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2) London
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Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Lonely Planet's London is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the city has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Walk through history at Westminster Abbey, take a picnic to Hyde Park and experience a West End musical; all with your trusted travel companion. Inside Lonely Planet's London Travel Guide: Lonely Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring collection of the destination's best experiences...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's new and ingenious literary whodunnit, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound"--Dust jacket flap.
"Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful...
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Language
English
Description
"A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard's health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren--which Jenny never had--Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show Britain Bakes. Whisked into...
Author
Series
Agatha Raisin mystery volume 1
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Una autora a la altura de Agatha Christie. Una detective a la altura de Miss Marple. Una serie con todo el misterio, el humor y el countryside britanicos. Agatha Raisin se lia la manta a la cabeza y decide marcharse de Londres para saborear las mieles de una jubilacion anticipada en un tranquilo pueblo de los Cotswolds, donde no tarda en aburrirse como una ostra. Desplegar su talento para la alta cocina en el concurso gastronomico de la parroquia...
7) Dominoes
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dominoes opens in London, twenty-nine days before the wedding of a young couple. Layla is a mixed-race woman--with a Black, Jamaican mother, and a white father she's never met--and Andy is a white man of Scottish descent. When they first meet at a party, they can't believe how instant their chemistry is, and how quickly their relationship unfolds. But the commonalities between the two outweigh their differences; funnily enough, they even share a...
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Series
Scandalous ladies of London volume 2
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"It's been a year since her wretched cad of a husband died and Valencia, the Dowager Duchess of Dedham, is finally her own woman. Flitting from party to party, freedom is sweet and life should be perfect. Until the new duke surfaces. Nothing like the haughty noblemen who populate the ton, Rhain, the newly minted Duke of Dedham, is a big brawny Welshman with an accent that makes Valencia's knees go weak as he boldly moves into her home with his six...
9) Silks
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Geoffrey Mason is well known (as "Perry" Mason) among the pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow--arguably the two top pros. So when Scot Barlow is murdered--with Mitchell's pitchfork nonetheless--Geoff finds himself pulled into the case as a junior barrister.
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Language
English
Description
"A witty, feminist mystery set in the heart of nineteenth-century London ... featuring an intrepid woman detective ... Albertine Honeycombe never wanted a husband and certainly not the one with fifteen children that her cousin, Aubrey, is trying to marry her off to. She reinvents herself as Countess Von Dagga, a private detective aiding the upper echelons of women in society. As the Countess, she is a married woman, with a conveniently absent husband...
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Series
Little school by the sea volume 4
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Joana is a young witch who secured her dream job with a coven in London, her favorite city, where she can dedicate herself to creating potions, her favorite activity! However, she will soon discover the reality of city life is not so idyllic. Finding a flat is an ordeal, her "dream job" is stressful, and she's totally alone. Little by little, she makes her place, but fatigue, sadness, and doubts threaten to topple her hard-earned success ... until...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a late November afternoon, Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from his native Zanzibar. With him he has a small bag in which lies his most precious possession-a mahogany box containing incense. He used to own a furniture shop, have a house and be a husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker from paradise, silence his only protection. Meanwhile, Latif Mahmud, a distinguished young professor, lives quietly alone in his London flat. When the...
16) Kicked out
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Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
While his home life is unraveling, thirteen-year-old Ali organizes a charity soccer match to help his friend Aadam avoid deportation back to Syria.
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Series
The forge and fracture saga volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Magical metal-worker Joan Sands must navigate court intrigue and escape the fae queen's control as she strives to release her grandfather from royal prisons, grapple with a city plagued by fae attacks, and fulfill her destiny as Ogun's only child to reforge the pact between humanity and the fae.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel about a woman who one day comes home to find her attic is magic and producing an endless supply of interchangeable husbands"-- Provided by publisher.
"When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There's only one problem--she's not married. She's never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone,...
19) Ilium
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Fast-paced and powerful, gripping and immersive, this subtly crafted and suspenseful novel, set in the present and the immediate past, in the dark world of international espionage in London, Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap Ferret is told through its young female protagonist who unwittingly becomes a perfect asset in the long overdue finale of a special op. The young English narrator briefly tells us of her unhappy family life in London, wanting...
20) Last one to die
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old, Irish-born Niamh has just arrived in London for the summer, and quickly discovers that girls who look frighteningly like her are being attacked"-- Provided by publisher.
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