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Saving Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
· 15 ratings
Life is good for Team Weird, now heroes and fully fledged Time Police officers. Luke can't wait to bear arms. Jane has a date. And Matthew still hasn't had his hair cut.But Time waits for no one and neither do criminal masterminds. A major threat to the Timeline is looming, one far deadlier than mere idiots who want to change history...

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Hope for the Best by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The tenth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.You can't change History. History doesn't like it. There are always consequences.Max is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands...

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Hard Time by Jodi Taylor
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
· 17 ratings
A time slip in Versailles, problems in the Ice Age and illegal time travellers in need of rescue. Must be a job for the Time Police. Luke, Jane and Matthew are back and ready to cause havoc, inadvertently or otherwise, in their latest adventures, moving towards the end of their grunt work and towards becoming fully fledged Time Police officers...

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The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
· 27 ratings
Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities...

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The Fatal Flying Affair by T.E. Kinsey
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve.A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong—with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death...

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The Great Brain at the Academy by John D. Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The Great Brain faces the challenge of life at a strict Catholic boarding school with daring exploits and money-making schemes...

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Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
· 29 ratings
One of literature's most delightful rakes is back in another tale of rollicking adventure and tantalizing seduction. The plucky Flashman's latest escapades are sure to entertain devotees as well as attract new aficionados...

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The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Bestselling author Peters brings back 19th-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in a delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids...

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Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Duellist and gamester, the young Marquis of Vidal had fairly earned the sobriquet 'Devil's Cub' - a tribute to the wilder excesses of his father, the Duke of Avon.When Mary Challoner discovered Dominic's plans to run away with her lovely sister, she donned cloak and mask in a daring impersonation and found herself bound for France with the most notorious rake in Georgian London...

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The Great Brain Reforms by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
The year is 1898, and the best con man in Adenville, Utah, is the infamous twelve-year-old Tom Fitzgerald, "The Great Brain." A year at the Catholic Academy for Boys certainly hasn't dulled Tom's love for money—he's no sooner off the train than he begins scamming his own brother! By the end of his summer break, Tom has tricked all of his friends out of everything they own...

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Children of the Storm by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The fifteenth adventure for Amelia, Emerson and the whole Peabody-Emerson clan! At last the Great War is over. Amelia, her distinguished Egyptologist husband Emerson and their extended family are preparing for another season of excavation in Egypt. To everyone's great joy their son Ramses and his wife Nefret have become parents...

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More Adventures of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Has Tom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, given up his con-artist ways for a bicycle? Not for long. Soon the Great Brain is back to his old tricks, swindling and trading, even convincing the whole town there's a prehistoric monster on the loose. But when someone robs the bank, even the police are stumped...

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The Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
The best con man in the Midwest is only ten years old. Tom, a.k.a., the Great Brain, is a silver-tongued genius with a knack for turning a profit. When the Jenkins boys get lost in Skeleton Cave, the Great Brain saves the day...

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True Grit by Charles Portis
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 31 ratings
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross' father was shot and killed. Told through her eyes, True Grit is the story of how she and hard-drinking Marshal Rooster Cogburn set out to find and prosecute his murderer. "An epic and a legend".--Washington Post...

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Meeting Her Match by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Miss Camilla Pierpont, a renowned matchmaker and influential member of the New York Four Hundred, has vowed never to marry after suffering a devastating heartbreak during her debut years ago. However, when she is nearly abducted along the Hudson River, she finds herself rescued by an annoyingly outspoken, albeit fascinating, gentleman who challenges her in a manner she wasn't expecting...

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In Good Company by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
The Next Delightful and Lively Historical Romp from Turano After spending her childhood in an orphanage, Millie Longfellow is determined to become the best nanny the East Coast has ever seen. Unfortunately, her playfulness and enthusiasm tend to bring about situations that have employers looking askance at her methods...

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Guardian of the Horizon by Elizabeth Peters
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
This book is the lost season 1907-08 and fits in between books 10 and 11 if you want to read them in that order...

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Fish Preferred by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Hugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings o unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers...

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Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding by Rhys Bowen
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
In this delightful new Royal Spyness Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of On Her Majesty's Frightfully Secret Service, Georgie is plotting a trip down the aisle but finds herself embroiled in a murder that hits a little too close to home...Georgie is finally able to plan for her wedding in the summer...

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Hope by Beverley Watts
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
There was no doubt that things had definitely looked better for Gabriel Atwood, one time Viscount Northwood. Mainly because everyone who knew him or of him almost certainly believed him dead - the bastard who’d betrayed him had made sure of that...

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Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
She's going too far to go it alone.It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and Margery Benson, a schoolteacher and spinster, is trying to get through life, surviving on scraps...

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The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
· 42 ratings
The first and most successful in the Baroness’s series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre...

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Jeeves and the King of Clubs by Ben Schott
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Storm clouds loom over Europe. Treason is afoot in the highest social circles. The very security of the nation is in peril. Jeeves, it transpires, has long been an agent of British Intelligence, but now His Majesty's Government must turn to the one man who can help . . . Bertie Wooster.In this magnificent new homage to P. G...

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A Most Peculiar Circumstance by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Miss Arabella Beckett has one driving passion: to help the downtrodden women of America. Naturally, she supports the women's suffrage movement and eagerly attends rallies and lectures across the country. On her travels, she makes a simple offer of assistance to a young woman in need that goes sadly awry and lands both ladies in more trouble than they can manage...

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Electric Barracuda by Tim Dorsey
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
“Dorsey differs from writers such as Carl Hiassen, James Hall, and Elmore Leonard…These guys fire bullets. Dorsey makes sure his gun is filled with hollow-point.”—Sarasota Herald TribuneReaders who can’t get enough of lovable serial killer Serge A. Storms can rejoice...

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Faith by Beverley Watts
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
In this funny romantic series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn’t know what’s hit it…When Faith Shackleford found herself in the unenviable position of having to accompany her irascible father to convalesce in the genteel seaside town of Torquay, she envisioned three months of wearying monotony...

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The Unknown Ajax by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
Miles from anywhere, Darracott Place is presided over by elderly Lord Darracott. Irascible Lord Darracott rules his barony with a firm hand. The tragic accident that killed his eldest son by drowning has done nothing to improve his temper. For now, he must send for the next heir apparent--the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family is never permitted to mention...

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These Old Shades by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Under the reign of Louis XV, corruption and intrigue have been allowed to blossom in France, and Lord Justin Alastair, the notorious Duke of Avon, known for his coldness of manner, his remarkable omniscience, and his debauched lifestyle. Society believes the worst of Justin, who is clearly proud of his sobriquet, 'Satanas'...

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Sunset Specters by Gary Jonas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
A SORCERER SEEKING IMMORTALITY The powerful wizard, Henry Winslow, arrives in 1877 and sets out for the Barbary Coast in San Francisco to steal a bit of life energy from his parents before he can head to the 1920s to complete his immortality ritual...

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The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
The complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson's short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson's brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr...

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Hunted by Lindsay Buroker
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Self-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she’s the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates...

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Robby Riverton: Mail Order Bride by Eli Easton
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Being a fugitive in the old west shouldn’t be this much fun.The year is 1860. Robby Riverton is a rising star on the New York stage. But he witnesses a murder by a famous crime boss and is forced to go on the run--all the way to Santa Fe. When he still hasn't ditched his pursuers, he disguises himself as a mail order bride he meets on the wagon train...

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The Pope of Palm Beach by Tim Dorsey
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
From Florida’s king of mayhem—"compulsively irreverent and shockingly funny" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestselling author Tim Dorsey—comes a diabolically madcap adventure featuring the indomitable Serge A. Storms.No one worships the Sunshine State as much as Serge A. Storms. Perpetually hunting Floridian arcana and lore, he and his permanently baked sidekick, Coleman, are on the road again...

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Venus in Copper by Lindsey Davis
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Marcus Didius Falco, Imperial Rome's answer to Columbo, is hired by relatives of a wealthy real estate developer, Hortensius, to find his murderer. What Falco uncovers is a hotbed of crime in the unscrupulous business dealings of Hortensius. The third book in the series of amusing, romantic detective thrillers set in ancient Rome...

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Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice. Now there are two of them – both intent on a dangerous enterprise...

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Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
· 25 ratings
The national bestselling author of Royal Blood whisks her heroine away to the French Riviera for fun-and danger. Lady Georgiana Rannoch has once again been called into service by Her Majesty the Queen. This time she's sent to Nice on a secret assignment that's nothing to sneeze at-recover the Queen's stolen snuff box...

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The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
· 30 ratings
Poland, 1909 Stanislaw is determined to escape the Russians and follow his brother to America, a land where anything seems possible.Wisconsin, 1941With all the men off to war, Fritzi and her sisters must learn men’s work -- from fixing flats to driving the tow truck and the All-Girl Filling Station is born...

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What Happens In London by Julia Quinn
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
· 40 ratings
Rumors and Gossip . . . The lifeblood of LondonWhen Olivia Bevelstoke is told that her new neighbor may have killed his fiancée, she doesn't believe it for a second, but, still, how can she help spying on him, just to be sure? So she stakes out a spot near her bedroom window, cleverly concealed by curtains, watches, and waits . .

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Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 26 ratings
On the night of the Parkhurst ball, someone had a scandalous tryst in the library.• Was it Lord Canby, with the maid, on the divan?• Or Miss Fairchild, with a rake, against the wall?• Perhaps the butler did it.All Charlotte Highwood knows is this: it wasn’t her. But rumors to the contrary are buzzing...

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Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
· 32 ratings
Johannes Cabal is back -- a little older, a little wiser, but just as sharply funny, cuttingly sarcastic, and unexpectedly violent as ever. For necromancer Johannes Cabal, dealing with devils, demons and raising the dead is pretty much par for the course. But when his attempt to steal a rare book turns sour, he is faced by a far more terrifying entity -- politics...

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The Talisman Ring by Georgette Heyer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
The Talisman Ring is one of Heyer's funniest and fastest-paced romantic comedies, telling the story of a fugitive heir, a tempestuous Frenchwoman, and the two sensible people who try to keep them out of trouble.Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie, his young French cousin, share the slightest inclination to marry one another. Yet it is Lord Lavenham's dying wish...

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The Quiet Gentleman by Georgette Heyer, Karen Hawkins
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
Gervase Frant finally returns to his father's estate to claim his title as the new Seventh Earl of St. Erth at Stanyon. Unscathed from glory at Waterloo, Gervase expected a hero's welcome - instead he's given a frigid cold shoulder...

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Devil of the Highlands by Lynsay Sands
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
· 25 ratings
They call him the Devil . . .He is the most notorious laird of Scotland: fierce, cold, deadly . . . and maybe even worse. Yet Evelinde has just agreed to wed him. Anything, she thinks, is better than her cruel stepmother. Though Evelinde should be wary of the rumors, she can't help but be drawn to this warrior . .

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A Noble Masquerade by Kristi Ann Hunter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 19 ratings
Lady Miranda Hawthorne acts every inch the lady, but inside she longs to be bold and carefree. Entering her fourth Season and approaching spinsterhood in the eyes of society, she pours her innermost feelings out not in a diary but in letters to her brother's old school friend, a duke--with no intention of ever sending these private thoughts to a man she's heard stories about but never met...

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Al Capone Shines My Shoes by Gennifer Choldenko
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 19 ratings
Moose and the cons are about to get a lot closer in this much-anticipated sequel. It's 1935. Moose Flanagan lives on Alcatraz with his family, the other families of the guards, and a few hundred no-name hit men, con men, mad dog murderers and a handful of bank robbers too. And one of those cons has just done him a big favor...

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A Brazen Curiosity by Lynn Messina
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 19 ratings
“A feisty heroine hiding behind a mousy facade…” England 1816 Twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare is far too shy to investigate the suspicious death of a fellow guest in the Lake District. A spinster who lives on the sufferance of her relatives, she would certainly not presume to search the rooms of her host's son and his friend looking for evidence...

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Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Roger Mifflin is part pixie, part sage, part noble savage, and all God's creature. With his traveling book wagon named Parnassus, he moves through the New England countryside of 1915 on an itinerant mission of enlightenment. Mifflin's delight in books and authors is infectious--with his singular philosophy and bright eyes, he comes to represent the heart and soul of the book world...

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The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig, Kate Reading
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Arabella Dempsey’s dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson’s Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Arabella to claim her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters nearby...

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Shadows in Bronze by Lindsey Davis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Can the hero of Silver Pigs satisfy the emperor he works for and the woman he pines for without getting himself killed? With readers and critics hungry for his further adventures, Ancient Roman gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco really has no choice...

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Starcross by Philip Reeve
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Art, Myrtle, and their mother accept the kind invitation of a holiday to an up-and-coming asteroid resort...

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