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14501) Execution
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Giordano Bruno, a heretic turned spy, arrives in England with shocking information for spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham. A band of Catholic Englishmen are plotting to kill Queen Elizabeth and spring Mary Queen of Scots from prison to take the English throne in her place. Bruno is surprised to find that Walsingham is aware of the plot--led by the young, wealthy noble Anthony Babington--and is allowing it to progress. He hopes that Mary will put her...
14502) We own the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's Maine, 1924, and the Ku Klux Klan is on the rise. Davy and Jo Michaud have been recently orphaned. Taken in by a distant relative-a famous aviator-they are now working with a group of stunt pilots who spend their time wing walking, leaping from plane to plane, and flying through fireworks! But though the stunts are dangerous, the real threat is building behind the scenes. The KKK is on the rise in Maine that summer, inspired by the racial fears...
14503) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
504 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"December 1585: King Henry III of France is the last of his line. He has appointed a Protestant as his successor, which has caused a three-way war in his country. As a result, the king is in mortal fear of a coup being orchestrated by the ultra-conservative Catholic League. Radical philosopher, ex-monk and spy Giordano Bruno, forced to return to Paris, is called upon by King Henry to unearth the motivation behind several mysterious but linked deaths....
14504) The second rider
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For three months, Inspector August Emmerich has been on the trail of Veit Kolja, the head of a large-scale black market smuggling operation that supplies people with basic needs that remain scarce in a city still devastated by World War I. Emmerich dreams of a reassignment to the elite division that handles homicides and hopes to showcase his deductive skills after his inexperienced new assistant stumbles across a corpse in the woods. The coroner...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Claire Cavendish is in search of a duke, but not for the usual reasons. The man she seeks is a mathematician; the man she unwittingly finds is Lord Fox: dynamic, athletic, and as bored by the equations Claire adores as she is by the social whirl upon which he thrives. As attractive as Fox is, hes of no use to Claire... or is he? Foxs male pride has been bruised ever since his fiancƩe jilted him. One way to recover: win a bet that he can...
14506) Houston, we have a klutz!
Author
Series
In due time volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Smart but clumsy Grace travels through time to stow away on the Apollo 11 spaceship and become the first kid to walk on the Moon.
14507) In the market for murder
Author
Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Spring, 1909, and Lady Hardcastle, amateur sleuth and all-round eccentric, is enjoying a well-deserved rest. But a week after a trip to the cattle market, Spencer Caradine, a local farmer, turns up dead in the pub, face-down in his beef and mushroom pie. Once again, it is up to Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, to solve the case. Armed with wit and whimsy, not to mention Florence's mean right hook, the pair set out to discover what really happened...
14508) The hunchback of Notre Dame
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
69 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this graphic version of the story, Quasimodo, the reviled bell-ringer of Notre Dame, becomes a hero when he rescues the gypsy girl Esmeralda from an unjust sentence of death.
14509) The enemy above
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1942 twelve-year-old Anton, his family, and their small community of Ukrainian Jews are hiding from the advancing Nazis troops, and from the Gestapo, in a web of underground caves, and one officer in particular, Major Karl Von Duesen, is determined to catch or kill every Jew he can find--but as the tide of war turns, a final confrontation between Anton and his enemy is looming.
14510) Suitors and sabotage
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
1817 Kent, England. Imogene Chively's father has chosen Ernest Steeple as her future husband. But his younger brother, Benjamin, wins her heart while she is giving him drawing lessons. When a series of accidents threaten the pair, it becomes evident that someone seeks to do Ben harm.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
107 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Will Mrs Bennet ever succeed in finding eligible husbands for her five daughters? For Elizabeth Bennet, the idea of marrying without affection is unthinkable and her mother is beginning to despair of ever finding eligible husbands for her five daughters. But then, life is about to change when a handsome young man and his equally handsome and wealthy companion take up residence at nearby Netherfield Park. For over 200 years Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice...
14512) La sombrilla roja
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 21 cm
Language
EspaƱol
Description
In 1961 after Castro has come to power in Cuba, fourteen-year-old Lucia and her seven-year-old brother are sent to the United States when her parents, who are not in favor of the new regime, fear that the children will be taken away from them as others have been.
14513) Something fabulous
Author
Series
Something fabulous volume 1
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Valentine Layton, the Duke of Malvern, has twin problems: literally. It was always his father's hope that Valentine would marry Miss Arabella Tarleton. But, unfortunately, too many novels at an impressionable age have caused her to grow up ... romantic. So romantic that a marriage of convenience will not do and after Valentine's proposal she flees into the night determined never to set eyes on him again. Arabella's twin brother, Mr. Bonaventure "Bonny"...
14514) Green sun: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 340 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Oakland, California, 1983. Officer Hanson, a Vietnam veteran, has abandoned academia for the life-and-death clarity of police work, a way to live with the demons that followed him home from the war. He believes in becoming a part of the community he serves, choosing to live in the same town where he works. He forges a precarious friendship with Felix Maxwell, the drug king of East Oakland, based on their shared sense of fairness and honor. He falls...
14515) The poison bed
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spellbinding thriller set in the Jacobean Court of 1615 surrounding a famed couple imprisoned on suspicion of murder--but was it Lord Robert or Lady Frances who committed the crime?" --amazon.com.
Autumn, 1615. Scandal rocks the Jacobean court when Robert and Frances Carr are imprisoned on suspicion of murder. Frances-- young, captivating, and from a notorious family-- was rescued from an abusive marriage by Robert, and is determined to make a...
14516) The Button Box
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
With the help of a magic button, Jewish Ava and Muslim Nadeem go back in time to ancient Morocco to help Prince Abdur Rahman escape to Spain and fulfill his destiny as the ruler of a country in which Jews and Muslims work together to make medieval Spain a center of science, mathematics, music, and poetry.
14517) Death around the bend
Author
Series
Lady Hardcastle mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"September 1909, and Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Florence, have been invited to Lord Riddlethorpe's country estate for a week of motor racing and parties. They both agree that it sounds like a perfectly charming holiday. But when one of the drivers dies in a crash during the very first race, they discover that what seemed like an uncharacteristic error in judgement may have a more sinister explanation. Closer investigation reveals that the driver's...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
231 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
14519) Victoria rebels
Author
Series
Young royals volume 8
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Through diary entries, reveals the life of Britain's strong-willed and short-tempered Queen Victoria from the age of eight through her twenty-fourth birthday, up to her third wedding anniversary with her beloved Albert in 1843.
14520) The defiant: a Valiant novel
Author
Series
Valiant volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Fallon and her fellow gladiatrices are thrust into a vicious conflict with a rival gladiator academy, the only thing that might save them is a tribe of long-forgotten mythic Amazon warriors.
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