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1) Gaudy night
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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Oxford is full of memories—and threats of murder—for Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey in this mystery that “stands out even among Miss Sayers’s novels” (The Times Literary Supplement).
Since she graduated from Oxford’s Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a...
Since she graduated from Oxford’s Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder herself. It took a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Now in her twilight years, Alice Liddell looks back on a remarkable life. From a pampered childhood in Oxford to difficult years as a widowed mother, Alice examines how she became who she is--and how she became immortalized as Alice in Wonderland.
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At Oxford, a rash of crime puts Dodgson under suspicion of murder. The world of academia is hardly a hotbed of crime. And although scholars at the University of Oxford may debate the assassination of Caesar or the execution of Socrates, a modern criminal has no place within the school's walls. And yet, as the reverend Charles Dodgson is horrified to learn, there is a thief within the college of Christ Church. The wine cellar has been ransacked, the...
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Offered a fantastic job in a rising star's political campaign on condition that she will work abroad and return to Washington after spending a dream year at Oxford, Ella clashes with, and then falls for, an outspoken literature professor with a life-changing secret that forces her to rethink her ambitions. Original. A first novel. 30,000 first printing.
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A famed Oxford historian is found dead in his study one night, all evidence pointing to his son, Stephen, who was about to be disinherited from the family fortune. When Stephen's fingerprints are found on the murder weapon, his guilt seems undeniable-- but then, the revelation that the deceased man was involved in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in Northern France at the end of World War II lends credence to Stephen's innocence.
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The year is 2021, and the human race is--quite literally--coming to and end. Since 1995 no babies have been born, because in that year all males unexpectedly became infertile. Great Britain is ruled by a dictator, and the population is inexorably growing older. Theodore Faron, Oxford historian and, incidentally, cousin of the all powerful Warden of England, watches in growing despair as society gradually crumbles around him, giving way to strange...
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"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...
10) Holy disorders
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English
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This 1945 classic British mystery from “a master of the whodunnit . . . combines a flawless plot, witty dialogue and a touch of surreal hilarity” (The New York Times Book Review).
On holiday in the town of Tolnbridge with his butterfly net in hand, Prof. Gervase Fen, Oxford don of English Literature, is all set for a good frolic when he learns that the cathedral organist has been murdered....
On holiday in the town of Tolnbridge with his butterfly net in hand, Prof. Gervase Fen, Oxford don of English Literature, is all set for a good frolic when he learns that the cathedral organist has been murdered....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Colophon Letterford and her cousin Julian continue their quest to uncover their family's treasure as new clues lead them to Oxford, England, seeking to unravel a connection to Christopher Marlowe.
Colophon Letterford's life changed overnight when she uncovered Shakespeare's lost manuscripts. Now the authenticity of these manuscripts is in question...and the centuries-old family publishing business is in danger. In this exciting...
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Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Bourbon Street Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Bourbon Street books edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 528 pages ; 21 cm
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English
Description
Harriet Vane's Oxford reunion is shadowed by a rash of bizarre pranks and malicious mischief that include beautifully worded death threats, burnt effigies and vicious poison-pen letters, and Harriet finds herself and Lord Peter Wimsey challenged by an elusive set of clues.
16) Lyra's Oxford
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Lyra discovers a request from a witch's demon for an escort to the home of alchemist Sebastian Makepeace is not as straightforward as it appears. Includes maps, brochures, postcards, and other clues.
17) Hijos de hombres
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B, B de Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 19 cm
Language
Español
Description
"Theo Faron es uno de los habitantes de la Inglaterra post-Omega (posterior a 1995, año Omega), un período en que los seres humanos han dejado de ser fértiles. No hay futuro para la humanidad y, resignado, Faron empieza a escribir su diario, donde relata la sordidez de una sociedad en decadencia y el orden que pretende imponer su primo, el temible dictador de Inglaterra conocido como el Guardián. Sin embargo, todo cambia el día en que un grupo...
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Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002.
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228 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a shy Oxford mathematician, used the name Lewis Carroll and wrote two classics that liberated children's literature from Victorian moralism. But the nature of his relationship with his young muse, Alice Liddell, remains mysterious. In imagining what might have happened Roiphe has created a deep, richly textured fictional portrait of Alice and Dodgson.
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