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Nightside series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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John Taylor’s the name. I’m a PI working a small slice of mystical real estate in the hidden centre of London. It’s a place where the sun refuses to rise, where monsters and men walk side by side. And if you want something found in the Nightside, I’m your man.
The editor of the Unnatural Inquirer—the Nightside’s most notorious rag—has...
The editor of the Unnatural Inquirer—the Nightside’s most notorious rag—has...
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"In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings in a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few things: Angels can Fall, and that Fall is like a nuclear bomb in both the physical and metaphysical worlds. And human beings remain human, with all their kindness and greed and passions and murderous intent. Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of this London...
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I’m John Taylor. I was born in the Nightside, that square mile in the hidden center of London where it is always the hour of the wolf, where gods and monsters walk side by side and where every dark question ever asked can be answered—for a price.
I left for a while, but I did come back, to make my living doing what I do better than anyone else: finding things—lost...
I left for a while, but I did come back, to make my living doing what I do better than anyone else: finding things—lost...
4) Hell to pay
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The name’s John Taylor. I’m a PI, though what I really do is find things that are lost. I work the Nightside, the city within the city of London, where the sun never rises and where the human and inhuman go to get their kicks, provided they’re willing to pay the price in whatever currency the seller demands.
In the wake of the war that almost brought the...
In the wake of the war that almost brought the...
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Nightside series volume 9
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English
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I’m John Taylor. I work as a PI out of the Nightside, that secret centre of London where clocks always read three A.M., where terrible things happen with predictable regularity, and where the always-dark streets are full of people partying like Judgement Day will never come.
Now it may have arrived. God’s own enforcer, the righteous engine of destruction known...
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Ministry of curiosities volume 3
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English
Description
At the request of Lady Harcourt, Charlie and Lincoln begin searching for her missing stepson. Still recovering from her ordeal at the hands of a diabolical villain, Charlie is supposed to be resting. But resting is dull, so she throws herself into the task at hand, much to Lincoln's frustration. The search leads them down a dark path littered with family secrets and titillating scandal. Using her necromancy to expose those secrets, Charlie unwittingly...
7) Relics
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Relics (Tim Lebbon) volume 1
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English
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Beneath the surface of our world, mythological creatures still exist-people pay fortunes for a sliver of dragon bone, an angel's wing. Angela Gough is a criminology student whose fiancé, Vince, disappears. Her investigation leads her into a black market of arcane relics. Angela and her team must stop this horrific trade, yet they face a growing menace as the creatures begin to fight back.
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Private investigator John Taylor is forced to start taking whatever cases he can and is tasked with escorting an elf across town and helping the Dead Detective find his brother, but Taylor is most surprised when Walker, a powerful agent who is in charge of running the Nightside, offers Taylor his job.
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Nightside series volume 4
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English
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Detective John Taylor is hired to uncover the origins of the Nightside, a small glimpse of hell in London, and in turn finds out a shocking secret about his own long-vanished mother.
10) The oversight
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Oversight trilogy volume 1
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English
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"Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she could answer their hopes for new recruit, or she could be the instrument of their downfall."--Publisher's description.
11) The Bookman
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Bookman histories volume 01
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English
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When his girlfriend is killed in a terrorist attack committed by the sinister Bookman, young poet Orphan becomes involved in a web of secrets and lies. His quest to uncover the truth takes him from the hidden catacombs of a London on the brink of revolution, through pirate-infested seas, to the mysterious island that may hold the secret to the origin not only of the shadowy Bookman, but of Orphan himself.
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John Taylor is marrying Suzie Shooter, the Nightside's most fearsome bounty hunter. But before he can walk down the aisle he has one more case to solve as a private eye--a case that has him on the run, with his bride-to-be looking to collect the bounty on his head.
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Ministry of curiosities volume 4
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English
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Charlie's life is perfect. She has everything her heart desires. Until it all goes horribly wrong. Charlie and Lincoln return to London to find two supernaturals have been murdered, and Charlie might be next. As if that wasn't bad enough, the man who adopted her has escaped from prison, and the committee members have just learned some news that infuriates them. Now there's talk of sending Charlie away again. Far away. But the worst is yet to come....
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Nightside series volume 11
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English
Description
P.I. John Taylor has a special talent for finding lost things in the dark and secret center of London known as the Nightside. He's also the reluctant owner of Excalibur, the legendary sword. To find out why he must wield the sword, John consults the Last Defenders of Camelot, a group of knights who dwell in a place that some find more frightening than the Nightside. London Proper. It's been years since John's been back--and there are good reasons...
15) Neverwhere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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760L
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English
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A man goes to the aid of woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above. A fantasy tale, replete with demons and wizards. By the author of The Sandman.
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Charismatics volume 01
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English
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"In the gaslit streets of Edwardian London, someone is draining the blood of the city's mediums. Lily Albright knows who's next.For as long as she can remember, Lily has been plagued by visions of the future. Never once has she been able to prevent the horrors she foresees from coming to pass. Now a mysterious fiend is stalking London. The tabloids shriek of vampires but Lily knows the killer is a different kind of monster, one who could be caught...
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The Hallows have been used time and again in the battle with the Demonkind who once ruled this earth. The last time The Thirteen Hallows were gathered together was in the time of Arthur, when they were used to drive the Demonkind from this world and seal the entrance between this and the Otherworld. The battle cost Arthur his life, and with his death the age of the knights passed and the Hallows were dispersed into the safekeeping of the Guardians....
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