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Carmine Delmonico mysteries volume 0002
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3.7 stars
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There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way though the alphabet. There seems little chance of the murderer being caught — until her makes the crucial and vain mistake of challenging Hercule Poirot to frustrate his plans ...
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"May Byam seeks solace as a lady's maid aboard a naval ship, encountering Chaplain Elias Doswell, who soon comes to harbor secret affections. Amid shipboard tensions and the looming threat of war with the French, their burgeoning romance faces peril. As they navigate the challenges of their pasts, their love story unfolds within the storms of the sea"--
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Before the coffee gets cold volume 1.
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3.5 stars
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"If you could go back, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time travel isn't so simple, and there are rules that must be...
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Belles of London volume 2.
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4.5 stars
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"Tall, dark, and dour, the notorious Captain Jasper Blunt was once hailed a military hero, but tales abound of his bastard children and his haunted estate in Yorkshire. What he requires now is a rich wife to ornament his isolated ruin, and he has his sights set on the enchanting Julia Wychwood. For Julia, an incurable romantic cursed with a crippling social anxiety, navigating a London ballroom is absolute torture. The only time Julia feels any degree...
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3 stars
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"Cat and Christopher Chant make the most unusual friends. Christopher befriends a boy with terrible karma in a mansion where everything keeps changing. Then, Cat meets a girl whose family of rogue witches is hiding terrible secrets. Will the Chrestomanci be able to sort out the tangle of mysteries and magic?"--P. [4] of cover.
8. Cotillion
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3 stars
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Young Kitty Charing stands to inherit a vast fortune from her irascible great-uncle Matthew--provided she marries one of her cousins. Kitty is not wholly adverse to the plan, if the right nephew proposes. Unfortunately, Kitty has set her heart on Jack Westruther, a confirmed rake, who seems to have no inclination to marry her anytime soon. In an effort to make Jack jealous, and to see a little more of the world than her isolated life on her great-uncle's...
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Chalion series volume 1.
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4.7 stars
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Seeking a position in the royal household, Cazaril is offered the post of secretary to the Royesse Iselle, the sister to the heir to Chalion's throne, but his new assignment brings him face to face with old enemies.
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Derk, an unconventional wizard, and his magical family become involved in a plan to put a stop to the devastating tours of their world arranged by the tyrannical Mr. Chesney.
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 28.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
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Poirot's friend, writer Ariadne Oliver, draws him into a mock murder mystery thrown by Sir George and Lady Stubbs; his expertise is needed when the fun and games become something altogether more sinister.
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3.3 stars
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"Authoritative as it is amusing, this book distills everything Benjamin Dreyer has learned from the hundreds of books he has copyedited, including works by Elizabeth Strout, E. L. Doctorow, and Frank Rich, into a useful guide not just for writers but for everyone who wants to put their best foot forward in writing prose. Dreyer offers lessons on the ins and outs of punctuation and grammar, including how to navigate the words he calls 'the confusables,'...
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4 stars
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"She couldn't forget... Wealthy squire's daughter Margaret Honeywell was always meant to marry her neighbor, Frederick Burton-Smythe, but it's bastard-born Nicholas Seaton who has her heart. Raised alongside her on her father's estate, Nicholas is the rumored son of notorious highwayman Gentleman Jim. When Fred frames him for theft, Nicholas escapes into the night, vowing to find his legendary sire. But Nicholas never returns. A decade later, he's...
14. Green rider
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Green Rider series volume 1.
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4.7 stars
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After an unexpected confrontation with a dying knight, Karigan G'ladheon becomes the unlikely bearer of a vital message to the king, on a mission during which she faces assassins and other deadly dangers.
15. Greenglass House
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Greenglass House volume 1.
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3.8 stars
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At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.
16. Half a soul
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Regency faerie tales volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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After a faerie's curse leaves her with no sense of fear, embarrassment, or happiness, Theodora Ettings tries not to disrupt her cousin's chances of finding a husband during the London Season and unwittingly attracts the attention of Elias Wilder, the strange, handsome, and ill-mannered Lord Sorcier.
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5 stars
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"Sowerby, England, 1802. Miss Genevieve Wilde--a magistrate's daughter and independent heiress--is determined to meet life's challenges all on her own, just as her late father had taught her. So when her father's pocket watch is stolen, she will do anything to get it back, especially when the local authorities prove incompetent. Upon reading an advertisement in the paper, she takes a chance and contacts a thief-taker to find the watch. It's a choice...
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3 stars
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A relationship blossoms between a brilliant math professor suffering from short-term memory problems following a traumatic head injury and the young housekeeper, the mother of a ten-year-old son, hired to care for him.
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Myrtle Hardcastle mystery volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When someone commits robbery and murder aboard the luxurious train on which Myrtle Hardcastle, her Aunt Helena, her governess Miss Judson, and cat Peony are traveling, Myrtle is determined to find the culprit.