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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Set in an alternate Victorian England where mediums control the dead, sixteen-year-old autistic transgender boy Silas must expose a power-hungry secret society while confined to a cruel finishing school designed to turn him into the perfect wife.
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 9
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Oliver Bennet, trapped by societal expectations to live as female, discovers the possibility of love and freedom when he forms a connection with Darcy, but is faced with the choice of living a secure but inauthentic life or risking everything for true self-expression and love.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In Victorian London, when she discovers her sister's death aboard the Makepeace was no accident and that the ship's scientist Edison Stowe was responsible, Maude Horton, to find the truth, begins shadowing Edison, enacting the ultimate revenge to get justice for her sister"--
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Through the discovery of one Victorian woman's textile scrapbook, a fashion historian and museum curator unravels the secrets within its pages and the lives of the people within, charting, piece by piece, the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes people wear.
Author
Series
Jubilee Lake romances volume 1
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Lancashire, 1895. When her controlling stepfather suddenly dies, it seems that Elinor Pendleton finally has a chance of freedom. But her hopes are soon dashed when she learns that the thuggish Jason Stafford has inherited every penny, and is determined to have Elinor too. Forced to flee with her beloved maid, Maude, Elinor finds shelter with Maude's distant cousin in the remote village of Ollerthwaite, on the shore of Jubilee Lake. But Walter Crossley...
Author
Series
A royal match volume 3
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Next to the Season's newest diamond, Harriet (Hattie) Woodchurch feels like a plain Jane. But that's of no consequence, since Hattie's plan for her future is to earn enough to live far, far away from her embarrassing family. That is until Mateo Vincente, Duke of Santiava and newly minted Viscount Abbott, arrives in London. While the shy European's spoken English is impeccable, his writing is less fluent. The ton is eager to meet the handsome bachelor,...
Author
Series
Myrtle Hardcastle mystery volume 5
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When her governess inherits an estate on a Scottish island, amateur detective Myrtle Hardcastle couldn't be more excited. Unfortunately, the ancestral castle is both run-down and haunted. Ghostly moans echo in the walls, and there are rumors of a cursed treasure lost on the island--an ancient silver brooch that may have cost the former lord his life. But who had the motive, means, and opportunity to kill him? And could this Scottish trip mean the...
Author
Series
Mischief and matchmaking volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from having to seek husbands by setting up their widowed parents, and instead find their perfect match in each other—the lesbian Bridgerton/Parent Trap you never knew you needed! Gwen has a brilliant beyond brilliant idea. It’s 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street....
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Before he was Sherlock’s rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class caste system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans can spin out of control—will Moriarty’s dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero…or a monster? Mycroft Holmes gives MI6 a top secret mission to put an end to the Third Anglo-Afghan War. William believes Colonel Moran, who once fought...
Author
Series
Victorian book club mystery volume 4
Publisher
[Callie Hutton]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After almost a year of marriage, Lord William Wethington and Lady Amy Wethington have put aside their sleuthing skills to prepare for their first child. It would be an easy thing except to their dismay, dead bodies are once again popping up. A corpse discovered floating in the Roman Baths was startling enough, but the unfortunate victim turns out to be Amy's and her sister-in-law Eloise's midwife, Mrs. Jane Fleming. 'Do not get involved,' Lord William...
Author
Series
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
1866. On a dark, brooding summer's evening, Agnes Lenham seats herself in an empty first-class compartment on the train to Portsmouth. She is joined by a naval officer and a middle-aged man, in high spirits after dining at his club, travelling to his home on the Isle of Wight. His name is Giles Blanchard - and within moments of the train leaving the station, the sailor strangles him... At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming...
12) Death and glory
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1894, Cyrus Barker, London's premier enquiry agent, is entangled in a conspiracy to revive the American Civil War by prominent figures, long believed deceased. Private Enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, along with his partner Thomas Llewelyn, has a long, accomplished history - he's taken on cases for Scotland Yard, the Foreign Office, and even the crown itself, fulfilling them all with great skill and discretion. None of those cases, however, are as...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In order to negotiate with Irene Adler in secret, Count Albert Moriarty arranges a masquerade ball at Buckingham Palace. What is the secret contained in the documents Miss Adler stole? And what is she really after? The Lord of Crime, the Great Detective, and the Beautiful Thief battle it out in the shadows while the fate of London rests in their hands."--Page [4] of cover.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class caste system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans can spin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero...or a monster? William James Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes meet again on a train back to London, and a dead body is discovered in a locked passenger cabin. With...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"There's a serial killer on the loose in the poverty-stricken East End of London that the citizens are calling Jack the Ripper. An old friend of William Moriarty asks him to get to the bottom of the situation, but time is running out. Terrified of Jack the Ripper, the people of the East End try to take matters into their own hands, and their civil unrest threatens to break into a riot when Scotland Yard tries to stop them! Will William be able to...
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