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The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog
by Elizabeth Peters
Archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family investigate a murder in Egypt, uncovering a web of secrets and danger.
After returning from their adventure at the Lost Oasis, the Emersons try to get Nefret , their new ward, integrated into English country life. She has difficulty with the immaturity and meanness of ... (Wikipedia)
Lion in the Valley
by Elizabeth Peters
Amelia Peabody and her family encounter danger and intrigue while exploring the tombs of Egypt.
The Emersons return to Egypt in 1895–96 to excavate at Dahshoor - finally, some real pyramids for Amelia! In looking for a keeper for Ramses , they find a demoralized Englishman named Donald Fraser. ... (Wikipedia)
The Deeds of the Disturber
by Elizabeth Peters
Archaeologist Amelia Peabody and her family investigate a series of murders in Victorian-era Egypt.
Immediately after their adventure in, Lion in the Valley, , the Emersons return home to England for the summer of 1896, as is their custom. Upon their arrival, Amelia finds that her despised brother ... (Wikipedia)
Guards! Guards!
by Terry Pratchett
A group of misfits join forces to save Ankh-Morpork from a dragon terrorizing their city.
This is where the dragons went. They lie ... not dead, not asleep, but ... dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put ... (Goodreads)
The Cater Street Hangman
by Anne Perry
A young woman investigates a series of murders in Victorian London, uncovering dark secrets and danger.
In an upper-class salon on Cater Street, several women discuss, in oblique terms, the death of a local girl. Even though Susannah has recently been out of town and is unaware of the murder, it is bad ... (Wikipedia)
Coyote Waits
by Tony Hillerman
Navajo Tribal Police investigate a murder with ties to ancient Navajo witchcraft.
Officers Chee and Nez agree to meet at Red Rock trading post for a break from patrol. Chee hears Nez laughing on the radio about seeing the person who has been defacing local rock formations with ... (Wikipedia)
Devil's Cub
by Georgette Heyer
A young woman embarks on a daring mission to rescue her abducted brother, finding love along the way.
The son of the Duke and Duchess of Avon, the Marquis of Vidal is known as Devil's Cub not only for the excesses of his father but for his own wild habits. As he is paying court to a girl of the ... (Wikipedia)
A Thief of Time
by Tony Hillerman
Navajo Tribal Police investigate the disappearance of an archaeologist and the theft of ancient artifacts.
Emma had the brain surgery, but she did not survive it. Joe Leaphorn is grief-stricken; he is on his final leave before quitting the Navajo Tribal Police. BLM agent Thatcher takes him along on a call ... (Wikipedia)
Clouds of Witness
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Lord Peter Wimsey investigates a murder case involving his brother, the Duke of Denver, and uncovers family secrets.
Lord Peter Wimsey's brother, the Duke of Denver , has taken a shooting lodge at Riddlesdale in Yorkshire . At 3 o'clock one morning, Captain Denis Cathcart, the fiancé of Wimsey's sister Lady Mary, ... (Wikipedia)
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
by P.G. Wodehouse
Bertie Wooster's attempts to help his friends are thwarted by his butler Jeeves, who always has a better plan.
Jeeves comes home after serving as a substitute butler at Brinkley Court , the country house of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia . She tells Bertie that Sir Watkyn Bassett was there and was impressed with ... (Wikipedia)
Storm Front
by Jim Butcher
A wizard detective investigates a mysterious magical murder in modern Chicago.
Dresden is hired by a Monica Sells to find her husband Victor Sells, an amateur magician who has been acting oddly. Later that day, he gets a call from Lieutenant Karrin Murphy, director of the ... (Wikipedia)
Anyone But You
by Jennifer Crusie
A romantic comedy about two opposites who must learn to compromise and accept each other.
For Nina Askew, turning forty means freedom–from the ex-husband, freedom from their stuffy suburban home, freedom to focus on what she wants for a change. And what she wants is something her ex ... (Goodreads)
Death Masks
by Jim Butcher
A magical detective's mission to protect an ancient artifact from a powerful necromancer.
Harry shares a TV panel with a Vatican priest, Father Vincent, and São Paulo University Professor Don Paolo Ortega , a disguised Red Court Vampire noble. Father Vincent hires Dresden to recover the ... (Wikipedia)
Rilla of Ingleside
by L.M. Montgomery
A coming-of-age story of a young woman during World War I, learning about life and love.
Set almost a decade after, Rainbow Valley, , Europe is on the brink of the First World War, and Anne's youngest daughter Rilla is an irrepressible almost-15-year-old, excited about her first adult ... (Wikipedia)
Lords and Ladies
by Terry Pratchett
Discworld characters must battle sinister forces to save their kingdom from a magical upheaval.
A Discworld Novel. It's a hot Midsummer Night. The crop circles are turning up everywhere-even on the mustard-and-cress of Pewseyy Ogg, aged four. And Magrat Garlick, witch, is going to be married in ... (Goodreads)
Jingo
by Terry Pratchett
War brews between two neighboring countries while a group of unlikely heroes try to avert it.
'Neighbours... hah. People'd live for ages side by side, nodding at one another amicably on their way to work, and then some trivial thing would happen and someone would be having a garden fork ... (Goodreads)
The Code of the Woosters
by P.G. Wodehouse
A series of comic misadventures of a bumbling British gentleman in search of a silver cow creamer.
Jeeves wants to go with Bertie on a round-the-world cruise but Bertie is not interested. Bertie's Aunt Dahlia sends Bertie to go to a particular antique shop and sneer at a silver eighteenth-century ... (Wikipedia)
White Night
by Jim Butcher
Wizard private investigator Harry Dresden investigates a magical murder in Chicago.
A year after the events in, Proven Guilty, , Dresden is called by Murphy to the scene of an apparent suicide, and senses the victim is a magical practitioner. After investigating another victim, ... (Wikipedia)
Emily of New Moon
by L.M. Montgomery
A young girl's coming of age story, learning to embrace her unique imagination and identity.
Similar to her earlier and more famous, Anne of Green Gables, series, the Emily novels depicted life through the eyes of a young orphan girl, Emily Starr , who is raised by her relatives after her ... (Wikipedia)
Sometimes It Happens
by Lauren Barnholdt
Best friends cheat on their significant others, leading to a tangled web of secrets and lies.
Cheating has consequences in this sparkly and humorous romance from the author of, Two-Way Street, and, One Night That Changes Everything,. Hannah’s about to start her senior year, and she’s never ... (Barnes & Noble)
A Wizard Abroad
by Diane Duane
Nita and Kit travel to Ireland to help a young wizard, but find themselves caught up in a battle against ancient evil.
To give Nita a vacation from magic–and to separate her from Kit, her partner in wizardry--Nita's parents pack her off for a monthlong stay with her eccentric aunt in Ireland. But the Old World is ... (Goodreads)
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
A Confederate soldier's homecoming journey, filled with danger and adventure.
The novel opens in a Confederate military hospital near Raleigh, North Carolina , where Inman is recovering from battle wounds during the American Civil War . The soldier is tired of fighting for a ... (Wikipedia)
Dying for Chocolate
by Diane Mott Davidson
Caterer Goldy Schulz investigates a murder at a chocolate-themed party. Recipes included.
The Caterer Meet Goldy Bear: a bright, opinionated, wildly inventive caterer whose personal life has become a recipe for disaster. She's got an abusive ex-husband who's into making tasteless threats, ... (Goodreads)
The Akhenaten Adventure
by P.B. Kerr
Twins discover they are descendants of ancient Egyptian pharaohs and embark on a time-traveling adventure to save their family's legacy.
John and Philippa Gaunt are two young children who live an upper class life in New York City , New York . Their uncle Nimrod appears to them in a dream and tells them about their magical powers as ... (Wikipedia)
Spellbound
by Cara Lynn Shultz
A teenage girl discovers she has supernatural powers and falls in love with a ghost.
Life hasn't been easy on sixteen–year–old Emma Conner, so a new start in New York may be just the change she needs. But her new posh Upper East Side prep school? Not so much. Friendly faces are few ... (Barnes & Noble)
Skybowl
by Melanie Rawn
The final battle between the magical Sunrunners and the evil sorcerer Maarken. A tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption.
As the death toll rises and Pol 's list of allies grows ever thinner, he must work with people once thought enemies and join all the forces of the Continent together in order to defeat the, ... (Wikipedia)
Daring to Dream
by Nora Roberts
Three women pursue their dreams of becoming successful musicians, overcoming obstacles and finding love along the way.
Margo, Kate and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Margo whose dreams first took her far away . . . Margo Sullivan had everything a young ... (Goodreads)
Death in a White Tie
by Ngaio Marsh
A murder mystery set in high society London, where a young man's death leads to a web of secrets and lies.
A body in the back of a taxi begins an elegantly constructed mystery, perhaps the finest of Marsh's 1930s novels.The season had begun. Debutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, ... (Goodreads)
The Bride Wore Size 12
by Meg Cabot
Heather Wells, former pop star turned assistant dorm director, solves a murder mystery while planning her wedding.
Heather Wells is used to having her cake and eating it too, but this time her cake just might be cooked. Her wedding cake, that is. With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, ... (Barnes & Noble)
Murder is Binding
by Lorna Barrett
Tricia Miles, mystery bookstore owner, solves a murder mystery in her small town.
The streets of Stoneham, New Hampshire, are lined with bookstores...and paved with murder. When she moved to Stoneham, city slicker Tricia Miles met nothing but friendly faces. And when she opened ... (Goodreads)
