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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 5
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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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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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"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...
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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...
10) Argall
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Seven dreams volume 3
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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A fictionalized account of the founding of the Virginia colony, exploring the relationship between English mercenary John Smith and Pocahontas, the young Native American woman who saved both Smith and the settlers, and discussing the actions of Smith's sinister successor Captain Samuel Argall.
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Series
Lyndon sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
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Español
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Cuando Charles Wycombe, el gallardo e incorregible conde de Billington, se cayó de un árbol y aterrizó a los pies de Ellie, ninguno de los dos sospechó que un encuentro tan desfavorable conduciría al matrimonio. Pero Charles debe encontrar una novia antes de cumplir los treinta años o perderá su fortuna. Y Ellie necesita un marido o la odiosa prometida de su padre elegirá uno para ella. Y entonces acuerdan casarse, a pesar de que su unión...
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"In Kent, England, the arrival of Beranger Northcott, Duke of Brightshire, causes a stir. Because with the duke comes his new American bride, who isn't quite what anyone expects. By accepting the hand of her beloved, Emma Brinkman went from hardworking Colorado rancher to duchess. Now she's expected to comport herself as nobility. Overnight. For Emma-stifled, homesick, and unable to shake the feeling she's being watched-the metamorphosis is a challenge....
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