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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This exciting companion to His Dark Materials tells a not-to-be-missed story about Lyra and her world.
When a witch's daemon crashes onto the roof of Jordan College, Lyra and her daemon, Pan, are eager to help. But as this unlikely trio scours the winding streets of Oxford in search of a famed alchemist, their journey takes a deadly turn...
This volume also includes fascinating extra glimpses of our favorite characters.
Don't...
When a witch's daemon crashes onto the roof of Jordan College, Lyra and her daemon, Pan, are eager to help. But as this unlikely trio scours the winding streets of Oxford in search of a famed alchemist, their journey takes a deadly turn...
This volume also includes fascinating extra glimpses of our favorite characters.
Don't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Shortly before Christmas, Professor James Lowell is found brutally attacked in his rooms at Walsingham College, where Anna Hopkins works as an administrator. Baffled as to why anyone would wish to harm such a gentle, scholarly man, Anna discovers that Lowell had a connection with her fellow dogwalker, Isadora Salzman, who knew him as an undergraduate in the 1960s, a co-member of the so-called Oxford Six. It turns out that Isadora has been keeping...
5) No hero
Author
Series
Arthur Wallace novels volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After detective Arthur Wallace witnesses a creature with tentacles commit murder, he is recruited to lead a team within the MI37, an organization that deals with paranormal threats, to stop the creature's race entering Earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Anna Hopkins' daily walk through Oxford's picturesque Port Meadow is rudely interrupted one autumn morning when her white German Shepherd, Bonnie, unearths a bloodsoaked body in the undergrowth. For Anna it's a double shock: she'd met the victim previously. Naomi Evans was a professional researcher who had told Anna she was working on a book about a famous Welsh poet, and who offered to help Anna trace Bonnie's original owner. From her conversations...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, an Oxford garden shed in which her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Young Esme's place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word bondmaid flutters beneath the table. She rescues the slip and, learning...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Now in her twilight years, Alice Liddell looks back on a remarkable life. From a pampered childhood in Oxford to difficult years as a widowed mother, Alice examines how she became who she is--and how she became immortalized as Alice in Wonderland.
12) Magpie Lane
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging, an eerie and ancient house, a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost...
13) Oxford wild
Author
Publisher
Grape Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"I came to Oxford eager to learn, but it's my haughty professor who needs a lesson. CEDAR My name is Cedar Wild--wild by name, wild by nature. I arrived at Oxford straight from my family's off-grid log cabin deep in the Canadian forest. Intimidating? Absolutely. But if I can run a trapline and butcher a moose, I can adapt to student life at the world's most illustrious university. Right? I hadn't bargained on my barely-older-than-me advisor, Alfred,...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When two children are pulled from the smoking ruin of their home on Christmas and their parents are nowhere to be found, DI Adam Fawley is faced with one of his most disturbing cases yet as he and his team sift through the smoldering evidence to reveal a terrible truth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"It's 1960, and David Swain is two years into his life sentence for murdering the lover of his ex-girlfriend, Katya Osman. In the dead of night, David escapes from prison, and that same night Katya is found murdered in her uncle's home, Blackwater Hall..."--inside front cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Morse spends much of his investigation drinking at the Randolph Hotel's bar, believing the solution to the case of a wealthy, American tourist's death is close at hand, but conflicting stories, a murder, and other suspicious doings confound the case.
17) Gaudy night
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning to Oxford for a reunion dinner at her old college, Harriet Vane is delighted to be back in familiar, beloved surroundings. The idyllic return is shattered by a series of nasty messages referring to her earlier trial for murder.
19) The pact
Author
Publisher
Trapeze
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A golden summer, and six talented friends are looking forward to the brightest of futures - until a daredevil game goes horribly wrong, and a woman and two children are killed.18-year-old Megan takes the blame, leaving the others free to get on with their lives. In return, they each agree to a 'favour', payable on her release from prison. Twenty years later Megan is free. Let the games begin . . ."--Publisher
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Midnight. A call out to an isolated farm on the outskirts of Oxford. A body shot at point-blank range in the kitchen. It looks like a burglary gone wrong, but DC Adam Fawley suspects there's something more to it. When the police discover a connection to a high-profile case from years ago, involving a child's murder and an alleged miscarriage of justice, the press go wild. Suddenly Fawley's team are under more scrutiny than ever before. And when you...
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