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Hay-On-Wye, 1400. War is brewing in the Welsh borders, Catrin is on the brink of womanhood and falling in love…
for the first time. Her father is a soothsayer, playing a dangerous game playing on the mixed loyalties and furious rivalries between Welsh princes and English lords. For two hundred years, the Welsh people have lain under the English yoke, dreaming of independence. And finally it looks as though the charismatic Owain Glyndwr may be the man legend talks of. In the walls of Sleeper’s Castle, Catrin finds herself caught in the middle of a doomed war as she is called upon to foretell Wales’s destiny. Hay, 2015. Miranda has moved to Sleeper’s Castle to escape and grieve. But every time she closes her eyes her dreams become more vivid. And she makes a connection with a young girl, who’s screaming, who’s reaching out, who only Miranda can help. 2016.
Newlywed New Zealander Gwenda Reed has just come to England where she will select a house while awaiting the arrival…
of her husband, Giles. She finds and buys the perfect house but experiences odd moments of déjà vu. Shaken, Gwenda decides to visit Giles's cousins in London. Their elderly, puzzle-loving aunt, Miss Marple, is on hand when a line in a play triggers a frightening memory for Gwenda -- seeing a dead woman lying in the newly purchased house. 1992, c1976.
16-year-old Matt Cruse is the only person who knows the coordinates of The Hyperion, a legendary ghost ship rumoured to…
be full of riches. Soon Matt and his sweetheart Kate are on a dangerous treasure hunt, along with pilot Hal and Nadira, a gypsy girl who claims to have the key to the Hyperion's booby-trapped booty.. Sequel to "Airborn" (DC25448). Descriptions of violence. For Junior high readers. Winner of the 2006 Red Maple Award. 2005.
After a tragic accident leaves Delta sergeant Connor Flynn a widower, he faces the toughest fight of his life: battling…
his in-laws for custody of his two young children. To win he'll need a make-believe bride to take care of the kids while he runs his Wyoming ranch. Who better than a woman he already knows and likes - his late wife's best friend? Ruthlessly forced from her home by her powerful father, King Grayhawk, Eve needs somewhere to go, and so does the herd of wild mustangs she's rescued. Connor's offer sounds like the answer to a prayer. But Eve has a guilty secret she's guarded for years: She's always been in love with Connor. Now forced to live under the same roof as her heart's desire, Eve must hide the love that has never died, while Connor vows to resist his growing need for a woman who was forbidden fruit during his marriage. Sequel to "Shattered", followed by "Shameless". 2014.
Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. In this book they take…
listeners on a revealing, thoughtful, and deeply personal tour behind the scenes of their lives, with never-before-told stories about their family, their adventures, their loves and losses, and the special sisterly bond that fulfills them. Bestseller. 2017.
The nation of Fatrasta is a frontier destination for crooks, fortune-hunters, and sorcerers seeking ancient relics. Only the will of…
the chancellor and her secret police holds the capital together against the unrest of an oppressed population and the schemes of powerful empires. Followed by "Wrath of empire". 2017.
When a pair of killings rattle his peaceful community, small town sheriff Percy Whittaker wonders if he needs a partner…
in crime-fighting. A preacher who can take on cowboys may just fill the role. 2018.
Daisy Bristol has plenty of suitors vying for her hand and her fortune. But en route to her first love,…
she encounters the notorious smuggler Cailean Mackenzie and she is utterly bewitched. Sequel to "Wild wicked Scot", followed by "Hard-hearted Highlander". 2017.
In 1967, US Air Force fighter pilot James Shively was shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105…
Thunderchief aircraft, he landed in a rice paddy and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. For the next six years, Shively endured brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy in Hanoi prison camps. Back home, his beloved girlfriend Nancy eventually moved on and married another man. Bound in iron stocks at the Hanoi Hilton, unable to get home to his loved ones, Shively contemplated suicide. Yet somehow he found hope--and he became determined to help his fellow POWs survive. 2017.
Cass and her brother Wilbur scavenge in the ruins of a future London seeking an artifact for their Russian masters,…
but the search takes on a new urgency after the arrival of Erin and Peyto, strangers from afar who claim to hold the key to locating the mysterious object. Grades 5 to 8. 2011.
After years of living in fear of her husband, Amanda Banning has left him and moved to Mystic Creek, Oregon,…
for a fresh start. But she's having a tough time providing for herself and her six-year-old daughter. Writing her secret yearnings on slips of paper and sending them into the wind helps her cling to the hope that things will get better. Jeb Sterling has no idea that the handwritten messages he finds scattered across his land are the first hints that his life is about to change. 2015.
Skinny has just been suspended from the New Orleans police force for totaling his patrol car. Booted out of Tulane…
University for taking on an entire fraternity with a Louisville Slugger, Skinny has a little anger problem. But soon the New Orleans police find they can no more do without Skinny than he can do without his Slugger. 2017.
New Orleans scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand and her friend Ava witness a heinous crime at St. Tristan's Church that…
leaves a dear friend dead and an antique crucifix missing. Together, Carmela and Ava search the French Quarter for the crucifix in hopes of finding the killer. 2011.
In this course, University of Toronto history professor Margaret MacMillan takes us back to Paris in 1919, when, for six…
months, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and French Prime Minister George Clemenceau met to discuss the peace settlements that would end World War I. 2003.
The true story of a precocious, pop-loving teenager who, in the early 1970s, went from London's discotheques to the Canadian…
sub-arctic to work for the Hudson's Bay Company. His job? Buying furs and helping run the trading post in the settlement of Eskimo Point, Northwest Territories (population: 750). That young man was Kim Clarke Champniss, who would later become a VJ on MuchMusic. His extraordinary adventures unfolded in a chain of "On the Road" experiences across Canada that led him to Vancouver, where he became a nightclub DJ at the height of the disco craze. His mind-boggling journey, from London to the far Canadian North to the spotlight, is the stuff of music and TV legends. Kim brings his incredible knowledge of music and pop culture and the history of disco music, weaving them into this wild story of his exciting and uniquely crazy 1970s. 2017.
Is it possible to outrun your past? Fifteen-year-old Edie Fraser and her mother, Sydney, have been trying to do just…
that for five years. Now, things have gone from bad to worse. Not only has Edie had to move to another new school — she’s in a different country. Sydney promises her that this is their chance at a fresh start, and Edie does her best to adjust to life in London, England, despite being targeted by the school bully. But when Sydney goes out to work the night shift and doesn’t come home, Edie is terrified that the past has finally caught up with them. Senior high readers. 2015.
In the final days of the Second World War, Michael Rogan, a young American soldier, is brutally tortured by Nazi…
officers and left for dead. Vowing revenge, he begins a quest to track down and kill each one of his tormentors. 2010.
In the 21st century, the perfection of faster-than-light travel and the rise of a prodigious artificial intelligence known as the…
Eschaton altered the course of humankind. New civilizations were founded across the vastness of space. Now, the technology-eschewing world known as the New Republic is besieged by an alien information plague. Earth quickly sends a battle fleet - but is it coming to the rescue, or is a sinister plot in motion? Followed by "Iron sunrise". 2009.
Simpleology proves that success and happiness are easier to achieve than most people think they are. In fact, people can…
almost guarantee their own success simply by following a few simple rules. These "5 Laws of Simpleology" aren't new; they've been around forever. Throughout history, these 5 laws have helped the world's greatest minds amass fortunes and forge new paths. 2007.