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201) Rebelle: roman
Author
Publisher
Les Presse de la Cité
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Français
Description
"The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What goes on behind-the-scenes to get the manners of 1900s Britain exactly right on Downton Abbey? Discover the secrets of how the aristocratic set dined and dressed, how they married and made money, how they interacted with the servants, and above all why they behaved as they did. Includes revealing interviews with leading cast members.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The Dowager Countess reveals she has a villa in the south of France, and many of the family follow her there for a rest while some of the family stay behind to keep an eye on the cast and crew of a film which is shooting at the grand estate.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Before he was Sherlock's rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans can spin out of control--will Moriarty's dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero... or a monster? After successfully establishing a foothold in Durham and cleansing the city of some of its corruption, William James Moriarty sets his sights on London....
205) Una buena mujer
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Español
206) Hell's Bay
Author
Series
Thorn novels volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2009, c1996
Language
English
Description
Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix Young she travels to Boston to visit relatives she has never before seen, in hopes of making a wealthy marriage. The men of Boston soon realize her deceitfulness, and she returns to Europe, feeling that her fortune-hunting scheme is impractical in unsusceptible America. - Publisher.
209) Penhallow
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The murder of tyrannical family patriarch Adam Penhallow leads to suspicion, accusations, and backstabbing among his family.
210) Alibi
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When neurotic Greg is implicated in his business partner's death, witness Marcey helps him dispose of the corpse, but quickly begins to regret it.
Author
Series
Avenue of Dreams volume 1
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Lucy Banning shakes up social norms by secretly attending university and trying to avoid marrying the rich banker that her family has picked for her, instead setting her sights on a young architect who is working on plans for the 1893 World's Fair.
212) Orgullo y prejuicio
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Clásicos
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Penguin Cl̀sicos publica en una cuidada edici̤n esta obra maestra de la literatura inglesa de todos los tiempos, para conmemorar el bicentenario de la publicaci̤n original de la novela en 1813. A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisi̤n de un mecanismo de relojer̕a, Jane Austen perfila una galer̕a de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de la ̌poca: las peripecias de una dama empęada en casar a sus hijas con el...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In order to negotiate with Irene Adler in secret, Count Albert Moriarty arranges a masquerade ball at Buckingham Palace. What is the secret contained in the documents Miss Adler stole? And what is she really after? The Lord of Crime, the Great Detective, and the Beautiful Thief battle it out in the shadows while the fate of London rests in their hands."--Page [4] of cover.
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"There's a serial killer on the loose in the poverty-stricken East End of London that the citizens are calling Jack the Ripper. An old friend of William Moriarty asks him to get to the bottom of the situation, but time is running out. Terrified of Jack the Ripper, the people of the East End try to take matters into their own hands, and their civil unrest threatens to break into a riot when Scotland Yard tries to stop them! Will William be able to...
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