Jonnet was not particularly looking forward to her visit to Amsterdam in the middle of winter, even if it did mean a reunion with her brother and the chance to heal the family quarrel when she met her aunt Grethe. To find out that everyone apparen...
The story chronicles the coming-of-age of a group of Irish youngsters. It is a beautiful, heart-wrenching and realistic tale of two brothers who were on opposite sides of the Irish conflict. They loved and were loved by the same woman. It is an incre...
Lynne Reid Banks' Children at the Gate is a literary masterpiece from the author of The L-Shaped Room. Perfect for fans of Ali Smith, Jeanette Winterson and Deborah Levy.Children at the Gate is a heart-breaking story of love, loss, Jewish identity an...
"What a happy coincidence," Piran Trethowyn had remarked when Anna bumped into him again in Penzance. But Anna didn't agree. She had no desire to further her acquaintance with such an insulting and overbearing character. How dared he t...
Ramona Quimby can't wait to begin first grade! She'll finally be in the same grown-up school as her sister, Beezus. Though Ramona has high hopes, life in Mrs. Griggs's class is not what she thought it would be. On the very first day Ramona tells an ...
"I don't need your company or your protection," Paddy told the autocratic Venn Wildash at their first meeting. But later she was to come to regret those hasty words and to hope against hope that she could gain Venn's love. Hero:...
The wheeler-dealers and management technicians of a giant American conglomerate take over an ancient, distinguished Bordeaux vineyard, transforming the lives of efficiency-minded American technocrats and tradition-minded French aristocrats and vintne...
Edge of Madness. They said Naida was insane, that she had murdered Sophie and Reuben Mayes. They had locked her away at The Shelters asylum, but at last she was free to seek the truth of the terrifying night. Only handsome Dr. Duncan -- Roy, wh...
Although he didn't invent the Round Table or the tales of its fellowship, the twelfth-century poet Chrétien de Troyes was the first to recount in verse the adventures of Arthur's knights. He is also chiefly responsible for establishing the importanc...
Paul Craddock is still young when he is invalided out of the army after the Boer War and he discovers the neglected estate of Shallowford in a secluded corner of Devon. It seems remote from the march of progress. But as storm clouds gather over Europ...
Robert Heinlein says, ?This book is raw corn liquor ? you should serve a whiskbroom with each shot so the customer can brush the sawdust off after he gets up from the floor.? Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for read...
Tormented by a dream… Threatened by a memory… Twisted out of time and place… The night rings out with shrieks of the dead. A beautiful young woman quivers with fear and struggles to escape the nightmares that torment and defy her. Suspi...
Mrs. Kerry Sanders, that very wealthy American lady, had engaged Jonah Dereham, ex-prize-winning jockey, to buy a steeplechaser for the son of a special friend. The son was Nicol Brevett, an aggressive young man with a sudden, dangerous temper. Bu...
Would destiny answer her dreams of romance? Henrietta had risked her life to meet the man she would marry, the charming and wealthy shipowner Rolf Cheval. From the first moment, she knew him to be the most handsome man she had ever seen. She had c...
The only complication in Isa's new job was that it brought her into the centre of the antagonism between her employer, Toby Carmichael, and his enemy, Chris Burrows. Isa found both men attractive -- but why couldn't they leave her out of...
Both witness to and victim of Stalin’s reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia’s prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book<...
Goyen passes on traditional conventions of plot and character. The House of Breath is an address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in small Texas town, Charity. The novel is a meditation on the nature of identity and ...
Norah has been in the Syme household a few days before she learns of her close resemblance to her employer's niece, Marion Syme, who drowned several years ago. Is there something to be afraid of in the half-deserted house - or something more sinister...
Tibb is a Leo -- and Leos are as fierce as they come Thirteen-year-old Tibb knows she has the best sign of the zodiac. People born under the sign of Leo the Lion are strong and forceful, and Tibb more than lives up to the reputation. Her aversion to ...
Jim Keene had travelled 1000 miles to get aw ay from trouble, only to find it waiting for him at the end of the trail. The smell of death perfumed the air when he ro de into Cloud Valley, where a blood feud threatened to blow the territory sky high. ...
Everyone In Town Knew Cara Sumner… And everyone adored her -- her husband, who discarded his first wife to marry her; Johnny Merrill, the boy next door, who wore her locket; her maid, her hairdresser…probably everybody but young Bibsy, rejecte...
When someone hangs a meddlesome ex-schoolteacher of an English coastal village and arranges her corpse in a macabre display, Inspector Kenworthy concocts an elaborate scheme to solve the near-perfect crime...
Thirteen miles above the Atlantic, Captain Thomas Bartlett and First Officer Peter Kowsky endeavor to keep their one-hundred-and-sixty-passenger supersonic transport in flight despite rapidly dwindling fuel...
The glittering saga of our America -- and the people who made her great. Beginning with a rag-tag group of Continental soldiers awaiting the British charge on Breed's Hill, and sweeping across the luminous fabric of our Nation's earliest, war-torn y...
This Was England Our story begins with the birth of Mary Hanskye in 1841 as the Industrial Revolution is changing the face of pastoral England. While still a child, Mary comes under the influence of her uncle, one of England’s great shipbuilders...
It was a time of golden opportunity in the West. For Jean Talon, young shipwright, it meant a chance to build. But there were others in the land--unscrupulous men eager to seize what couldn't be gained lawfully. Jean Talon struck out against the most...
After years of estrangement, Miranda had been dubious about accepting the invitation of her French grandmother to visit her at her home in Provence, and she set out rather reluctantly. She might not have been so reluctant had she known she would ...
'I shall wear demure grey dresses, with neat white collars. No make-up, of course. And good sensible shoes. I shall smile all the time - the sort of earnest, unmeaning smile that makes other people simply furious - and I shall say, 'Yes, Mr. Imray...
"Miranda," Rafael said through clenched teeth, "I beg of you, do not drive me too far!" Rafael was annoyed. No woman of his own nationality had looked at him in quite that way before. Had she no respect - this girl from England! D...
Fourteen-year-old Mike Harrington, whose reality consists of his wild pets and collections, famous explorers and naturalists, and natural history, fights for what he loves when a land-developer moves to destroy the woodlands near his home...
Tarl Cabot's efforts to free himself from the directive of the mysterious priest-kings of Earth's orbital counterpart were confronted by frightening reality when horror from the northland finally struck directly at him. Somewhere in the harsh land...
Elizabeth was determined to enjoy her holiday in the Highlands and looked forward to meeting new people during her stay. But the arrogant Kerr Carmichael, she decided after their first encounter, was not a person that she wished to know better. H...
''Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-f...
The house of famous writer Matthew Cain was a beautiful, imposing place--but lovely young Joanna Flannery felt chilled from the moment she arrived to start work as Cain's secretary. There was sorrow and pain in this house, but most of all there w...
From Simon & Schuster, Test of Loyalty is the story Daniel Ellsberg and the rituals of secret government—a must-read biography for any lover of history.Journalist Peter Schrag reports on the course of the famous Pentagon Papers trial, assesses ...
Centers on the ordeals of David Preston, medical officer with Confederate General Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson's Army of Northern Virginia, following the Army's campaigns from Harpers Ferry to Appomattox...
The first volume in J.I.M. Stewart’s acclaimed ‘A Staircase in Surrey’ quintet, (but the second in time), ‘The Gaudy’ opens in Oxford at the eponymous annual dinner laid on by the Fellows for past members. Distinguished guests, including th...
One night when Ludo is home alone, his family's only horse, Renti, escapes from the stable. Overcome with guilt and fear, Ludo follows Renti out in to the snow, and before long the pair find themselves in the House of the Archer, a gateway to the Zod...
James Thomas Brudenell, Seventh Earl of Cardigan (1797-1868), dragoon, hussar, huntsman, landholder, husband, adulterer, sometime Member of Parliament, duelist, probably the most hated and adulated aristocrat of his time, waited for almost sixty year...
Narrates the reactions of a small 1824 Indian settlement to the capture, trial, conviction and execution of five white men for the premeditated murder of nine peaceful men, women and children of the Seneca tribe...
Inside the wall of a palatial Newport estate, a violent struggle was beginning. Christy Moreland had come back to Spindrift determined to uncover the truth behind the mansion's most tightly held secret: the reason for her father's death. It was a t...