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Verity Browne has returned from Prague with tuberculosis and is sent to a private clinic in Henley-on-Thames, a place with a connection to the recent murder of a dentist. She and Lord Edward Corinth become involved in an investigation into the mysterious deaths of three of the dentist's elderly patients, which comes to a climax during the Henley Royal Regatta.
162) An Oxford murder
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After Miss Catherine Tregowyn, poet, and Dr. Harry Bascombe, her bête noire, discover a body in the Somerville College chapel, they are declared suspects in a murder inquiry. How can they prove their innocence? The pair decide they must launch their own investigation into the strangling of Oxford don, Agatha Chenowith. But working as a team will not be easy. Their relations are anything but cordial. It is not long before they uncover motives aplenty....
165) The group
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This engaging film focuses on the changing roles and relationships of eight Vassar graduates during the years before WWII.
167) The Spitfire sisters
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Maitland trilogy volume 3
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"It is the 1930s and the Maitland family have spent the years following the Great War struggling to come to terms with its catastrophic aftermath, and their hopes now lie with the next generation. Their Lincolnshire village of Doddington suffered terrible loss and it has taken great courage for the bereaved families to rebuild their lives without their loved ones. When war is declared again, it is Daisy Maitland and her peers who must now take up...
171) Chotyry vitry: roman
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"Vse z͡hytti͡a ïĭ kazaly, shcho vona slabka ĭ neharna. Vse z͡hytti͡a za nei͡u dohli͡adaly, ale ne li͡ubyly. Vse z͡hytti͡a vona vvaz͡hala sebe zaĭvoi͡u ta povodylasi͡a tykho, i͡ak myshka, shchob ne obti͡az͡huvaty soboi͡u rodynu. Ale odnoho dni͡a vse raptom zminylosi͡a, i Elʹza opynylasi͡a v novomu, nevidomomu ïĭ sviti. Ïĭ dovelosi͡a bahato prat͡si͡uvaty, opyratysi͡a holodu ta pidtrymuvaty blyzʹkykh li͡udeĭ. Krov...
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Ballad of Yaya volume 7
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"China, 1937: Young Yaya and Tuduo are separated while travelling to Hong Kong to find her parents. Her memory lost, Yaya is found by the wicked gangster Zhu, who now wants to trade her back to her rich parents for a huge reward."--Publisher.
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Ballad of Yaya volume 9
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"The conclusion to the nine-part adventure of little rich girl Yaya and her street urchin friend Tuduo as they cross war-torn Shanghai in the wake of the Japanese invasion of 1937 in hopes of finding Yaya's parents. This nine-volume series chronicles their long journey fraught with perils. The children meet all sorts of people, both friendly and wicked, as they travel toward Hong Kong. Yaya and Tuduo learn many growing lessons along the way, not the...
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Ballad of Yaya volume 8
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"China, 1937: Yaya is almost back in Shanghai where she hopes to finally find her parents. But she doesn't realize the wicked Zhu plans to ransom her for riches! Fortunately, Tuduo is on their trail, and he'll do anything to rescue her first"--Cover, page 4.
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"Eliot Ness and his team of Untouchables work overtime taking on dangerous criminals that hide in the seedy underbelly of 1930s Chicago. Except in this world, Al Capone isn't dealing in alcohol, but in magic. With Lick, a drug that grants magical powers to anyone who ingests it, mobsters become wizards, ordinary men become monsters, and darker secrets than Ness can imagine lie at the heart of it all."--Provided by publisher.
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Villa de las telas volume 4
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"Augsburgo, 1930. Marie y Paul Melzer son felices y su amor es más fuerte que nunca. Su hijo menor, el pequeño Kurti, que ahora tiene cuatro años, es un rayo de sol que rápidamente se gana el cariño de todos y los gemelos Dodo y Leo han crecido espléndidamente. Dodo ha descubierto su amor por los sistemas y métodos y sueña con convertirse en aviador, mientras que Leo demuestra un gran talento para tocar el piano, que se ha convertido en su...
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