Alan Lewrie, midshipman aboard the frigate Desperate, has helped defeat the French Capricieuse off St. Kitts, but has an even greater cause for celebration: His commission as lieutenant and posting to the brig o' war Shrike, which...
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Author:Savage, AlanSummary:Spring 1943 and the Nazis determine to make an all-out effort to exterminate General Tito's partisans. Arch enemy of Tito's lieutenant, Tony Davis, Wassermann is determined to avenge past defeats and captures Tony's...
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Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:Bob Howard is a special operative for the British agency called The Laundry, and his task is to stop a rogue billionaire from using an artifact, known as Gravedust, with the power to reanimate the dead. The U.S. Black Agency sends the...
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Author:Equiano, OlaudahSummary:The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and later success in business. Including a...
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Author:Cochet, CharlieSummary:Sequel to The Auspicious Troubles of Chance The Auspicious Troubles of Love: Book Two Eight years after leaving the deserts of Africa and the French Foreign Legion behind, Jonathan Wolfe has settled into life at Hawthorne Manor in the...
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Author:Challen, PaulSummary:At the centre of the critically acclaimed Fox drama House, British actor Hugh Laurie has become the focus of fans across North America, Britain, and Australia. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series,...
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Author:Freemantle, BrianSummary:Sherlock Homes has a son, Sebastian, just graduated from a top European university, and iteching to prove himself more than his famous father's equal. The opportunity presents itself in the run up to the First World War, when his uncle...
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The life story of an aristocratic Scottish trans man-whose secret 1968 legal case had a profound impact on trans rights for decades. Ewan Forbes was born to a wealthy, landowning family, holders of a baronetcy, in Aberdeenshire,...
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Author:Rose, SimonSummary:While exploring a medieval archaeological site containing the ruins of an ancient abbey, Annie discovers the long-forgotten tomb of Lady Isabella Devereaux, who had been condemned to death as a heretic. When Annie picks up a mysterious...
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After a scandalous secret turns their fairy-tale wedding into a nightmare, Rebecca "Bex" Porter and her husband Prince Nicholas are in self-imposed exile. The public is angry. The Queen is even angrier. And the press is...
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Author:Holly, Bob, Williams, RossSummary:Long before he became “Hardcore Holly,” Robert Howard was a fighter. From humble beginnings — a boy dominated by his disciplinarian stepfather but fueled by an unquenchable passion for pro wrestling — Bob grew up struggling to make ends...
- Author:GRAHAM, WinstonSummary:
"Maughan Killigrew, illegitimate son of John Kiligrew, of Cornwell", tells the story of his adventurous life, his service under Sir Walter Raleigh, his capture by the Spanish, and, at long last, his marriage to his boyhood...
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The suspenseful tale of two courageous kids and one inquisitive scientist who teamed up to stop an epidemic. “A delightful combination of race-against-the-clock medical mystery and outwit-the-bad-guys adventure.” — Publishers Weekly,...
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When Ben Aitken learnt that his gran had enjoyed a four-night holiday including four three-course dinners, four cooked breakfasts, four games of bingo, a pair of excursions, sixteen pints of lager and luxury return coach travel, all for...
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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:Fry, StephenSummary:The popular actor, comedian, and writer traces his unlikely Cambridge education, his relationships with such contemporaries as Hugh Laurie and Emma Thompson, and his hedonistic rise to stardom.
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Author:Lambdin, DeweySummary:It is 1781 and the British-held American port of Yorktown on the Chesapeake Bay is under siege. Pounded by the American colonists on land and the deadly warships of their French allies at sea, the once proud city is in flames and near...
- Author:Brewer, StellaSummary:
The author took chimpanzees that had been raised in captivity to a national park in Senegal and taught them how to survive in the wild.
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A sudden snowstorm in late December means that two parties of travellers are forced to abandon their journeys and take refuge in the bustling market town of Carmarthen. Unfortunately, the two groups, one representing the Archbishop of...
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Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:Can anyone British teach English as a foreign language? He's also a civil servant down on his luck and out of a job and thus ripe for a post as a police spy at the Knightsbridge School. Robert's cover will be to teach English as a...
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