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"Sir Percy Blakeney lives a double life in the England of 1792: at home he is an idle fop and a leader of fashion, but abroad he is the Scarlet Pimpernel, a master of disguise who saves aristocrats from the guillotine. When the revolutionary French state seeks to unmask him, Percy's estranged, independent wife, Marguerite, unwittingly sets their agent on her husband's track. Percy's escapades, and Marguerite's daring journey to France to save him...
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Lord Peter is on vacation when he hears that a dead body has been found at the Wimsey family retreat, and that Lord Peter's brother, the Duke of Denver, is being held for the crime. The dead man? Their sister's fiancé. Lord Peter must clear his brother's name to avoid the death penalty. There is overwhelming circumstantial evidence against the Duke, but Lord Peter firmly believes that his brother is innocent and begins his own investigation into...
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In Seneca Village, a thriving neighborhood of African Americans and recent immigrants in the middle of New York City in the 1850s, friends Kayla and Sooncy face separation when the city announces that by eminent domain it plans to take their land to build Central Park.
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Felicia's grandmother tells her the story of a twelve-year-old girl named Lily, who witnessed a mysterious kidnapping one night in 1928 Harlem, New York.
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A lonely woman with a life-long feeling of not quite belonging elopes with a child psychologist she met at a conference and discovers how difficult it is to actually escape her past.
For Ava Whalen, a new marriage and a move to St. Simons Island means a new beginning. But what she doesn't realize is that her marriage will take her on an unexpected journey into the deep recesses of her past that will transform her forever ... and that her obsession...
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The Mysteries in Time series recreates some of the most dramatic events in American history and infuses them with an intriguing spiritual dimension. In November, 1941, U.S. Naval intelligence intercepts Japanese plans to attack Pearl Harbor. When Aki Kawa, one of the language specialists who deciphered the plans, is murdered, it is up to her colleague, Gwen Williams, to find out what Aki really discovered before her death.
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Journey to the past with Katie Watson on this first 'Mystery in Time' Adventure!
Eleven-year-old Katie is sure her summer is doomed. Sheltered because of her injuries from a horse riding accident, she longs to break free on an adventure like the ones in her favorite detective novels. Instead, she's stuck with Nan and Pop whose idea of adventure is touring National Trust properties. But when, Katie discovers a secret chamber in Otterly Manor with a...
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This second book in the Katie Watson Mysteries in Time series whisks readers, along with Katie and her cousin Imogen, back in time to the wild American frontier of 1828. In a world teeming with dangers, from renegade Indian warriors to horse thieves and bandits, Katie and Imogen team up with a young half-Cherokee Indian Wattie to survive.
But, Wattie's village is under attack, and at the heart of the Cherokees' troubles is a stolen stone: the legendary...
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"I would just have to wait and watch for a sign, a flicker, a whisper of magic, and hope that when it came, I would be ready."
Time travel is never simple. At least that's what Katie's previous two experiences have taught her. When magic strikes a third time on Christmas Eve, Katie and her cousin Imogen are hurled back to the sooty streets of Victorian London where secrets lurk in alleyways and mysteries chug from chimney pots.
A famous painting has...
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