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This book follows the author's journey as he sets out from Istanbul in late July 1985 on an 11-month voyage…
to Phuket, Thailand. Together with two companions he faced many trials, some created by nature, some by man. 1988.
Obsessed with the desire to communicate with man, an aging sperm whale cruises into the vicinity of a Russian nuclear…
submarine stranded 600 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. 1982.
When Mother Confessor Kahlan Amnell used a spell to save Richard Cypher, Lord Rahl, in "Temple of the Winds", she…
unleashed the evil powers of the chimes. Now married, Kahlan and Richard must hunt the chimes and prevent them from removing all magic from the world. Violence. Followed by "Faith of the fallen". 1999.
Police Chief Cade disappears without a trace after accidentally hitting a man with his patrol car and killing him. While…
the rest of the police force looks for him and chases a series of clues that condemn Cade as a murderer, Blair Owens can't believe he is guilty of such a crime. Instead, she conducts her own search for the truth. Sequel to "Cape Refuge", followed by "River's edge". 2003.
Peter Morrison arrives at Officer Training School on Boxing Day 1945. His deal is to be a just, kind, tolerant…
and paternal representative of the Raj. He is posted to Berhampore, India, where the days of the British Empire are drawing to a violent close and tradition and honour have given way to riot, nationalism and hatred. Sequel to "Places where they sing." 1971.
The woman who helped launch the careers of Deepak Chopra, Neale Donald Walsch, and Jack Canfield shows readers how to…
take control of their romantic destiny. Finding true love is possible for anyone at any age if you're willing to prepare yourself, on all levels, to become a magnet for love. Rather than sitting around, lamenting their loneliness, readers will learn how to use the law of attraction to attract their soulmate to them. 2009.
In 1949, 15-year-old Ved went to America to attend the Arkansas School for the Blind. In the three years there…
he fell afoul of two members of staff: the PE teacher who believed only the combative could survive in a sighted world and an Evangelical Baptist musician who told him he was damned because he was a Hindu. Girls too were a problem... but he learnt to get around Little Rock himself by perceiving objects and terrain by means of "sound-shadows". Sequel to "The ledge between the streams" (DC28718). 1986. (Continents of exile ; 5).
Europe is at war and Stephanie Bartram, Hollywood's brightest new star, sails for England to entertain the troops. Also on…
board is Luke Lindquist, an American journalist haunted by recent tragedy. He is attracted by her beauty and kindness and passion flares between them. But when the ship docks, their paths must separate. 1987.
Stripped of her uniform for sexual outrage, soldier-nurse Lise Gallard is forced to endure corporal punishment in the Foreign Legion…
women's prison. But she is spotted there by dominatrix Dr Crevasse, who engineers Lise's release for her own flagellant purposes. Can Lise hope to escape her cruel mistress? Or will she in turn learn to wield the cane? Contains very explicit sexual content, strong language and violence. 2001.
Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary…
mom who's often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does make the best cookies in town, and his mom is a mess, but he's also a kid who has an immense capacity for compassion and an impulse to watch over people more than twice his age, and he can't rely on anyone for consistent love and support, except for his flatulent pit bull, Baby Killer, and now she's dead. Bestseller. 2017.
On 5th Avenue in New York City, two very different men are shopping for gifts: Gary is buying his girlfriend…
Rachel a charm bracelet, whereas Ethan's looking for something a little more special - an engagement ring. But when the two men's shopping bags get confused, and Rachel ends up with Ethan's ring, the couples' lives become intertwined. As Ethan tries to reunite the ring with the woman it was actually intended for, he discovers it isn't that easy. Some strong language. 2011.
It begins on a winter afternoon, when schoolgirl Nicky Day runs from a gang of bullies. Then her little brother…
starts the fire. But the nightmare that is engulfing Sue and Terry Day is only beginning. A single mother who left a six-year-old on his own while she went clubbing on a Friday night. An absent father with a hot teenaged girlfriend who didn't seem to care who was minding his former family. The police, the neighbours, the friends, the lovers turn accusing eyes on them both. 2009.
Roland Deschain, gunslinger, hero, continues his perilous adventures in search of the key to the quest that will define his…
life. Roland's loyal followers Jake, Father Callahan and Oy set out to break Susannah's date with destiny. She has used the power of Black Thirteen to transport her from the farming community of Calla Bryn Sturgis to New York where she prepares to give birth to an unknown entity. Sequel to "Wolves of the Calla"; followed by "The Dark Tower". Includes strong language. 2004.
Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a…
pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine, while her former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares. With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare? Includes strong language. 2005.
Arthur Dent is 1437 light years away from Earth, sitting in a Saab. He has just cracked his head on…
the door while climbing in. He feels stupified. Maybe it is because he has just laid eyes on the first female of the species that he has seen in years, sitting in the backseat. Sequel to "Life, the universe and everything" (DC29000). 1984. (The hitchhiker series ; 4)
Wedding bells on the Precinct on a bleak November Sunday, but the off-duty cops weren't celebrating for long. No sooner…
was the reception over than Detective Kling's bride was snatched from the honeymoon suite. Every officer on the Precinct went to work on a kidnapping that had come too close to home. Checking out for vengeance alibis, searching the files, pumping informers, hitting the streets. While the men in the station house wait for the kidnapper to make his next move. Strong language. Sequel to: "Blood relatives: an 87th precinct mystery". Followed by "Long time no see". 1978. (87th Precinct mysteries ; 31)
Twelve short stories about boxers, soldiers, cancer patients, and others down on their luck. In the title piece, Kid Dynamite,…
a losing welterweight boxer, persists in training just to remain in the world he knows. Strong language, some explicit descriptions of sex, and some violence. 1999.
As standards of conduct continue to erode, we must fight the soul pollution threatening our health, our faith, and our…
witness to others. People are inhaling second-hand toxins poisoning their relationship with God and stunting their spiritual growth. By examining the toxic influences, toxic emotions, and toxic behaviours that assault us daily, Groeschel describes ways to remain clean and focused on the standard of God's holiness. 2012.