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Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive—a year of living dangerously—watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of honeybees and learning an altogether different way of being in the world." --
Author
Series
Inspector Morse mysteries volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1987, c1986
Language
English
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No one in the quiet suburban street saw anything - or at least that's what they're saying. DI Adam Fawley is trying to keep an open mind. But he knows the nine times out of ten, it's someone the victim knew. That means someone is lying ... And that Daisy's time is running out.
Author
Series
Inspector Morse mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
7) Dry bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When human bones are discovered in the cellars beneath St Luke's College - two bodies, buried thirty years apart - the bursar, Charlie Swift, hires Jennie Redhead to investigate. As she uncovers a series of scandals stretching back sixty years, Jennie wonders how well she really knows her old friend Charlie - and whether she can trust him."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Oxford, 1975. Three years ago, world-renowned anthropologist Grace Stockton was slain in a brutal, unprovoked attack. Despite a large-scale police investigation, the identity of the prime suspect was never uncovered...and neither was the location of Grace's head. But Grace's daughter, the wealthy academic Julia Pemberton, refuses to accept that the trail has run cold. Determined to find out who killed her mother, she knows just the woman for the job:...
Author
Publisher
Oxford Univ. Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Roberts, begins with a discussion of the prehuman past and continues up until mid-1990. The text is divided into eight "books", each of which is organized around a central focus and begins with a brief overview. These books are then subdivided into shorter chapters."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
League of extraordinary women novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A lady must have money and an army of her own if she is to win a revolution - but first, she must pit her wits against the wiles of an irresistible rogue bent on wrecking her plans... and her heart. Lady Lucie is fuming. She and her band of Oxford suffragists have finally scraped together enough capital to control one of London's major publishing houses, with one purpose: to use it in a coup against Parliament. But who could have predicted that the...
Author
Series
DI Adam Fawley thriller volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When two children are pulled from the smoking ruin of their home on Christmas and their parents are nowhere to be found, DI Adam Fawley is faced with one of his most disturbing cases yet as he and his team sift through the smoldering evidence to reveal a terrible truth.
Author
Publisher
Arcturus
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve are on the case again when a police patrol car finds an abandoned Jaguar, with the strangled body of a young girl jammed into the boot. Her name was Betty Tyler, and she had been strangled with her own scarf. Three more murders are committed before the sleuthing couple can produce the answer for Sir Graham Forbes and Scotland Yard.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleuth / Puffin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When ninth-grader Gilda travels to an international piano competition in Oxford, England, as page turner for her friend Wendy Choy, she finds adventure investigating why Wendy is being haunted and who is frightening the performers, while enjoying a romance with a British boy and her first kiss.
16) Magpie Lane
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging, an eerie and ancient house, a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost...
17) 史蒂芬.霍金
Author
Series
Publisher
Kang xuan wen jiao shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
When Stephen Hawking was a little boy, he used to stare up at the stars and wonder about the universe. Although he was never top of the class, his curiosity took him to the best universities in England: Oxford and Cambridge. It also led him to make one of the biggest scientific discoveries of the 20th century: Hawking radiation. This moving book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When poet and writer Joy Davidman began writing letters to C. S. 'Jack' Lewis, she was looking for spiritual answers, not love. Everything about New Yorker Joy seemed ill-matched for an Oxford don and the beloved writer of Narnia, yet their minds bonded over their letters. Embarking on the adventure of her life, Joy traveled from America to England and back again, and against all odds, found a love that even the threat of death couldn't destroy. --...
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