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1) The silkworm
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Private detective Cormoran Strike is called in to investigate the disappearance of novelist Owen Quine and learns that Quine's latest manuscript is a poisonous tell-all about everyone Quine knows. When Quine is found brutally murdered, Strike finds himself in a race against time to understand the motives of a murderer unlike any he has previously encountered.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born--three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to control storms or flames with the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, able to ingest the deadliest poisons without harm. And Arsinoe, a naturalist, can control nature. But becoming the Queen Crowned isn't solely a matter of royal birth--each sister...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1950, and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion for poison, is intrigued by a series of inexplicable events. For Flavia, life begins in earnest when murder comes to Buckshaw.
Author
Publisher
Keyword Press/Atria
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Rowan is a second child in a world where population control measures make her an outlaw, marked for death. She can never go to school, make friends, or get the eye implants that will mark her as a true member of Eden. Indeed, her kaleidoscopic eyes may very well give her away to the ruthless Center government. Outside of Eden, Earth is poisoned and dead. All animals and most plants have been destroyed by a man-made catastrophe. Long ago, the brilliant...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Hang a Witch comes a thriller set at a secretive boarding school where students are trained to carry on family legacies that have built--and toppled--empires. November is trapped. At the mysterious Academy Absconditi, a school that's completely off the grid, there's no electricity, no internet, and a brutal eye-for-an-eye punishment system. Classes include everything from knife-throwing and...
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