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Author of award-winning Navaho mysteries records his memoir of growing up in depression-era Oklahoma, serving with the World War II…
American infantry, pursuing a career in journalism, and teaching at the University of New Mexico. Concludes with notes on his works and some origins of his ideas. 2001.
Cathy and Chris, haunted by the tragedies and sins of the past, return at last to Foxworth Hall, where they…
were hidden long ago. Despite every endeavour, they find that they are prisoners of a past they cannot escape and the past comes back to prey upon them once more. Sequel to "If there be thorns" (DC31442). 1984. (Dollengager family ; 5)
When Paul Unger's teenage son drowns Paul's life begins to unravel. His son had been involved with a provocative woman,…
Nicole, before his death. When Nicole returns to town some time later Paul must face the fact that her child may be his grandchild, and a link to his son that he hadn't known existed. Contains some strong language, violence and descriptions of sex. 1999.
The Russians have a new and devastating neutron bomb which they intend to test in Afghanistan. Ross and Lyle, American…
agents, are on the trail with the Mujahedeen. There is a fair quota of spies, betrayals, deaths and ambiguity, plus two sub-plots as the suspense builds. Includes strong language and sex. 1983.
A member of the group which plotted to kill Hitler, Alex von Kierich survives the war and becomes the respected…
director of an international agency in Washington. When rumours arise that he had been involved in atrocities, he resigns and returns to Germany. His assistant and friend, Edward West, is trying to come to terms with his own past, and is disturbed when he meets a young woman who reminds him of his dead wife, Jane. 1993.
Set in the 1930's, this is the story of one girl's struggle against cruelty, and her quest for love. Adele…
Talbot is twelve when her younger sister is killed, and her mother Rose, devastated by the loss, begins to abuse her. Adele is sent to a children's home, but soon runs away to trace her grandmother. Eventually the two forge some sort of bond and Honour allows Adele to stay. When real love and friendship enters her life, she feels she can finally put her hurtful past behind her, but there a few unpleasant surprises to come. 2005.
MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle learns from one of her agents that suspicious meetings have been taking place at an…
Islamic bookshop. She feels instinctively that a terrorist cell is at work and when she reports this to the Director of Counter Terrorism, a surveillance operation is immediately put into place. 2007.
When Julia learns that her sister has been violently murdered, she must uncover why. Becoming involved with a dangerous stranger…
online, she starts losing herself ... losing control ... perhaps losing everything. Her search for answers will jeopardize her marriage, her family, and her life. 2015.
Morris and McGann believe that foreign countries such as China, Russia and the EU are ripping America off and plundering…
its economy, with the help of its own political and business leaders. With the unemployment rate soaring and the economic picture growing bleaker, this is a wake-up call for everyone from middle class workers and Tea Party conservatives to labour leaders and environmentalists who oppose globalism and its negative economic and environmental repercussions. 2012.
In a remote Indian village, Kavita gives birth to Asha, but in a culture that favours sons, the only way…
to save Asha is to give her away. Halfway around the globe, Somer decides to adopt a child after discovering that she will never have one of her own. A story that moves between two worlds and two families, one struggling to survive the slums of Mumbai, the other grappling to become a cohesive unit despite diverging cultural identities. Some descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. c2010.
Describes the adventures and discoveries of those who have investigated the mystery of the Great Pyramid of Cheops. Tompkins analyzes…
the history of the Great Pyramid and argues that it is not simply a tomb. He also discusses the questions of who built the pyramid, how they did it, and other theories about the pyramid. 1978, c1971.
The title's second space comprises heaven and hell, which have 'vanished forever'; without them the blessed cannot 'meet salvation' or…
the damned 'find suitable quarters'. The last collection of poetry that Milosz, the late Nobel laureate, prepared for publication shows him wrestling with faith and disbelief, sin and redemption, death and immortality. 2004. Uniform title: Poems.
Describes experiments with food to demonstrate various principles of chemistry and physics, and also to produce an eatable result. Includes…
recipes for rock candy, grape jelly, cupcakes, and pretzels. Revised and updated from the 1972 edition. Grades 5-8. 1994.
While visiting their sculptor friend in the Alpine village of Montarraz, Scotland Yard inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife, Emmy,…
investigate a case involving a young wife accused of murdering her ski instructor husband. Some strong language. 1971.
The author's account of hand-raising two wolf pups rescued days after birth combines step-by-step observation of their behaviour with personal…
musings about the role of the predator in the environment. 1980.
Robert Falcon Scott and his four companions died from hunger and cold in 1912; they had reached the South Pole…
on January 18, only to discover that the Norwegian Amundsen had beaten them there a month earlier. The confirmation of Scott's death was met by an outpouring of public grief in Britain for the man quickly elevated to martyr status. In subsequent decades, biographers painted Scott as a self-absorbed, rash blunderer whose hubris led to the needless death of himself and his men, but Crane strives to present both the heroic and less-admirable aspects of Scott's career. 2006.
Venetia Flaxton, aged 26, turns her back on sophisticated London society to seek something more fulfilling. What she finds is…
an unconsummated love affair with her father's closest friend, the dean of Starbridge Cathedral, who is 61 years old and married. Sequel to "Ultimate prizes". Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1990. (Church of England Series ; 4)
Susanna Pleydell, a charming innocent in India with a gift for healing, expects to live happily ever after when she…
married magnetic rake Aubrey St Clare, until she discovers he has a sinister secret. Disaster strikes when she meets the mysterious Dr Damien, and not until she travels to Constantinople, and the grim hospital wards of Scutari, does she come face to face with her destiny, and learn the truth. 1988.
David Palham, a young surgeon, is sent to the Adriatic island of Mus, where Tito's partisans maintain a precarious hold.…
There, among the turmoil of wounded men evacuated from the ferocious fighting on the Yugoslav mainland, he finds love and solace. 1976.
Greater stability and mobility meant that Seawitch was capable of making money faster than any other oil rig in the…
world. However, its owner, Lord Worth, was a ruthless business man whose enemies sought to destroy the Seawitch and his empire. 1977.