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Sherlock Holmes - A Study in Illustrations - Volume 1Sherlock Holmes is truly a 'Man for All Seasons' and his image has been worked and re-worked for over a century. Unsurprisingly the illustrated Holmes of 1887 differs from that of today. In this multi-volume work, we will show how various illustrators have visualised...
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Secesio (Originala romano en Esperanto)La nova originala romano de la svedo Sten Johansson rekondukas nin al la tumultaj intermilitaj dek jaroj 1925 ĝis 1935 en Aŭstrio, al la bataloj de politikaj grupiĝoj kaj la klopodoj de artistoj en tiu tempo. La libro priskribas la evoluantan rilaton kaj vivojn...
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The Arrow of Sherwood"Robin of Locksley is a murderer. A wastrel. A disappointment to his mother, a humiliation to his father and a disgrace to the entire county. We have all known it for many years, but out of respect for his excellent father, we have refrained...
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Point of HonorRobert Macomber's Honor series of naval fiction follows the life and career of Peter Wake in the U.S. Navy during the tumultuous years from 1863 to 1901. Point of Honor is the second in the series and winner of the John Esten Cook Literary...
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Son of MerciaThe start of a brand new series from bestselling author MJ Porter for fans of Bernard Cornwell and Matthew Harffy.Tamworth, Mercia AD825.The once-mighty kingdom of Mercia is in perilous danger.Their King, Beornwulf lies dead and years of bitter in-fighting between the nobles, and cross...
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Survival of the FittestFive tribes. One leader. A treacherous journey across three continents in search of a new home. Written in the spirit of Jean Auel, Survival of the Fittest is an unforgettable saga of hardship and determination, conflict and passion. Chased by a ruthless enemy, Xhosa...
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Storms From A Clear SkyWhen WWII spreads across all continents, life drastically changes, especially for FBI agent Jack Huntington and his new wife Billi. As Billi continues her involvement with lifelong friends, the Nakamuras, her actions threaten Jack's mission of routing out Japanese spies along the West Coast....
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Sherlock Holmes and the Charlie Chaplin AffairFor his last book Val Andrews chose to write a story involving Charlie Chaplin. As ever it mixes fact with fiction, and introduces the reader to the world of vaudeville and film that was so familiar to him. In fact, Val always said that...
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Stepmother EarthAhmet Celal, an officer in the Ottoman army, loses his right arm as the result of a bullet wound while fighting in the Battle of Gallipoli during World War I. After the war, he returns to Istanbul, which is now occupied by Allied forces...
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Sealed LetterDonoghue weaves an engrossing and... quite funny melodrama about a bad, bad girl who bursts the seams of this corseted world... part "Forever Amber" and part clockwork courtroom drama, with bawdy undercurrents of forbidden love thrown in for good measure. All in all, a...
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Taken Too SoonA new book in the Agatha Award-winning series by Edith Maxwell! Quaker midwife Rose Carroll must turn her investigative skills on her own family when a young woman's murder stuns a New England community . . . Following a long betrothal, midwife Rose Carroll...
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Sherlock Holmes in the Nautilus AdventureThe Games's Afloat . This fascinating tale takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on an amazing undersea adventure to find and rescue a famous author, who has been kidnapped. Along the way there are hidden clues, lost civilizations, danger, romance, humour, a volcanic eruption,...
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Sherlock Holmes at Lincoln's TombThe recently unearthed diaries of the young Arthur Conan Doyle provide evidence, if not proof of the that Doyle knew Sherlock Holmes as early as 1878, when Holmes was working in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Bell at the University of Edinburgh. Holmes, a...
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The Assassination Bureau, LtdThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Bachelors of Broken HillWhen two elderly bachelors were poisoned with cyanide, a strange woman was on the scene each time - but now she has disappeared, leaving no trace. Tracking her down in a town of twenty-eight thousand people is a job to tax even Detective Inspector...
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Season of the FoxRAISE THE HUE AND CRY A wealthy merchant has been murdered in his own home, and the suspect has fled to sanctuary in a local church. Enter Sir Faucon de Ramis, the king's new Keeper of the Pleas, to solve the murder, assisted by...
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The American People: Volume 1: Search for My Heart: A NovelRenowned playwright and author Larry Kramer's stunning work of imagination and courage reimagines American history from John Wilkes Booth to Joseph McCarthy in this long-awaited, devastating satire Forty years in the making, The American People sets forth Larry Kramer's vision of his homeland. As...
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Stalag SunflowerFifty years ago, Heinrich "Henry" Rohling was a German POW in Camp Conrad. Now widowed and in his seventies, he journeys back to Conrad, Kansas, to join in a POW reunion. And to correct the American verdict that his friend Novak died of suicide...
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Spqr XI: Under Vesuvius: A MysteryThings are going well for Decius Caecilius Metellus. He is praetor peregrinus, which means he has to judge a case or two outside Rome. His first stop is Campania, Italy's most popular resort district. He and his wife, Julia, are happy for a change...
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Sternstunden der Menschheit. Vierzehn historische MiniaturenSternstunden der Menschheit pr sentiert vierzehn novellenartig aufgebaute historische Begebenheiten, deren Auswirkungen die Geschichte der Menschheit ver ndert haben. Zweig schreibt im Vorwort: "Solche dramatisch geballten, solche schicksalstr chtigen Stunden, in denen eine zeit berdauernde Entscheidung auf ein einziges Datum, eine einzige Stunde und...
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