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Black Water / by MacHale, D. J.;
Bobby Pendragon has to save the people of Eelong from a plague by bringing an antidote from another territory, but unfortunately moving things between territories is forbidden, and Bobby could up endangering the people in Halla."Ages 10 up"--P. [4] of cover.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Pendragon, Bobby (Fictitious character); Time travel; Poisons; Time travel; Fantasy.; Adventure and adventurers;
© 2004., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub.,

Girl, serpent, thorn / by Bashardoust, Melissa.;
Soraya, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch, has lived eighteen years in the shadows but as her twin brother's wedding approaches, she faces choices with unimaginable consequences.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Princesses; Blessing and cursing; Poisoners; Brothers and sisters; Twins;

Hemlock & silver / by Kingfisher, T.,author.;
"From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Hemlock & Silver, a dark reimagining of "Snow White" steeped in poison, intrigue, and treason of the most magical kind. Healer Anja regularly drinks poison. Not to die, but to save -- seeking cures for those everyone else has given up on. But a summons from the King interrupts her quiet, herb-obsessed life. His daughter, Snow, is dying, and he hopes Anja's unorthodox methods can save her. Aided by a taciturn guard, a narcissistic cat, and a passion for the scientific method, Anja rushes to treat Snow, but nothing seems to work. That is, until she finds a secret world, hidden inside a magic mirror. This dark realm may hold the key to what is making Snow sick. Or it might be the thing that kills them all"--
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Snow White (Tale); Diseases; Magic; Poisons; Blessing and cursing;

Marble Hall murders : a novel / by Horowitz, Anthony,1955-author.;
"Editor Susan Ryeland has left her Greek island, her hotel, and her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, in search of a new life back in England. Freelancing for Causton Books, she's working on the manuscript of a novel, Pund's Last Case, by a young author named Eliot Crace, a continuation of the popular Alan Conway series. Susan is surprised to learn that Eliot is the grandson of legendary children's author Marian Crace, who died some fifteen years ago -- murdered, Eliot insists, by poison. As Susan begins to read the manuscript's opening chapters, the skeptical editor is relieved to find that Pund's Last Case is actually very good. Set in the South of France, it revolves around the mysterious death of Lady Margaret Chalfont, who, though mortally ill, is poisoned -- perhaps by a member of her own family. But who did it? And why? The deeper Susan reads, the more it becomes clear that the clues leading to the truth of Marian Crace's death are hidden within this Atticus Pund mystery. While Eliot's accusation becomes more plausible, his behaviour grows increasingly erratic. Then he is suddenly killed in a hit-and-run accident, and Susan finds herself under police scrutiny as a suspect in his death. Three mysterious deaths. Multiple motives and possible murderers. If Susan doesn't solve the mystery of Pund's Last Case, she may well be the next victim."--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Novels.; Editors; Manuscripts; Murder; Poisoning;

Six weeks to live : a novel / by McKenzie, Catherine,author.;
"Jennifer Barnes never expected the shocking news she received at a routine doctor's appointment: she has a terminal brain tumour-and only six weeks left to live. While stunned by the diagnosis, the forty-eight-year-old mother decides to spend what little time she has left with her family-her adult triplets and twin grandsons-close by her side. But when she realizes she was possibly poisoned a year earlier, she's determined to discover who might have tried to get rid of her before she's gone for good. Separated from her husband and with a contentious divorce in progress, Jennifer focuses her suspicions on her soon-to-be ex. Meanwhile, her daughters are each processing the news differently. Calm medical student Emily is there for whatever Jennifer needs. Moody scientist Aline, who keeps her mother at arm's length, nonetheless agrees to help with the investigation. Even imprudent Miranda, who has recently had to move back home, is being unusually solicitous. But with her daughters doubting her campaign against their father, Jennifer can't help but wonder if the poisoning is all in her head-or if there's someone else who wanted her dead"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Psychological fiction.; Terminally ill; Mothers and daughters; Poisoning;

Children of radium : a buried inheritance / by Dunthorne, Joe,author.;
Includes bibliographic key to online citations and index."In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this extraordinary family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist specializing in radioactive household products who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis. When novelist and poet Joe Dunthorne began researching his family history, he expected to write the account of their heroic escape from Nazi Germany in 1935. Instead, what he found in his great-grandfather's voluminous, unpublished, partially translated memoir was a much darker, more complicated story. "I confess to my descendants who will read these lines that I made a grave error. I betrayed myself, my most sacred principles," he wrote. "I cannot shake off the great debt on my conscience." Siegfried Merzbacher was a German-Jewish chemist living in Oranienburg, a small town north of Berlin, where he developed various household items, including a radioactive toothpaste called Doramad. But then he was asked by the government to work on products with a strong military connection -- first he made and tested gas-mask filters, and then he was invited to establish a chemical weapons laboratory. Between 1933 and 1935, he was a Jewish chemist making chemical weapons for the Nazis. While he and his nuclear family escaped safely to Turkey before the war, Siegfried never got over his complicity, particularly after learning that members of his extended family were murdered in Auschwitz. Armed only with his great-grandfather's rambling, 2,000-page deathbed memoir and a handful of archival clues, Dunthorne traveled to Munich, Ammendorf, Berlin, Ankara, and Oranienburg -- a place where hundreds of unexploded bombs remain hidden in the irradiated soil -- to reckon with the remarkable, unsettling legacy of his family's past"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Family histories.; Personal narratives.; Merzbacher, Siegfried, 1883-1971; Merzbacher, Siegfried, 1883-1971.; Chemical weapons; Chemists; Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous; Jews;

Beeline to trouble / by Reed, Hannah,1953-;
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Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Detective and mystery stories.; Fischer, Story (Fictitious character); Beekeepers; Murder; Poisoning;
© c2012., Berkley Pub. Group,

Her many faces : a novel / by Cloke, Nicci,1986-author.;
"When four influential members are poisoned at London's most exclusive private club, a young waitress is charged with their murder. Her personal life and upbringing are dissected, and five men begin to question how well they really knew her. Her father remembers the sweet schoolgirl. Her childhood friend bonded over a shared fascination with conspiracy theories. Her lover regrets ever falling for her. Her lawyer believes she is hiding something. A journalist is convinced he knows exactly who she is: a cold-blooded killer. But which is the true face of Katherine Cole? The reality lies somewhere between these very different perspectives."--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Identity (Psychology); Murder; Poisoning; Trials (Murder); Waitresses;

Code Realize. [electronic resource]. by Sony Computer Entertainment.;
Game.Code: Realize ~wintertide miracles~ continues the adventures of the poison-skinned maiden Cardia and a selection of famous (and famously handsome) figures from Western literature as they face new challenges, new friends and foes, and new opportunities for love.ESRB Content Rating: T, Teen (Blood, mild language, mild suggestive themes. mild violence, use of tobacco).Blu-ray disc compatible with Playstation 4 console ; HDTV 720p/1080i/1080p ; in game surround sound ; 12 GB storage required.
Subjects: Playstation 4 (Video game console); Video games.; Computer games.; Poisons; Blood; Code: Realize Wintertide miracles (Game); Computer adventure games;

Seed bank heist / by Bright, J. E.; Beavers, Ethen.;
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Subjects: Plot-your-own stories.; Batman (Fictitious character); Poison Ivy (Fictitious character); Superheroes; Supervillains;

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