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In 1915, long since retired from his crime-fighting days, Sherlock Holmes is engaged in a reclusive study of honeybees on the Sussex Downs. Never did the Victorian detective think to meet an intellect matching his own–until his acquaintance with Miss Mary Russell, a young twentieth-century lady whose mental acuity is equaled only by her penchant for deduction, disguises, and danger. Under Holmes’s reluctant... (more)

Penguin Readers Level 5: the Surgeon of Crowthorne: Book and Audio Cassette (Penguin Readers)

Penguin Readers Level 5: the Surgeon of Crowthorne: Book and Audio Cassette (Penguin Readers)

by Simon Winchester

In the nineteenth century, two distinguished clever men become friends. But they come from very different backgrounds, one is a brilliant academic, the other is a madman and murderer. In spite of this they work together on one of the greatest works in the English language. An intriguing tale about the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Diaries 1969-1979: The Python Years

by Michael Palin

Michael Palin has kept a diary since newly married in the late 1960s, when he was beginning to make a name for himself as a TV scriptwriter (for The Two Ronnies, David Frost, etc). Monty Python was just around the corner. This volume of his diaries reveals how Python emerged and triumphed, how he, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, the two Terrys---Jones and Gilliam---and Eric Idle came together and changed... (more)

The Ramparts of Heaven (Wakefield Dynasty #5)

The Ramparts of Heaven (Wakefield Dynasty #5)

by Gilbert Morris

Two families--the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans--are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through the ages is the struggle of men and women who sought God as the answer to their difficulties. #5: The Ramparts of Heaven Follow the quest of Andrew Wakefield, a... (more)

the dyers hand

by Wystan Hugh Auden, W. H. Auden

In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations--on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate view of the author's mind, whose... (more)

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The Beekeeper's Apprentice

A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

by Laurie R. King