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"Russian-born shopkeeper Vera Sorokina and Irish-born penny dreadful author Brogan Donnelly join forces to take down a criminal enterprise that is threatening shopkeepers in South London in 1865. Along the way, the two find love and romance as they fightfor a chance for their own "happily ever after.""--
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Nightside series volume 10
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English
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Private investigator John Taylor is forced to start taking whatever cases he can and is tasked with escorting an elf across town and helping the Dead Detective find his brother, but Taylor is most surprised when Walker, a powerful agent who is in charge of running the Nightside, offers Taylor his job.
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London Detective Inspector Vincent Ruiz, pulled out of the Thames River with amnesia and a bullet wound in his leg, embarks on an investigation to recover his lost memory and find out what his shooting had to do with a three-year-old kidnapping case in which the victim is believed to be dead and perpetrator in jail.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
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Nightside series volume 9
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English
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Private investigator John Taylor is hired to take down the Walking Man, a being who is determined to take down every sinner in the Nightside and does not discriminate between truly evil individuals and those just indulging in bad behavior.
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As Charlotte drew closer to the looming grey edifice that was to become her temporary home, she could not help but notice the secretive shuttered windows. Then she noticed the milkweeds... Even a proper vicar's daughter can make a mistake--and now Charlotte Lamb must pay a high price for her fall. To avoid the prying eyes of all who know her, she hides herself away in London's forbidding "Milkweed Manor," a place of mystery and lore, of old secrets...
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Sally Lockhart quartet volume 1
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English
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In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.
11) The empty grave
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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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710L
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English
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"With the help of some unexpected, and rather ghostly, allies, Lockwood & Co. must battle their greatest enemy yet, as they move ever closer to the moment when the earth-shattering secret of 'the problem' will finally be revealed"--
12) Hex and the city
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Nightside series volume 4
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English
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Detective John Taylor is hired to uncover the origins of the Nightside, a small glimpse of hell in London, and in turn finds out a shocking secret about his own long-vanished mother.
13) Lost
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HarperAudio
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Unabridged
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English
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Winifred Rudge travels to London to jump-start her new novel, but instead she finds herself investigating the disappearance of her stepcousin, whose apartment seems to have been taken over by a hostile spirit.
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On a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge, police superintendent William Monk notices a young couple engaged in an intense discussion. Seconds later, the two plunge to their deaths in the icy waters of the Thames. Was it an accident, a suicide, or a murder? Ever the investigator, Monk learns that the woman, Mary Havilland, had planned to marry the fair-haired man who shared her fate. He also discovers that Mary’s father had recently died in a supposed...
16) Little Dorrit
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English
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Charles Dickens's great satire on poverty, riches, and imprisonment, Little Dorrit is the story of Arthur Clennam, a man whose kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, assures him nothing but trouble. Her father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, has long been imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea.
17) Neverwhere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.
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Nightside series volume 3
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English
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John Taylor, a "finder" who works in the Nightside, the magical underworld of London, is hired to find out why a local diva called the Nightingale has cut herself off from her family and friends, and why suicide-prone fans believe her voice is literally "to die for."
19) A long way down
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Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy.
New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.
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New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots.
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