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Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
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Waves of freedom volume 2
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English
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"Nothing slows Lillian Avery down--not her personal challenges and certainly not America's entry into World War II. She finally has a chance to prove herself as a pharmacist in Boston. The demands of her new job energize her. But society boy Ensign Archer Vandenberg's attentions only annoy--even if he is her brother's best friend. During the darkest days of the war, Arch's destroyer hunts German U-boats in vain as the submarines sink dozens of merchant...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series, now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman
This edition features behind-the-scenes bonus material from the film—including photos, excerpts from the script, and favorite recipes...
This edition features behind-the-scenes bonus material from the film—including photos, excerpts from the script, and favorite recipes...
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English
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An assault on a pediatrician reveals a web of corruption and deception in the New York Times–bestselling, Silver Dagger Award–winning series.
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men—a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town—have burst into the...
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men—a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town—have burst into the...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Holly Zook is the lead technician for Greene's Pharmacy, which looks out for the Amish community, a group largely without secure healthcare plans. She's Amish, and knows she can't marry and hold onto her professional job. She spurns love and works toward addressing diseases like the one that claimed her father's life. Joshua Smucker is the one man who draws her like a warm hearth in winter. When something unexpected threatens Greene's Pharmacy, Holly...
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Blackthorn key volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
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309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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English
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Hoping to return home after a winter in the Sudden Mountains so he can join his parents in the fight against the evil Chancellor, Raffa must use his apothecary skills while enlisting the help of human and animal friends to survive the journey.
11) Big Stone Gap
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Universal Sudios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ave Maria Mulligan has lived her whole life in tiny Big Stone Gap, a picturesque coal-mining town nestled in the hollers of southwestern Virginia. When she's not making deliveries from her family's pharmacy to far-flung neighbors, Ave Maria directs the annual outdoor drama festival, keeps chaste company with her longtime beau, Theodore, and exchanges good-natured barbs with local hunk Jack MacChesney.
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Blackthorn key volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.
15) The apothecary
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Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2011]
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Explore the life of a colonial apothecary and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
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2010.
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English
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Gil Cunningham is the Archbishop's questioner--his investigator. Nanty and Danny were rivals for the affection of Agnes, the apothecary's daughter. Danny dies, apparently of poisoning, after drinking from his friend's flask. But what was the poison? Is Nanty guilty? Then more murders ensue, and Gil's wife, Alys, joins the investigation.
From the Hardcover edition.
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John Rawlings mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
204 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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1950s. In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. Their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known. Thirty years later Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting,...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1931.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 20 cm
Language
English
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"In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old Cecile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas creche. As Cather follows this...
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