A.L. Barker

• Apr-1989
• / General Fiction
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In a parish of wealthy women, Rose Antrobus forms a committee to decide who should benefit from a small bequest left to charity. Secretly she hopes the money will go to the Peachey family - a mother cruelly abandoned and looking after her three youn...

• Oct-1989
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• Sep-1999
• / General Fiction
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Doug and Dulcie Bysshe are twins. Doug is a successful film star living in the South of France, contemplating a new part as a saintly doctor in an African leper colony. Dulcie, busy and energetic, is fighting to retrieve her husband, the mournful and...

• Sep-1999
• / Literary
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Marise Tomelty is a child-wife who dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. Ralph Shilling, a dealer in pesticides, lives in the flat above the Tomeltys'. One day, Marise's traveling-salesman husband casually mentions that he recognizes Ralph as...

• Jan-2001
• / General Fiction
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A bewitching tale of the loves that comfort and the longings that haunt us. With sly humor, exquisite dialogue, smooth narrative, and a cast of wholly original characters, this new book by the widely acclaimed novelist and Booker-Prize nominee A. L. ...

• Oct-2014
• / General Fiction
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When Gerda Charles says she is the cousin of Robert Dudley, the lover of Queen Elizabeth I, she isn't joking. And for most of the past 500 years she's been trying to find a way to die. Thanks to the help of a big-busted girl called Lalla and the man ...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2021
• / General Fiction
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What was your first experience with something unexplained?When I experienced that first voice pleading for me in the middle of the night, I knew things were not what they seemed. I just didn't realize how completely my world would change and what mys...

• Dec-2021
• / General Fiction
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What do you do if you find yourself stuck in a blizzard far away from home? Find out what this family did to survive a harsh and sudden storm. The series A Scary Situation is designed to help children learn skills to deal with scary situations. When ...

• Jul-2023
• / Horror
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An eight-year-old boy's strange behavior may have something to do with the ghost of his older brother, whose death was written off as a tragic accident - but was it? A man is lured into the clutches of a centuries-old woman who plans to use him for a...