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1) The Marvels
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits...
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 2
Language
English
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
222 pages : color illustrations ; 26cm
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. Orwell's best-known work of unrelenting dystopian realism warns against totalitarianism. The story is told from the point of view of Winston Smith, a functionary of the Ministry of Truth whose work involved the "correction" of all records each time the "Big Brother" decided that the truth had changed.
Author
Series
Black butler volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
170 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"As high society's social calendar opens up and the Season draws to a close, London is gripped by fear. Someone has taken to stalking women of the night and painting the town red-- in their blood. The name on everyone's lips seems to be 'Jack the Ripper' -- and as a result, the name on Queen Victoria's lips is Phantomhive. Summoned to London to clean up the mess created by this madman, Ciel Phantomhive arrives with Sebastian, his extraordinary butler,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The beleaguered London of 1898 has barely had time to assess the injuries of recent conflagrations in its lower class districts when a new threat arrives, falling from the upper atmosphere in gargantuan metal cylinders that leading scientists claim have travelled from the planet Mars! Once again a call goes out through the channels of British Military Intelligence to an improbable group of champions: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Allan Quatermain,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
205 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Joana es una joven bruja que consiguió el trabajo de sus sueños en un aquelarre en Londres, su ciudad favorita, donde podrá dedicarse a crear pociones, ¡su actividad favorita! Sin embargo, pronto descubrirá que la realidad de la vida en la ciudad no es tan idÃlica. Encontrar piso es una dura prueba, el "trabajo de sus sueños" es estresante y está totalmente sola. Poco a poco se va haciendo un hueco, pero el cansancio, la tristeza y las dudas...
Author
Series
Black butler volume 26
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While Earl Ciel Phantomhive, accompanied by his indomitable butler, Sebastian, is away on the trail of his quarry, Blavat, the sound of gunshots rends the silence of his London town house. A scene of carnage awaits master and servant upon their return, along with a chilling message from the forgotten past that shakes the young earl to his core..."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Black butler volume 32
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
174 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Baldo and Lau have uncovered the blood collection scheme at the Athena Sanitorium for Former Service men in record time, but the situation is not as cut-and-dry as they had assumed. While chief nurse Ada wants nothing more than to wash her hands of the whole affair, her duty to give the best care possible to her fellow veterans keeps her shackled to the Aurora Society. After all, the atrocities of war and the guilt of survival are heavy burdens to...
Author
Series
Black butler volume 25
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
141 pages, 27 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Sphere Music Hall, with its elaborate entertainments, has the denizens of London under its spell and at the mercy of its resident cult's nefarious motives. To snap the populace out of the trance, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his unparalleled butler Sebastian get down to business ... literally! The young earl takes the fight right to the enemy's door by opening a music hall of his own.
12) Just so happens
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
159 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yumiko was born in Japan but has made a life in London, losing herself in its cosmopolitan bustle. She has a gallery show of her art, a good job, and a good guy she plans to marry. The culture she grew up in seems very far away--until her brother phones with the news that their father has died. Yumiko returns to Tokyo and finds herself immersed in the rituals of death while also plunged into the rituals of life--fish bars, bullet trains, pagodas--as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Holmes and Watson tackle brain-teasing crimes in modern-day London in this stunning Manga, presented in its original right-to-left reading order, and in the full chapters as originally serialized! Meet Holmes and Watson for the first time ... all over again!"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Black butler volume 29
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
158 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The queen's watchdog has become a fugitive, and the 'true' Earl of Phantomhive has taken up residence in the manor. The Undertaker has yet to perfect his craft, though, and Ciel knows precisely what his brother is plotting. Even on the run, the master still has his retainers-- scattered to society's darkest shadows, they search for the barest shred of information to turn the tide for good..."--Provided by publisher.
15) Black butler: 31
Author
Series
Black butler volume 31
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
164 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In order to cut off their enemies' lifelines, the Phantomhive staff has scattered in all directions. To the north, Mey-Rin, having infiltrated Baron Heathfiel's manor, engages in battle with the masterful maid, Jane! Meanwhile, in the east, at a sanatorium for veterans, Baldo and Lau receive a rough welcome from the nurse celebrated as a miracle healer"--
Author
Series
Black butler volume 30
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When searching for Ran-Mao, Mey-Rin's succesfully uncovered the covert operation in Baron Heathfield's manor--but an unforeseen hurdle stands in the way of a job well done. A tantalizing offer of employment has Mey-Rin reflecting on her own blood-soaked history that binds her to the former Earl Phantohive...Will she remain the master's devoted servant or will she abandon her post for good...?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Black butler volume 10
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
192 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"With his royally sanctioned dinner party a shambles and a murderer on the loose, Earl Ciel Phantomhive is a veritable prisoner in his own home, alongside those of his guests who still live. And in the most shocking of turns, the young earl now finds himself without his indispensible manservant, Sebastian. But as the mystery deepens, there arrives upon the young earl's doorstep an odd vicar, wearing an insolent smile and an Inverness cape that flaps...
Author
Series
Black butler volume 28
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
166 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"The truth of what happened three years ago comes to light, as the past Ciel sought to erase is thrust back into his face. The revelations shake the Phantomhive manor to its foundations, and even Sebastian, the resident devil, can only look on in admiration at the consummate gamesmanship at play. The Phantomhive blood, it would seem, runs thick with the thirst for vengeance..."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
195 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
"London, 1889. A woman is being held prisoner while she awaits a forced marriage. Another has been kidnapped, and yet another disappears... As Enola seeks to rescue the three women, her brother embarks on a quest of his own. When Sherlock receives a mysterious package, he knows he'll need Enola's help to decipher its meaning. In the end, the three Holmes siblings will have to work together to answer the question that started it all: What happened...
Author
Series
Glass scientists volume 1
Pub. Date
2023-
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"London isn't the safest place for mad scientists these days. After that whole ordeal with Frankenstein, angry mobs have gotten awfully good at hunting down monsters and wiping out anything they don't understand. In fact, if it weren't for one extraordinary young man, every out-of-the-box thinker would have been locked up... or worse. That young man is none other than Dr. Henry Jekyll. He believes mad scientists would thrive if they could just fix...
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