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Language
English
Description
Hidden in the depths of eighteenth-century London, a secret apothecary shop caters to an unusual kind of clientèle. Women across the city whisper of a mysterious figure named Nella who sells well-disguised poisons to use against the oppressive men in their lives. But the apothecary's fate is jeopardized when her newest patron, a precocious twelve-year-old, makes a fatal mistake, sparking a string of consequences that echo through the centuries. Meanwhile...
2) Tu Youyou
Author
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Tu Youyou is a unique scientist. She is an expert in traditional Chinese medicine and modern medicine. When China needed someone to solve their problem with malaria, Youyou was the perfect person for the job. She mixed old medicine with new science and saved many lives. Her story inspires young people to enjoy science." --
Author
Series
Apothecary series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a fourteen-year-old American girl whose life unexpectedly transforms when she moves to London in 1952 and gets swept up in a race to save the world from nuclear war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Description
Hoping to return home after a winter in the Sudden Mountains so he can join his parents in the fight against the evil Chancellor, Raffa must use his apothecary skills while enlisting the help of human and animal friends to survive the journey.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Wings of Fire
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Description
When Raffa makes a cure from a rare crimson vine he finds deep in the forbidden forest, the bat he saves transforms into something much more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Description
A conclusion to the trilogy finds apothecary Raffa and his ragtag band of allies preparing to battle the heartless Chancellor's armies, a conflict he fears will cause untold suffering for the animals being forced to fight.
7) Love overdue
Author
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After a spring fling gone wrong, DJ changes to a conservative look and scuttles away to Kansas to work at a small-town library, only to have her landlady try to fix her up with the very man that precipitated her flight.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the power to tear the world apart.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
1950s. In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. Their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known. Thirty years later Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Commissario Brunetti is summoned in the middle of the night to the hospital bed of a pediatrician, he is confronted with more questions than answers. Three men--a young carabiniere captain and two privates from out of town--burst into the doctor's apartment while the family was sleeping, attacked him, and took away his eighteen-month-old boy. What could have motivated an assault by the forces of the state that was so violent it has left the
...11) Beloved poison
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
London. As St. Saviour's Infirmary awaits demolition, the doctors bicker and backstab. When six tiny coffins are uncovered, inside each a handful of dried flowers and a bundle of moldering rags, it opens a long-forgotten past that will have fatal consequences. Everyone at the Infirmary has secrets to hide, and when apothecary Jem Flockhart joins with junior architect Will Quartermain to understand the meaning of the coffins, they will be forced to...
12) Dark asylum
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the principal physician for Angel Meadow Asylum is found brutally murdered, Jem Flockhart and Will Quatermain pursue the story through the darkest corners of London. From the depths of a notorious rookery, to brothels, gallows, graveyards and the convict fleet, Jem and Will find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and hidden identities.
13) The love remedy
Author
Series
Damsels of discovery volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Romance
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A stoic private investigator finds himself employed by a devilishly bright apothecary whose business is brimming with tinctures to cure any ailment . . . except perhaps true love. When Lucinda Peterson's recently perfected formula for a salve to treat croup goes missing, she's certain it's only the latest in a line of misfortunes at the hands of a rival apothecary. Outraged and fearing financial ruin, Lucy turns to private investigator Jonathan Thorne...
14) The apothecary
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Explore the life of a colonial apothecary and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher.
15) The Blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain identify a link between a suicide and a prostitute's drowning death in a floating hospital that has dark ties to a private anatomy school and the opium dens of the waterfront.
Summoned to the riverside by the desperate note of an old friend, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find themselves onboard the seamen's floating hospital, an old hulk known only as The Blood. On shore a young woman, a known prostitute, is...
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the plague decimates London in 1665 and an assassin threatens the apothecary's life, apprentice Christopher Rowe and his faithful friend Tom, following a trail of puzzles, riddles, and secrets, risk their lives to untangle the heart of a dark conspiracy.
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