotFinch, Charles (Charles B.)
Summary: Returning from a continental honeymoon with his wife, Lady Jane Grey, newly elected MP Charles Lenox is asked by his colleague, Ludovic Starling, to investigate the murder of his footman who was bludgeoned to death with a brick. Lenox gradually realizes that what seem to be the facts of the case may have been manipulated, and that an old friend may be implicated in the footman's death. Though a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FINRubinate, Amy
Summary: In September 1666 Kate and her little sister Lizzie accompany their grandfather to London to sell their apple crop only to be caught up in the Great Fire of London--and when their grandfather is forced to be part of a fire brigade it is Kate who must keep her sister, their horse and cart safe from both thieves and flames.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC RUB (GRAPHIC NOVEL)Toyne, Simon
Summary: "Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy. How do you catch a killer if the victim doesn't exist? A glamorous woman is murdered in her ultra-luxurious London mansion and her husband goes missing. But according to public records,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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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 SELToboso, Yana
Summary: Earl Phantomhive and his butler, Sebastian, are called to action by Queen Victoria after a number of her citizens become the victims of some bizarre attacks, but the clues lead them straight to a Indian prince, who appears to have a remarkable butler of his own, and a new rivalry begins.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLAWalliams, David
Summary: "1940. BRITAIN IS AT WAR WITH NAZI GERMANY. Eleven-year-old Eric practically lives at the London Zoo. And there's one animal in particular he loves to spend time with: Gertrude the gorilla. But with German bombs raining over London, Eric realizes Gertrude is in terrible danger, and together with his Uncle Sid, a keeper at the zoo, the three go on the run. But while hiding out at the seaside,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALSanderson, Brandon
Summary: "A man awakes in a clearing in what appears to be medieval England with no memory of who he is, where he came from, or why he is there. Chased by a group from his own time, his sole hope for survival lies in regaining his missing memories, making allies among the locals, and perhaps even trusting in their superstitious boasts. His only help from the "real world" should have been a guidebook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Publishing Group 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley investigates the murder of two people found in a remote prehistoric stone circle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Eden Starling is the glamorous singing diva of a theatre in Victorian London. Along with her snooty cat, Chuzzlewit, Eden selfishly plans to make the entire company of theatre performers stay and rehearse on Christmas Day. Not even Eden's costume designer and childhood friend, Catherine, can talk Eden out of her self-centered tantrum. It will be up to three very unusual Christmas Spirits to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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Adler, Irene
Summary: Whisked out of Paris ahead of the Prussian army in 1870, twelve-year-old Irene Adler is reunited in London with her friends, Sherlock Holmes and Arsène Lupin--but Arsène's father has been arrested for murder and the kidnapping of a famous opera singer, and it is up to the three young detectives to solve the mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Young Readers 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FREHeyer, Georgette
Summary: When the incorrigible Lady Fancot persuades her son to impersonate his twin (just for one night, she promises) the masquerade sets off a tangled sequence of events that engage Kit's heart far more deeply than he'd ever anticipated with his brother's fiancee--who might know much more about what's going on than she cares to reveal ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEYIbbotson, Eva.
Summary: When lonely, ten-year-old Hal learns that his wealthy but neglectful parents only rented Fleck, the dog he always wanted, he and new friend Pippa take Fleck and four other dogs from the rental agency on a trek from London to Scotland, where Hal's grandparents live.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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Summary: "Hunting hat, smoking pipe, coat collar turned up-- that's how we know Sherlock Holmes, the most famous detective of all time. He usually investigates from London's Baker Street. But Holmes' most spectacular case leads him in a fast-paced chase from the metropolis of London across the continent to the Swiss Alps. At the roaring Reichenbach Falls there is a showdown between Holmes and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth Books, Inc. 2022
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Summary: Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his experiences hanging out with the Abominable Snowman. Terence Moongrove's residence has become the target of New Age cosmologists. And pint-sized terrier Freddie de la Hay is being recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2011
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MCCLe Carré, John
Summary: Oliver Single, working as a children's magician in the English countryside, goes on the run when a deposit of over five million pounds to his infant daughter's modest trust alerts him that his past has caught up with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LECDodd, Christina.
Summary: Enid MacLean receives word that an explosion has injured the husband she hoped never to see again. Reluctantly, she does her duty, but the man she nurses back to health is not the husband she remembers, and he remembers nothing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth discovers that she, rather than her well-prepared cousin, carries a time-travel gene, and soon she is journeying with Gideon, who shares the gift, through historical London trying to discover whom they can trust.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC GIEFunaro, Gregory.
Summary: In Victorian England Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015