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In the 1920s, in a beautiful Italian villa called Il Piacere, the playwright Galeazzo D'Ascanio lived for Celia Sands. She…
was his muse and his mistress, his most enduring obsession and the inspiration for his most original play. But the night before she was to perform the leading role, she disappeared. 2010.
"Bloomsbury Poetry Classics" are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets, aimed at the general reader. The…
selections have been made by the poet, critic and biographer Ian Hamilton. Although now famed chiefly as a playwright, Oscar Wilde started his career as a poet, winning the Newdigate Prize at Oxford in 1878. His most well known poem is 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. 1998.
When Mathilda Rainbird bequeaths her beautiful house on the cliffs of an isolated cove to three unknown relatives, she brings…
together a group of people who have had little in common. Tessa, preferring to be alone than with the wrong people; Will, a retired widower; and Beatrice, who has spent 35 years as a school matron. Soon it is as though they have known each other all their lives. 1997.
Still reeling from the discovery he made about his father, teenage M16 superspy Alex Rider is determined to find out…
more. He travels to Italy where he manages to infiltrate the world of the beautiful Claudia Rothman - a member of the crime organization, Scorpia. Sequel to "Eagle strike" (DC29161), followed by "Ark angel" (DC35952). For junior high readers. 2004. (Alex Rider adventure ; 5)
Jeb McKettrick, discovering that his bride, Chloe, is married, returns to the Triple M ranch convinced that he'll never inherit…
it. But an unexpected reunion and a dangerous interloper give the couple another chance. Sequel to "Shotgun Bride". Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2004.
Sienna Collins leans on her faith and the wisdom of the Amish when she learns that she is being investigated…
by the federal government and then her ex-boyfriend turns up dead. 2010.
Sean Donovan, a restless, discontented man, who falls in with thieves, is caught in his first robbery attempt and sentenced…
to hang. By law a man can be saved from the noose if an upstanding woman in the community marries him. c1993.
After Marilyn’s husband divorces her, she pieces together a life that doesn’t include romance or God. Then she meets her…
new neighbor, Joshua, who is mysterious and charming. Despite questions about Josh’s past, Marilyn’s wary heart awakens. c2000
In documented accounts ranging from the mid-18th century through World War II, Harris presents nine cases from British, French and…
American military history of scapegoats made to face a court martial. Through these controversial cases Harris paints a disturbing picture of the abuse of the court martial system. 1988.
Johanna-Ruth Dobschiner tells of a Jewish childhood ravaged by Nazis, and of her own shocked witness to the total destruction…
of her family - even as she miraculously escaped the same fate. The story of a girl who was picked out from thousands of condemned people and selected to live. 1971.
The scandal of the title involves a famous Japanese writer in a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation. The train of events are set…
in motion when Sugaro, an ageing respectably married Catholic novelist, is accosted by a drunken woman at a reception where he has been awarded a prize. She claims to know a side of his life unknown to him. He denies all knowledge of this life but is drawn to the porn districts of Tokyo to investigate. Includes sex. 1988.
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, The Ibis. Its…
destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its crew a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. Fate has thrown together a truly diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed villager, from an evangelical English opium trader to a mulatto American freedman. As their old family ties are washed away they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais or ship-brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations. 2008.
When an old college friend pays Alex Calder an unexpected visit, he is drawn once more into the City's shady…
underbelly. For Kim is married to Todd, son of South African newspaper tycoon Cornelius van Zyl. Todd wants Alex's help to investigate the mystery of his mother's murder 18 years previously. Some strong language. 2006. (Alex Calder ; 2)
When Miranda Cotton gets home from work to find her new boyfriend, Brendan, reading her diary, she breaks off the…
relationship and throws him out. Getting Brendan out of her life, however, is not so easy. When he starts seeing her sister, what begins as an embarrassment turns into a nightmare. Some descriptions of violence. Strong language. 2004.
British television meteorologist Perry Stuart and a coworker find a sponsor to fund their lifelong dream of flying into the…
eye of a hurricane. They crash off Trox Island, where they wash ashore and encounter mysterious men in anti-radiation suits, who harbour a dread conspiracy. Some violence. Bestseller 1999.
John Rossendale, the 28th Earl of Stowey, turns his back on his title and his family, and sets sail on…
his cutter. Four years later, he returns for his mother's funeral and finds himself involved in a game of blackmail and ransom. 1989.
There seemed nothing unusual about the first baby's death, nor the second. They were tragic, but not suspicious. But a…
third in the same maternity unit only five months later is not usual, and forensic pathologist Dr George Barnabas, alerted by the anonymous note she finds appended to the post mortem request, is worried. Then a fourth child is found dead. Amid the traumas, medical and maternal, George has alongside her Detective Chief Inspector Gus Hathaway, who proves himself a tower of strength. 1994.
When town marshal Arthur Curry is gunned down from behind by killers unknown, his brother Sam comes to Columbus to…
pay his last respects and to seek vengeance against those who have wronged his family so grievously. The mayor of Columbus has an idea of who is responsible for the crime, but Sam is determined to come to his own conclusions. Includes strong language. 2011.