When too many jumps back to 1940 leave 21st century Oxford history student Ned Henry exhausted, a relaxing trip to Victorian England seems the perfect solution. But complexities like recalcitrant...
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Auteur: Willis, ConnieSommaire:Genre: Science fiction -
Auteur: Starr, MelSommaire:A local lord asks Hugh of Singleton to track the killer of a young woman whose bones have been found in the castle cesspit, identified as the impetuous missing daughter of a local blacksmith.
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Auteur: Aspe, PieterSommaire:When the wealthy Ludovic Degroof's jewelry store is broken into, nothing is stolen, but the jewels have been dissolved in jars of aqua regia, and a strange note is left in the safe. To solve...
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Auteur: Kingsland, JamesSommaire:Framed by the teachings of the Buddha, this book shows how ancient meditative practices anticipated the findings of modern neuroscience. This is a cutting-edge, big-picture assessment of...
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Auteur: Schwab, VictoriaSommaire:Kell is one of the last Travelers-magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes-as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without...
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Auteur: Lodge, DavidSommaire:
As he lies dying in 1944 in Lodge's fictional account, H.G. Wells takes the opportunity to reflect on his many sexual conquests, but finds himself focusing on his memories of a handful of wives...
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Auteur: Starr, MelSommaire:When some valuable books are stolen from Master John Wyclif, the well-known scholar and Bible translator, he calls upon his friend and former pupil, Hugh de Singleton, to investigate.
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Auteur: Nix, GarthSommaire:A short story collection from bestselling fantasy author Garth Nix, including an Old Kingdom novella, a short story set in the same world as Shade's Children, and another story set in the world of...
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Auteur: Lovesey, PeterSommaire:
In the seventeenth installment in Peter Lovesey's timeless British detective series, Peter Diamond digs deep into Bath history to ferret out the secrets of one of its most famous (and scandalous)...
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Auteur: Hämäläinen, KaroSommaire:
Inspired by puzzle-mystery great Agatha Christie, prizewinning Finnish author Karo Hamalainen's first novel in translation is a comedy of murderous intentions Three cell phones ring in an opulent...
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Auteur: Jonasson, JonasSommaire:
After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health-and tomorrow is his hundredth...
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Auteur: Mackintosh, ClareSommaire:
The next blockbuster thriller for those who loved The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl ... a novel with "an astonishing intensity that drags you in and never--ever--lets you go." (Daily...
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Auteur: Losure, MarySommaire:
Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and...
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Auteur: Cleverly, BarbaraSommaire:
Cambridge, October 1933. Inside the old All Hallows Church on All Hallows' Eve, Doctor Adelaide Hartest witnesses the final moments of a dying stranger. Despite the dagger plunged into the...