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The tower, the zoo, and the tortoise

When Balthazar Jones is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower of London's walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then his wife Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise "runs" away.

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  • "When Balthazar Jones is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower of London's walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then his wife Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise "runs" away.--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • "Balthazar Jones lives in the Tower of London with his wife, Hebe, his one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet tortoise, and a few eccentric neighbors. Balthazar is a Beefeater. The white-hot flame of his and Hebe's love has dwindled in the few years since their son died. Their marriage is teetering on the brink of extinction, when Balthazar is unexpectedly tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower to house the many exotic animals given to the Queen. Life at the Tower is about to get all the more interesting.--From back cover."
  • "Balthazar Jones, a Beefeater, lives in the Tower of London with his wife, Hebe, his one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet tortoise, and a few eccentric neighbors. Their marriage is teetering on the brink of extinction since their son died. When Balthazar is unexpectedly tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower to house the many exotic animals given to the Queen his life is about to get all the more interesting."
  • "When Balthazar Jones is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower of London's walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then his wife Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise "runs" away."@en
  • "When Balthazar Jones is tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower of London's walls to house the many exotic animals gifted to the Queen, life at the Tower gets all the more interesting. Penguins escape, giraffes are stolen, and the Komodo dragon sends innocent people running for their lives. Balthazar is in charge and things are not exactly running smoothly. Then his wife Hebe decides to leave him and his beloved tortoise "runs" away."
  • "Beefeater Balthazar Jones finds his already chaotic life living in the Tower of London with a group of eccentric individuals getting even more complicated when he is assigned to set up housing within the attraction's walls for exotic animals gifted to the queen, his wife leaves him, and his 120-year-old tortoise runs away."@en
  • "Chaos reigns over Beefeater Balthazar Jones's life at the Tower of London as he watches his marriage fall apart, loses his beloved pet tortoise, and is assigned the task of housing the queen's assortment of animals."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Love stories"

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  • "Le zoo de la Tour de Londres"
  • "The tower, the zoo, and the tortoise"@en
  • "The tower, the zoo, and the tortoise"
  • "The Tower Zoo, and the Tortoise"
  • "倫敦塔祕密動物園"
  • "Balthazar Jones et le zoo de la Tour"
  • "Lun dun ta mi mi dong wu yuan"
  • "Lundun ta mi mi dong wu yuan"

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