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The daughter of Sherlock Holmes mysteries 4Goldberg, Leonard S.
Summary: "In the west end of London, an apparently crazed individual is on the loose, breaking into art galleries and private homes to slash valuable paintings of women. Despite Scotland Yard's best efforts, the criminal remains at large and continues on his destructive path. When Joanna and the Watsons are called in to solve the mystery, they soon discover that although the canvases have been slashed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC GOLCameron, Kenneth M.
Summary: When General Denton, the famous American author and expatriate in turn-of-the-century London, receives a letter from Mary Thomason saying she's in danger and needs his help, his search for the woman leads him into the heart of Bohemian London--where he will learn the shocking truth about Mary and discover first-hand what it's like to be the object of a lethal obsession. Sequel to The Frightened...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMConnolly, J. J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Duckbacks 2001
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Summary: "Nancy Wix, daughter of stage impresarios Eliza and Devil, is a born performer. But she is set apart, even from her unusual family, by the visions she has seen since she was a child. When a gifted medium reveals a way for Nancy to harness her troubling powers to keep the Wix's struggling theatre afloat, she grasps the opportunity with a desperate intensity. This is the age of spiritualism,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Overlook Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOBartlett, Neil
Summary: "Reggie Rainbow is an angry young man who treads the backstage corridors of down-at-heel theatres for a living. Childhood polio has left him with a limp, but his strong arms and nimble fingers are put to perfect use behind the scenes, helping the illusionist Mr Brookes to 'disappear' a series of glamorous assistants twice nightly. But in 1953, bookings for magic acts are scarce, even in London....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2014
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Summary: A novel set in 1944 London imagines the lives of five children who perished during a bombing at a local store, tracing their everyday dramas as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of twentieth-century London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SPUJoinson, Suzanne.
Summary: In 1923, devout Eva English and her not-so-religious sister Lizzie embark on a journey to be missionaries in the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOIFellowes, Julian.
Summary: "Forty years later, the narrator hates Damian Baxter. But if it is pleasant to hear from an old friend, it is more interesting to hear from an old enemy, and so he finds himself accepting a plea from the rich and dying Damian to track down the mother of a child he may have fathered during one brilliant, ruinous debutante season. The search takes the narrator back to the extraordinary world of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Griffin 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FELMeissner, Susan
Summary: "Present day, Oxford, England. Young American scholar Kendra Van Zant, eager to pursue her vision of a perfect life, interviews Isabel McFarland just when the elderly woman is ready to give up secrets about the war that she has kept for decades--beginning with who she really is. What Kendra receives from Isabel is both a gift and a burden--one that will test her convictions and her heart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: P MEINolan, Megan
Summary: "It's 1990 in London and Tom Hargreaves has it all: a burgeoning career as a reporter, fierce ambition and a brisk disregard for the "peasants"--ordinary people, his readers, easy tabloid fodder. His star seems set to rise when he stumbles across a sensational scoop: a dead child on a London estate, grieving parents beloved across the neighborhood, and the finger of suspicion pointing at one...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC NOLRobson, Jennifer
Summary: London, 1947: Besieged by the harshest winter in living memory, burdened by onerous shortages and rationing, the people of postwar Britain are enduring lives of quiet desperation despite their nation's recent victory. Among them are Ann Hughes and Miriam Dassin, embroiderers at the famed Mayfair fashion house of Norman Hartnell. Together they forge an unlikely friendship, but their nascent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2019