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English
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A complex mystery of deception and betrayal that follows the court case of a young man set to hang for the murder of his father
When a famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence points to his son, Stephen. About to be disinherited from the family fortune, Stephen returns to home after a long estrangement-and it happens to be the night his father is shot to death. When his fingerprints are found on the murder weapon,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Oxford tearoom mystery volume 5
Publisher
H.Y. Hanna
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Cotswolds tearoom owner Gemma Rose is excited to join the May Day celebrations in Oxford ... until the beautiful spring morning ends in murder.
4) Magpie Lane
Author
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.
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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...
Author
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.
Author
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
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"--
Author
Series
Oxford tearoom mystery volume 2
Publisher
H.Y. Hanna
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
While at an Oxford cocktail party, tearoom owner Gemma Rose overhears a sinister conversation minutes before a University student is fatally poisoned. Could there be a connection? And could her best friend Cassie's new boyfriend have anything to do with the murder? Gemma decides to start her own investigation, helped by the nosy ladies from her Oxfordshire village and her old college flame, CID detective Devlin O'Connor. But her mother is causing...
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Series
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 ten
Publisher
H.Y. Hanna
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
Tearoom sleuth Gemma Rose is looking forward to a holiday filled with delicious Yuletide treats, time with friends and family, and maybe even a "white Christmas" in Oxford... But when she's snowed in at a country manor, she finds herself stumbling on a puzzling murder--complete with a body in the library, a house full of suspects and a trail of mysterious footprints! Luckily, the nosy Old Biddies are on hand to help... not to mention her cheeky tabby...
Author
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...
13) Oxford wild
Author
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,...
14) The it girl
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Language
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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