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Author
Series
Bartimaeus trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Nathaniel, a young magician's apprentice, becomes caught in a web of magical espionage, murder, and rebellion, after he summons the djinni Bartimaeus and instructs him to steal the Amulet of Samarkand from the powerful magician Simon Loveland.
42) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
44) Skin
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Detective Jack Caffery investigates a series of possible suicides that appear to have a connection with Elf's Grotto in Bristol, but with help from police diver Flea Marley, Caffery discovers more evidence that points to an insane predator obsessed with skin.
45) Search the dark
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Inspector Ian Rutledge travels to a small Dorset town to investigate the murder of a young mother and the disappearance of her two daughters.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Wexford, distracted by the possibility of flooding after weeks of rain, is not overly alarmed when he receives word that two local teens have gone missing along with their adult babysitter, but his concerns heighten when the sitter is found dead, and suspicions center on a nearby religious cult.
48) Hornet flight
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel of the early days of World War II.
51) Deeper
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2009
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.
52) Vanity fair
Author
Publisher
Norilana Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A satirical look at Victorian manners recounting the experiences of two finishing school graduates, Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Walter Rothschild, an American Egyptologist with only six days left on his contract for the British Museum where he is working to unlock the secrets of a centuries-old funerary stone, realizes his life and his work are up for grabs after he is seduced and drugged by a young woman who was obviously only using him to get her hands on a precious document.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are uncomfortable working together after having let their feelings for each other overcome professional restraints, but while investigating the murder of a London police office found dead in his home by his wife and stepdaughter, they come to realize the true nature and value of their relationship.
57) Girls out late
Author
Series
Girls quartet volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2002, c1999
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ellie misses curfew by going to a park with a boy she just met, gets caught lying to her father and stepmother, and is put in a dangerous situation in London by her two best friends.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
Zac Baxter travels to Africa after his grandfather is brutally murdered, hoping to learn the truth about his family's dark past and discover why someone was willing to kill his grandfather to learn the family secret.
59) The red door
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
While Ian Rutledge searches for a missing man, Walter Teller, he is attacked by a young man who goes on a murderous spree with victims all resembling Rutledge, but after Teller mysteriously reappears, another woman is found dead and the Teller family is implicated in her death.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
In 2017, two years after England introduces carbon dioxide rationing to combat climatic change, eighteen-year-old Laura chronicles her first year at a London university as natural disasters and political upheaval disrupt her studies.
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