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What kind of a girl was Lucy Walter, first love and possibly the wife of Charles II? She was a…
mother of the Duke of Monmouth and she was beautiful. Has she other attributes than beauty? Has her character been misrepresented down the years? Elizabeth Goudge, with good reason to believe so, presents her life-story in a fresh light. It begins with her childhood at Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire, and ends when Charles is restored to the throne of England. 1970.
Peter Grant is forced ashore on a small island on the Solway Firth. He finds mysterious people, becomes involved in…
their affairs, and comes face to face with love, terror, and violent death. 1976.
The body of a girl, washed ashore on the Californian coast, is found by Paula Grey. Weeks later, another body…
floats into the rugged coast of Cornwall, discovered by Bob Newman. Shown a photograph, Paula is stunned to realise that it is the same dead woman she hauled out of the water six thousand miles away. Descriptions of violence. 1998.
Civil war raged over the land, and Thomazine married Dominic whom she could never love, believing her Francis to be…
dead. When she learned that Francis was alive she rode north, deserting her child, to find the man she loved. Time and again, her chains of fate would tear Thomazine and Francis apart, yet some day the chains of love must prove stronger. Sequel to "The moon in the water". Followed by "Alethea". 1987. (Goldhayes trilogy ; 2)
A portrait of the popular musical group known for reinventing traditional Irish music. Traces the band's evolution from obscure beginnings…
in the 1960s to become the internationally acclaimed, Grammy-winning performers of the 1990s. Strong language. 1997.
Guinevere, the beautiful young wife of King Arthur, discovers her passionate love for Lancelot, the shining white knight of the…
round table. A fresh, witty retelling of the Arthurian legends. sequel to "Guinevere." c1983.
Sarajevo, 1992. A cellist plays Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor as a memorial on each of twenty-two days following a…
mortar attack that kills twenty-two citizens who are standing in a bread line. The music deeply affects a sniper, a father, and an older man. Inspired by historic events. Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. Winner of the 2009 Evergreen Award. 2008.
When chalk circles start appearing overnight on the pavements of Paris, the press and psychiatrists have a field day, but…
Police Commissioner Adamsberg insists on being kept informed of new circles and the increasingly bizarre objects which they contain: empty beer cans, four trombones, a badge proclaiming "I Love Elvis," a doll's head. Adamsberg senses the cruelty that lies behind these seemingly random occurrences, and soon a circle with decidedly less banal contents is discovered: the body of a woman with her throat savagely cut. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language, explicit descriptions of violence. 2009, c1996. (The Commissaire Adamsberg series) Uniform title: L'homme aux cercles bleus.
Suzannah Lightfoot was alone in the world, when Guy Bowers-Bentinck came to her rescue. "He's so tiresome and ill-tempered and…
impatient and he must hate the sight of me", Suzannah reflected as fate kept throwing them together. It was because of this she wasn't prepared to join the queue of females wanting to marry him, wasn't it? 1989.
Rather than attempting to retrieve the historical Jesus by eliminating later theological accretions, this book starts by setting out our…
fully developed portraits, beginning with the most evolved and retreating towards the more primitive. 2001.
1950s. An eleven-year-old boy from Ceylon is sailing alone for England, and at mealtimes he is seated at the insignificant…
"cat's table" with two other boys and some strange fellow passengers, including a shadowy figure from the British Secret Service and a mysterious thief. The three boys rush from one wild adventure and startling discovery to another, experiencing the first stirrings of desire and spying on a notorious shackled prisoner. The secretive adult world is slowly revealed, and the prisoner's crime and fate will be a galvanizing mystery that will haunt and link them forever. Bestseller. 2012.
There is no shortage of suspects when Jasmine Woods - an attractive, successful romantic novelist - is found by her…
young secretary, Alison, savagely murdered. Though men were attracted to her and women liked her company, their feeling were often ambivalent, as Alison's father, Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill and his young assistant, Martin Tait, had both observed at a party celebrating the publication of her latest novel. So, hostile friends are interviewed and the men in Jasmine's life noted. But Quantrill is increasingly weighed down by the tangle of fear and concern he feels for his wife and for his daughter. 1981.
"Where are you, Madison Culver? Flying with the angels, a silver speck on a wing? Are you dreaming, buried under…
snow? Or--is it possible--you are still alive?" Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon's Skookum National Forest. She would be eight-years-old now--if she has survived. Desperate to find their beloved daughter, certain someone took her, the Culvers turn to Naomi, a private investigator with an uncanny talent for locating the lost and missing. Known to the police and a select group of parents as "the Child Finder," Naomi is their last hope. Bestseller. 2017.
The three daughters of an acclaimed actor and a famous pianist are part of the charmed circle, a small group…
of people who appear to have everything - talent, fame, beauty, money and power. Even the tragedies which strike their lives seem to bring compensating loves and joys - until the final blow, the shadow of which none of them would ever escape. 1988.
Verity's old tabby cat, Mabel, might not be quite as lively as she used to be, but she really loves…
her. More importantly, Mabel once belonged to Verity's mum - not that Verity actually knew her mum because she died. So when she finds Mabel dead in the wardrobe, it seems to Verity that it would be much better to take a few lessons from the Ancient Egyptians - and mummify her. But things don't quite go as planned. Grade 3-6. 2002.
Qwilleran and his cats Koko and Yum Yum always retreat to his lake cottage in July. Just before they go…
this year, Qwilleran learns a young hiker has disappeared in that area. Then shortly after their arrival, Koko makes a discovery on the beach that keeps Qwilleran busy. Bestseller. Sequel to “The cat who sang for the birds”, followed by “The cat who robbed a bank”. 1998.