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The poor relation volume 2
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English
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The oddly assorted group met some time ago. All of them were poor relations, the genteel paupers of society, living on little more than their dignity. They banded together and started the Poor Relation hotel, hoping to be bought out by their embarrassed relations. Though as the hotel prospered, they began to enjoy the fruits of their labor. But once more they are in need of funds.
To stoop to crime in their days of poverty was one thing, but to turn...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 7
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English
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London investigator Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death--an investigation that leads her to a doomed affair between a young cartographer, listed as missing in action when World War I ends, and a mysterious nurse.
84) Moon over Soho
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Rivers of London volume 2
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English
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The song. That's what London constable and sorcerer's apprentice Peter Grant first notices when he examines the corpse of Cyrus Wilkins, part-time jazz drummer and full-time accountant, who dropped dead of a heart attack while playing a gig at Soho's 606 Club. The notes of the old jazz standard are rising from the body, a sure sign that something about the man's death was not at all natural but instead supernatural. Body and soul are what Peter will...
85) Scorpia rising
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Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
86) Angelmaker
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
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English
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"Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this nature - himself in one armchair, a police officer in another, and between them a mystery." The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but heaven forbid that the shadow of any real crime should ever fall across his seaside parish. The vicar's peace is shattered one stormy night when...
88) The fear
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Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In London, after a worldwide sickness infects adults, turning them into zombie-like creatures, DogNut and his crew embark on a deadly mission to find missing friends, as hungry, bloodthirsty grownups lie in wait.
89) Fever Crumb
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
91) The hollow boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Anthony, George, and Lucy investigate new hauntings, track down assassins, and a new assistant joins Lockwood & Co"--
92) Ironhand
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Stoneheart trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Having upset the balance between the warring statues of London, twelve-year-old George is confronted with new challenges as he tries to free his captured friends Edie and The Gunner from the formidable Walker and deal with the three strange veins of marble, bronze, and stone that have begun to grow out of his hand.
93) A long way down
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.
94) The dead
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Enemy series (Charlie Higson) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When a plague turns anyone over the age of sixteen into flesh-craving monsters, a group of teenagers escape from their infested high school and head for London with the hopes of finding a safe haven there.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Her promising career in 1960s London interrupted by an affair with a married professor that renders her a single mother, Jessica Speight faces wrenching questions about responsibility, potential, and compassion when her sunny child reveals unique needs.
96) Amulet keepers
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TombQuest volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Investigating a string of disappearances amid supernatural occurrences in London, Alex and Ren discover the workings of a powerful Death Walker intent on destroying the city.
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English
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen, the out-of-work and hungry are demanding change. In a genteel Camberwell villa -- a large, silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and servants -- impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers. Little do the Wrays know just how profoundly their new tenants will alter the course of Frances's life -- or how far-reaching the disturbances will be.
98) London Boulevard
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English
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An ex-convict hoping to steer clear of the lowlife from his past is forced to act when his disturbed sister is threatened.
99) The look
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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When she is spotted by a modeling agency and her beautiful sister falls seriously ill, gangly fifteen-year-old Edwina "Ted" Trout must choose between fame and family.
100) Vanishing girl
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Boy Sherlock Holmes volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Young Sherlock Holmes, aspiring master detective, travels to the country, the coast, and a haunted lair of night creatures in his investigations into the disappearance of a wealthy young socialite.
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