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2) The forest
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Rutherford brings England’s New Forest to life” (The Seattle Times) in this companion to the critically acclaimed Sarum
From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their hunting parties, and where William the...
From the time of the Norman Conquest to the present day, the New Forest, along England’s southern coast, has remained an almost mythical place. It is here that Saxon and Norman kings rode forth with their hunting parties, and where William the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unforgettable historical tale set in fifteenth-century England of a brilliant woman’s defiance, courage, and ingenuity—from the author of The Locksmith’s Daughter and The Chocolate Maker’s Wife.
1405: The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Anneke Sheldrake suddenly finds her family bankrupted when her father’s ship is swept away at sea. Forced to find a way to provide for herself and
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Language
English
Description
World War II British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett's mission to deceive the Germans about Allied invasion plans is jeopardized by a beautiful Austrian double agent, determined to survive in wartime England, who must choose whether to remainloyal to the British or betray thousands of men to their deaths.
5) Slade House
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick...
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.
Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick...
Author
Language
English
Description
During the Great War, Margot spends her days deciphering intercepted messages, until a sudden loss turns her world upside down. Drake returns wounded from the field, followed by a destructive enemy. Immediately smitten with Margot, Drake convince attempts to convince her that sometimes life's answers lie in the heart.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"A peaceful Welsh village is thrown into turmoil when a terrified boy discovers a body in the river. The man appears to have fallen from the canal aqueduct spanning the valley. But there is no identification on the body. The local police turn to Scotland Yard for help. Inspector Ian Rutledge is given few clues to go on--a faded military tattoo on the victim's arm and an unusual label in his shirt. But eventually they do lead to the victim's identity:...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations.
Author
Series
Maisie Dobbs novel volume 12
Language
English
Description
It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service...
11) The confession
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Scotland Yard's Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the sudden death of a man who recently confessed to having murdered his cousin years ago.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War in 1972, Cambridge student Serena Frome, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government, a situation that is compromised when she falls in love with him.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Forever and a Day is the story of the birth of a legend, in the brutal underworld of the French Riviera, taking readers into the very beginning of James Bond's illustrious career and the formation of his identity. The sea keeps its secrets. But not this time. One body. Three bullets. 007 floats in the waters of Marseille, killed by an unknown hand. Its time for a new agent to step up. Time for a new weapon in the war against organized crime. Its time...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
World War II comes to Farleigh Place, the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters, when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate. After his uniform and possessions raise suspicions, MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with determining if the man is a German spy. The assignment also offers Ben the chance to be near Lord Westerham's middle daughter, Pamela, whom he furtively loves....
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall, the residence of the Ayres family for more than two centuries. Its owners, mother, son and daughter, are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, as well as conflicts of their own. But the Ayreses are haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life.
19) Shadow wave
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a tsunami causes massive devastation to a tropical island, its governor sends in the bulldozers to knock down villages, replacing them with luxury hotels. Guarding the governor's family isn't James Adams' idea of the perfect mission-- and then retired agent Kyle Blueman comes up with an unofficial and highly dangerous plan of his own. James must choose between loyalty to CHERUB, and loyalty to his friend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hodder Children's
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A new hero, a new mission: meet CHERUB's latest recruit. Twelve-year-old Ryan. Ryan's been waiting for a mission since he passed basic training eight months earlier. Ethan is his target. A privileged California boy, who likes computers and chess. He makes easy prey for school bullies, but his grandma runs a billion dollar crime syndicate in distant Kyrgyzstan. Ryan expects to enjoy the California lifestyle in a routine operation. But he's in for a...