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In North Kensington three orphaned mixed-race children are bounced from one home to another. The middle child Joel takes care of the youngest, Toby, who isn't quite right. When a local gang threatens the oldest child, Toby, Joel makes a pact with the devil that ends in the murder of Thomas Lynley's wife.
3) Small island
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Publisher
Quirk Books
Language
English
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The romance novel that lets you pick your path, follow your heart, and find happily ever after. You are the plucky but penniless heroine in the center of eighteenth-century society, courtship season has begun, and your future is at hand. Will you flip forward fetchingly to find love with the bantering baronet Sir Benedict Granville? Or turn the page to true love with the hardworking, horse-loving highlander Captain Angus McTaggart? Or perhaps race...
7) Fingersmith
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A rousing adaptation of Sarah Waters' most acclaimed novel. Orphan Sue Trinder, raised in a den of petty thieves or 'fingersmiths, ' agrees to help a young con man defraud a wealthy heiress. But Sue's plans didn't include falling in love with the heiress.
Author
Series
Lizzie Martin mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Publisher
HarperLargePrint
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In North Kensington three orphaned mixed-race children are bounced from one home to another. The middle child Joel takes care of the youngest, Toby, who isn't quite right. When a local gang threatens Toby, Joel makes a pact with the devil that ends in the murder of Thomas Lynley's wife.
Author
Series
Charles Maddox novels volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Summoned to the offices of Victorian London's most powerful and dangerous solicitors, independent detective Charles Maddox turns to his famous but aging investigator uncle to identify who has been sending threatening letters to a client.
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Just before the Christmas holiday, distinguished London mathematician Henry Rathbone comes to the aid of an old friend whose son Lucien has gone missing. Enlisting the aid of Squeaky Robinson and Crow, Henry soon discovers that Lucien may be involved with a murdered prostitute and a major drugs dealer.
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Ten days before Christmas, wealthy James Wentworth feels not joy but grief. His reckless son, Lucien, has been lured into a deadly world of drugs and wild passion. Wentworth's only hope, he believes, is his old friend Henry Rathbone, who volunteers to search for the prodigal son. Rathbone knows nothing of the sensation-obsessed underworld where Lucien now dwells, but he acquires two unexpected companions who do.
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Shut out of the investigation of a massive bombing he witnessed, William Monk takes over when evidence surfaces that the person executed for the crime was innocent, a situation that places him in the center of a violent power struggle for control of the Suez Canal.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"These ominous words, slashed from the pages of a book of Psalms, are the last threat that the darling of London society, Sir Edward Grey, receives from his killer. Before he can show them to Nicholas Brisbane, the private inquiry agent he has retained for his protection, Sir Edward collapses and dies at his London home, in the presence of his wife, Julia, and a roomful of dinner guests. Prepared to accept that Edward's death was due to a long-standing...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted...
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