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A Small Town in Germany by John le Carré
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British Embassy, has gone missing - along with more than forty Confidential embassy files. Alan Turner of the Foreign Office must travel to Bonn to recover them. As he gets clos ...Show more
A Snake Lies Waiting (Legends of the Condor Heroes #3)) by Jin Yong; Anna Holmwood (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes Ser.
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. China: 1200 A.D. Guo Jing has confronted Apothecary Huang, his sweetheart Lotus' father, on Peach Blossom Island, and bested the villainous Gallan ...Show more
A Snake Lies Waiting: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 3 by Jin Yong
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Legends of the Condor Heroes Ser.
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 300 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Jin Yong's work, in the Chinese-speaking world, has a cultural currency roughly equal to that of "Harry Potter" and "Star Wars" combined" Nick ...Show more
A Soldier's Soldier : A Biography of Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly by Jeffrey Grey
Category: Military | Series: Australian Army History Series
Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Daly was a renowned soldier and one of the most influential figures in Australia's military history. As Chief of the General Staff during the Vietnam War, he oversaw a significant re-organisation of the Army as he fought a war under political and resource restrictions. In t ...Show more
A Sparrow in Terezin by Kristy Cambron
Category: Fiction | Series: A\Hidden Masterpiece Novel Ser.
The Nazi regime claimed Terezin was a model camp, but when one London reporter lands behind its walls, she uncovers the horrors of this concentration camp that often served as a stop on the road to Auschwitz. In 1939 Kája Makovsky narrowly escaped Nazi-occupied Prague and was forced to leave behind ...Show more
A Special Gift for the Best of Friends by Pam Brown
Category: Humour | Series: Helen Exley Giftbooks
This book is about the total trust between real friends, and the mischief they get up to together.
A Spy's Life by Henry Porter
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Robert Harland Ser.
'Compulsively readable' Observer An ex British spy finds himself dragged back into the world of espionage after a mysterious plane crash... Robert Harland ended his career as a British spy in an Austrian hospital, after being tortured and beaten by Czech security agents in the last days of the communist ...Show more
A Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, and Its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land - With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in by William Charles Wentworth
Category: Australiana | Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Oceania Ser.
The politician, landowner and journalist W. C. Wentworth (1790-1872), was an energetic and controversial character in the early history of modern Australia. Together with Gregory Blaxland and William Lawson, he was the first to cross Australia's Blue Mountains. A well-known public figure in the colony o ...Show more
A Storm of Witchcraft - The Salem Trials and the American Experience by Emerson W. Baker
Category: Travel | Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Ser.
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuckinto their ...Show more
A Stranger in Honeyfield by Anna Jacobs
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Honeyfield Ser.
1916: Bella is working as a Voluntary Aid driving ambulances in England when she gets engaged to Philip, on leave from fighting in France. His family strongly disapprove of her but the two of them are happy together. Georgie, Philip's sister, is in trouble having broken her engagement and fled from her ...Show more
A Stranger in Honeyfield (HB) by Anna Jacobs
Category: Fiction | Series: Honeyfield Series
1916: Bella is working as a Voluntary Aid driving ambulances in England when she gets engaged to Philip, on leave from fighting in France. His family strongly disapprove of her but the two of them are happy together.Georgie, Philip's sister, is in trouble having broken her engagement and fled from her b ...Show more
A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro
Category: Children's Books | Series: Charlotte Holmes Novel Ser.
The first book in a witty, suspenseful new trilogy about a brilliant new crime-solving duo: the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. This clever page-turner will appeal to fans of Maureen Johnson and Ally Carter. Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, the ...Show more