The Allied Navy and Airforce have failed to silence the German's big guns on the island of Navarone. A small team of saboteurs is sent for one last desperate effort.
General Fiction
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Author:MACLEAN, AlistairSummary: - Author:BARRETT, Robert GSummary:
Latest Les Norton adventure, moves from the corridors in Canberra to the grimy tenements of Belfast, to climax in a nerve-shattering shootout on a survivalist fortress in the Tweed Valley.
- Author:RAPHAEL, FredericSummary:
Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of...
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Author:COX, JosephineSummary:Leonard Mears is a powerful and successful businessman with a hard heart. Ruthlessly presiding over his wife and children, he shuts them away from the outside world and brutally punishes them for any disoberdience. He is also a man with...
- Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
The time is the 1950's, life was simple, the family was nearly everything. The place, a small midwestern town in the heartland of America where a happy home is shattered by a child's senseless death and a loving marriage...
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Author:HARWOOD, JohnSummary:A rousing good ghost story.
- Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
Charles Waterston's marriage ends abruptly and he is sent to work in New York. He visits the country before his job starts, and ends up staying in a haunted chateau where he learns to let go of the past and move into a liberating...
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Author:JACOBS, KateSummary:It starts almost by accident : the women who buy their knitting needles and wool from Georgia's store linger for advice, for a coffee, for a chat and before they know it, every Friday night is knitting night. As the needles clack...
- Author:ARCHER, JeffreySummary:
Story of two powerful influential men, both of them gamblers, both prepared to risk everything in their battle to control the biggest media empire in the world.
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Author:PEMBERTON, MargaretSummary:In September 1962 four very different girls from different worlds meet on their first day at school. For seven years they are inseparable, and when they leave school and move into a flat in London together it seems the life can only...
- Author:KORDA, MichaelSummary:
When sixty-four year old Arthur Bannerman, head of America's richest family, dies in bed with his new bride, twenty-four year old Alexa, his family are determined that she will not inherit his billions.
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Author:PILCHER, RosamundeSummary:Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thought back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie. She remembered not only the heather-covered hills, her grandmother and how she had secretly dreamed of marrying...
- Author:CORRIS, PeterSummary:
A detective thriller set in Sydney and introducing Cliff Hardy, private investigator, who is paid to unravel problems the police can't or won't handle.
- Author:SHAW, PatriciaSummary:
As soon as Hans-Albert Ritter arrives in Bundaberg to take on his role as pastor for a settlement of German emigrants, it's not long before trouble starts brewing in the community.
- Author:WEST, MorrisSummary:
In an impoverished village in southern Italy, the life and death of Giacamo Nerone has inspired talk of saint-hood. Father Blaise Meredith, a dying English priest, is sent from the Vatican to investigate - and to try to untangle the web...
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Author:BINCHY, MaeveSummary:Eight children once carved their names on the trunk of the great copper beech tree which shades the schoolhouse in Shancarrig. Now those children are grown. They have different lives but it was the school that formed them.
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Author:PEARLMAN, AnnSummary:Every year on the first Monday in December twelve friends gather with batches of homemade cookies wrapped in beautiful packages. They drink wine, they eat and take turns telling the story of the cookies they have baked. Somehow these...
- Author:MAUGHAM, William SomersetSummary:
When the Colonel's wife publishes a book of poetry, he is slow to realize the significance of the secrets revealed on its pages.
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Author:LESSING, DorisSummary:An old Roman senator, embarks on what will most likely be his last endeveavour, the retelling of the story of human creation. He recounts the history of the Clefts, an ancient commmunity of women living in an Edenic, coastal wilderness...
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Author:AUEL, Jean MSummary:The story of the Neanderthal people who call themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear, and of Ayla, the Cro-Magnon girl they find and raise. Ayla's superior intelligence and curiosity cause unresolvable conflicts between her and the clan....
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