The Scarlet Pimpernel and his followers risk their lives to save the French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French revolution.
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Author: Orczy, Emmuska OrczySummary:Genre: Historical fiction -
Author: Putney, Mary Jo.Summary:Grey Sommers is conducting a bit of light espionage in France when a dalliance with a government official's wife gets him thrown into a dungeon. Enter beguiling spy Cassie Fox, sent to free the...
Genre: Spy fiction -
Author: Moore, BrianSummary:
In a bleak Eastern bloc country, someone tries to kill Cardinal Bem. That night, he is kidnapped. He must find out the identity of his captors to avert the revolution that will result from his...
Genre: Political fiction -
Author: Herron, MickSummary:
From CWA Gold Dagger winner Mick Herron comes a shocking, twisted novel of psychological suspense about one woman's attempt to be better than ordinary Twenty-six-year-old Maggie Barnes is someone...
Genre: Spy fiction, Thrillers (Fiction) -
Author: Perry, AnneSummary:
Lonely Charles Latterly arrives at his small hotel hoping that the island's blue skies and gentle breezes will brighten his spirits. Unfortunately, there's no holiday cheer to be found among his...
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Author: Smith, Alexander McCallSummary:
Cornelius P. "Fatty" O'Leary and his wife, Betty, plan a vacation in Ireland for his fortieth birthday, where they will tour his ancestral homeland and relax in the countryside. Almost immediately...
Genre: Humorous fiction -
Author: Mitchell, DavidSummary:
Following a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: A sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew...
Genre: Science fiction -
Author: Erickson, CarollySummary:
Acclaimed biographer Carolly Erickson brings history vibrantly to life with her powerful flesh-and-blood portrait of Charles Stuart, the Young Pretender to the British throne. Courageously...
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Author: Dickens, CharlesSummary:In the 1840s Charles Dickens wrote 5 short stories with strong social and moral messages. The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rand an Old Year Out and a New Year In, is the second of...
Genre: Classic fiction, Short stories -
Author: Sparks, EdwardSummary:Trapped in a London laboratory during a worker uprising in 1924, ex-artillery officer and physics instructor Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - in a neo-medieval society whose inhabitants have...
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Author: Kishtainy, NiallSummary:This clearly written and lively account covers the progress of economics from the invention of money through the economic giants to the economic forces that shape our world today.
Genre: Business and economics -
Author: McEwan, IanSummary:
After a chance meeting, Jed Perry begins to stalk author Joe Rose. Driven by religious zeal and misdirected love, the strange young man will slowly unravel each strand of Joe's life.
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Author: Trevor, WilliamSummary:
The publication of a new book by William Trevor is a true literary event. One of our finest chroniclers of the human condition, Trevor's precise and unflinching insights into the lives of ordinary...
Genre: Short stories -
Author: Sandford, ChristopherSummary:In The Man Who Would Be Sherlock, a world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes. Though best known for the...
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Author: Spawforth, TonySummary:
The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However, narratives about the "civilized" Greek and Roman empires...
Genre: History and geography