A fifteen-year-old prostitute rents a beautiful blue dress from her landlord in order to attract a higher class of clientele. While working to support her fragile only child, she also secures bodies for a local medical doctor's...
England
- Author:Holman, SheriSummary:
- Author:McCall Smith, AlexanderSummary:
Alexander McCall Smith brings his peerless wit to this second entry featuring a motley collection of residents in London's Pimlico neighborhood. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his...
- Author:WYNDHAM, JohnSummary:
Planet Earth is blinded by a cosmic meteor shower and the triffids, walking, semi-intelligent and dangerous plants, seize their opportunity to establish their dominance. The human survivors of the disaster must fight to survive.
- Author:HADDON, MarkSummary:
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother...
- Author:Edwards, MartinSummary:
Oxford historian and T.V. personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life. On impulse they buy Tarn Cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic valley in the Lake District that Daniel knew as a boy. He is...
- Author:Edwards, MartinSummary:
Warren Howe is surprised by a hooded visitor while working in a garden in Old Sawrey, a lovely village in England’s Lake District. Soon it is Warren who is dead—murdered with his own scythe. The police identify several suspects, but...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rand an Old Year Out and a New Year In, is the second of these stories, whose predecessor was the...
- Author:Golabek, Mona, Cohen, LeeSummary:
When the Nazis start closing in on Vienna, Jewish musical prodigy Lisa Jura is sent to London on the Kindertransport. As she makes a new life for herself, she dreams of reconnecting with the family she was forced to leave behind. The...
- Author:BOSTON, Lucy M.Summary:
When Tolley goes to live with his great-grandmother he is unsure what life will be like with this unknown relative. He finds a great friend in his great-grandmother, and is delighted to find that children who lived at Green Knowe...
- Author:Antonia FraserSummary:
Jemima Shore investigates a ghost in a Cotswold stately home, and ends up in the middle of a murder investigation.
- Author:Vicci, EvaSummary:
18 year old Jonathan Moore works as a garden hand on a lord’s estate in Victorian England. On a festive servants’ day off, he visits the Christmas fair, hoping to fulfill his childhood dream of riding the carousel. The trip turns out...
- Author:Greene, GrahamSummary:
- Author:Peters, ElizabethSummary:
Jessica Tregarth goes to England to visit her grandfather, but her arrival is greeted by mysterious villains who pursue her through Cornwall. Her only clue is an ancient ring she wears that bears the family crest.
- Author:Martin, KatSummary:
Knowing that she alone can protect her sister from the Baron Harwood, their lecherous stepfather, Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family's heirloom necklace-believed to hold the power to bring great happiness or terrible tragedy-to...
- Author:Finn, K. C.Summary:
Lily Coltrane’s to-do list for starting university life is pretty simple: 1. Make friends 2. Meet a cute guy 3. Survive her first year in Modern History In the little English town of Piketon this seems more than achievable, so much so...
- Author:Kempe, MargerySummary:
- Author:Waddell, Dan.Summary:
Genealogist Nigel Barnes is recruited by Scotland Yard to investigate a group of puzzling, vicious murders. The victims all bear a message carved into their bodies that appears to refer to a series of 19th-century stabbings for which...
- Author:Dunn, CarolaSummary:
Teresa Danville, raised on a coffee plantation in Costa Rica, must travel to London, accompanied by Sir Andrew Graylin, to learn the social graces. Before leaving, she shoots a poisonous snake at Andrew's feet, rescues herself from...
- Author:Todd, CharlesSummary:
Alan Barrington, who has evaded capture for ten years, is the suspect in an appalling murder during Black Ascot, the famous 1910 royal horserace honoring the late King Edward VII. Now it appears that Barrington has returned to England,...
- Author:WILLETT, MarciaSummary:
It was Felix who named it The Birdcage - the tall house in Bristol where Miss Pidgeon lived with her tenant, the beautiful and talented actress Angel, and Angel's daughter, Lizzie. It was Felix whom they all adored and who was so...