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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...
Author
Series
Inspector Morse novel volume 10
Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Quietly, rather movingly, Strange was making his plea: 'Christ knows why, Lewis, but Morse will always put himself out for you.' As he put the phone down, Lewis knew that Strange had been right ...in the case of the Swedish Maiden, the pair of them were in business again ...They called her the Swedish Maiden - the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford. Twelve months later the case remained unsolved...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Where did Narnia come from" The answer will change everything. Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. She prefers the dependability of facts--except for one: the younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find...
24) The collectors
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 0.5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
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..." --
In this darkly delicious sliver of a tale, Philip Pullman offers a glimpse of...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
It is a normal afternoon in Sussex when Russell and Holmes return home to find a peculiar addition to their garden: a beautiful stone that once occupied the Imperial gardens in Kyoto. The stone immediately recalls the spring of 1924, when, on their way back from India (The Game), Russell and Holmes agreed to perform a small but exceedingly dangerous job for the emperor of Japan. At the time, Russell encountered a young Japanese woman on board their...
Author
Series
[Alex and Briggie mysteries] volume 2
Publisher
Deseret Book
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
In their previous adventure, Alexandra Campbell and her business partner, Brighamina Poulson, discovered a branch of Alexs family that was previously unknown. Because of wicked deeds in days gone by, a soldier in World War I who should have been part of Alexs family was lost. In fact, he was so lost, he didnt even know his own name! Through a series of coincidences (and we all know there are no coincidences in genealogy!) they...
Author
Series
Royal Ballet School diaries volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2005]
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
Publisher
Thoms Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan comes an exquisite novel of Joy Davidman, the woman C. S. Lewis called 'my whole world.' When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. Lewis--known as Jack--she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Love, after all, wasn't holding together her crumbling marriage. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet...
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