london (england)

Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.

Chronicles the years Benjamin Franklin spent in London, first as a young man and later as a representative for the American colonies during the Seven Year's war.

In South London, Raf, a young man with a rare sleep disorder, frequents local raves where a new designer drug called Glow is popular. When his friend Theo vanishes, Raf's efforts to find him involve him in a global corporate conspiracy and with Cherish, a beautiful young woman with hidden motives.

Maps, illustrations, a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and index help investigate the unsolved murders by Jack the Ripper, the first media-sensationalized serial killer.

By day R?my Brunel is a daring circus acrobat, by night she is an equally talented jewel thief currently assigned to steal a famous diamond in Victorian London--but when the theft goes wrong she finds herself allied with a young policeman as they try to find the elusive gem.

The author relates the story of his relationship with his uncle Shanti Behari Seth, who was sent to Germany as a young man in the 1930s to study medicine and dentistry, and Shanti's wife, Helga Gerda Caro, a Jewish German.

A historical novel about the inhabitants of a shabby boarding house in London during the Great War.

On the run from her abusive father, fifteen-year-old Edie Fraser and her mother flee to London, England, for a fresh start. But one day, Edie's mom doesn't come home from work. Afraid to phone the police and risk being returned to her father, Edie begins a desperate search for her mother and finds an unlikely ally along the way.

An artistic orphan moves to London to follow her dream of becoming a mime and forges friendships with an illegal alien, a good-looking bum, and an old drunk after moving onto a longboat in a canal.

In London as an emissary to the Crown, Benjamin Franklin is soon summoned by the magistrate of Westminster to help solve the brutal murder of a young noblewoman. Franklin's investigations lead him from St. James Square to gin mills, and Oxford.