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Child labor England Fiction England England Social conditions 19th century Fiction London (England) Social conditions 19th century Fiction Mentally ill Commitment and detention England London History 19th century Fiction Monk, William (Fictitious character) Fiction Orphans England Fiction Private investigators England London Fiction Social conditions Women Social conditionsEllis, Janet
Summary: In the wake of the death of her infant brother in eighteenth-century London, nineteen-year-old Anne Jaccob is determined to marry a butcher's apprentice, no matter what her ailing mother and uncaring father think.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: DVD FIC ELLGregory, Philippa
Summary: Midsummer's Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches to every corner of the kingdom, even the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GREFoulds, Adam
Summary: It's 1837, and poet John Clare has been put in a mental institution outside London called High Beach. Soon another writer arrives on the scene-- one Alfred, Lord Tennyson-- and their lives become entwined with High Beach's strange owner.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOUPerry, Anne.
Summary: Though Monk is witness to the terrible bombing of an afternoon pleasure boat on the river that leaves 200 people dead, much to his dismay the case is taken from his hands and given over to the commissioner of police. An Egyptian man is quickly caught, tried, and sentenced to death--and then just as swiftly murdered in prison. When evidence surfaces that proves the dead man innocent, the case is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PERDickens, Charles
Summary: The adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998