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6841) Queen Mother
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
Published simultaneously under title: God bless her!
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious...
6843) Witch of the North
Author
Series
Dragon's heirs volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
6845) Truth to tell
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Five years after they both deliver baby girls at the same hospital, two women from meet when their daughters become fast friends. Victoria Beauford and Leila Varney soon become the focus of gossip because each girl looks like she should belong to the other’s family. Lady Beauford starts an inquiry to determine the truth against the wishes of her husband and the Varneys. Two little girls are swept up into what may be a terrible mistake. This story...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global...
6849) Atomic blonde: Blu-Ray
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Sequences of strong violence, language throughout, and some sexuality/nudity.
Author
Series
Museum mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After rising to prominence for his role investigating the case of Jack the Ripper, former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson is now retired. Known for his intelligence, investigative skills and most of all his discretion, he's often consulted when a case must be solved quickly and quietly. So when a body is found in the Egyptian Collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Wilson is called in. As he tries to uncover the identity of the dead man...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
�2015.
Language
English
Description
"Sleep disorders specialist Kennedy Plain has been diagnosed with a fatal brain tumor. When her research subject dies after trying to convince her he has achieved dream-induced time travel and her study is shelved, she enlists herself as a subject to complete her research. But when she dreams herself into 14th century England and falls into the hands of Fulke Wynland, a man history has condemned as a murderer, she must not only stay alive long enough...
6854) The kingdoms
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Joe Tournier, suffering from a form of epilepsy that causes amnesia, leaves the French-ruled London for the rebel land of Scotland to search for answers about his identity.
Joe Tournier's first memory is of stepping off a train in the nineteenth-century French colony of England. The only clue Joe has about his identity is a century-old postcard of a Scottish lighthouse that arrives in London the same month he does. Written in illegal English instead...
6858) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1987
Language
English
Description
The story of Lucy Irvine's life after running away, at age twelve, from the hostility of her parents' crumbling marriage to a bohemian, nomadic existence.
6859) The fields of glory
Author
Series
Wakefield dynasty volume 4
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Evan, Amos, and Jenny form a triangle of romance and adventure that takes each of them to the limits of their faith. With the help of an outspoken minister named John Bunyan they are drawn closer to God.