Babson, Marian.
Summary: As they make their rounds of London pubs in search of work, two aging actresses turn detective to investigate the death of a fellow actress. The heroines are Trixie and Evangeline, last seen in Even Yuppies Die.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BABMay, Peter
Summary: Glasgow, 2015. Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure and mediocrity. The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year-old is still haunted by what might have been. His recollections of the terrible events that befell him and his friends some fifty years earlier, and how he did not act when it mattered most is a memory he has tried to escape his entire adult life. London, 2015. A man lies dead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction May 2016Knight, India
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KNIWeldon, Fay
Summary: "1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WELSmith, 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 Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMISmith, Zadie
Summary: "An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Smith 2016Hay, Alex
Summary: "Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HAYLessing, Doris May
Summary: Ben, now grown and in the care of good-hearted prostitute Rita and her boyfriend, unknowingly helps them transport drugs to Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESDay, Alyssa.
Summary: Christophe, powerful Warrior of Poseidon, teams up with Fiona Campbell, the notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja, to break into the Tower of London and steal the Siren--one of the missing jewels from Poseidon's trident.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Sensation 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DAYLessing, Doris May
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial Classics 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LESDay, Elizabeth
Summary: Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits. Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Yet self-doubt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Circus 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAYCarey, 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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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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.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2012
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Summary: Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Hawkins 2015Balogh, Mary.
Summary: Only desperation could bring Duncan Pennethorne, the infamous Earl of Sheringford, back home after the spectacular scandal that had shocked even the jaded ton. Forced to wed in fifteen days or be cut off without a penny, Duncan chooses the one woman in London in frantic need of a husband. A lie to an old flame forces Margaret Huxtable to accept the irresistible stranger's offer. When she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Balogh 2009Balogh, Mary.
Summary: In glittering Regency England a desititute widow stands accused of murdering her husband and must now barter her beauty in order to survive. With seduction in mind, she sets her sights on Stephen Huxtable, the irresistibly attractive Earl of Merton and London's most eligible bachelor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BALPutney, Mary Jo.
Summary: Hiding mystical powers that assist his efforts to end hostilities between Scotland and England, clan laird Duncan Macrae falls for English widow Gwyneth Owens, whose own latent powers are released when she experiences foreboding visions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PUTTravers, P. L. (Pamela Lyndon)
Summary: A wind brings some English children a new nanny who slides up the bannister, introduces the two oldest to her friends, and takes them on many adventures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018