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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
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Series
Language
English
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In this crackling alternate history thriller set in the years after World War II—the riveting sequel to The Darkest Hour—London detective John Rossett joins forces with his Nazi boss to save the commander’s kidnapped daughter as the Germans race to make the first atomic bomb.
With the end of the war, the victorious Germans now occupy a defeated Great Britain. In London, decorated detective John Henry Rossett, now
...3) A royal pain
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Penniless aristocrat Lady Georgie must help Princess Hanni of Bavaria unlearn the English she has learned from American gangster films, break her of her shoplifting habit, and investigate a murder.
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In an alternate-history version of 1946 London, in Nazi-occupied Great Britain, decorated British war hero and police sergeant John Henry Rossett, reassigned to the Office of Jewish Affairs, is forced to answer to the SS until he, reclaiming his humanity, goes on the run with a young Jewish boy whose life he is determined to save.
Author
Series
Kate O'Donnell mystery volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
The death of a young girl leads Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard and Kate O'Donnell into a hotbed of simmering tensions, violence and threats in sixties' Soho. London, 1964. At three a.m. on a chilly autumn morning, Detective Sergeant Harry Barnard is called to a club in Greek Street where a young girl has fallen to her death from a top-floor window. A new breed of fans is flocking to Soho's rock and roll haunts. But was it a tragic accident, or something...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Peaky Blinders meets Ocean's 8 in The Forty Elephants, an epic novel set in Roaring Twenties London, based on the real-life, all-female gang of the same name who specialized in crime as high art, targeting posh department stores and elites.
London in the 1920s is no place for a woman with a mind of her own. Gang wars, violence, and an unforgiving world have left pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambling to survive in The Mint, the gritty neighborhood
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"In the days leading up to her wedding to Darcy O'Mara, Lady Georgiana Rannoch takes on the responsibilities of a grand estate, but proving she can run a household just may be the death of her in the new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service. If only Darcy and I had eloped! What I thought would be a simple wedding has been transformed into a grand affair, thanks to the attendance...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
10) Chain of thorns
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Description
Love, duty, and danger collide in Edwardian London, as the Shadowhunters face the greatest threat they have ever known.
Author
Series
Edwardian brides volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Katherine Ramsey travels to London with her family to make her debut into society and hopefully find her future husband"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"In 1902, fifteen-year-old Penelope Tredwell, magazine publisher and writer of macabre tales, must uncover a mystery surrounding the theft of the Crown Jewels and a thief that can walk through walls before the coronation of Edward VII"--
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Language
English
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First comes love, then comes murder.
In a London slowly recovering from the ravages of World War II, two very different women join forces to launch a business venture in the heart of Mayfair―The Right Sort Marriage Bureau. Miss Iris Sparks, avuncular and unmarried, and Mrs. Gwendolyn Bainbridge, practical and widowed with a young son, are determined to achieve some independence and do some good in a rapidly changing world.
But the
...14) Chain of iron
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Cordelia Carstairs' romantic dreams must be put on hold when a serial killer begins targeting the Shadowhunters of London, sending the Merry Thieves on the trail of a knife-wielding killer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Theodosia's ability to detect black magic raises her suspicions about a magician known as the Great Awi Bubu, while Henry, home for the spring holidays, discovers an artifact at the Museum of Legends and Antiquities that is coveted by every black-cloaked occultist in London.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
When mummies go missing all over London, eleven-year-old Theodosia puts aside her fight against the Serpents of Chaos to save her father, who is suspected in the thefts, all the while avoiding a string of new governesses.
Author
Series
Tea rose trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman from a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London's esteemed Harley Street. Driven and idealistic, India chooses to work in the city's East End instead, serving the desperately poor. In these grim streets, India meets--and saves the life of--London's most notorious gangster, Sid Malone. A hard, wounded man, Malone is...
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Forever edition.
Language
English
Description
"London, 1944: Clara Button is no ordinary librarian. While war ravages the city above her, Clara has risked everything she holds dear to turn the Bethnal Green tube station into the country's only underground library. Down here, a secret community thrives with thousands of bunk beds, a nursery, a cafae, and a theater-offering shelter, solace, and escape from the bombs that fall upon their city. Along with her glamorous best friend and assistant Ruby...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In 1909 London, as the world of debutante balls and high society obligations closes in around her, seventeen-year-old Victoria must figure out just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dream of becoming an artist.
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