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Project Trilogy novel volume 01
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English
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"Convicted of killing a priest, plastic surgeon Dr. Maria Martinez is in prison with no memory of the murder, and is sure she's innocent despite the DNA evidence placing her at the scene. As her memory of that night returns and she gets closer to the truth, she is drawn into a web of international intrigue and must fight both to clear her name and to remain alive."--from NoveList.
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Robert Amiss mysteries volume 8
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English
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2018 Lefty Award nominee for Best Historical Mystery Novel
In the winter of 1282, snow and ice ravage East Anglia while Prioress Eleanor awaits the decision of her young maid, Gracia, found starving on the streets some years ago, whether to take vows or to leave Tyndal Priory to make her way in the world.
But a far greater problem arrives at the priory gate. Seven abbots are riding to meet a papal legate in Norfolk. This is not a pilgrimage-each...
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The lives of three people--Francine, a child who hears her mother's murder while hiding in her room; Harriet, an aging beauty who seeks out handymen to ease her boredom; and Teddy, a young man who had been ignored by his parents since birth--converge with harrowing results.
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1593 and London is a city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, it's a desperate place where strangers are unwelcome and severed heads grin from spikes on Tower Bridge.
Playwright, poet, spy and man of prodigious appetites, Christopher Marlowe is working on his latest literary effort and enjoying the English countryside at his patron's estate when this idyll is cut short. A messenger from the Queen and the nefarious Privy Council summons his...
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Orphaned by the Black Death, all John possesses are the tools that belonged to his father, a carpenter, and an uncanny ability to work wood. His travels bring him to Chesterfield, where he finds work erecting the spire of the new church. But no sooner does he begin than the master carpenter is murdered and John himself becomes a suspect. To prove his innocence John must help the coroner in his search for his killer, a quest that brings him up against...
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Lord Gilbert Talbot must provide soldiers for Prince Edward's battle in France. He wishes his surgeon--Hugh de Singleton--to travel with the war party to tend any injuries. Among those on the road is Sir Simon Trillowe, Hugh's old nemesis, who had once torched Hugh's house.Finding himself in the same war party, Hugh resolves to watch his back in the presence of the knight, who is still holding a grudge. But it is Sir Simon who should not have turned...
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Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 3
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English
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"Queen Elizabeth II is looking forward to a traditional Christmas gathering with her family in Sandringham when a shocking discovery interrupts holiday plans. A severed hand has been found--but even more unsettling, she recognizes the signet ring still attached to a finger. It belongs to a scion of the St. Cyr family, her old friends from nearby Ladybridge Hall. Despite the personal connection, the Queen wants to leave the investigation to the police--that...
10) Crooked house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
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English
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The Leonides family live together in a large and crooked house in a wealthy London suburb. When the elderly millionaire Aristide Leonides is murdered with a fatal injection, the family reluctantly suspect his glamorous, young second wife. Charles Hayward, the fiance of Sophia Leonides, the late millionaire's granddaughter observes the family closely, and makes a terrible and shocking discovery.
11) The Finisher
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"Through a particularly ill-fated series of events, couch potato Maeve Kelly, an elementary school teacher whose mother always assured her "curvy" girls shouldn't waste their time trying to be fit, has been forced to sign up for the Other Half, Bath's springtime half marathon. The training is brutal, but she must disprove her mother and collect pledges for her aunt's beloved charity. What Maeve doesn't know is just how vicious some of the other runners...
12) The white queen
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Cousins' war volume 1
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 03
Thorndike Press large print core
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 2
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 03
Thorndike Press large print core
Plantagenet and Tudor novels volume 2
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English
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In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose...
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[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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Horrified at having witnessed her father's murder and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen Elizabeth I, eleven-year-old Alice Tuckfield hides in the Yorkshire cathedral by disguising herself as one of the choirboys.
17) Second violin
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Frederick Troy novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Frederick Troy, climbing the ranks of Scotland Yard's Murder Squad in the late 1930s, gets caught in the middle of the chaos surrounding the dawn of World War II when he is assigned to round up enemy aliens--a group that includes his Austrian-born brother Rod, a foreign correspondent--and must lead the investigation into a series of murders targeting rabbis.
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2005.
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Banished to the family estate by her older brother when an indiscriminate kiss threatens to engulf her in scandal, Chloe Boscastle is stunned when news arrives that her neighbor Dominic Breckland, the roguish Viscount Stratfield, was found murdered in his bed, especially when the "victim" shows up hiding in her lingerie closet.
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