Steven Crossley
61) Willful behavior
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship...
62) Enchanted glass
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers start intruding on their lives.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
7
Language
English
Description
In late 1945, the fate of Adolf Hitler was a complete mystery. Missing for four months, he had simply vanished. Hugh Trevor-Roper, a British intelligence officer, was given the task of solving the mystery. With access to American counterintelligence files and German prisoners, his brilliant detective work proved finally that Hitler had killed himself in Berlin. It also produced one of the most fascinating history books ever written. Originally published...
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson brings history vibrantly to life with her powerful flesh-and-blood portrait of Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender to the British throne. Courageously attempting to conquer England, this significant figure in Scottish history divides the troubled British kingdom and disturbs decadent monarchies throughout the entire European continent. Convinced he was meant to be king, handsome 24-year-old Charles secretly gathers...
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
273 pages : 1 illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Noble Prince Jen is the one person that his father, King Ta'i, trusts enough to send on a mission to the legendary kingdom of Tien-Kuo. The prince eagerly begins his quest bearing only enormous pride and humble gifts. From the onset, however, the young ruler marches headlong into misfortune, miscreants, and unexpected adventure.
Separated from his faithful servant, the prince finds himself fending off murderers, falling prey to trickery, and searching...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
1060L
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For every child who's ever dreamed of being in the Guinness Book of World Records comes the story of eleven-year-old Arthur Whipple and his fantastic family of world record breakers...Unfortunately, unlike his siblings, Arthur hasn't broken a single, solitary world record! But when the Whipples suffer a spate of catastrophes and a curious amount of attention from a pair of irregularly sized and unusually menacing clowns, Arthur might be the only...
67) Mastered by love
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
466 pages : genealogical table ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
The men of the Bastion Club have proven their bravery by secretly fighting for their country. Now their leader, Dalziel, faces that most dangerous of all missions: finding a bride.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xi, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As WWI drew to a close, change reverberated through the halls of Englands country homes. As the sun set slowly on the British Empire, the shadows lengthened on the lawns of a thousand stately homes. In The Long Weekend, historian Adrian Tinniswood introduces us to the tumultuous, scandalous and glamourous history of English country houses during the years between World Wars. As estate taxes and other challenges forced many of these venerable houses...
69) Kalooki nights
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster ed.
Physical Desc
450 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Synopsis currently unavailable.
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Christopher Hibbert, noted historian and award-winning author of The Dragon Wakes, turns his attention to the English Civil War in Cavaliers and Roundheads. Focusing on the effects of this war on the civilian population, Hibbert's vivid social and military history clearly portrays the results of the bloody struggle between Crown and Parliament and brings to life some of the more colorful characters of this turbulent time.
71) Deaf sentence
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the university merged his Department of Linguistics with English, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. But his daily discontent is nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, which is a constant source of domestic friction and social embarrassment. In the popular imagination, he observes, deafness is comic, as blindness is tragic, but for the deaf person himself it is no joke. It is through his deafness...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martins Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
316 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and...campaigning for justice in all. Stanford...makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective" --
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
575 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Salman Rushdie is widely considered one of a handful of truly great living writers. The internationally acclaimed, Booker Prize-winning author's storytelling shines in this epic love story, a modern retelling of the myth of Orpheus. Energetic and musical, Rushdie's prose is positively mesmerizing when you hear it read aloud. This panoramic work is framed with the death of rock goddess Vina Aspara. The story of her life and love affair with musical...
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
viii, 600 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The fate of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one of the great historical mysteries of all time. To believers, the Ark is the legendary vessel holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy armies, and lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however, mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after the building of the Temple of Solomon. After ten years...
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the rivalry between the Whipples and the Goldwins escalates to an all-out war as the World Record World Championships draw near, recordless Arthur Whipple and his unlikely ally Ruby Goldwin unravel the mystery of the Lyon's Curse and the secrets of their fathers' shared past.
76) Mayhem
Author
Series
Publisher
Jo Fletcher
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Already frustrated in their attempts to capture serial murderer Jack the Ripper, the detectives of Scotland Yard are suddenly confronted with a new monster, dubbed the Torso Killer for his habit of leaving behind neatly wrapped parcels of his victims' body parts, minus the heads. With the terrible increase in mutilated corpses to examine, the highly regarded police surgeon Dr. Thomas Bond has lost the ability to sleep. True, a growing dependency...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
212 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Johnny's toymaker father has volunteered for service in the British Army of World War I. At first, his spirits are high as he completes basic training, but his tone becomes grim once he reaches the front. To ease his son's worries, Johnny's dad carves him little figurines that reflect his experiences in the war. Comprised of letters from his father, followed by Johhny's feelings, Lord of the Nutcracker Men is a haunting and poignant tale....
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Atria Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
517 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve years have passed since Arthur was crowned High King. Against all odds, he has united Celtic Britain and banished the Saxons. Although hes succeeded in defeating all external threats and his kingdom is at its zenith, it is now being undermined from within. Arthur has chosen evil Wenhaver as his queen and second wife. Wenhaver will always love what she cannot have and have what she cannot love, and her bitterness threatens to bring down all...
79) The sight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Amer. ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The works of David Clement-Davies have been honored as Booklist Books of the Year and Book Sense 76 selections. Clement-Davies creates an intriguing new mythology for the spectacularly envisioned action of The Sight. After a pregnant she-wolf and her pack take shelter in an abandoned Transylvanian castle, they are set upon by Morgra, a lone wolf whose traveling companion feeds on the dead. One of the she- wolf's pups is destined to hold a key to unimaginable...
80) Sovereign
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
582 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The year is 1541, and harsh autumn winds stir the English countryside. Following a violent uprising, King Henry VIII travels to York, where an important prisoner will be interrogated. Lawyer Matthew Shardlake is assigned to protect this conspirator, but he soon discovers a greater conspiracy threatening the crown.