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Author
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
When orphaned Mary Lennox comes to live at her uncle's great house on the Yorkshire Moors, she finds it full of secrets. The mansion has nearly one hundred rooms, and her uncle keeps himself locked up. And at night, she hears the sound of crying down one of the long corridors. The gardens surrounding the large property are Mary's only escape. Then, Mary discovers a secret garden, surrounded by walls and locked with a missing key. With the help of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
"Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her. In only a few short weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter. After fleeing to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A serial killer is roaming the streets of London, and Daniel Pitt's university chum Ian, now a member of the police, is leading the search. The murders are keeping his mind occupied, but when Ian learns that their old professor, Nicholas Wolford, has been charged with plagiarism, he takes the time to personally ask Daniel to defend their beloved teacher. For help catching who Londoners are now calling the 'Rainy Day Slasher,' Ian also enlists Daniel's...
Author
Series
Last binding volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating...
Author
Series
Last hours volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Collector's first edition.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.
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 have listened to stories of good defeating evil and love conquering...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a quiet corner of northern Edwardian England, Margaret Lounsbury diligently works in her grandmother's millinery shop, making hats and caring for her young sister. Several years earlier, a terrible event shattered their idyllic family life and their future prospects. Maggie is resilient and will do what she must to protect her sister Violet. Still, the loss of her parents weighs heavily on her heart as she begins to wonder if what happened that...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She's engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has loved since childhood. She has a new life in London with her best friend Lucie Herondale and James's charming companions, the Merry Thieves. She is about to be reunited with her beloved father. And she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero's blade. But the truth is far grimmer. James and Cordelia's marriage is a lie, arranged to...
Author
Series
Edwardian brides volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Strong-willed and beautiful, debutante Katherine Ramsey feels ready to take the London social season by storm, and she must. Her family estate, Highland Hall, has been passed to older male cousin Sir William Ramsey, and her only means of securing her future is to make a strong debut and find a proper husband. With her all-knowing and meddling aunt as a guide, Katherine is certain to attract suitors at the lavish gatherings, sparkling with Great Britain's...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books, a Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2015, c2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
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 disreputable nephew is found murdered, more than the ball is ruined. In fact, Lady Montfort fears that the official police enquiry, driven by petty snobbery and...
10) The golden key
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Titan edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"1901. After the death of Queen Victoria, England heaves with the uncanny. Seances are held and the dead are called upon from darker realms. Helena Walton-Cisneros, known for her ability to find the lost and the displaced, is hired by the elusive Lady Matthews to solve a twenty-year-old mystery: the disappearance of her three stepdaughters who vanished without a trace on the Norfolk Fens. But the Fens are an age-old land, where folk tales and dark...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
GN 510L
Physical Desc
177 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphan Mary Lennox arrives at Misselthwaite Manor, sour and miserable. With the help of a clever robin and her new friend Dickon, Mary discovers a neglected garden and a lonely boy named Colin. Together the children bring life to the garden and joy to one another.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic mystery in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson travel to the bleak wastes of Dartmoor, England to solve the mystery surrounding the late Sir Charles Baskerville and a ghostly hound.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Death by Any Other Name is a delightful Edwardian mystery set in the English countryside. The elegant Lady Montfort and her redoubtable housekeeper Mrs. Jackson's services are called upon after a cook is framed and dismissed for poisoning a guest of the Hyde Rose Society. Promising to help her regain her job and her dignity, the pair trek out to the countryside to investigate a murder of concealed passions and secret desires. There, they are to...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lady Montfort is thrilled to receive an invitation to a dinner party hosted by her close friend Hermione Kingsley, the patroness of England's largest charity. Hermione has pulled together a select gathering to celebrate Winston Churchill's 39th birthday. Some of the oldest families in the country have gathered to toast the dangerously ambitious and utterly charming First Lord of the Admiralty. But when the dinner ends, one of the gentlemen remains...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her wedding to Viscount "Lyndy" Lyndhurst just days away, strong-willed American ex-pat Stella Kendrick is the talk of Edwardian society--and the focus of a deadly mystery--in Clara McKenna's third historical mystery set in England's New Forest region at the turn of the 20th century. Between ornate bridal gown fittings and meetings with Lyndy's distant relatives, Stella finally feels less like an out-of-place American and more like a respected...
16) Nooks & crannies
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Tabitha Crum, whose parents were just about to abandon her, is invited to the country estate of a wealthy countess along with five other children and told that one of them will become her heir." -- Provided by publisher.
17) Falling angels
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1901 London, as the precise social order of the Victorian era winds down and the forward-looking Edwardian order takes wing, three strangers meet in the city's stony Highgate Cemetery. Beautiful Lavinia revels in the elaborate trappings of the past. Plain Maude strives to shape the future. Simon Fields, a boy their age, is bound by poverty and professional to the cemetery.As they explore the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, they bring...
18) Mrs. England
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Language
English
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Description
"Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs. England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, an enthralling tale of men and women, power and control, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. West Yorkshire, 1904. When recently graduated Ruby May takes a nanny position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts...
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Tirzah, Sophia, and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. The year is 1896, and Polly is teaching in an orphanage, Sophia is scouting for a rich husband at the London Season, and Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters buzzing with atmosphere and drama, the friends air their dreams, hopes, frustrations, and romances.