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A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.
"Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada's twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn't waste a minute--she sneaks out to join him. So begins...
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Three musketeers series volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
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20 CDs (24 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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For the first time in English in over a century comes a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas' The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies.
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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466 pages ; 24 cm.
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City of Meat — Charles Swagger is on the hunt for Baby Face Nelson when a tip takes him to the Chicago stockyards. There, a brutal assault leads him to suspect the presence of a narcotics ring with plans to spread a dangerous new drug through the slums. Will Charles be able to stop it before it kills dozen? Or is he in over his head on Chicago's dark streets?
Johnny Tuesday — Earl Swagger investigates a violent bank robbery which left...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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10 books + discussion questions ; in bag
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England, 1835. London is awash with thrilling new ingredients, from rare spices to exotic fruits. But no one knows how to use them. When Eliza Acton is told by her publisher to write a cookery book instead of the poetry she loves, she refuses--until her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country. As a woman, Eliza has few options. Although she's never set foot in a kitchen, she begins collecting recipes and teaching herself to cook. Much to her...
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2021.
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When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and themysterious appearance of a black barouche.
4726) A grave robbery
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2024.
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"Lord Rosemorran has purchased a wax figure of a beautiful reclining woman and asks Stoker to incorporate a clockwork mechanism to give the Rosemorran Collection its own Sleeping Beauty in the style of Madame Tussaud's. But when Stoker goes to cut the mannequin open to insert the mechanism, he makes a gruesome discovery: this is no wax figure. The mannequin is the beautifully preserved body of a young woman who was once very much alive. But who would...
4727) Eaters of the dead
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2016, ©1976
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5 CDs (322 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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A refined Arab courtier, sent as an ambassador to a distant land, finds himself unwittingly embroiled on a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a Viking kingdom. These savage warriors must battle to save their men from the monsters of the mist. The film, entitled The Thirteenth Warrior, stars Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif. -- Audio Editions.
4728) The downstairs girl
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"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"An atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the ancient Cornish countryside to life, Armstrong introduces heroine Ruby Vaughn in her Minotaur Books & Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut, The Curse of Penryth Hall. After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She's always avoided dwelling on the...
4730) Take my hand
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"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
4731) Finding Junie Kim
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A tale based on true events follows the coming-of-age of a girl who is motivated by an act of racism at school to learn about her ancestral heritage and her grandparents' experiences as lost children during the Korean War.
4732) When I first held you
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Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
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8 CDs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors' squat is raided and many, including Jimmy, are sent to prison. Pregnant and with no word from Jimmy, Judith is forced to enter an unmarried mothers' home, give up their baby and learn to live with her grief. More than half a century later, Judith's Mending Shop restores broken treasures, just as Judith herself has been bound...
4733) A study in drowning
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Entering a contest to redesign late author Emrys Myrddin's estate, aspiring architect Effy Sayre arrives at Hiraeth Manor where she meets a stodgy young literature scholar who draws her into a battle against dark forces - both mortal and magical - that threatens to consume them both.
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Series
Prisoner of night and fog volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone/Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2014, ©2014
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10.75 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.
4736) Winter's tale
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
10 books + discussion questions
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Peter Lake--orphan, thief, mechanic extraordinare--and Athansor, a flying Brooklyn milkhorse, establish a reign of love and justice in New York City in the year 2000.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn't one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she's the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they're long-stemmed roses, she's a dandelion; an adorable bloom which is actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, Ricki knows that, somewhere, a different and more exciting life awaits her. When a regal nonagenarian, Ms. Della, invites...
4738) The Eyre affair
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Thursday Next novels volume 1
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Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodas are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Based on an imaginary world where time and reality bend in the most convincing and original way since The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Eyre Affair is a delightful rabbit hole of a read: once you fall in you may never come back. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get...
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