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1110L
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English
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"Hardy's penultimate work, Tess of the D'Urbervilles is arguably the greatest tragedy of all Victorian literature. It tells the story of Tess, an impoverished woman whose past relations and miscarriage cause her to be rejected by her husband on their wedding night. Touching upon the themes of class, religion, gender, and sexuality, the novel was highly controversial for its time and is held in high esteem by literary scholars to this day."--Publisher...
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The women of a rural Hungarian town are all too happy when their brutish men leave to fight in World War I. After the war, when the village men return, Sari Arany, a young woman with herbal knowledge, devises a sinister plan to rid herself of her abusive fiancé. Then a friend asks to escape a similar fate and Sari stumbles down a dangerous path. Based on a true story.
3) Lizzie
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English
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A fictional account of the 1892 double-murder case of Lizzie Borden, a prisoner of her appetites in conflict with her times.
4) Slammerkin
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English
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Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor seamstress, is lured into prostitution at age thirteen. Forced to flee from debt and a hired killer, Mary ends up in Monmouth, her mother's home town, where she tries to start a new life as a maid. Set in London and Monmouth and loosely based on a murder that took place in 1763.
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Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
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Legacy of secrets volume 5
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English
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Amid the splendors and miseries of the Gilded Age Neala Shaw suddenly found herself entirely alone. The innocent young heiress - penniless now - had no choice but to face her family's fatal legacy of secrets and lies. And as she fled from a ruthless killer, nothing stood between her and certain death but a man unlike any she had ever known....
Grayson Faulkner's years as a detective and bounty hunter had marked him forever, leading him far from his...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his Confessions of an Opium-Eater, confronts London's harrowing streets to thwart the assassination of Queen Victoria. The year is 1855. The Crimean War is raging. The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government. The Empire teeters. Amid this crisis comes opium-eater Thomas De Quincey, one of the most notorious and brilliant personalities of Victorian England. Along with his irrepressible...
12) Jackaby
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Jackaby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
920L
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English
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Newly arrived in 1892 New England, Abigail Rook becomes assistant to R. F. Jackaby, an investigator of the unexplained with the ability to see supernatural beings, and she helps him delve into a case of serial murder which, Jackaby is convinced, is due to a nonhuman creature.
13) All These Bodies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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August, 1958. A string of murders plagues the Midwest. The victims are found in their cars and in their homes, even in their beds: their bodies drained, but with no blood anywhere. September 18, 1858. The Carlson family is slaughtered in their Minnesota farmhouse, and the case gets its first lead. Marie Catherine Hale is found at the scene, is covered in blood from head to toe. At first she is mistaken for a survivor... but not a drop of the blood...
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Journalist Drake Bathory-Kereshtur returns to Hungary after many years in America. A descendant of Countess Bathory--famous for bathing in the blood of virgins to stay young--he is heir to the throne and becomes involved in a plot to restore the monarchy. Part-modern politics, part-ancient horrors. By the author of Road Scholar.
15) Moskva
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Tom Fox volume 1
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English
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When the headstrong teen daughter of the British Ambassador in Cold War Moscow goes missing a week after a young man is found murdered in Red Square, army intelligence officer Tom Fox seeks redemption by agreeing to track her down, a case that is challenged by Soviet secrets and threats against the girl's father.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
850L
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English
Description
In 1888 seventeen-year-old Evelyn Fallow, herself disfigured by the phosphorus in the match factory where she worked, has been hired as a maid to Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man--but when the Jack the Ripper murders begin she and Merrick find themselves haunted by the ghosts of the slain women, and Evelyn is caught up in the mystery of Jack's identity.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
Description
In 1889 New York, when the city's top models begin turning up dead, one by one, society girl-turned-investigative journalist Genevieve Stewart, drawn into the investigation by a friend, seeks answers from notorious gangsters and prominent painters to catch a killer.
18) Night candy
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"As the '70s draw to a close in San Francisco, things do not bode well for the city--or for ex-con PI Colleen Hayes, whose daughter Pam, in a tragic turn of events, has lost her baby. Pam leaves San Francisco, and Colleen, who moved there to reunite with her, starts to wonder what she's doing in the Bay Area. Meanwhile, a serial killer given the name "Night Candy" is targeting sex workers, both male and female. The situation doesn't improve when Colleen's...
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When a charred figure is found curled beside Sir Christopher Wren's Monument to the Great Fire of London, Nigella Parker, Detective Inspector with the City Police, is dragged into a case pitting her against a murderous artist creating sculptures using burnt flesh. She partners with Colm O'Leary of Scotland Yard to track the arsonist across greater London. They race to connect the dots between an antique nail pulled from a dead man's hands and a long-forgotten...
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English
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Simone Simonini--a secret agent and killer filled with hate--weaves together the problems of tumultuous nineteenth-century Europe into vast conspiracies, and meanwhile he realizes that he is suffering from a split personality, calling himself both a captain and a priest.
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