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Series
Victorian rebels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Dorian Blackwell, the most dangerous man in London, kidnaps Farah Leigh MacKenzie and takes her to his Highland home, where he reveals that he knows her secrets and offers to help her get what she wants, for a scandalous price.
2) Not by sight
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1917 London, misguided suffragette Grace Mabry hands a white feather of cowardice to Jack Benningham, secretly serving as an English spy, neither aware of the extent of the danger and betrayal soon to surround them both"--
Author
Series
Covent Garden Cubs volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gideon Harrow has spent his life in London's dark underworld--and he wants out. A thief and a con, he plans one last heist to finally win his freedom. But when everything goes wrong, he finds himself at the tender mercies of one of Society's most untouchable women--Lady Susanna Derring..... Susanna has spent her life in London's glittering ton, under the thumb of a domineering mother--and she wants out. When a wickedly charming rogue lands at her...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
499 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking a high-profile murder case that may make his career, Terry Flynt is forced to confront secrets from the past when he discovers that his millionaire client, who is a former friend, brutally betrayed him years earlier.
5) Meantime
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young, unemployed Londoner begins a friendship with a skinhead, much to his family's dismay.
6) Mrs. Engels
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The enigmatic Irish lover of Communist Manifesto co-author Frederick Engels, Lizzie Burns is a poor worker in the Manchester, England, mill that Engels owns. They are drawn together despite their profound difference. When they move to London to be closer to Karl Marx and family, Lizzie must learn to navigate the complex landscapes of Victorian society.
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In London, at Christmas time in 1870, a strange message in the classified ads leads the three young detectives to murders that appear to be connected with the Scarlet Rose Gang, whose leader was killed years before.
Author
Series
Publisher
Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
The only complete edition.
Physical Desc
xl, 784 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, has lost both his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora, and his position as prime minister of Great Britain. The bereft duke is left to try to manage his three grown children, whose rebellions take the various forms of gambling debts, university pranks, and unsuitable romantic attachments. But though he fails to understand his offspring, Palliser truly cares for them, and he navigates the clash of generations with...
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Series
W.A.R.P volume 2
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (11 hours) : digital audio ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chevie returns to modern-day London after her time-trip to the Victorian era, and finds the present much changed. Chevie's memories return to her in bits, and, as she learns about the WARP program, time machine inventor Professor Charles Smart is killed by police. They come after Chevie, too, and she escapes to the past. She finds Riley, and together they resolve to find the mysterious Colonel Clayton Box and prevent him from launching missiles at...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ava Wilder's home in small-town Iowa is her sanctuary. A talented sketch artist with severe agoraphobia, Ava spends her days drawing a far more adventurous life than her invisible disability allows. Until she receives a package from London, explaining that she has inherited her Aunt Beverly's entire estate--on condition that she lives in Bev's West End flat for a year. Once overseas, Ava wonders if she's simply swapped one prison for another. The...
11) Career of evil
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible--and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not...
Author
Series
Crooked heart volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When Noel Bostock--aged ten, no family--is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb northwest of the city with Vera Sedge--a thirty-six-year-old widow drowning in debts and dependents. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. Noel's mourning his godmother, Mattie, a former suffragette. Wise beyond his years and raised with a disdain for authority and an eclectic attitude toward education,...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (approximately 9 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Ives and Ethan Chandler are forming a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm, Dr. Frankenstein, and Sembene, unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray, the Creature and Brona are all waging battles of their own.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When an explosion in London kills two policemen and seriously injures three more, many believe that anarchists are the culprits. But Thomas Pitt, commander of Special Branch, knows the city's radical groups well enough to suspect otherwise: that someone with decidedly more personal motives lit the deadly fuse. As he investigates the source of the fatal blast, he's stunned to discover the bombing was a calculated strike against the ranks of law enforcement....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (9 hours, 15 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
Now nearing the 1960s, the community enters a new time of social change, while stories of birth, life and death continue to touch your heart. Will live-wire Nurse Trixie marry her young curate? What new project calls for a heart as big as Chummy's? How will Sister Evangelina react to two new nurses? And why does Sister Julienne appear so unsettled by a mystery benefactor?
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A female vicar named Sarah Hussain is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators. A single-mother to a teenage girl, Hussain was a woman...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighborhood. Carl needs cash, however, so he rents the upstairs room and kitchen to the first person he interviews, Dermot McKinnon. That was colossal mistake number one. Mistake number two was keeping his father's bizarre collection of homeopathic "cures" that he found in the medicine cabinet, including a stash of controversial diet pills. Mistake number...
18) Madame Sousatzka
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 2 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In London, flamboyant Russian piano instructor Madame Sousatzka begins teaching a young Indian prodigy, who is pulled in several directions by her discipline, his mother's ambition, and his own teenage whims.
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