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For most of her adult life, Frances has colored within the lines, her life made hollow by a complete lack of companionship. When she arrives on assignment to study the architecture at Lyntons, a decaying estate in the English countryside, she discovers an unexpected bonus, friendship with the young hedonistic couple Peter and Cara. Peter has been assigned to inventory the valuables on site, while the tempestuous Cara keeps him company. Over the heady...
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When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal. Soon after their arrival, ever-curious Nicky...
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2017.
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English
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Amid the terror the Blitz in the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Eliza and her troubled little sister Rebecca have had their share of tragedy, losing their mother to German bombs and their father to suicide. But when they are forced to leave London to work for the mysterious Mr. Bronawell at Abigale Hall, they find the worst is yet to come.
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To save Moonshyne Manor from demolition, five octogenarian witches, having only nine days save their home, make a bargain with an evil far more powerful than anything they've ever faced, fracturing their sisterhood and leading to a fiery confrontation with their enemies.
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When a last-minute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall for the holidays, Ashley Smith, an American art student in London, discovers this seemingly charming English village's grim history when a local girl is brutally murdered and Emma's brother is linked to the crime.
Ashley Smith, an American art student in London for her junior year, was planning on spending Christmas alone, but a last-minute invitation from...
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2016.
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English
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Although Perry, the earl of the house, and his sister, Poppy, are surprisingly accommodating to their jetlagged guests, Lucy feels uneasy after a fallen portrait sparks talk of a deadly family omen. The bad vibes come in quickly: snobby Aunt Millicent and her handmaiden Harrison unexpectedly drop by for the exhibition, and meals with the family are consistently tense. But real trouble begins when a body, bludgeoned by the chapel's gold-plated reliquary,...
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Traveling to be with her fiancé’s terminally ill mother, Saoirse Read expected her introduction to the family’s ancestral home would be bittersweet. But the thrust of Langdon Hall against the cliff and the darkened windows in its battered walls are almost as forbidding as the woman who lies inside. Her fiancé’s parents make no secret of their distaste for her, and their feelings have spread to their son. Or perhaps it is only the shadows of...
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2022.
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Thanks to Aunt Midge's unlikely friendship with Nicholas Pennington, the Duke of Valle Charme, Avery Ayers and her associates at Antiques and Artifacts Appraised head off to their most glamorous assignment yet--cataloging and appraising the contents of a castle-like mansion on the Hudson River. But regal splendor becomes a backdrop to mayhem when the precious Viktor Petrova timepiece disappears--and housekeeper Suzanne Vick plummets from a parapet...
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A former horror movie actress returns to the set of her most iconic film, only to find that the strange circumstances begin to resemble the plot of her most famous film. A desolate bit of land, with only a few remaining behind: the horror director, the starlet once cast as the final girl, the young teenager searching for clues of her father, the mother determined to get off the island, and the person picking them off one-by-one.
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Max Tudor must contend with his new role as a father as well as a murder all too close to home in Nether Monkslip.
Something sinister is afoot at Totleigh Hall, the showcase of the sleepy English village of Nether Monkslip. Lord and Lady Baaden-Boomethistle have been in residence for some weeks now, and the villagers are hoping for a return to the days when the lord of the manor sprinkled benefits across the village like fairy dust. But a sudden...
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Sorcery of Thorns volume 1.5
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
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English
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Elisabeth, Nathaniel, and Silas must unravel the magical trap keeping them inside Thorn Manor in time for their Midwinter Ball.
17) Cauldron of evil
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Stewarts of Stormhaven volume 5
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Five Star
Pub. Date
2004.
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261 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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2023.
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English
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"Posing as Ben Gibson's girlfriend over the holidays, Margot Murray, newly single after a breakup with her long-term girlfriend, finds herself drawn to Ben's sister Ellie, who believes their relationship is a sham, and must decide whether to keep the charade up or risk the chance at something real"--
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"Former TV celebrity host Kat Stanford is just days away from starting her dream antique business with her newly widowed mother Iris when she gets a huge shock. Iris has recklessly purchased a dilapidated carriage house, on an isolated country estate, Honeychurch Hall, several hundred miles from London. When Kat arrives at the house, she discovers that Iris has yet another surprise in store. Iris has been writing in secret for years and reluctantly...
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2015.
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"When the body of a transport minister is discovered in the grounds on Honeychurch Hall, suspicion about his unusual demise naturally falls on the folks in the village. After all, who could possibly want a high-speed train line built in their front yard? News of the murder soon reaches our heroine Kat Stanford's nemesis Trudy Wynne. A ruthless tabloid journalist and the ex-wife of Kat's discarded lover, Trudy is out for revenge. She is also interested...
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