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Sequal to 'The flight of the Mew Gull'. Alex Henshaw, after his success in races and record flights in the…
1930's asked for something useful to do in 1939, and fairly soon found himself assisting the chief test pilot at the vast Castle Bromwich factory where Spitfires were built for 6 years, and where he and his fellows flew over 37,000 flights in nearly 13,000 aircraft, often in unspeakable conditions.1999.
Terminally ill, Sir Edward Leithen decides to search for Francis Gailliard who disappeared without a trace in the Canadian Arctic.…
Leithen undergoes a spiritual awakening while exposed to an extreme and unforgiving landscape. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1981.
Vancouver homicide detective Jack Willows wants to marry his colleague, Claire Parker. But the streets are awash in heroin deaths…
and murders and neither Claire nor Jack seem to have the time to talk seriously about personal affairs. 1998.
World War One has ended and two young sisters fall in love with Kit, an injured airman. Poppy is devastated…
when Kit and Isobel elope - Isobel is pregnant and they go to Italy. Summoned to Italy by Isobel after a ten year silence, Poppy finds events haven't lived up to Isobel's romanticised ideas. 1999.
A dramatic novel of a space shuttle mission that goes perilously wrong. With the shattered craft locked in a fatal…
orbit and the crew running a desperate race against time, mission control mounts a last ditch rescue attempt that must not fail. c1981.
Horse tamer Roberts formed an intense bond with a wild horse called Shy Boy. When his story was televised on…
PBS, Shy Boy became famous. Although he loved the horse, Roberts knew Shy Boy really belonged back in the wild. Returning Shy Boy to the wild proved one of the most moving experiences of Roberts' life. 1999.
A little deaf-mute girl called Alice has a vision in which a lady in shimmering white says she is the…
immaculate conception. Suddenly Alice can hear and speak again and can perform miracles. Soon the site of the visitation, beneath an ancient oak tree, has become a shrine - a holy place for thousands of pilgrims. But Alice is no longer the guileless child overwhelmed by her new saintliness. She has become the agent of something corrupt, a vile force that is centuries old. Innocence and evil have become one. Some descriptions of sex and strong language. 1984.
Biography of the woman who was known as the Mata Hari of the Middle East. A Jerusalem-bred Beirut housewife and…
mother of seven, Shula became an important Israeli agent with access to the highest circles of power in Lebanon during the post-World War II period. c1980. Uniform title: Shem tsofen, ha-Peninah.
Millions of people suffer from chronic diseases such as multiple sclerosis, migraine headaches and Crohn's disease. This book offers way…
to enhance the quality of life through positive thinking, effective communication and pain management techniques.
In 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, are sent to Shutter Island to find a mass…
murderer who has escaped from Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like federal institution for the criminally insane. As an intense hurricane bears relentlessly down on the island, the marshals are forced to piece together clues to a shocking puzzle hidden within Shutter Island, taking them on a dark, twisted journey, where paranoia assumes an air of cool rationality and the line between sanity and madness disappears. Some strong language. 2004, c2003.
The legendary exploits of the daring, enigmatic Russian-Polish Jew born Sigmund Rosenblum, who called himself Sidney Reilly. The author shows…
that Reilly failed in his major mission for the British Secret Service of overturning the Bolshevik government and that his disclosures upon capture by the Russians facilitated Soviet infiltration of the British Secret Service. 1983.
In A.D. 664, the Archbishop is found dead, garrotted in his chambers, and a monk has been arrested fleeing the…
scene of the crime. Convinced of his innocence, Sister Fidelma joins Brother Eadulf to find the truth, but instead they find too few clues and too many motives. 1995. (Sister Fidelma mysteries ; 2)
The women of Cedar Circle lend their support to Tory and Barry Sullivan when they receive the shattering news that…
their unborn child has Downs Syndrome. Sequel to "Seasons under heaven", followed by "Times and seasons". 2000.
Kleege was diagnosed with macular degeneration at the age of eleven and learned coping mechanisms. In eight essays she describes…
her experiences as well as the cultural aspects of blindness in language, film, and literature. As an author and professor, Kleege outlines the reading process and her delight in learning braille later in life. 1999.
Eighteen stories from the Indian subcontinent, drawn from Hindu mythology, Buddhism, oral folk traditions, literary works, and legends. In "Gotami…
and the Mustard Seed" a young wife asks Buddha for medicine to restore her dead son. His reply leads her to new levels of understanding. Grades 5-8. 1999.
Published to promote and support the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Books, Sightlines includes pieces…
from many of Britain's foremost writers, all of whom have contributed their work without fee. Introduced by Sue Townsend, who recently lost her sight, Sightlines includes many previously unpublished stories, essays, and poems by authors such as Louis de Bernieres, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Forsyth, Doris Lessing, A.S.Byatt, and Reginald Hill. 2001.
Expanded version of the Twitter site the screenwriter started after moving back in with his outspoken seventy-three-year-old father, a retired…
nuclear-medicine doctor. Compiles profanity-laden comments and advice the author received from childhood to the present. Basis of a 2010 TV sitcom. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010.