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Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, known as Georgie to her friends, is a cousin of King George V of England and 35th in line to the throne. Unfortunately her family has fallen on hard times, and as Georgie refuses to marry for anything but love, she is basically penniless. Determined to fend for herself without
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Book 1 in the Veronica Speedwell series. Miss Veronica Speedwell is not your typical Victorian-era lady. Orphaned at a young age and brought up by two spinster sisters, Veronica is a lepidopterist with scandalously modern ideas of women’s independence, and even her love of butterflies comes from a desire for freedom. A young lady should
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Book 1 in the Anno Dracula series. What if vampires were the ruling class of Victorian England, with Dracula himself having turned and married Queen Victoria, installing himself in London as the ruler of the British Empire? And what if the victims of Jack the Ripper were all vampires? This is the premise of Anno
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Book 1 in the Dr. Laszlo Kreizler #1 series. Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to be “alienated” not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts who studied mental pathologies were therefore known as alienists. A dark, historical, psychological thriller exposing the
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The Cat Who… is a series of 29 cozy mystery books by Lillian Jackson Braun. Book 1, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards was published in 1966. The books follow the adventures of Jim Qwilleran or Qwill, a journalist and amateur sleuth, and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. Qwilleran was once a crime
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a cozy mystery town by the name of Boring, will be anything but. When devoted Janeite Kay Starling comes up with the idea of hosting a Jane Austen festival to bring some much needed influx of capital into the small town of Boring, she has no idea that
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On the small island of San Piedro on the northwest coast of Washington in 1954, a local fisherman, Carl, is found dead, tangled in his own net and drowned. A suspicious wound on his head leads to an investigation into the dead man’s affairs, and before long another local fisherman, Kabuo, is accused of murder.
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A great insight into the mind of Christopher Boone, a fifteen year old boy living with his father and attending a special needs schools. The first chapter of this books is labelled 2. The second chapter is 3. The third chapter is 5. Why? Because Christopher likes prime numbers. This is just one of many
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Harper Dade is an assistant baker in her aunt’s bakery Taste of Magic in Willow Hollow, and a witch with a somewhat flaky sense of magic. Three days before the Magical Heritage Days Festival, Harper attempts to cast a leviation spell on some eclairs, but something goes wrong, and Harper ends up swapping bodies with
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Book 1 in the Aaron Falk series. In the small farming town of Kiewarra in Australia, the Hadler family is found brutally murdered, with the infant daughter being the only survivor. Aaron Falk, Federal Police investigator in Melbourne, is called back to town for the Hadler funeral. As a child, Aaron was best friends with
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