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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Classic novel of consuming passions, played out against the lonely moors of northern England, recounts the turbulent and tempestuous love story of Cathy and Heathcliff. A masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the story remains as poignant and compelling today as it was when first published in 1847.
Author
Series
Ladies of the manor volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1910 Edwardian England, a British-born young heiress raised in the palace of Monaco comes to Yorkshire, where mystery and tragedy threaten her very existence"--
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case, from New York Times best-selling author Peter Robinson.
A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased - a policeman who has since gone missing.
The dead woman in the car had been running from something - but she didn't run far or fast enough....
Author
Series
Ladies of the manor volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a shocking attack, heiress Rowena Kinnaird feels betrayed by her family and the man she was to marry. She flees the Highlands, landing at the Duke of Nottingham's door. Rowena needs help but is hesitant to trust a flirt like Brice. Then she learns his life is also under threat. When her father locates her, can she and Brice find a way out of danger?
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"As Banks and his team follow what few clues they have, desperate to find the missing boy, who holds the key to the puzzle, they find themselves branching out in different directions. As the end game becomes a race against time, even Banks's team isn't safe from the rage of the hunted animal"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Two detectives, upper-crust Thomas Lynley and working-class Barbara Havers, are sent by Scotland Yard to Yorkshire to investigate a teenager who supposedly killed her father with an axe. The more they investigate the crime, however, the more lies and secrets they uncover about the girl, her father, their family, and the entire village.
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mallory Keswick can't imagine how her life could possibly be better. She has a wonderful, fulfilling marriage to a man who loves, supports, and nurtures her. She has a lovely home and beautiful twins who bring joy to her days, to all of which she devotes herself wholeheartedly. Mallory feels she has finally found the elusive sense of family that never quite rang true in her own childhood-until an exceptionally cruel act of violence tears apart the...
Author
Series
Frederica Potter series volume 4
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
This triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt's great quartet of postwar English life and manners stands on its own as a magical and thought-provoking novel of ideas made flesh. Frederica, the spirited heroine of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, and Babel Tower, falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, while tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to split her world. In the late 1960s, the languages of religion,...
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
First Chief Constable Jeremiah "Jimmy" Riddle has to put aside his animosities in order to ask Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks for help when "nude pictures of Riddle's runaway teenage daughter show up on a pornographic website." Then once the daughter is safely home again, a murder investigation leads Banks back to the private life of the Riddles.--Jacket.
12) Elmet
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Cathy and Daniel live in the remote woods of Yorkshire with their gentle brute of a father, a former enforcer who now wants only to be left alone to raise his children. But when a powerful landowner shows up on their doorstep, a chain of violent events is set in motion"--
13) Raven's gate
Author
Series
Gatekeepers (Anthony Horowitz) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle.
Author
Publisher
Edimat Libros
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
La poderosa y hosca figura de Heathcliff domina Cumbres Borrascosas, novela apasionada y tempestuosa cuya sensibilidad se adelantó a su tiempo. Los brumosos y sombríos páramos de Yorkshire son el singular escenario donde se desarrolla con fuerza arrebatadora esta historia de venganza y odio, de pasiones desatadas y amores desesperados que van más allá de la muerte y que hacen de ella una de las obras más singulares y atractivas de todos los...
Author
Series
Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Lord Belfrey of Mucklesfeld Manor has decided to save his crumbling establishment by offering himself as the prize on a TV reality show, but after one of his potential brides is shot during an archery contest, Ellie Haskell begins to explore the dark passageways and hidden nooks of Belfrey's delightfully Gothic estate--unprepared for the secrets lurking behind closed doors.
16) Hangman blind
Author
Series
Abbess of Meaux mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
In November 1382, the month of the dead, Abbess Hildegard rides out for York from the Abbey of Meaux. This is no ordinary journey?it is a time of rival popes, a boy king, and a shaky peace in the savage aftermath of Wat Tyler?s murder?and Hildegard has embarked on a perilous mission to try to secure the future of her priory.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
"For years things have run smoothly at Cavendon Hall, with very few quarrels, dramas, or upsets among the Inghams and the Swanns. But since the end of World War II, things have changed. The Secrets of Cavendon picks up in the summer of 1949, with the new generation of the estate at the forefront of the scandal and intrigue. With romance, betrayal, heartbreak, and possible murder threatening to tear them apart, the Inghams and Swanns will have to find...
18) The cliff's edge
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Restless and uncertain of her future in the wake of World War I, former battlefield nurse Bess Crawford agrees to travel to Yorkshire to help a friend of her cousin Melinda through surgery. But circumstances change suddenly when news of a terrible accident reaches them. Bess agrees to go to isolated Scarfdale and the Neville family, where one man has been killed and another gravely injured. The police are asking questions, and Bess is quickly drawn...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
The body of a well-liked local historian is found half-buried under a drystone wall near the village of Helmthorpe, Swainsdale. Who on earth would want to kill such a thoughtful, dedicated man? Penny Cartwright, a beautiful folk singer with a mysterious past, a shady land-developer, Harry's editor and a local thriller writer are all suspects--and all are figures from Harry's previous, idyllic summers in the dale. A young girl, Sally Lumb, knows more...
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