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The snow leopard of Shanghai
By Erin Pizzey. 1989
Sophia and her twin Elena flee turbulent Tsarist Russia and travel across the Chinese border to Shanghai. Sophia is determined…
to rise above misfortune, like the snow leopard, while Elena wants love, marriage and motherhood. Contains descriptions of sex.Soul catcher
By Michael C White. 2007
Augustus Cain is a man with his back against the wall. A war-scarred wanderer, he faces a past he wants…
to forget, a present without prospect or fortune and an uncertain future, reliant upon his one skill: an uncanny ability to track people who don't want to be found. With the clouds of civil war gathering, a plantation owner has called in a debt, making Cain an offer he can't refuse: if Cain will head north from Richmond and retrieve a runaway slave named Rosetta, his creditor will not only clear Cain's debt, but pay him as well. When he eventually runs Rosetta to ground, Cain discovers she carries a secret, and the size of the bounty on her head begins to make more sense. Finding himself increasingly drawn to Rosetta, Cain starts to wonder if his five-hundred dollar fee - if any fee - could ever be enough to return her to her master...Zorro
By Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden. 2005
Born in California late in the 18th century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father…
is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe, while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native Americans by European settlers and first feels the inner conflict of his heritage. At 16, he is sent to Barcelona for a European education. In a country chafing under Napoleonic rule, Diego follows the example of his fencing master and joins La Jusiticia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. With these tumultuous times as backdrop, he falls in love, saves the persecuted, and confronts for the first time a great rival who emerges from the world of privilege. Between California and Barcelona, the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born and the legend begins.The outlander
By Gil Adamson. 2008
In 1903, a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the icy western wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Her name…
is Mary Boulton. Bloodhounds track her through the trees. She is nineteen years old. Half mad. Already a widow - by her own hand. Pursued by two relentless and vengeful brothers, Mary is forced to flee ever deeper into the mountains and away from civilisation, into the darkness of her own memory. Along the way, she meets a collection of rogues, guardian angels and eccentrics, who offer support, only to reveal that they too have their own demons raging inside. As Mary is plunged further away from civilisation, her path from retribution to redemption slowly unfurls.The king's gold (The Adventures of Captain Alatriste #4)
By Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Jull Costa. 2008
The year is 1626, and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the on-going war in Flanders.…
He returns to a Spain that is rotten to the core, as gold from the Americas floods into the port of Seville, brought by the country's infamous treasure fleet. As various factions within the Court vie for supremacy, certain interests are creaming off undeclared profits from the galleons' cargo, thus depriving the royal treasury of its lifeblood. Indeed some of the booty is finding its way into the hands of the same rebel provinces Spain is fighting to suppress. The King and his most trusted advisor, the Count-Duke Olivares, have become aware of one such plot and have decided to teach the perpetrator a lesson. Once more, they must call upon Captain Alatriste's blade in a dangerous adventure that will bring the captain face to face with his nemesis, and with a ruthless man who has designs on the throne.The sun over Breda (The Adventures of Captain Alatriste #3)
By Arturo Perez-Reverte. 2007
Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to…
the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Iñigo's first experience of war and the realities of hand to hand combat. It is on the battlefield that he will finally have the chance to become a man and prove his worth. The troops are weary and ill-nourished and the winter has been long. As Spain sinks ever further into depravity and corruption, the soldiers have not been paid and must survive by whatever ways they can. Mutiny is in the air, on the lips of every Spaniard but they are strong and their famous iron discipline has brought them many victories against the Calvinist forces of the heretics. Reputation, honour, and the glory of Spain will keep them in the fight, but for how long? Meanwhile, the Captain's trusted friend Quevedo's star is rising at court and he keeps Alatriste appraised of the machinations of his arch-enemy Luis de Alquézar and the notorious assassin with the black heart, Gualterio Malatesta.Purity of blood (The Adventures of Captain Alatriste #2)
By Margaret Sayers Peden, Arturo Perez-Reverte. 2006
A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a…
pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten - but unsigned - note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'. The chief constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatriste. Still in danger from the powerful enemies he made in his first adventure, Captain Alatriste is considering returning to Flanders where the war has just resumed. But first, his old friend Quevedo asks him for a favour. The daughter of one of his friends must be rescued from a convent, which two powerful priests seem to be treating as little more than a harem. Then the woman who brought the girl to the convent goes missing and the connection is made to the murder at the church. It seems that Alatriste's sword is required once more...The dark volume (Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang #2)
By Gordon Dahlquist. 2008
On a Barren coast, young heiress Miss Temple awakes from a fever to discover herself friendless, alone - and having…
shot her fiancé stone dead. Fleeing from suspicious villagers and attacks by 'wolves,' Miss Temple finds herself with a most unlikely companion in the shape of the seductive and deadly Contessa de Lacquer-Sforza. Meanwhile, assassin Cardinal Chang is following an orgy of destruction left by debauched aristocrat Francis Xonck, whose mind and body have been corrupted by a mysterious 'process.' Xonck leads Chang to the ruins of Harschmort House, where a mysterious and decidedly vile book is being hunted. Elsewhere Dr Svenson accompanies a sick woman whose memories have been drawn from her by a book of blue glass. Hoping that what she can remember will unravel the mystery of a diabolical cabal bent on world dominion, Svenson creeps ever closer to their dark treachery...As Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson uncover the devilish schemes of their deadly enemies, so the terrifying secrets contained in The Dark Volume are revealed one by one...The chemickal marriage (Miss Temple, Doctor Svenson, and Cardinal Chang #3)
By Gordon Dahlquist. 2012
Miss Temple, young, wealthy and far away from home, never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fiance is dead…
(admittedly, by her own hand), her companions slain and her nemesis, the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza, escaped. It falls on her tiny shoulders to destroy a deadly cabal whose alchemy threatens to enslave the world. Miss Temple plots her revenge. But Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang are alive, barely - their bodies corrupted by the poisonous blue glass. Wounded and outnumbered, Miss Temple, Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang pursue their enemies through city slums and glittering palaces as they fight to prevent the cabal's crushing dominion and unholy marriage between man and machine.The operators
By Barry Heard. 2019
Sophisticated computer hacking told the syndicate everything about Wally. Everything but why it would be a big mistake to kidnap…
him. Retired farmer Wally Flannagan is on a pilgrimage to Indonesia to witness the once-in-a-lifetime blooming of a rare flower. His holiday soon goes awry when he finds himself the target of kidnapping with the goal of extortion. Yet these plans, as alarming as they are for Wally, are little more than a diverting pastime for this criminal syndicate. They are organised, powerful, and ruthless. Yet there's one thing they don't know about Wally. He's a Pig. What's a Pig? Read on.Second skin (Nicholas Linnear #6)
By Eric Van Lustbader. 1995
Nicholas Linnear is threatened with the destruction of his business empire, and of his soul. His investigations take himself and…
Lew Croaker into a labyrinth of terrifying connections between the Mafia, the Japanese Yukuza and the Government. Nicholas has to confront the legacy of his father and the rekindled memory of his first love, whilst Croaker is deeply embroiled in the machinations of two organised crime families.The bullet trick
By Louise Welsh. 2006
Down-at-heel Glasgow conjurer William Wilson is booked for a string of caberet shows in Berlin and hopes his luck is…
on the turn - it sure needs to be. Once in the German capital, amid the showgirls and shysters, he intends to abandon his heart, his head and, most importantly, his past. But secrets have a habit of catching up with William, and the line between his act and reality begins to blur...