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41) Scorpia rising
Author
Series
Alex Rider volume 9
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
42) The verdict
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Terry Flynt gets the chance to defend a millionaire accused of murder, he knows that the case could make his career, but the accused man is Flynt's greatest enemy--can he defend a man who ruined his life?"--Amazon.com.
43) Amulet keepers
Author
Series
TombQuest volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a string of disappearances amid supernatural occurrences in London, Alex and Ren discover the workings of a powerful Death Walker intent on destroying the city.
44) Private London
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
For Hannah Shapiro, a beautiful young American student, this particular nightmare began eight years ago in Los Angeles, when Jack Morgan, owner of Private--the world's most exclusive detective agency--saved her from a horrific death. She has fled her country, but can't flee her past. The terror has followed her to London, and now it is down to former Royal Military Police Sergeant Dan Carter, head of Private London, to save her all over again. In...
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's Worldwide Adventures volume 14
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a ring is stolen from the queen, Stanley, who is on vacation in London with his family, teams up with the world-famous detectives of Scotland Yard to track it down.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
William Smith, a middle-aged wine merchant, tries unsuccessfully through stronger and stronger hints to get his twenty-four-year-old son Eddie to move out, while other eccentric residents of Corduroy Mansions, a genteel, crumbling mansion block in London--including Freddie de la Hay, a vegetarian terrier--explore the limits of neighborliness.
48) The end
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The final battle ensues between Saint George's army of sickos and the army of London kids"--
49) Lethal white
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's...
50) The fallen
Author
Series
The enemy volume 5
Publisher
Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Holloway crew, having made it to the Natural History Museum barely alive, continues to seek a cure for the Disease but when the children return to the streets for medical supplies, it is no longer clear who--or what--is their enemy.
51) The Bolds
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two hyenas from Africa find a pair of passports (memo: do not go swimming in a crocodile pool), and move to Teddington, England, where they live suburban lives, hold jobs, and raise their children to hide their tails and act human--the only trouble is old Mr. McNumpty, their nosy neighbor, who is hiding a secret of his own.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me.”—Reese Witherspoon (A Reese’s Book Club Pick)
“The perfect book to get lost in . . . Josie Silver’s characters sneak their way into your heart and stay.”—Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost
Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love...
“The perfect book to get lost in . . . Josie Silver’s characters sneak their way into your heart and stay.”—Jill Santopolo, author of The Light We Lost
Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love...
53) Twenty-one days
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1910: Twenty-five-year-old Daniel Pitt is a junior barrister in London and eager to prove himself, independent of his renowned detective father's influence. And the new case before him will be the test. When his client, arrogant biographer Russell Graves, is found guilty of murdering his wife, Daniel is dispatched by his superior to find the real killer before Graves faces the hangman's noose-- in only twenty-one days. Could the violent death have...
Author
Series
An invisible library novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
One thing any Librarian will tell you: the truth is much stranger than fiction... Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London. Their mission: retrieve a particularly dangerous book. The problem: by the time they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Amelia Wishart's Christmas spirit helped Santa get the extra boost of magic he needed to make his first trip around the world. When she's sent to the workhouse, now-orphaned Amelia's hope begins to drain away. Santa sets out to find her with the help of his reindeer, a curious cat, and Charles Dickens.
56) The dead
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A terrible disease has struck everyone sixteen and over, leaving them either dead or a decomposing, flesh-eating creature. The action starts in a boarding school just outside London, where all the teachers have turned into sickos. A few kids survive and travel by bus into the city. The bus driver, an adult named Greg, seems to be unaffected by the disease. Then he begins to show the dreaded signs: outer blisters and inner madness. The kids escape...
57) Deeper
Author
Series
Tunnels volume 2
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2009.
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Boy archaeologist Will Burrows wanders the caverns beneath the Colony with his best friend Chester and brother Cal, falls upon the Styx's plan to get rid of Topsoilers with a deadly plague, and risks his life to foil their plot while wondering if his killer stepsister is still on the loose.
Author
Series
Corduroy Mansions novel volume 2
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This is the second novel in the "Corduroy Mansions" series by Alexander McCall Smith, a serial novel exclusively for Telegraph.co.uk. A new chapter appears online each weekday beginning Monday, September 21, 2009. Audio by Andrew Sachs. Illustrations by Ian McIntosh.
59) Night and day
Author
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
Katharine Hilbery, the beautiful grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet, must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney and her attraction to Ralph Denham, with whom she feels a more profound and disturbing affinity.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At Vertigo 42, a bar high above London's financial district, Richard Jury meets Tom Williamson--a friend of a friend who is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered 17 years ago. Tess's death was ruled accidental--a fall caused by vertigo--but Jury agrees to re-examine the case. A young girl's fatal fall at a children's party 22 years ago at Tom and Tess's home may be connected. After an elegantly dressed woman falls from a tower near a pub that Jury...
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