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Work, Sex and RugbyYoung and strong, this novel's protagonist, Lewis, is equally keen on beer and girls and bored in equal measures by his job and by club rugby. He only has one problem: he's a closet romantic, and life isn't matching up to all he thinks...
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Tales from the MountainThis is the first English edition of the prize-winning writings of Portugal's premiere writer, who has been nominated twice for the Nobel Prize for Literature.Author: Miguel TorgaPublisher: QED PressPublished: 06/01/1991Pages: 151Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.51dISBN: 9780936609232This title is only available...
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Ramage's MutinyCaptain Ramage recklessly attempts to free the Jocasta, a British ship, from the Spanish Main stronghold of Santa Cruz. A vicious mutiny has left the Jocasta open to capture by Spain, but sailing the frigate Calypso, Ramage will stop at nothing to rescue the...
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A Tradition of VictoryPlymouth, July 1801: Richard Bolitho's small squadron, still repairing the scars of battle earned in heavy action at Copenhagen, has been months away from the sea. After eight years of war with France, Britain must make a gesture that will show strength and determination-and...
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The Flag CaptainApril 1797, Falmouth Bay. As France continues her bitter struggle for supremacy on land and sea, the Royal Navy receives a crippling blow at home: the Great Mutiny. Returning home after eighteen-months' service, Flag Captain Richard Bolitho finds himself at the center of the...
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To Glory We SteerPortsmouth, 1782. His Britannic Majesty's frigate Phalarope is ordered to assist the hard-pressed squadrons in the Caribbean. Aboard is her new commander-Richard Bolitho. To all appearances the Phalarope is everything a young captain could wish for, but beneath the surface she is a deeply...
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A Week Like Any Other: Novellas and StoriesOne of Russia's finest short story writers makes her U.S. debut in this enthralling collection of fiction. Women's lives are the central preoccupation of Natalya Baranskaya: A scientist frantically juggles her professional life with her duties as wife and mother; a woman writer who...
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Smoke from Small FiresIt's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence - the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain...
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Black CorridorsEven though she was as healthy as a horse, Aunt Isabel liked nothing better than checking herself into a hospital. Her redheaded niece is just glad that the hospital's murderer prefers blondes. First published in 1940.Author: Constance LittlePublisher: Rue Morgue PressPublished: 07/01/2000Pages: 155Binding Type:...
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Fear and Miss BetonyEmma Betony was living out her dignified, elderly, poverty-stricken life when an appeal for help from a former student brought her to the little town of Martinmas and a nursing home transformed into a girls' school. Set in 1940, he school had recently been...
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The Black RustleBodies and a swimming pool disappear in this wacky mystery set at a vacation house in the country during World War II.Author: Constance LittlePublisher: Rue Morgue PressPublished: 08/15/2003Pages: 156Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.43dISBN: 9780915230587Review Citation(s): Romantic Times 11/01/2003 pg. 75...
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My Struggle, Book OneAlmost ten years have passed since Karl Ove Knausgaard's father drank himself to death. Vulnerable and assailed by doubts, he is now embarking on a new novel. With an uncanny eye for detail, Knausgaard breaks down his own life story to its elementary particles,...
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City of Angels (The Trials of Kit Shannon #1)The courtrooms of 1903 Los Angeles are a man's world--until Kit Shannon arrives With shoulders squared and dreams set high, Kit Shannon arrives in Los Angeles feeling a special calling to the law. Yet under the care of her socialite aunt, Kit quickly comes...
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The Return of the Mohicans: A New Hope"All men are created equal ... and nothing will ever be the same again in this country."For 500 years, disease, persecution, forced removal, and outright slaughter of Native Americans affected millions of souls. Treating Native Americans as subhuman, "Indian savages," the US government forced...
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Father Brown of the Church of Rome: Selected Mystery StoriesThis is a unique collection of ten of Chesterton's famous Father Brown stories which puts special emphasis on the role that Brown's Catholic faith played in helping him solve the murder mysteries. As Dorothy Sayers once wrote, Chesterton was "the first man of our...
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Summer of the DanesIn the summer of 1144, a strange calm has settled over England. The armies of King Stephen & Empress Maud, the two royal cousins contending for the throne, have temporarily exhausted each other. On the whole, Brother Cadfael considers peace a blessing & agrees...
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Her-Bak: The Living Face of Ancient EgyptIn these fictional accounts, the wisdom of Ancient Egypt is revealed through the eyes of a young Her-Bak, a candidate for initiation into the Inner Temple. The events related take place between the XX and XXI dynasties. In this volume Her-Bak's training in the...
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Into the Widening World: International Coming-Of-Age Stories26 stories that explore universal rites of passage as well as culture-specific complexities of youth: Nadine Gordimer, Gabriel García Marquez, Bharati Mukherjee, Ben Okri, Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, Nauguib Mahfouz, Margaret Drabble, Zoe Wicomb, B. Wongar, and more.Author: John LougheryPublisher: Persea BooksPublished: 01/17/1995Pages: 268Binding Type:...
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Letters Along the Way: A Novel of the Christian LifeFor anyone who likes to read other people's mail, here is an intriguing batch of letters from a "senior saint to a junior saint." The new believer will find invaluable help in taking those early steps of faith. Others will find a wealth of...
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Mister Got to Go and ArnieGot to Go is a large gray cat that lives in an old vine covered hotel across from the beach. One fateful day, Got to Go's pleasant life at the Sylvia Hotel is turned upside down when Arnie -- a very small and very...
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