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Victoria Trumbull may be ninety-two, but--sharp as a tack--she is the only one to spot something amiss in the town…
cemetery. Something is indeed amiss. First comes a request to disinter a coffin for reburying elsewhere. Then things go wrong from there. Sequel to "The cranefly orchid murders", followed by "Jack in the pulpit". 2006.
Alterra made the decision to become the primary caregiver for his wife once she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. He soon…
discovered that life with an Alzheimer's patient is an ever-changing series of challenges - for instance, his wife lost her ability to walk but not to dance, so husband and wife dance from bed to chair or room to room. He covers the search for understanding, the hallucinations, mood changes, loss of mental and physical functioning, and unpredictable nature of the disease. 2007, first published 1999.
All is not well in Mason Crowe's family. His father is away on business as a salesman too much, his…
mother takes on a lover, and his chef brother, Danny, has his own agenda. Somewhere in the midst of all this, there is Lena, a girl who has chosen Mason and will teach him something of desire and despair. Some descriptions of sex. 2002.
Tweed, reverting to his one-time role as a detective, faces the most frightening challenge of his career. Is al-Qa'eda about…
to attack London with a strategic onslaught that will make September 11 seem like a tactical attack? Rumours abound as time runs out. With Paul Gray and Bob Newman, Tweed discovers the weird village of Carpford, and also encounters a number of high-profile personnel, any of whom could be involved in the plot to devastate London. But unless Tweed's team can track down the mass killers, thousands of Londoners will be annihilated. Descriptions of violence. 2003.
Jemima Shore is researching haunted houses for a television series when she interviews Viscount Lackland, who refuses to believe that…
his estate houses its own ghost. A portrait of the first viscount of Lackland, a Cavalier poet who has been dead for three hundred years, hangs in the mansion. Jemima’s interest is piqued when she learns that the figure of the poet has been seen stepping out of the painting with murderous consequences. 1990.
Henry Devereaux Twyst, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth, is terribly worried about some water damage to the priceless books in his…
lower library, so retains the services of a local book restorer to tackle much-needed repairs. The antiquarian also runs the Crooks and Cooks bookshop with his daughter - local TV celebrity chef, The Curious Cook. When the book restorer mentions some strange shenanigans going on at the book shop, Dowager Duchess Althea brings the case to her colleagues at the WISE Enquiries Agency. As the WISE women try to unravel one puzzle from their base at stately Chellingworth Hall, they then get embroiled in another when they come across a valuable book of miniatures which seems to be the work of a local famous artist, murdered by her own brother. Are the cases linked and why do both mysteries lead to a nearby old folks' home? The WISE women are on the case - and nothing will get in their way... or will it? Sequel to "The case of the missing Morris dancer". 2017.
Henry Twyst, eighteenth Duke of Chellingworth, is convinced his mother is losing her marbles. She claims to have seen a…
corpse on the dining-room floor, but all she has to prove it is a bloodied bobble hat. Worried enough to retain the women of the WISE Enquiries Agency--one is Welsh, one Irish, one Scottish and one English--Henry wants the strange matter explained away. But the truth of what happened at the Chellingworth Estate, set in the rolling Welsh countryside near the quaint village of Anwen by Wye, is more complex, dangerous, and deadly, than anyone could have foreseen. Followed by "The case of the missing Morris dancer". 2015.
Sex therapist Arnold Freeberg can boast a cure rate of 100 percent with his new practice of employing trained substitute…
sex partners. But not everyone in his small southern California community is happy with his success. Includes sex. 1987.
Throughout modern history, the way states have managed their money has been crucial to their survival and success. It has…
been finance as much as firepower that has decided the fates of nations in the supreme test of war. The cash nexus is the crucial point where money and power meet. But does money make the political world go round? Does the success of democracy depend on economic growth? Does victory always go to the richest of the great powers? Or are financial markets the true 'masters' of the modern world? 2001.
As the heirs positioned between Princess Victoria and the throne grow old and die, the remaining royalty jostle for a…
place of importance in the future queen's life. Some strong language. Followed by "The Queen and Lord M". 1972.
Olive Wellwood, a famous writer, writes for each of her children a separate private book, bound in different colours and…
placed on a shelf. In their rambling house near Romney Marsh the children play in a story-book world, but their lives, and those of their rich cousins, children of a city stockbroker, and their friends, the son and daughter of a curator at the new Victoria and Albert Museum, are already inscribed with mystery. 2009.
TV executive Robin Hudson moves in to the bohemian Chelsea Hotel when a fire forces her out of her apartment.…
An art dealer that she's just met dies on her doorstep, and she reluctantly begins an investigation, braving the downtown arts scene as well as befuddled tourists, jealous lovers, and even Zen bodybuilders. Hudson also, accidentally, seems to have fallen in love. Some strong language.
Scotland Yard's Perry Trethowan escorts his sister, Christobel, to a meeting of romance writers. When a top author, Amanda Fairchild,…
is murdered, Trethowan includes rival Lorelei Zuckerman on his list of suspects. 1987.
Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their…
hopes in the new order of the East, this work reveals in detail the often beguiling allure of totalitarian rule to people of all political beliefs and its frightening effects on the minds of those who embrace it. 1990. Uniform title: Zniewolony umysł.
Actress Tippi Hedren and her husband, director Noel Marshall, decided to make a film about lions. To closely study the…
behaviour of these animals, they acquired more than 100 lions, leopards, tigers and cheetahs, and lived among them for 10 years. 1985.
The obituaries for Gerald Candless, who died of a heart attack, were respectful. He had been an admired and popular…
writer. His sudden death was a loss to literature as well as to his family and friends. But embarking on his memoirs, his daughter Sarah uncovers some alarming truths which she is anxious to keep from her mother and sister. At some point in his life her father had changed his identity. 1998.
This sequel to "The Knight of the Sacred Lake" (DC38973) completes the Guenevere trilogy. Encompasses the quest for the Holy…
Grail and the fall of Camelot, while Guenevere endures and rises to fulfil her destiny. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2001. (Guenevere trilogy ; 3)
James Redfield writes widely on the topic of spiritual awareness. Here he discusses the background of an awakening which will…
shape our world in the new millennium. Using his own experience, he clarifies how mysterious coincidences lead us towards our special destiny. He suggests that the inevitable synthesis of Eastern and Western ideas forms part of an evolution towards a better world. He guides our own vision for our lives, delving into hidden energies and the discovery of our unique missions on this planet. Companion to "The Celestine prophecy" (DC16050). 1997.
West Africa, 1788. Kofi, a twelve-year-old Ashanti boy, is sold into slavery by his father's own slave. After a few…
years of servitude in Massachusetts, Kofi manages to escape and is rescued by Paul Cuffe, an African-Indian ship captain who abhors injustice. Grades 5-8. 1994.