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Grace Hammer : [a Novel Of The Victorian Underworld]

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Sara Stockbridge
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Book, 1st American ed, W. W. Norton & Co, 2009
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Pickpockets · Fiction · Poor · England · London · Street life · Murder · Revenge · East End (London, England) · London (England) · Social conditions · 19th century · Stockbridge, Sara, 1966-
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Dear Helen : Wartime Letters From A Londoner To Her American Pen Pal

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edited by Russell M. Jones and John H. Swanson
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Book, University of Missouri Press, 2009
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Swallow, Betty M., · 1915-1969 · Correspondence · Bradley, Helen, · 1890-1979 · World War, 1939-1945 · Personal narratives, English · England · London · Pen pals · Young women · Working class · Missouri · Kansas City · London (England) · Biography · Social life and customs · 20th century · Swallow, Betty M., 1915-1969 · Bradley, Helen, 1890-1979 · Jones, Russell M. 1927- · Swanson, John H., 1938-
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(LOWER LEVEL) D811.5 .S924 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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(LOWER LEVEL)	D811.5 .S924 2009	NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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Vanessa & Virginia

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Susan Sellers
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Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009
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Bell, Vanessa, · 1879-1961 · Fiction · Woolf, Virginia, · 1882-1941 · Sisters · Women artists · Women authors · Bloomsbury group · London (England) · Intellectual life · 20th century · Sellers, Susan
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BROWSING (MAIN) PR6119.E45 V36 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	PR6119.E45 V36 2009	AVAILABLE

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The Devil’s Company : A Novel

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David Liss
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Book, 1st ed, Random House, 2007
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East India Company · Fiction · Weaver, Benjamin (Fictitious character) · Private investigators · England · London · Jews · London (England) · History · 18th century · Liss, David, 1966-
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BROWSING (MAIN) PS3562.I7814 D47 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	PS3562.I7814 D47 2009	AVAILABLE

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Animal Farm ; 1984

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George Orwell
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Book, 1st ed, Harcourt, 2003
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ANIMAL FARM George Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture. It is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm–a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Domestic animals · Fiction · Totalitarianism · Political fiction. · lcsh · London (England) · Orwell, George, 1903-1950 · Orwell, George, 1903-1950 · Orwell, George, 1903-1950
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6029.R8 A63 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6029.R8 A63 2003	AVAILABLE

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Drood : A Novel

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Dan Simmons
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Book, 1st ed, Little, Brown and Co, 2009
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Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens’s life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens’s friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author’s last years and may provide the key to Dickens’s final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Dickens, Charles, · 1812-1870 · Fiction · London (England) · History · 19th century · Simmons, Dan
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BROWSING (MAIN) PS3569.I47292 D76 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	PS3569.I47292 D76 2009	AVAILABLE

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In The Kitchen : A Novel

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Monica Ali
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Book, 1st Scribner hardcover ed, Scribner, 2009
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Booker Prize-shortlisted author MonicaAli’s long-awaitedsecond novel brings readers into the vivid world of a London restaurant kitchen. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Hotels · England · London · Fiction · Cooks · Restaurants · London (England) · Ali, Monica, 1967-
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BROWSING (MAIN) PR6101.L45 I5 2009 AVAILABLE

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BROWSING (MAIN)	PR6101.L45 I5 2009	AVAILABLE

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London In Early Modern English Drama : Representing The Built Environment

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Darryll Grantley
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Book, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
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It covers a period in which the city underwent rapid growth to become the country’s first metropolis, and it examines how the urban environment becomes part of the frame of reference of the drama that is set there. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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English drama · Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 · History and criticism · 17th century · City and town life in literature · England · London · London (England) · In literature · Grantley, Darryll
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR658.L58 G73 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR658.L58 G73 2008	NEW BOOK(MAIN)

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The She-apostle : The Extraordinary Life And Death Of Luisa De Carvajal

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Glyn Redworth
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Book, Oxford University Press, 2008
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This vividly written biography, the first to give equal treatment to her double life in Spain and England, is based on Luisa’s own autobiographical writings, her sparkling collection of poems and letters, and the detailed reminiscences by dozens of people who worked with her. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Carvajal y Mendoza, Luisa de, · 1566-1614 · Catholic women · Spain · Biography · Catholic women authors · England · London · Catholics · London (England) · Religion · 16th century · Redworth, Glyn
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(LOWER LEVEL) BX4705.C334 R43 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	BX4705.C334 R43 2008	AVAILABLE

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London Rising : The Men Who Made Modern London

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Leo Hollis
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Book, 1st U.S. ed, Walker & Co, 2008
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Like a phoenix from the ashes of the Great Fire of 1666, London was reborn to become the greatest metropolis of the age. Among the catalysts for this rebirth were five extraordinary men, each deeply influenced by the Civil War, whose intersecting lives form the heart of London Rising: famed philosopher John Locke, whose ideas about the individual would outline a new theory of civil society based on natural rights; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Wren, Christopher, · Sir, · 1632-1723 · St. Paul’s Cathedral (London, England) · History · 17th century · London (England) · 17th century · Biography · Hollis, Leo
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(LOWER LEVEL) DA681 .H65 2008 AVAILABLE

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(LOWER LEVEL)	DA681 .H65 2008	AVAILABLE

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The Various Flavors Of Coffee

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Anthony Capella
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Book, Bantam Books, 2008
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As he travels to coffee?s fabled birthplace?and learns the fiercely guarded secrets of the trade?Wallis meets Fikre, the defiant, seductive slave of a powerful coffee merchant, who serves him in the traditional Abyssinian coffee ceremony. And when Fikre dares to slip Wallis a single coffee bean, the mysteries of coffee and forbidden passion intermingle?and combine to change history and fate. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Coffee industry · Fiction · Coffee · Sensory evaluation · Senses and sensation · London (England) · Africa, North · Capella, Anthony
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(UPPER LEVEL) PS3603.A64 V37 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PS3603.A64 V37 2008	AVAILABLE

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A Partisan’s Daughter

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Louis de Bernières
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Book, 1st U.S. ed, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
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She?s Roza: Yugoslavian, recently moved to London, the daughter of one of Tito?s partisans. And although she?s not a hooker, when she?s propositioned by Chris, she gets into his car anyway. Over the next months Roza tells Chris the stories of her past. She?s a fast-talking, wily Scheherazade, saving her own life by telling it to Chris. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Middle-aged men · Fiction · Young women · Serbs · England · London · Nineteen seventies · Storytelling · London (England) · Social life and customs · De Bernières, Louis
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6054.E132 P37 2008 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6054.E132 P37 2008	AVAILABLE

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The Rival Queens : A Novel Of Murder In Eighteenth- Century London

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Fidelis Morgan
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Book, 1st Perennial ed, Perennial, 2003
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The intrepid and impecunious heroines Countess Ashby de la Zouche and her maidservant, Alpiew, are scavenging for scandal for that scurrilous rag, the London Trumpet. They pursue their quarry from the Tower of London to Bedlam, with a brief detour to the wilds of Wapping, uncovering a shocking web of intrigue and corruption extending to the highest echelons of society and the judiciary. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Women private investigators · England · London · Fiction · Women domestics · Women authors · Great Britain · History · William and Mary, 1689-1702 · London (England) · Morgan, Fidelis, 1952-
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(UPPER LEVEL) PR6063.O715 R48 2003 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	PR6063.O715 R48 2003	AVAILABLE

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The Jewel House : Elizabethan London And The Scientific Revolution

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Deborah E. Harkness
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Book, Yale University Press, 2007
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This book explores the streets, shops, back alleys, and gardens of Elizabethan London, where a boisterous and diverse group of men and women shared a keen interest in the study of nature. These assorted merchants, gardeners, barber-surgeons, midwives, instrument makers, mathematics teachers, engineers, alchemists, and other experimenters Deborah Harkness contends formed a patchwork scientific community whose practices set the stage for the Scientific Revolution. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Science · England · London · History · 16th century · Natural history · Science, Renaissance · London (England) · Social conditions · Social life and customs · Intellectual life · Harkness, Deborah E., 1965-
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(UPPER LEVEL) Q127.G4 H37 2007 AVAILABLE

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(UPPER LEVEL)	Q127.G4 H37 2007	AVAILABLE

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Me, The Missing, And The Dead

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Jenny Valentine
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Book, 1st American ed, HarperTeen, 2008
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Me: Lucas Swain?I’m nearly sixteen years old and live in London. The Dead: That’s Violet . . . . . . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Death · Juvenile fiction · Missing persons · Fathers · Single-parent families · Coming of age · London (England) · England · Valentine, Jenny
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CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 V158m AVAILABLE

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