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1) Moonraker
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James Bond series volume 3
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English
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As the super patriot and war veteran who's bankrolling Britain's top-secret Moonraker rocket program, Sir Hugo Drax should be above reproach. But there's more to this enigmatic millionaire than he lets on. When M suspects Drax of cheating at cards in an exclusive gentleman's club, he sends Bond in to investigate. But exposing the deception only enrages Drax-and now 007 must outwit an angry man with the power to loose a nuclear warhead on London. The...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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With the country in the grip of economic malaise, Maisie Dobbs is relieved to accept an apparently straightforward assignment to investigate a potential land purchase. Her inquiries take her to a picturesque village in Kent during the hop-picking season, but beneath its pastoral surface she finds evidence of something amiss. Mysteries fires erupt in the village with alarming regularity, and a series of petty crimes suggest a darker criminal element...
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Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries mysteries volume 23
Mrs Jeffries volume 23
Victorian mystery volume 23
Mrs. Jeffries mystery volume 23
Mrs Jeffries volume 23
Victorian mystery volume 23
Mrs. Jeffries mystery volume 23
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English
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She keeps house for Inspector Witherspoon..and keeps him on his toes. Everyone's awed by his Scotland Yard successes--but they don't know about his secret weapon. No matter how messy the murder or how dirty the deed, Mrs. Jeffries' polished detection skills are up to the task...proving that behind every great man there's a woman..and that a crime-solver's work is never done.
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After a ferocious early springtime storm, young Norwegian sailor Hans Lyngstrand is shipwrecked in the English Channel near the coastal Kent town of Dengate; he is one of few survivors. Soon after, aspiring journalist Martin Bridges takes a job as the reporter at the local newspaper. A loner by nature, he's a curiosity to the nosy townspeople, the gregarious editor of the paper, and his melodramatic landlady, whose own private life is fraught by the...
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Edie Burchill receives a letter that has lain for 50 years in a forgotten postal bag, and begins to suspect that her mother's emotional distance masked an old secret. She sets out to find the answers by tracking the letter back to its source, starting with the return address: Milderhurst Castle, Kent, where her mother had been taken as a child, during the London evacuations of World War II.
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Sent from London to stay in the country rectory of the Reverend Rivers and his family, 12-year-old Nora enjoys an idyllic initial stay before discovering tensions in the Rivers' marriage and forging a secret with foster sister Grace that she keeps for more than fifty years.
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"A reluctant ex-spy with demons of her own, Elinor finds herself facing down one of the most dangerous organized crime gangs in London, ultimately exposing corruption from Scotland Yard to the highest levels of government."--
"Post-World War II Britain, 1947. Forty-one-year-old "Miss White," as Elinor White lives quietly and privately in Shacklehurst, a village in Kent, England. The residents have no way of knowing how dangerous Elinor's war work...
10) Head start
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Jane Cowan volume 01
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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With her abusive ex-husband in prison, Jane Cowan finally has the confidence to accept a new job: head teacher of the primary school in the Kentish village of Wrayford. But her new life is soon disrupted when a mysterious intruder breaks into her school and then later when a child is badly hurt in the playground - only Jane suspects that her fall was not accidental. Are the two incidents connected?
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"Lady Sophie Windham has maneuvered a few days to herself at the ducal mansion in London before she must join her family for Christmas in Kent. Suddenly trapped in Town by a snowstorm, she finds herself with an abandoned baby and only the assistance of a kind, handsome stranger standing between her and complete disaster. With his estate in chaos, Vim Charpentier expected complications this holiday season, but he couldn't have predicted that Sophie...
12) Heads you lose
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Inspector Cockrill Mysteries volume 1
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English
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As war rages in Europe, the citizens of London flee to the country. At Pigeonsford, a group of guests plays cards, drinks tea, and acts polite--but Grace Morland knows the strong emotions that lurk beneath the placid social surface. She's painfully in love with Stephen Pendock, the squire of Pigeonsford, but Pendock's smitten with young beauty Francesca Hart. One afternoon, Fran debuts a new hat, and Grace's jealousy gets the better of her. She exclaims,...
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Inspector Cockrill mysteries volume 6
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English
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Inspector Cockrill's dull vacation is jolted by a Mediterranean murder From the moment he steps on the plane, Inspector Cockrill loathes his fellow travelers. They are typical tour group bores: the dullards of England whom he had hoped to escape by going to Italy. He gives up on the trip immediately, burying his nose in a mystery novel to ensure that no one tries to become his friend. But not long after the group makes landfall at the craggy isle...
14) Losing Nicola
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Alice and her brother Orlando lived a quiet life growing up in post WWII Britain... until the arrival of the precocious, manipulative and sexually aware Nicola. On Alice's 12th birthday, Nicola disappears; her body is found days later, battered and bruised. Twenty years go by until Alice becomes determined to dig up the past and solve the mystery of Nicola's death. But will the truth be too much to handle when she starts to suspect her own quiet and...
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Magic volume 03
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English
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Felicity Malcolm Childe's gift for experiencing visions through touch has always felt more like a curse than a blessing. --- [Excerpt from inside cover.]
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The Lyndon sisters volume 2
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English
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When Charles Wycombe, the dashing and incorrigible Earl of Billington, toppled out of a tree and landed at Ellie's feet, neither suspected that such asn inauspicious meeting would lead to marriage. But Charles must find a bride before his thirtieth birthday or he'll lose his fortune. And Ellie needs a husband or her father's odious fiancee will choose one for her. And so they agree to wed, even though their match appears to have been made somewhere...
17) Green for danger
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"It is 1942, and at the new Kent military hospital Heron's Park, postman Joseph Higgins delivers seven letters of acceptance for infirmary roles. He has no idea that one of the recipients will later cause his demise. When Higgins returns to Heron's Park with injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his inexplicable death in the operating theatre casts four nurses and three doctors under suspicion, and a second, sudden death brings Inspector Cockrill...
18) Fog of doubt
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Inspector Cockrill mysteries volume 5
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English
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Few were disappointed when Raoul Vernet was found with his head bashed in, dead in a pool of his own blood. On vacation in England, the Belgian seducer comes to visit Matilda, an old flame from a few years before. She agrees despite suspicions that Vernet has been deploying his legendary charm on another member of the family: young Rosie, who has returned from her Swiss boarding school carrying a child. None of the family members were in the house...
19) The birdwatcher
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When a fellow birdwatcher is found murdered in his remote home, Police Sergeant William South, who may have murdered a man when he was a child in Northern Ireland, finds his world turned upside down.
20) Death of Jezebel
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"First published in Britain in 1949, Brand's exuberant novel is still regarded as one of the great masterpieces of the classic mystery genre for its fiendishly constructed puzzle, memorable setting, dumbfounding acts of misdirection and thrilling denouement. This edition includes an introduction by award-winning author Martin Edwards. "A very neat version of the 'sealed room' mystery... provides [Miss Brand] with excellent opportunities to indulge...
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