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Infernal devices volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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When sixteen-year-old orphan Tessa Gray's older brother suddenly vanishes, her search for him leads her into Victorian-era London's dangerous supernatural underworld, and when she discovers that she herself is a Downworlder, she must learn to trust the demon-killing Shadowhunters if she ever wants to learn to control her powers and find her brother.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did over the centuries. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife Felicity and their six children: Guy, the heir, who is studying at Cambridge; their younger son Miles, attending Eton; and their four daughters Diedre, Daphne, DeLacy and Dulcie, affectionately called the Four Dees by the staff. Walter Swann,...
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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Selfridge brings to life the story of American entrepreneur Harry Gordon Selfridge, the colorful and visionary founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Pioneering and reckless, with an almost manic energy, Harry Selfridge created a theater of retail for eary 1900's Londoners where any topic or trend that was new, exciting, entertaining-- or sometimes just eccentric-- was showcased"--Container (2013).
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A middle-aged woman named Martha is brutally stabbed to death in the local park. Her husband, who did not report her missing, secretly pays a prostitute to give him an alibi to avoid becoming a suspect. Then the prostitute's body is discovered, strangled, and the police think they might be dealing with a brutal killer who will stop at nothing to cover his tracks. While they are hunting for evidence, another prostitute is murdered. With very little...
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English
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With the war coming to a close, chaplain Joseph Reavley and his family learn that the identity of the sinister ideologue called the Peacemaker is about to be revealed by a German counterpart, but the family must first solve the mystery of a murdered nurse.
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Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Lady Roberta St. Giles, a marquess's sheltered only daughter, gambles on love with notorious scoundrel Damon Reeve, the Earl of Gryffyn, she plays a high-stakes game of seduction and passion where the winner takes all.