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1) The it girl
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English
Description
April Clarke-Cliveden was the first person Hannah Jones met at Oxford. Vivacious, bright, occasionally vicious, and the ultimate It girl, she quickly pulled Hannah into her dazzling orbit. Together, they developed a group of devoted and inseparable friends--Will, Hugh, Ryan, and Emily--during their first term. By the end of the year, April was dead. Now, a decade later, Hannah and Will are expecting their first child, and the man convicted of killing...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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The much-anticipated new work from the author of The Golden Compass is coming at last! Renowned storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure in which daemons, alethiometers, and the Magisterium all play a part.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
BONUS: This edition contains an Alice I Have Been discussion guide and an excerpt from Melanie Benjamin's The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb.
Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story...
Few works of literature are as universally beloved as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Now, in this spellbinding historical novel, we meet the young girl whose bright spirit sent her on an unforgettable trip down the rabbit hole–and the grown woman whose story...
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English
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Colin Dexter's Chief Inspector Morse-the cranky, heavy-drinking, and exasperatingly brilliant sleuth of the Thames Valley Police-has become one of the most beloved detectives in fiction. Now, with this collection of eleven short stories, we can savor choice examples of his dry wit, devious cunning, and psychological insight at its best.Colin Dexter tantalizes us with six Inspector Morse adventures, ranging from bite-size morsels of intrigue to longer...
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English
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"After graduating from Yale, William Baker, scion of an old line patrician family, goes to work in presidential politics. But when the campaign into which he's poured his heart ends in disappointment, he decides to leave New York behind, along with the devoted, ambitious, and well-connected woman he's been in love with for the last four years. Will expects nothing more than a year off before resuming the comfortable life he's always known, but he's...
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Oxford tearoom mystery volume prequel
Publisher
H.Y. Hanna
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Gemma ditches her high-flying job and returns to Oxford to follow her dream: opening a traditional English tearoom serving warm buttery scones with jam and clotted cream ... Only problem is--murder is the first thing on the menu and Gemma is the key suspect! And the only people Gemma can turn to for help are four nosy old ladies from her local Cotswolds village - not to mention a cheeky little tabby cat named Muesli. Who was the mysterious woman Gemma...
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Series
Oxford tearoom mystery volume 7
Publisher
H.Y. Hanna
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Oxford summer balls are one of the highlights of the calendar and tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose is looking forward to taking a break and slipping into something gorgeous for the evening. But when the night ends with a celebrity chef murdered by his own whisk, Gemma finds herself plunged into a new mystery
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Series
Oxford tearoom mystery volume 1
Publisher
H.Y. Hanna
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
When an American tourist is murdered with a scone in Gemma Rose' quaint Oxfordshire tearoom, she suddenly finds herself apron-deep in a mystery involving long-buried secrets from Oxford's past. Armed with her insider knowledge of the University and with the hel of four nosy old ladies from the village (not to mention a cheeky little tabby cat names Muesli), Gemma sets out to solve the mystery - all while dealing with her matchmaking mother and the...
10) The collectors
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Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"On a cold winter's night, two art collectors are settled before a fire in the senior common room of a college in Oxford, discussing two new unusual pieces--a portrait of a striking young woman and a bronze sculpture of a fearsome monkey. How could they imagine that they are about to be caught in the cross-fire of a story that has traveled across time and worlds"--
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English
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In the small hours of the morning one fall day in 1866, a frantic widow visits detective Charles Lenox. Lady Annabelle's problem is simple: her beloved son, George, has vanished from his room at Oxford. When Lenox visits his alma mater to investigate he discovers a series of bizarre clues, including a murdered cat and a card cryptically referring to "The September Society." Then, just as Lenox realizes that the case may be deeper than it appears,...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
"Of course she's obsessed with Jane Austen... Surrounded by appalling exes and fawning students, the only thing keeping professor Katherine Roberts sane is Jane Austen and her personal secret love for racy Regency romance novels. She thinks the Jane Austen Addicts conference in the English countryside is the perfect opportunity to escape her chaotic life and finally relax... But then she encounters a devilishly handsome man at the conference who seems...
13) Magpie Lane
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Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
After Oxford College Master’s young daughter goes missing, the Scottish nanny recounts her time living in the family’s eerie and ancient house with the fiercely intelligent father, his new wife, and the nearly mute missing girl, who sees ghosts.
14) Oxford wild
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Publisher
Grape Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"I came to Oxford eager to learn, but it's my haughty professor who needs a lesson. CEDAR My name is Cedar Wild--wild by name, wild by nature. I arrived at Oxford straight from my family's off-grid log cabin deep in the Canadian forest. Intimidating? Absolutely. But if I can run a trapline and butcher a moose, I can adapt to student life at the world's most illustrious university. Right? I hadn't bargained on my barely-older-than-me advisor, Alfred,...
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Series
Royal Ballet School diaries volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After moving from Chicago to Oxford, England, ten-year-old Ellie worries about making new friends at school and caring for her mother who has multiple sclerosis, while also preparing to audition for the resident dancers training program at London's Royal Ballet School.
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. When her mother phones, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found...
17) Close to home
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Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Large print edition.
Language
English
Description
When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her family's Oxford home during a costume party, Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows that nine times out of ten, the offender is someone close to home. And Daisy's family is certainly strange--her mother is obsessed with keeping up appearances, while her father is cold and defensive under questioning. And then there's Daisy's little brother, so withdrawn and uncommunicative . . . DI Fawley works against...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After Dash gets accepted to Oxford University and Lily stays in New York to take care of her dogwalking business, the devoted couple are struggling to make a long distance relationship work. And when Dash breaks the news that he won't be coming home for Christmas, Lily makes a decision: if Dash can't come to her, she'll join him in London. Soon Dash and Lily are feeling more of a gap between them, even though they're in the same city"--
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English
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The celebrated mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras left no writings. But what if he had and the manuscript was never found? Where would it be located? And what information would it reveal? These questions are the inspiration for the mathematical mystery novel Pythagoras' Revenge. Suspenseful and instructive, Pythagoras' Revenge weaves fact, fiction, mathematics, computer science, and ancient history into a surprising and sophisticated thriller.
The...
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