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When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his reserve at Thula…
Thula, his common sense told him to refuse. But he was the herd's last chance of survival - notorious escape artists, they would all be killed if Lawrence wouldn't take them. 2009.
Through the bustling city of Londinium we follow Zuleika - feisty and precocious daughter of Sudanese immigrants made good. Married…
at the age of eleven to Felix, a rich Roman three times her age perpetually away on business, Zuleika drifts about his villa, bored, until one night several years later when Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor, newly arrived in town, spots her at the theatre... The story is told through a fusion of poetry and fiction, history and myth. Descriptions of sex. 2001.
How the amazing theories of relativity and quantum mechanics transformed our understanding of nature in the last century, and how…
new ideas, developed in seeking to unify the laws of nature, probably hold the seeds of a major upheaval in physics. 1999.
A compendium of specific tips to encourage writers to be clear, brief, and bold. This fourth edition of E.B. White's…
revision of Strunk's classic style manual is modestly updated to accommodate gender references and to provide fresh examples. Contains a foreword by Roger Angell. 2000, c1979.
Chemist Emsley offers an account of five of the most toxic elements - arsenic, antimony, lead, mercury, and thallium -…
describing their lethal chemical properties and highlighting their use in some of the most famous murder cases in history. Emsley also shows which toxic elements may have been behind the madness of King George III, the delusions of Isaac Newton, and the strange death of King Charles II. In addition, the book examines many modern day environmental catastrophes. 2005.
Connor Fitzgerald has worked for the CIA for twenty-eight years, although his family thinks he works for Maryland Insurance. Now…
his boss, Helen Dexter, is out to destroy him. After Connor manages to eliminate a Colombian presidential candidate, he is sent to Russia--supposedly at the president's request--to assassinate a candidate there. But Connor is the one scheduled to die. 1998.
Short stories and journal entries which describe the Jewish experience from the turn of the century to the aftermath of…
the Holocaust and the beginning of the state of Israel. 1988.
At age 52, the author was stricken by a massive heart attack while hunting elk. He reveals his torturous recovery…
and the strains his illness placed on himself and his family. 1986.
A tornado rips through the quiet town of Harmony. Emerging from the devastation, Harmony's citizens struggle with relationships both old…
and new--and grow stronger by risking their hearts to make connections with others. Sequel to "Somewhere along the way", followed by "Just down the road". 2012.
Former Emperor's consort Ling Suyin is renowned for her beauty. She lives quietly alone until the most ruthless warlord in…
the region steals her away, intent on uncovering her mystery without falling under her spell. 2012.
Lord Darrington is not a man to be welcomed into a house of unprotected women! Even in the wilds of…
Yorkshire, Beth Forrester has heard tales of the incorrigible rake that make her toes curl. When he finds out about the dark secret she will do anything to protect, there's only one way to buy his silence - with her body! 2012.
Canine narrator Chet and his human companion Bernie search for a missing child at a wilderness camp. The mother thinks…
the boy was snatched by his father - her ex. But Chet's sniffing sends the case in a different direction. Sequel to "To fetch a thief", followed by "Fistful of collars". 2011.
Alexander McCall Smith brings his peerless wit to this second entry featuring a motley collection of residents in London's Pimlico…
neighbourhood. Literary agent Barbara Ragg has agreed to represent a man writing a book about his experiences hanging out with the Abominable Snowman. Terence Moongrove's residence has become the target of New Age cosmologists. And pint-sized terrier Freddie de la Hay is being recruited by MI6 to infiltrate a Russian spy ring. 2011.
What happens when a respectable middle-aged father, teacher and writer decides one day to abandon his ordinary routine and embark…
on an unexpected journey toward an unknowable fate, following the ghost of Buster Keaton and a vision of a bear? The main character - a sort of contemporary version of Joyce's Leopold Bloom who just happens to be named Tim Bowling - spends an intense late-summer day in downtown Edmonton. Haunted by "the slender sadness" of the world, and unable to face his afternoon class, Tim Bowling finds himself pulled into an escapade revolving around an antique toy, a capuchin monkey and a young student our narrator likens to Pippi Longstocking. Accompanied by the shade of the silent-film star Buster Keaton, and the bear-shaped spirit of the American poet Delmore Schwartz, Bowling's Tim Bowling must confront a fundamental problem of our age: how to make and maintain human connections in a world that seems intent on destroying them? 2017.
On a cold November morning, a jogger runs through the woods in the peaceful Quebec village of Three Pines. On…
his run, he finds a dead man hanging from a tree. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is called to the crime scene. Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. c2010.
Agnes is stripped of a regular childhood when her father is accused of a horrific crime and abandons the family.…
Never considered ladylike, she is drawn to the "wrong" things, such as microscopes, anatomy, and dissection, that lead to her finding her calling as a doctor. Yet despite a rapid rise to stardom in the medical community, she soon finds herself up against the same glass ceiling faced by women in her field. Inspired by the life of Doctor Maude Abbott. Some descriptions of sex. 2009.
Maddie Prue is eternal and has lived a series of lives throughout time. During one of these lives she died…
a violent death and it is up to Henry Ryon, who seems to live cursed lives over and over, to discover the secret behind her death. c2000.
A fascinating month-by-month account of a child's life in the Scottish Highlands in the thirties and forties. Hardship and adventure…
combine with a strong sense of the value of life, the beauty of nature and the importance of humour, to produce a fascinating new book, which provides both a nostalgic and insightful account of the Scottish countryside and of the traditional Scottish way of life. 2001.
An amateur astronomer on Mars first spots the asteroid falling sunwards, and when its orbit is computed it is called…
Kali after the goddess of destruction. It is 65 million years since the reign of the giant reptiles ended and now Kali threatens a similar fate for mankind. As captain of the research vessel Goliath, Robert Singh is put in charge of the immense task of pushing an asteroid off course. But even the most meticulous planning cannot anticipate the human factor. 1994.