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Author
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At birth, Mick Trewlove, the illegitimate son of a duke, was handed over to a commoner. Despite his lowly upbringing, Mick has become a successful businessman, but all his wealth hasn't satisfied his need for revenge against the man who still won't acknowledge him. What else can Mick do but destroy the duke's legitimate son--and woo the heir's betrothed into his own unloving arms... Orphaned and sheltered, Lady Aslyn Hastings longs for a bit of adventure....
102) The bones beneath
Author
Series
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
391 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Bones Beneath, the twelfth novel in the internationally bestselling Tom Thorne series shows Thorne facing perhaps the most dangerous killer he has ever put away, Stuart Nicklin. When Nicklin announces that he wishes to reveal the whereabouts of one of his earliest victims and that he wants the cop who caught him to be there when he does it, it becomes clear that Thorne's life is about to become seriously unpleasant. Thorne is forced to accompany...
Author
Series
James Bond 007 volume 11
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Thomas & Mercer edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
British secret agent James Bond pursues the beautiful Tracy di Vicenzo, troubled daughter of a crime lord. On the hunt for Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his heavily fortified Alpine stronghold, 007 uncovers SPECTRE's latest plot to take over the world with biological warfare. Now Bond must put a stop to the plan and survive a personal act of vengeance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Ballentine Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
569 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anne is barely a teenager when she is sent from her family's Hever Castle to serve at the royal court of the Netherlands. There, and later in France, Anne thrives. But her powerful family has ambitious plans for her future that override any wishes of her own. When the King of England himself, Henry VIII, asks Anne to be his mistress, she spurns his advances-- he is a married man who has already conducted an affair with her sister, Mary. This rejection...
105) Royal flush
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
To avoid scandal, Lady Georgiana is shipped home to Castle Rannoch where her summer plans include honoring a promise to Her Majesty to keep Castle Rannoch's divorceé houseguest from seducing the Prince of Wales. She's also been coerced into helping Scotland Yard with a top-secret mission--namely keeping an eye on the shooting party at Balmoral and preventing someone from shooting the Prince. And Georgie must manage all this without strangling her...
106) The redeemed
Author
Series
West Country trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads of his boyhood seem very far away from life aboard a battlecruiser. Skimming through those West Country roads on her motorcycle, Lottie Prideaux defies the expectations of her class and sex as she covertly studies to be a vet. In a world torn asunder by war, everything dances in flux:...
Author
Series
James Bond 007 volume 5
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Thomas & Mercer edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
British secret agent James Bond is lured into a trap using the beautiful Russian spy Tatiana Romanova as bait. She's asked for passage to Paris with Bond as her chaperone in exchange for a top secret decoding machine. To survive the train ride from Istanbul, 007 will need to keep his wits about him and his Beretta close at hand, dealing with SMERSH's deadliest assassin and their operations chief, Rosa Klebb.
108) Hornet flight
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel of the early days of World War II.
In the early days of World War II, the Germans seem to know the location of the RAF's flight paths and shoot down the British bombers. Have the Nazis developed a radar system? On a German-held Danish island, a young man makes an astonishing discovery and must deliver the truth to England in a derelict old Hornet Moth biplane.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xx, 315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"London, Fall 1945. Architectural historian Diana Somerville's experience as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park and her knowledge of London's churches intersect in MI6's pursuit of a Russian agent named Eternity. Diana wants nothing more than to begin again with her husband Brent after their separation during the war, but her signing of the Official Secrets Act keeps him at a distance. Brent Somerville, professor of theology at King's College, hopes...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
World War II is raging, and former spy Maggie Hope knows too much. She knows what the British government is willing to do to keep its secrets. She knows the real location of the planned invasion of France. She knows who's lying. She knows who the double-crossers are. She knows exactly who is sending agents to their deaths. These are the reasons Maggie is isolated on a remote Scottish island, in a prison known as Killoch Castle, out of contact with...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in 1940 during the blitz in England, Harriet Vane, now Lady Peter Wimsey, flees with her children to the family country estate. However, no place is safe in a county surrounded by airfields. When a young girl is found dead after an air-raid drill, the townspeople believe she was the victim of enemy fire. They soon realize she was brutally murdered. Lord Peter returns from an assignment abroad to join Lady Harriet in finding the murderer before...
112) A delicate truth
Author
Language
English
Description
2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Minister's personal private secretary, Toby Bell,...
113) The white devil
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Andrew Taylor is sent to the Harrow School, a British institution for privileged adolescents, he is spurned by nearly all of his peers, and becomes immersed in a two-hundred-year-old literary mystery when he finds a friend in the school's poet-in-residence.
Author
Series
Maggie Hope mystery volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recruited by a spy organization that is separate even from MI-6 to perform her most dangerous feat yet, American ex-pat Maggie Hope, given a new identity, is parachuted into Berlin where she must ultimately destroy a major part of the German war machine.
115) Lifeboat 12
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
117) The edge of the fall
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Great War, the De Witt family is struggling to piece together the shattered fragments of their lives. Rudolf and his wife Verena, still reeling from the loss of their second son, don't know how to function in the post-war world. Stoneythorpe Hall has become an empty shell with no servants to ensure its upkeep. Celia, the de Witt's youngest daughter, is still desperate to spread her wings and see more of the world. To escape...
118) The white queen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this account of the wars of the Plantagenets, a woman of extraordinary beauty and ambition, Elizabeth Woodville, catches the eye of the newly crowned boy king, marries him in secret and ascends to royalty. While Elizabeth rises to the demands of her exalted position and fights for the success of her family, her two sons become central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centuries: the missing princes in the Tower of London whose...
Author
Series
Thomas Grey volume 2
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"December 1803: A French invasion fleet is poised to cross the Channel and storm the beaches of southern England. One of Napoleon's top advisors--disaffected by the Corsican's tyranny--contacts the British naval intelligence service in hopes of defecting to London. His escape plan calls for a rendezvous at an international chess tournament in Frankfurt; a rare opportunity for him to travel outside France. Naval intelligence sends its top man and best...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1925, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, her husband, Alec Fletcher (a Scotland Yard Detective) and their new twin infant children inherit and move to a new, larger house on the outskirts of London proper, in a stage of slight disrepair (thanks to an aged, now deceased, uncle). Set in a small circle of houses and a communal garden, it seems a near idyllic setting. That is until a dead body turns up half-hidden under the bushes of the communal...