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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 39
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In a few short weeks Cordelia Carstains has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter. She flees to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, but receives shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped the Adamant Citadel, and London...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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When their father is taken away suddenly, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis are forced to leave London for a simple life in the country. They make new friends and discover the thrill of the railway, eventually unravelling the mystery of his disappearance.
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Stella Kendrick is an all-American heiress who can't be tamed. But when the lively aspiring equine trainer tangles with British aristocracy, she meets her match--and a murderer ... Like the Thoroughbreds she rides across the Kentucky countryside, Stella takes adventure by the reins when she's asked to attend a mysterious wedding in rural England. But once she arrives at the lush Morrington Hall estate, her cold, ambitious father reveals that he has...
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Beaten and left for dead in the English countryside, clergyman and reformer Tom Cross is rescued and nursed back to health by Miranda and Simon Thorne, reclusive siblings who seem to have as many secrets as he does. Tom has spent years helping the downtrodden in London while lying to everyone he meets, but now he’s forced to slow down and confront his unexamined life. Miranda, a skilled artist, is haunted by her painful past and unable to imagine...
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With her wedding to Viscount "Lyndy" Lyndhurst just days away, American ex-pat Stella Kendrick is the talk of Edwardian society. Between ornate bridal gown fittings and meetings with Lyndy's distant relatives, Stella is beginning to feel like a respected aristocrat. Then an anonymous gift and the return of her overbearing father cast a shadow over the festivities. Then a daytrip to Southampton ends with a stranger getting trampled by a horse-drawn...
11) Chain of iron
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Last hours (Shadowhunters) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
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"Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She’s engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has loved since childhood. She has a new life in London with her best friend Lucie Herondale and James’s charming companions, the Merry Thieves. She is about to be reunited with her beloved father. And she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero’s blade. But the truth is far grimmer. James and Cordelia’s marriage is a lie, arranged...
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Last binding volume 1
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"Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He’s struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents’ excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he’s always known. Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic,...
13) Sick of shadows
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[2005]
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Arranging an engagement to the infuriating Captain Harry Cathcart in order to escape her extradition to India, Lady Rose Summer finds the agreement complicated by a friend's untimely demise, a murder Rose's intended helps her to investigate.
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Ashmore Castle volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
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1901. When The Earl of Stainton dies in a tragic hunting accident, Giles, the eldest son of the noble Tallant family must step forward to replace him as the head of the family. But Giles has avoided the Castle and his stifling relatives for years, deciding instead to forge his own path away from the spotlight. Now, he must put aside his ambitions and honour his duty to the family. With their world upended, the Tallants and their servants struggle...
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"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
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Marlborough Hall, 1154. According to British lore, this ancient palace once hosted a torrid love affair between young King Henry II and a teenaged Rosamund, right under the patrician nose of his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine. To keep his mistress safe from his scorned wife, Henry built Rosamund a house once could only reach by labyrinth-and only then with a spool of thread. But his titanic efforts proved futile when he found the girl poisoned to death-and...
18) No angel
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Spoils of time trilogy volume 1
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An overwhelming love for Oliver Lytton leads Lady Celia Beckenham to leave the confines of her upper-crust social strata and marry, according to her family, below her station. Nonetheless, the children that her marriage produces and the rare access she has to the publishing world through her husband, bring Celia enormous satisfaction. However, when Oliver returns from WWI, Celia finds that her marriage has changed drastically, and she must look for...
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Edwardian brides volume 2
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"Eighteen-year-old Katherine Ramsey travels to London with her family to make her debut into society and hopefully find her future husband"--
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