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Blackburn follows the Canadian Army through its landing on the Normandy beaches after the D-Day attacks, and to the battles…
at Falaise and Caen. Blackburn presents a detailed description of the lives of the Canadian soldiers who fought in the battles. Some strong language.
Dr. Gabrielle Winslow joins the Underground in Holland to help smuggle Jews out of the country. She teams up with…
an OSS agent to rescue her uncle in Berlin. Will they succeed in bringing him out of Germany only to be trapped in Holland? Sequel to "The virtuous woman", followed by "The unlikely allies". 2005.
Abandoned by the retreating Spanish army during the Peninsular War, the gun was an 18-pounder bronze cannon weighing three tons.…
When a group of Spanish partisans come across it two years later, they see in it chance for victory against the French - but first they must cross the mountains. 2011.
At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers await death, whilst their…
guards watch over them. Good or evil, innocent or guilty, none of them have ever seen the likes of brutal new prisoner John Coffey, seemingly a devil in human form. Strong language. 1998, c1996.
When a vaccine designed by British scientists becomes contaminated in a freak accident, military leaders decide that it must remain…
a secret. Twelve years later veterans are dying from a 'Gulf War Syndrome'. Dr George Sebring, the British scientist responsible for the vaccine, has been found murdered. Yet doubts about the existence of the syndrome still exist even though thousands of veteran troops are continuing to die in their own homes. The pressure on those that know the truth is growing. 2004.
Life for the Halliday girls seems full of promise, but disaster comes when their father faces financial ruin. With their…
brother abroad in the army Eve, drawn towards a man she can never marry, takes control. Vi faces unrequited love, and Maude takes the ultimate risk and marries. Against a colourful background of horseracing in England and France at the turn of the century, the girls struggle against jealousy, betrayal, despair and death. 1991.
Released from prison after a nine-year sentence during which his guards have tried cruelly and relentlessly to break him, Tim…
sets out in this Western to discover the reason for his treatment. 1971.
Lucas Graffe kills a man in self-defence and disappears after the trial, leaving his brother, the charismatic actor Clement Graffe,…
tortured by his absence. Lucas finally returns, and during his reunion with his brother they receive a surprising visitor. It soon becomes apparent that there is a complex mission to fulfill - of revenge, but also of transformation. Some strong language. 1993.
Focuses on the adventures and amours of Lola Sarita, plucked from a life of poverty, educated in the arts of…
love, who eventually becomes the toast of the Parisian stage. 1977.
Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the Golden Harp and to awaken the…
ancient sleepers. Sequel to "Greenwitch" (DC03472). Followed by "Silver on the tree" (DC03851). Grades 4-7. 1975.
The author recounts his 1500 mile journey, much of it on foot, through Eastern Germany, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and Romania,…
making personal connections with people in the turbulent region, and learning more about himself and his parents who had escaped from there years before. 1997.
In July 1994, third-year law student Allison (Esther) Rosenthal learns of her father's arrest on the charge of illegally selling…
military supplies to Bosnian Muslims. The prosecutor turns out to be her intimate friend from Martha's Vineyard, and Allison applies her own brand of justice to save her father. Some strong language. 1998.
1862. As the American Civil War heats up, Southern Confederates flood into Montreal and Halifax, planning secret missions against the…
Union, missions they hope will provoke a war between England and the United States. Erryn Shaw, a British aristocrat banished to the colonies, is convinced to spy for the British. On a mission to Montreal, he gets wind of a sinister plot - and he can't seem to find a way to stop it. Some descriptions of sex and violence and some strong language. 2007.
They arrived as tourists in Corfu, Wendy from Canada and James from England. They enjoyed the sun, an idyllic beach,…
olives, fresh apricots and marinated lamb, and long evenings of storytelling at the local taverna. But what captivated James and Wendy was the way the islanders embraced them, and how their deep connection to Corfu and its people sustained them through tragedy just as it had carried them into love. Some strong language. 2005.
The continuing story of two heroes who reshaped and reconfigured the entire destiny of the kingdom of Scotland, by defying…
the might and power of Edward Plantagenet, the king of England, who called himself the Hammer of the Scots. Wallace the Braveheart would become the only legendary, heroic commoner in medieval British history and the undying champion of the common man. The other, Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick, would perfect the techniques of guerrilla warfare developed by Wallace and use them to create his own place in history as the greatest king of Scots who ever lived. Bestseller. Sequel to "The renegade". 2014.