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Betting against the duke volume 1
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English
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To save her sister from scandal and ignite her own forbidden musical passions, a shy wallflower stages a shocking kiss with a reluctant composer, sparking a game of hearts and high society deception.
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English
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When FBI special agent Luke Kendrick discovers chilling evidence of dozens of victims at a crime scene in London, he recognizes the calling card of the notorious H. H. Holmes Society. Named for the nineteenth-century monster regarded as America's first serial killer, the society is comprised of a twisted web of killers, working to carry out heinous murders in Holmes's memory. And now the group's been linked to a Scottish castle turned B and B--here...
4) Choice
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English
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"'How ought one to live?' This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors he edits and publishes. One of those authors, a mysterious M. N. Opie, writes a story about a young academic involved in a car accident that causes her...
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International school volume 2
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English
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"The smoldering connection between Maggie and Samir sparks into flame at London's International School in London Falling, now available for the first time in print! When Maggie Carpenter left the seductive glitz of London for summer break in her small South Carolina hometown, she walked away from the most intense encounter of her life. But now that she's returned to the International School--and sexy, privileged Samir Khouri is once again close enough...
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2024.
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English
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"Twenty-five-year-old Kat Bennett has never felt at home anywhere, and especially not in crumbling Shelley House. According to her neighbors, she's prickly and unapproachable, but beneath her tough exterior, Kat is plagued by guilt from her past. Seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Darling is Shelley House's longest resident, and if you believe the other tenants, she's as cantankerous and vindictive as they come. Except there's a good reason Dorothy spends...
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[2024]
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English
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Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
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Soho Crime
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[2024]
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English
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In 1924 London, when shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, these unlikely allies investigate the murders of Chinese immigrants, all stabbed to death with a butterfly sword and must connect the dots to catch a killer before they become victims themselves.
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Doves of New York volume 1
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Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"New to wealth and to London high society, American heiress Cora Dove discovers that with the right man, marriage might not be such an inconvenience after all. . . . Cora Dove and her sisters' questionable legitimacy has been the lifelong subject of New York's gossipmongers and a continual stain on their father's reputation. So when the girls each receive a generous, guilt-induced dowry from their dying grandmother, the sly Mr. Hathaway vows to release...
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising--and declining--fortunes. Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public--yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He's never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is...
11) The switch
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Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Two couples. One twisted game of love and sex. A dark domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister... When young couple Elena and Adam are offered the chance to housesit in their dream neighborhood for a few months, they jump at the opportunity. The leafy South London enclave is a world away from everything they know, complete with grand homes with lush gardens and quaint local coffee shops....
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PUSH
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When her mother passes away, 16-year-old Dayana is forced to live with her estranged father and his new family in London where she is utterly miserable until she runs into the girl of her dreams outside Buckingham Palace who draws her into a real-life royal scandal.
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Irregular detective mystery volume 2
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"London, 1895. Although their last high-profile case was a huge success, private detectives Tim Badger and Benjamin Watson know they can't afford to turn down any work, despite financial assistance from their mentor, Sherlock Holmes. So when the eminent Doctor Enoch Sawyer of St Bart's Hospital asks Badger if the duo will provide security for a mummy unwrapping party he is hosting, Badger doesn't hesitate to take the job. After all, how hard can guarding...
15) Angry god
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All Saints High volume 3
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Fleeing to an art program in London after graduation, Lenora Astalis attempts to leave behind Vaughn Spencer and his heartless rule as an angry god, but he follows her, in the third novel of the series following Broken Knight. "--
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Pocket
Pub. Date
2012
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Français
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"Alice mene une existence tranquille, entre son travail, qui la passionne, et sa bande d'amis, tous artistes a leurs heures. Pourtant, la veille de Noel, sa vie va etre bouleversee. Au cours d'une viree a la fête foraine de Brighton, une voyante lui predit un mysterieux avenir. Alice n'a jamais cru à la voyance, mais elle n'arrive pas à chasser ces paroles de son esprit, et ses nuits se peuplent de cauchemars qui semblent aussi réels qu'incomprehensibles....
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Raven Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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At The Mercury Theatre in London's West End, rumours are circulating of a curse. It is said that the lead actress Lilith has made a pact with Melpomene, the tragic muse of Greek mythology, to become the greatest actress to ever grace the stage. Suspicious of Lilith, the jealous wife of the theatre owner sends dresser Jenny to spy on her, and desperate for the money to help her family, Jenny agrees. What Jenny finds is a woman as astonishing in her...
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Grafica Veneta of Trebaseleghe
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Todos a bordo, pero ¡cuidado! Los pasajeros que duermen en este tren tal vez nunca se despierten. En las primeras horas de Nochebuena, el tren cama de Londres a las Highlands descarrila, junto con los planes festivos de sus viajeros. Con el tren enterrado en Nieve en medio de la nada, los pasajeros solo se tienen unos a otros, y no todos llegarán a sus celebraciones navideñas. Mientras un asesino intenta capturar a los pasajeros uno por uno, la...
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Maeva
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"Clara Button no es una bibliotecaria cualquiera. Mientras el mundo sigue en guerra, Clara ha creado la única biblioteca subterránea del país, construida sobre las vías de la estación de metro en desuso de Bethnal Green. Allí abajo prospera una comunidad secreta con miles de literas, una guardería, una cafetería y un teatro que ofrecen refugio, calidez y distracción frente a las bombas que caen en el exterior. Junto con su glamurosa mejor...
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Pocket volume 16129
Publisher
Sonatine Éditions
Pub. Date
[2015]
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Français
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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
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