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Language
English
Description
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
Author
Series
Wing and claw volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Hoping to return home after a winter in the Sudden Mountains so he can join his parents in the fight against the evil Chancellor, Raffa must use his apothecary skills while enlisting the help of human and animal friends to survive the journey.
Author
Series
Wing and claw volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Raffa Santana is a healer, not a fighter. As a gifted apothecary, he has amazing instincts for unleashing the potential of magical-seeming plants. But his skills have failed to free the animals that the heartless Chancellor captured and turned against the people of Obsidia directly threatening Raffa's friends and family. Now, Raffa and his ragtag group of allies are preparing to confront the Chancellor's armies in battle. Great beasts, small animals,...
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"'Tell no one what Ive given you.' Until he got that cryptic warning, Christopher Rowe was happy, learning how to solve complex codes and puzzles and creating powerful medicines, potions, and weapons as an apprentice to Master Benedict Blackthornwith maybe an explosion or two along the way. But when a mysterious cult begins to prey on Londons apothecaries, the trail of murders grows closer and closer to Blackthorns shop. With time running out, Christopher...
Publisher
Universal Sudios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ave Maria Mulligan has lived her whole life in tiny Big Stone Gap, a picturesque coal-mining town nestled in the hollers of southwestern Virginia. When she's not making deliveries from her family's pharmacy to far-flung neighbors, Ave Maria directs the annual outdoor drama festival, keeps chaste company with her longtime beau, Theodore, and exchanges good-natured barbs with local hunk Jack MacChesney.
Author
Series
The damsels of discovery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Lucinda Peterson's recently perfected formula for a salve to treat croup goes missing, she's certain it's only the latest in a line of misfortunes at the hands of a rival apothecary. Outraged and fearing financial ruin, Lucy turns to private investigator Jonathan Thorne for help. She just didn't expect her champion to be so...grumpy? A single father and an agent at Tierney & Co., Thorne accepts missions for a wide variety of employers--from...
Author
Series
Waves of freedom volume 2
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Nothing slows Lillian Avery down--not her personal challenges and certainly not America's entry into World War II. She finally has a chance to prove herself as a pharmacist in Boston. The demands of her new job energize her. But society boy Ensign Archer Vandenberg's attentions only annoy--even if he is her brother's best friend. During the darkest days of the war, Arch's destroyer hunts German U-boats in vain as the submarines sink dozens of merchant...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An assault on a pediatrician reveals a web of corruption and deception in the New York Times–bestselling, Silver Dagger Award–winning series.
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a senior pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men-a young Carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town-have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night, attacked...
11) The blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
476 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Summoned to the riverside by the desperate note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves onboard the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood. On shore a young woman, a known prostitute, is found drowned in a derelict boatyard. A man leaps to his death into the Thames, driven mad by poison and fear. The events are linked--but how? Jem and Will's hunt for the truth takes them from the dissecting tables...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-four-year-old Holly Zook lives a unique life for a young Amish woman. Years ago, her bishop allowed her to continue her education and become the lead technician for Greene's Pharmacy, an old-timey drugstore that looks out for the Amish community--a group largely without secure health care plans. She knows she can't marry and hold onto her professional job. She's Amish, and she can only have one or the other, so she spurns love and works toward...
Author
Series
Blackthorn key adventure volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
529 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy." --
Author
Publisher
Mindy's Book Studio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Dunia Ahmed lives an ordinary life--or she definitely used to. Now she's the subject of a true crime podcast. She's been missing for over a year, and no one knows if she's dead or alive. But her story has listeners obsessed, and people everywhere are sporting merch that demands "Find Dunia!" In the days before her disappearance, Dunia is a successful pharmacist living in New York. The daughter of Pakistani immigrants, she's coping with a broken engagement...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
1950s. In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. Their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known. Thirty years later Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting,...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
673 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
1666: The Great Fire of London sweeps through the streets and a heavily pregnant woman flees the flames. A few months later she gives birth to a child disfigured by a red birthmark. 1718: Sixteen-year-old Eliza Tally sees the gleaming dome of St. Paul's Cathedral rising above a rebuilt city. She arrives as an apothecary's maid, a position hastily arranged to shield the father of her unborn child from scandal. But why is the apothecary so eager to...
20) Casket case
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"the town's beloved pharmacist has been found floating facedown in his hot tub. Callie has to wonder if the kind man died of natural causes, or if his seemingly distraught wife had a hand in his death."--p. [4] of cover.