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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Two of London's sharpest minds within the Peculiar Crimes Unit are faced with one of the most bizarre cases of their careers as an ill-timed death, a powerful curse, a crazy dowager, and a dead photographer lead them into a world of madness, codes, and the secret of London's strangest relic.
Author
Series
Hitchhiker series volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In this sixth installment of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Arthur Dent has finally made it home to Earth, only to discover that it is about to be blown up ... again. What could a pantheon of unemployed gods, everyone's favorite renegade Galactic President, a lovestruck green alien, an irritating computer, and at least one very large slab of cheese have to do with all of this?
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1996-
Language
English
Description
At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams's beloved Hitchhiker series.
In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Seconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway,...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
World-famous author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in this three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' acclaimed novel follows the separate but intersecting lives of two very different men: a half-Indian son of a vicar who is framed for a crime he may or may not have committed, and Doyle, who investigates the case.
10) The winter king
Author
Series
Warlord chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In Dark Age Britain, a land from which Arthur has been banished and Merlin has disappeared, a child-king sits unprotected on the throne, and it is up to Arthur, a courageous and honorable man, to preserve the lonely embers of civilization in a barbaric world
12) Merlin's island
Author
Series
Minerva Mint volume 2
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The town of Pembrose in Cornwall, where Minerva, Ravi, and Thomasina live, is surrounded by places in the legends of King Arthur (which attract tourists), so when a famous archeologist arrives to debunk the legends, the three friends put aside the mystery of Minerva's identity and set out to prove that there really is magic in this place.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Working as ship detectives for the passenger lines of the early twentieth century, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield discover during an Atlantic crossing aboard the Celtic that one of their passengers is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
14) Topsy-turvy
Series
Criterion collection volume 558
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Dramatization about the creation of The Mikado, exploring the tensions produced by the differences of temperment and style between Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Language
English
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"In this thrilling true-crime procedural, the creator of Sherlock Holmes uses his unparalleled detective skills to exonerate a German Jew wrongly convicted of murder. For all the scores of biographies of Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the most famous detective in the world, there is no American book that tells this remarkable story--in which Conan Doyle becomes a real-life detective on an actual murder case. In Conan Doyle for the Defense, Margalit...
17) The Duke
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
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