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A Monster Helping of Horrid Henry by Francesca Simon
Category: Series | Series: Horrid Henry
A collection of twelve classic stories about everyone's favourite horrid boy, including the one in which Horrid Henry makes his own scary movie, The Undead Demon Monster Who Would Not Die.
A Monstrous Regiment of Women by Laurie R. King
Category: Fiction | Series: Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes
Second in Laurie King's acclaimed Mary Russell mystery series: 'Beguiling variation on Sherlock Holmes sequels...civilized, ingenious and engrossing' - Literary Review In this the riveting sequel to The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Mary Russell has metamorphosed from able apprentice to skilled detective in h ...Show more
A Month of Summer (#1 Blue Sky Hill) by Lisa Wingate
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Blue Sky Hill Ser.
An ordinary summer brings about an extraordinary change of heart in the first novel in the Blue Sky Hill series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Friends and Before We Were Yours. Changes aren't in Rebecca Macklin's plans when she receives a long-distance call from the Da ...Show more
A Monument to Dynasty and Death - The Story of Rome's Colosseum and the Emperors Who Built It by Nathan T. Elkins
Category: History | Series: Witness to Ancient History Ser.
Early one morning in 80 CE, the Colosseum roared to life with the deafening cheers of tens of thousands of spectators as the emperor, Titus, inaugurated the new amphitheater with one hundred days of bloody spectacles. These games were much anticipated, for the new amphitheater had been under constructio ...Show more
A Most Dangerous Profession by Karen Hawkins
Category: Romance | Series: The Hurst Amulet
Robert Hurst, a secret operative in the King's service, is tracking down the mysterious onyx box needed to ransom his kidnapped brother. Moira Muir is seeking the same box for a very similar reason: her young daughter is being held captive. But there are further complications: years ago, Moira and Robe ...Show more
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants t ...Show more
A Murder of Quality by John le Carré
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School- firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doyleys and china ducks, and secondly by being murdered. George Smiley, who has his own connection with the school, is asked by an old Service friend to investigate. As Smiley probes further ...Show more
A Mystery of Wolves by Isobelle Carmody
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Little Fur (Hardcover)
Little Fur goes in search of her friend, Ginger the cat, who has vanished completely in this third book in the Little Fur quartet. The wise Sett Owl tells Little Fur that she must first discover who or what the Mystery of Wolves is. The only creature Little Fur finds who has heard of them is a mad proph ...Show more
A Nation Without Borders by Steven Hahn
Category: Popular History | Series: The\Penguin History of the United States Ser.
The era from 1830 to 1910 witnessed massive transformations in how people lived, worked, thought about themselves, and struggled to live and thrive. It also witnessed the birth of economic and political institutions that still shape our world. America's population grew more than ten-fold. The country ex ...Show more
A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers by Jackie French
Category: Children's | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
A Nation of Swaggies and Diggers: 1880-1920 (Fair Dinkum Histories #5) by Jackie French
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Fair Dinkum Histories S.
The Australian colonies had come a long way since they were a dump for grim crims and convicts. Life was comfortableat least for some. But soon drought would send swaggies waltzing their matildas along the roads, and bad times would make politicians dream of uniting the country into one nation. And then ...Show more
A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: A\Natural History of Dragons Ser.
Everyone knows Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world's preeminent dragon naturalist. Here at last, in her own words, is the true story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation, prospects, and her life to satisfy scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love despite her lamentable eccentricit ...Show more