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Victoria: A Celebration of a Queen and
Her Glorious Reign
by Deborah Jaff
é
#UM1612
Hardcover, 191 pages; 2016
$24.95
She was born Princess Alexandrina Victoria,
granddaughter of a king whose family was
infamous for
“loose living, mistresses, illegitimate
children and madness.”
And yet the diminutive
princess known throughout her childhood as
“Drina” would grow up to represent stability,
progress, and upstanding family morality during
her sixty-three-year reign. This pictorial history of Britain’s
second-longest-reigning monarch—she recently was edged
out by her great-great-granddaughter Elizabeth II—explores
Queen Victoria’s childhood and ascension to the throne, her
marriage to Prince Albert, her children and her eventual role
as “grandmother of Europe,” and the monumental changes that
occurred across her empire over the course of six decades. There’s
even a handy family tree and chronology included, to help keep all the
details of her life straight. And what an amazing life it was!
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Vintage School Chart
World Map
#UM0512 $49.95
Invoke the nostalgia of grade
school days gone by with
our
Vintage School Chart
World Map
. Printed on high-
quality Italian paper stock,
this 40"x28" chart features
beautiful, dark-stained
wood dowels and a vintage
map (not modernized
with twenty-first-century
geopolitical details)
reminiscent of the kind once
found hanging in classrooms
all over the country. Great for a library, study, playroom, or anywhere else you need a touch of
old-fashioned and worldly flair!
(Sorry, no gift-wrapping.)
The Detective’s Daughter Series
by Lesley Thomson
#UM1712
Set of four paperbacks, 408–472 pages;
2016 (2013)
$59.80
$53.82
(BBS $50.83)
Individual titles
Each
$14.95
(BBS $12.71)
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The Detective’s Daughter
#UM0872
Ghost Girl
#UM0882
The Detective’s Secret
#UM0892
The House with No Rooms
Following Detective Chief Superintendent Darnell’s
unexpected death, his daughter Stella discovers her
father had been actively investigating the decades-old
unsolved murder that haunted his career: A young
mother, out for a walk with her toddler, was killed,
her body washed ashore on the banks of the Thames. Compelled to finish what he started,
Stella takes time away from her busy cleaning business to pursue the leads DCI Darnell
uncovered, risking her life and finding help from an unlikely—and somewhat disturbed—ally.
The Detective’s Daughter
, the first novel in the series of the same name, unleashes the unlikely
crime-solving duo on a slew of cold cases, in the footsteps of Stella’s father. Intelligent and fast-
paced British mysteries, these page-turning, satisfying reads may have you canceling plans in
favor of staying in to read!
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