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Author
Series
Malory-Anderson family saga volume 7
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
520 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Danny, a young woman who grew up on the streets of London with no memory of her real family, is banished from her gang because she helped handsome rakehell Jeremy Malory steal back the jewels his friend lost in a card game, Danny demands that Jeremy give her a job. She is determined to become respectable in order to fulfill her dream of marrying and starting a family.
2) A pale horse
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the mysterious death of a man in an English village and soon begins to tie the murder to a missing man who worked on a secret mission during World War I and whom the British War Office wants found.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly inherits a failing business; one man ruthlessly protects...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
472 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Townshend, one of the most dashing bachelors in Kent, moves to the continent after being banished for dueling, where he becomes caught up in life as a mercenary, and it is not until the beautiful Lady Margaret Landor comes to find him, hoping he can protect his father from greedy heirs, that he believes he has a chance for redemption.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
191 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As beautiful as it may be, their friends' country home is not where Lady Vespasia wishes to spend Christmas with her new husband, Victor Narraway. She would rather pass a relaxing holiday at home with him--especially because Victor, former head of the London Special Branch, seems to be hiding some undercover dealings with the other guests who have gathered at the spacious estate. As tensions grow among the couples, the young and beautiful Iris Watson-Watt...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st Harvest ed.
Physical Desc
901 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1870s London, a nineteen-year-old prostitute named Sugar longs to escape her prison, a brothel run by the cruel Mrs. Castaway, and one of her customers, perfume magnate William Rackham, may prove to be her ticket out.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Called "the first and greatest of English detective novels" by T.S.Eliot, The Moonstone is a masterpiece of suspense. A fabulous yellow diamond becomes the dangerous inheritance of Rachel Verinder. Outside her Yorkshire country house watch the Hindu priests who have waited for many years to reclaim their ancient talisman, looted from the holy city of Somnauth. When the Moonstone disappears the case looks simple, but in mid-Victorian England no one...
10) Oliver Twist
Author
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
151 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Drawing on Charles Dickens's own, often difficult childhood, to create a compelling story of personal success, David Copperfield is edited with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Tambling in Penguin Classics.
David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters he encounters are...
12) The fraud
Author
Language
English
Description
"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 skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
13) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When Black Beauty was born one sweet spring day, he could not have imagined the life ahead of him. Following his mother's advice to do his work with a good will, he enjoys the adventures of country and city life, makes new friends, and suffers from the cruelty and greed of his human masters. Beauty faces each challenge with bravery and kindness -- and then a chance encounter with an old friend brings him the greatest joy of all. Anna Sewell's classic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1993, c1991
Physical Desc
315 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sequel to: The Thirteen Gun Salute. Captain Aubrey, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane are shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Inspector Treadles, Charlotte Holmes's friend and collaborator, has been found locked in a room with two dead men, both of whom worked with his wife at the great manufacturing enterprise she has recently inherited. Rumors fly. Had Inspector Treadles killed the men because they had opposed his wife's initiatives at every turn? Had he killed in a fit of jealous rage, because he suspected Mrs. Treadles of harboring romantic feelings for one of the men?...
17) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Fell's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
18) My fine fellow
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324, 14 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1830s England, and Culinarians--doyens who consult with society's elite to create gorgeous food and confections--are the crème de la crème of high society. Helena Higgins, top of her class at the Royal Academy, has a sharp demeanor and an even sharper palate--and knows stardom awaits her if she can produce greatness in her final year. Penelope Pickering is going to prove the value of non-European cuisine to all of England. Her contemporaries...
19) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In tracing the parish boy's progress, Dickens did not write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality, he created a story about the survival of good, and the exploitation of violence.
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Language
English
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Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful...
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