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Diane Setterfield
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BookFirst Ediition/First PrintingAtria2006
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The Thirteenth Tale is a love letter to reading, a book for the feral reader in all of us, a return to that rich vein of storytelling that our parents loved and that we loved as children.
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Robert Barnard
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Book1st U.S. edScribner’s1993
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Old Lettie Faraday may know why greedy Gerald Suzman is starting a fan club for minor literary figures Joshua and Susannah Sneddon, Yorkshire siblings and the victims of a fifty-year-old murder-suicide, and Detective Constable Charlie Peace fears for Lettie’s life.
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Robert Barnard
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BookScribner1999
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Masterly mystery writer Robert Barnard transports us to the Yorkshire town of Haworth, once home to the literary Bronts, now a crowded tourist mecca, for The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori, which begins with the shocking discovery of a young man’s strangled body in an Indian Tandoori restaurant parking lot.
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Reginald Hill
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Book1st U.S. edHarperCollins Publishers2003
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Three times Yorkshire policeman Peter Pascoe has wrongly accused ex-con, aspiring academic, and inveterate joker Franny Roote of a crime, only to have Roote walk free. Hill has been praised by the New York Times Book Review as “ever the master of form and sorcerer of style,” and with Death’s Jest-Book, he delivers a tour de force not to be missed.
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James Herriot
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BookSt. Martin’s Press1994
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Between these covers, teller and tales finally meet in a warm and joyful new collection that will bring delight to the hearts of readers the world over: James Herriot’s Cat Stories. And along with these come others, each story as memorable and heartwarming as the last, each told with that magical blend of gentle wit and human compassion that marks every word from James Herriot’s pen.
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Beth Hilgartner
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BookFirst EditionHoughton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)1986
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Horrified at having witnessed her father’s murder and fearing that the killers are agents of Queen Elizabeth I, eleven-year-old Alice Tuckfield hides in the Yorkshire cathedral by disguising herself as one of the choirboys.
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Ben M. Baglio; illustrations by Ann Baum
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BookScholastic1999
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When Mandy’s dad diagnoses an Old English Sheepdog puppy as deaf, Mandy feels sorry for it. But it isn’t until she finds another Sheepdog puppy weak and abandoned that she and James begin to get suspicious.
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Peter Robinson
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BookFirst ThusAvon2002
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One phone call from a concerned neighbor has inadvertently led police to Terence Payne, the elusive serial killer known only as “Chameleon.” Now the fiend is in custody, perhaps dying, and a long nightmare appears to be over at last.
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Susanna Clarke; illustrations by Portia Rosenberg
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Book1st U.S. edBloomsbury2004
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English magicians were once the wonder of the known world, with fairy servants at their beck and call; For Mr Norrell, their power is something to be cautiously controlled, while Jonathan Strange will always be attracted to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic.
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