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England London Jews England Fiction London (England) History 18th century Fiction Man-woman relationships Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction Nobility Fiction Private investigators England London Fiction Seven Years' War, 1756-1763 Fiction Soldiers Fiction Stock exchanges FictionPenner, Sarah
Summary: Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientele. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PENRosenberg, Jordy
Summary: "Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation. Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSSummary: Henry Fielding and his blind brother John battle the perilous streets of Covent Garden in their quest to clean up crime-ridden 18th century London. The complete first season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CITGabaldon, Diana.
Summary: Eighteenth-century Britain and the Seven Years' War form the backdrop for Lord John Grey's quest to uncover the truth about his father's death, a search that leads to deadly peril and an encounter with a Jacobite prisoner, Jamie Fraser, who may hold the key to his quest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gabaldon 2007Donoghue, Emma
Summary: Mary Saunders desire to lead a life of luxury leads her to prostitution at a young age, until she is taken in by a childhood friend of her mother's, who tries to help Mary turn over a new leaf.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONEllis, Janet
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD FIC ELLLarsen, Samantha
Summary: "1784 London. Miss Tiffany Woodall didn't murder her half-brother, but she did bury him in the back garden so that she could keep her cottage. Now, the confirmed spinster has to pretend to be Uriah and fulfill his duties as the Duke of Beaufort's librarian while searching Astwell Palace for Uriah's missing diamond pin, the only thing of value they own. Her ruse is almost up when she is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crooked Lane Books 2023
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC LARDickens, Charles
Summary: After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2011
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Summary: Lord John Grey has documents that expose the corruption of a high-ranking British officer. But they also elude to an even greater danger, one that sends Grey on a quest to the Irish country. Along the way, he seeks the aide of Jamie Fraser, a paroled Jacobite still fighting for Ireland's independence. Grey needs Fraser to help translate a message left in the language of the Scottish...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GABEllis, Janet.
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELLHodgson, Antonia.
Summary: London, 1728. Tom Hawkins is headed to the gallows, accused of murder. Gentlemen don’t hang and Tom’s damned if he’ll be the first. He may not be much of a gentleman, but he is innocent. He just always finds his way into a spot of bad luck. It’s hard to say when Tom’s troubles began. He was happily living in sin with his beloved, Kitty Sparks — though their neighbors were certainly less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HODHarris, C. S.
Summary: Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, investigates the identity of two corpses found in an ancient crypt with possible ties to William Franklin, the embittered son of American patriot Ben Franklin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Obsidian 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARDonoghue, Emma
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DONDickens, Charles
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover 2001
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DICGabaldon, Diana.
Summary: Lord John has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: The Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms who may have been a traitor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GABAlexander, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1997
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Summary: Realizing at the moment of his conviction for a crime he did not commit that someone is determined to see him dead and another to set him free, Benjamin Weaver works to expose a conspiracy with links to the coming election.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISPerry, Anne.
Summary: When evidence of a mole within the Special Branch is discovered, Thomas Pitt realizes that he cannot trust anyone; while his boss, Victor Narrawy, learns that Charlotte's aunt's friend might have unearthed war-provoking secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Perry 2012Alexander, Bruce
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALEDickens, Charles
Summary: The classic novel about the French Revolution and its effect upon the lives of several individuals, both French and English.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dover Publications 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: Book Club Kit 130 FIC DICLiss, David
Summary: An outsider in eighteenth-century London, Jewish pugilist and hired thug Benjamin Weaver prowls the city's mean streets in the service of England's gentry tracking down debtors and thieves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LISLiss, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2000
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M LISHalls, Stacey
Summary: "Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything. London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira/Harlequin Books 2020