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Series
Last binding volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in debut author Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies. Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire moors, she finds it full of secrets. At night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. Outside, she meets Dickon, a magical boy who can talk to animals. Then one day, Mary discovers the most mysterious wonder of all -- a secret garden, walled and locked, which has been forgotten for years and years. With the help of two unexpected companions,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In Nottingham, 1906, with her dancing days numbered, Marietta Stelle, when a mysterious toymaker moves in next door, is drawn into a world of magic and wonder until her final ballet performance takes a dark turn, trapping her in a place of secrets and illusions"--
Author
Series
Edwardian murder mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Lady Montfort has been planning her annual summer costume ball for months, and with scrupulous care. Pulling together the food, flowers and a thousand other details for one of the most significant social occasions of the year is her happily accepted responsibility. But when her husband's degenerate nephew is found murdered, it's more than the ball that is ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears that the official police enquiry, driven by petty snobbery...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.
7) Hasty death
Author
Series
Edwardian murder mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Last hours (Shadowhunters) volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
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Description
Love, duty, and danger collide in Edwardian London, as the Shadowhunters face the greatest threat they have ever known.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Spring, 1905: Free-spirited like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside, Stella takes adventure by the reins when she's asked to attend a mysterious wedding in rural England. But once she arrives at the lush Morrington Hall estate, her cold and ambitious father confesses that he won't only give away his best racehorses as gifts--he has also arranged to give away his daughter as bride to the Earl of Atherly's financially strapped...
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English
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"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
13) Our lady of pain
Author
Series
Edwardian murder mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Following a whirlwind engagement to Viscount 'Lyndy' Lyndhurst, Stella Kendrick is finding her footing within an elite social circle in picturesque rural England. Outrage erupts and accusations fly after Lord Fairbrother's pony wins best in breed for the seventh consecutive year. When Stella and Lyndy discover his body floating in the river the next morning, it appears one of Stella's trusted new acquaintances may be a calculating killer. In the presence...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1896, three best friends--Tirzah, Sophia and Polly--who are leading very different lives after boarding school share their dreams, hopes, frustrations and romances through a series of letters as they search for happiness and love near the dawn of the Edwardian era"--
Author
Publisher
VR Editoras
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuando Robin Blyth hereda un aburrido puesto en el Ministerio del Interior, cree que ahora su vida se reducirá a sellar papeles. No puedes estar más equivocado. El mismo día que el antipático Edwin Courcey le revela que la magia existe y aque ahora Robin, un baronet caído en desgracia, es el vínculo entre el mundo mágico y el no mágico, también conoc su perdición... Cuando magos oscuros lo maldicen para que les entregue el último juramento,...
20) Chain of gold
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Edwardian London, a time of electric lights and long shadows, with demons waiting in the dark. For years there has been peace in the Shadowhunter world. James and Lucie Herondale, children of the famous Will and Tessa, have grown up in an idyll with their loving friends and family, listening to stories of good defeating evil and love conquering all. But everything changes when the Blackthorn and Carstairs families come to London, and so does a remorseless...
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