london (england)

In 2013, Natalia and her brother Airon arrive with their mother in London to appear on a reality television program, but after the two children become separated from their mother, they set out to find her, accompanied by Shao Li, Natalia's imaginary friend, who gives them strength when they meet unique and possibly dangerous individuals.

"Amelie Hampton is a hopeless romantic who offers relationship advice to individuals who place 'lonely hearts' ads in The Marriage Gazette. She is swept up in mystery, intrigue, and romance when a handsome detective requests her help to catch a killer who may be using the newspaper to find his next victim"--Provided by publisher.

"Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook,and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him. But the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him."--Provided by publisher.

"Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere outside of the movies. But then, through the mist on a bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows, instantly, is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London . . . But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they 'reunite' at a Christmas party, when her best friend, Sarah, giddily introduces her new boyfriend--Jack, the man from the bus--to Laurie. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered"--Provided by publisher.

"On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young womanrecently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a . . . correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters. But as Eileen and Gershon's relationship flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the rest of Europe reach a crescendo. When war is declared, Gershon heads for Cairo and Eileen forgoes her studies to work in the Air Ministry. [This book] is a . . . glimpse of life in London during World War II and a . . . portrait of an ordinary young woman trying to carve a place for herself in a time of uncertainty. As the Luftwaffe begins its bombardment of England, Eileen, like her fellow Britons, carries on while her loved ones are called up to fight, some never to return home. Written over the course of the conflict, Eileen's letters provide a . . . glimpse of this historic of this historic era"--OCLC.

"In 'Wild Werewolves,' the Mystery Club set off on a citywide search for a werewolf; and in 'Mummy Mischief,' the Mystery Club investigates if a mummy sighting in the subway station is connected to the new exhibit at the British Museum"--OCLC.

"Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes struggle"--OCLC.

"A fictional account of the towering hairstyles that women wore in 18th century England"--OCLC.

Audrey Rose Wadsworth, a highborn Victorian young lady, is determined to understand the nature of death after her own mother's death and as she is secretly apprenticing in forensics she finds herself embroiled in the investigation of serial killer Jack el Destripador. Presented in Spanish.

While sinister Lord Luxon makes himself at home in twenty-first century Manhattan, Peter and Kate, aided by Gideon, pursue The Tar Man through the streets of eighteenth-century London, when history is at its tipping point.