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3) London
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictionalized survey of the history of London, interweaving the events of two thousand years with the adventures of six families whose succeeding generations lived in the city from the time it was a Celtic encampment through its emergence as England's preeminent metropolis.
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
When the parents of Zillah Lambert sue architect Killian Melville for breach of contract for refusing to marry their daughter and attorney Sir Oliver Rathbone cannot elicit information from his client Mr. Melville, investigator William Monk is sent into the streets of Victorian London to search for clues.
5) Brave Emily
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Molly gets a lesson in what true friendship is when Emily, a young English girl, comes to stay with Molly's family during the bombing of London.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A historical novel that tells the story of poet John Clare, who was a patient in an asylum in Essex from 1837 to 1841; the poet Alfred Tennyson, who was a regular visitor to his brother Septimus, also a resident; and the charming and ambitious scoundrel who runs the institution, the Reverend Matthew Allen.
11) The Jupiter myth
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Marcus Didius Falco is stuck in the Roman outpost of Londinium in A.D. 75, where he finds himself involved in a murder mystery that may keep him from ever returning home.
12) Traitor's gate
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt looks into the suspicious death of his childhood mentor, and at the same time investigates treachery in the Colonial office, where someone is passing vital information to Germany about England's African strategy.
13) Blind justice
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
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Description
London judge Sir John Fielding probes into every stratum of London society to find the truth about the death of a lord whose suicide looks more like murder.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
Forrest Harper, son of the Ravenmaster at the Tower of London, faces a moral dilemma when he befriends Maddy, the daughter of a Jacobite rebel, who has been imprisoned at the Tower, and learns she is slated for execution.
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Thomas Pitt, commander of the Bow Street police station in Victorian England, is drawn into the controversy over the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution when he sets out to investigate the death of feminist and Darwin devotee Unity Bellwood.
17) Pentecost Alley
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Bow Street Superintendent Thomas Pitt is called to the scene when one of London's back alley prostitutes is found murdered and there is evidence left at the scene implicating the son of a wealthy, powerful gentleman.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Bishop of London's body is found dead in an ancient crypt, along with another unidentified corpse from the eighteenth century, and Sebastian St. Cyr's investigation to determine who killer leads him Miss Hero Jarvis, a woman St. Cyr had a brief romantic encounter with and who happens to be the last person to see the Bishop alive.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her.
20) Clockwork angel
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Gray travels to England in search of her brother only to be abducted by the Dark Sisters, residents of London's Downworld, home to the city's supernatural folk, and she becomes the object of much attention--both good and bad--when it is discovered she has the power to transform at will into another person.
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