A lowly computer geek working for a secret British intelligence agency gets promoted to field service after accidentally saving lives in a disaster. Now he's faced with saving the universe using only his smarts and a disembodied hand...
Great Britain
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
Occasionally hapless British agent Bob Howard tackles a case involving an American televangelist and a supernatural threat of global proportions.
- Author:Holmes, RichardSummary:
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages...
- Author:Grodzinski, John R.Summary:
A long-awaited history of this important Canadian regiment, The 104th (New Brunswick) Regiment of Foot in the War of 1812 looks at this military unit from its beginnings in the early days of the 19th century to its disbanding in 1817....
- Author:Edwards, Ruth DudleySummary:
The House of Lords will never be the same. Disinclined to watch her language or moderate her manners, “Jack” Troutbeck, assisted by her old friend Robert Amiss, plots vigorously with others to scupper an anti-hunting bill of which she...
- Author:Goodman, JoSummary:
In 1787, desperate to leave England, Jessa Winter marries a wounded American, Noah McClellan. She expects to become a widow and escape to his homeland. But she hasn't counted on Noah's will to survive--nor his desire to make her his...
- Author:Baldwin, PatSummary:
This book provides teachers of children at Key Stages 1 and 2 with a much-needed source of exciting and creative drama-based activities, designed to improve literacy. As useful for the drama novice as for the busy literacy co-ordinator...
- Author:Yolen, JaneSummary:
Even though he has been king of Britain for four years, Arthur's position is far from secure. Rulers of the island's many small fiefdoms are still reluctant to admit his sovereignty. And the sorceress Morgause, believing her own sons...
- Author:Pagnamenta, PeterSummary:
Arthur Hart-Synnot, a third-generation British officer, was sent to Japan in 1904 to learn the language of Britain's newest ally. Masa Suzuki, a beautiful Japanese woman scorned because of an early divorce, worked at the Tokyo Officers...
- Author:FRASER, Christine MarionSummary:
Explores the growing relationship between the recently widowed minister and the new lady doctor on the Hebridean island of Rhanna in the mid 1960's.
- Author:Maniscalco, KerriSummary:
Audrey Rose Wadsworth often slips away to her uncle's laboratory to study the gruesome practice of forensic medicine. When her work on a string of corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for answers...
- Author:Huie, M. L.Summary:
Livy Nash is sent to France with one task: track down the traitor who killed the only man she ever loved. But the City of Lights is teeming with spies, and Livy quickly learns just how much the game has changed.
- Author:ALLBEURY, TedSummary:
When the Russians learn that the British ambassador to Moscow is to return to London as the Prime Minister's personal adviser, they give orders to the KGB that he is to be drawn into the Soviet net.
- Author:Royal, PriscillaSummary:
As the autumn storms of 1271 ravage the East Anglian coast, Crowner Ralf finds the corpse of a brutally murdered soldier in the woods near Tyndal Priory. The dagger in the man’s chest is engraved with a strange, cursive design, and the...
- Author:Thomas, CarolSummary:
- Author:Peel, KitSummary:
Massive climate change has caused a winter that will not thaw, and it seems that the forces of nature have turned on humanity itself. But in the sleepy British village of Pateley, one special girl may hold the key to the Earth’s...
- Author:Herron, MickSummary:
As the clock ticks toward a young man's execution, a discredited British intelligence agent sees an opportunity to redeem himself.
- Author:KENT, AlexanderSummary:
In 1778, British Navy Captain Richard Bolitho must fight the rebellious American colonists while steering clear of a treacherous woman, an incompetent senior officer, privateers, and marauding French warships.
- Author:Balogh, MarySummary:
With his laughing eyes and wild, rakish good looks, Lord Rannulf Bedwyn is a hard man to resist. To Judith Law, a woman in need of rescue when her stagecoach overturns, Rannulf is simply her savior, a heroic stranger she will reward...
- Author:ARCHER, GeoffreySummary:
Project Skydancer; the brainchild of the Ministry of Defence and terrifying in its simplicity. New warheads had been designed that could evade the batteries of anti-ballistic missiles the Russians had set up around Moscow. For...
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