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Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1928 in Melbourne and Phryne is asked to investigate the puzzling death of a famous author and illustrator of fairy stories. To do so, Phryne takes a job within the women's magazine that employed the victim and finds herself enmeshed in her colleagues' deceptions. But while Phryne is learning the ins and outs of magazine publishing first hand, her personal life is thrown into chaos. Impatient for her lover Lin Chung's imminent return from a...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
390 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Leelo has spent her entire life on Endla, coexisting with the bloodthirsty Forest and respecting the poisonous lake that protects her island from outsiders who seek to destroy it. But as much as Leelo cares for her community, she struggles to accept that her younger brother will be exiled by his next birthday, unless he gains the magic of enchanted song so vital to Endla. When Leelo sees a young outsider on the verge of drowning in the lake, she knows...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
What do you do when you inherit $330 million after taxes? If you're New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell, you build NightZone, an astronomy-based theme park. Waddell's dream begins to sour when two eco-terrorists make an opening statement by chain-sawing power lines that feed the development. One of the terrorists is killed by a bucking power pole. When fleeing conspirator is stopped by a cop and guns the lawman down, retired Posadas Sheriff Gastner becomes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Still reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest war the world had ever seen, the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit lost its mind. Some historians believe the mysterious illness and violent hallucinations were caused by spoiled bread; others claim it was the result of covert government testing on the local population. In that town lived a woman named Elodie. She was the baker's wife: a plain, unremarkable person who yearned to transcend her dull existence....
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, are poisoned at Sunday dinner, the girls of St. Etheldreda's School for Young Ladies face a dilemma. The school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent home-- unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders and convince their neighbors that nothing is wrong. But there's a murderer on the loose-- how can the girls be sure the killer won't...
Author
Publisher
TooFar Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lyle is a young man who hates his life in the State of Salt, a cultural and literal desert. He vandalizes a State icon, then swallows a poison pill that transports him not to death, but to a liminal realm - blue, watery, and wholly alien. He's rescued and shepherded by henchmen of the Polyp, god of the oceanic world they call "heaven". A series of encounters unfolds between Lyle and the monstrous, seductive god, who gradually reveals his grandeur...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Language
English
Description
"It's election time in Savannah, Georgia, and Judge Guillotine Gloria--aka Reagan Summerside's mom--is neck and neck in the polls with Kip 'Scummy' Seymour. But the already dirty campaign is about to get downright filthy--with one candidate getting buried six feet under... With her strong opinions and knack for getting into trouble, Reagan is not an ideal volunteer for her mother's alderman campaign. Plus, she'd rather be running her consignment shop,...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the king and his closest allies are poisoned at a banquet, Freya finds herself on the throne and must uncover the identity of the murderers if she hopes to survive.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 287 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Red Fury: "Frankie is a lost Indian boy taken in by John Handley, a lonely alcoholic rancher. Amelia Andersen is a schoolteacher who fights for Frankie's acceptance in the small town. And Red fury is the magnificent stallion that only Frankie can tame. Though John and Amelia risk their livelihoods for Frankie, he becomes an outcast when the community rejects him. But when a crisis hits the area, the strength of Frankie and Red Fury's unbreakable bond...
52) Batman & Robin
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Batman, Robin, and Batgirl protect Gotham City against Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rosalind Thorne has slowly but assuredly gained a reputation as "a useful woman"--By helping respectable women out of some less-than-respectable predicaments. Her latest endeavor is a tragedy waiting to happen. Desperate Margaretta Seymore is with child--and her husband is receiving poisoned pen letters that imply that her condition is the result of an affair with the notorious actor Fletcher Cavendish. Margaretta asks Rosalind to find out who is...
54) Dumb witness
Author
Language
English
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Description
An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home. Everyone blamed Emilys accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didnt receive the letter until June 28th& by which time Emily was already dead.
55) Flowerheart
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Clara's magic has always been wild. But it's never been dangerous. Then a simple touch causes poisonous flowers to bloom in her father's chest. The only way to heal him is to cast an extremely difficult spell that requires perfect control. And the only person willing to help is her former best friend, Xavier, who's grown from a sweet, shy child into a mysterious and distant young man. Xavier names a terrible price in return, knowing Clara will give...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Amelie and Janet are in love with the same man: Janet's husband. One knows it; the other doesn't. Or does she? As bestselling novelist Amelie Ferrar knows, an affair with a married person is like a work of fiction: a kind of spy story with its rules and customs, negotiations and compromises, and many private rituals. But like any spy story, there will inevitably be a betrayal: something will slip, someone else will find out, someone may even die....
57) The wrong girl
Author
Series
Adventures of Bianca Dangereuse volume 1
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Blanche Tucker longs to escape tiny Boynton, Oklahoma when dashing Graham Peyton roars into town, posing as a film producer. He convinces the naive teenager to run away with him to a glamorous new life. She makes it to Hollywood, and transforms herself into Bianca LaBelle, the reclusive star of a series of adventure films. Five years later, Peyton's remains are discovered on a Santa Monica beach. Private detective Ted Oliver is hired investigate the...
58) Cloud warriors
Author
Publisher
Roundfire Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The discovery of the century... Anthropology professor Terry Castro, leading a summer-school program in the Peruvian rain forest, stumbles upon the remnant of a nation of tall, white-skinned warriors from the time of the Incan empire. But, when a simple accident leaves Castro poisoned, a series of events are set in motion that threaten his life, and the extinction of the tribe. With the help of a young medium, Carrie Waters, Castro tries to find a...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
193 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When the world's honey supply starts to drop and some of her old tech disappears, super student Bumblebee enlists her friends Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Poison Ivy, and Beast Boy to help her find out why" -- Provided by publisher.