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Pericles returns home more than a hero: he's the leader of Athens, the empire's beacon of light. But even during times of peace, the threat of Sparta--Athens's legendary rival--looms large on the horizon. When a sudden catastrophe brings Sparta to its knees, Pericles sees a golden opportunity to forever shift the balance of power in his city's favor. For sometimes, the only way to win lasting peace is to wage war. Sparta may be weak, but their power...
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"1930. Nell Fagan is a journalist on the trail of an intriguing and bizarre mystery: in 1606, a man vanished from a locked gatehouse in a remote Yorkshire village, and 300 years later, it happened again. Nell confides in the best sleuth she knows, judge's daughter Rachel Savernake. Thank goodness she did, because barely a week later Nell disappears, and Rachel is left to put together the pieces of the puzzle. Looking for answers, Rachel travels to...
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A beautifully illustrated version of the classic fairy tale about a tin soldier's adventure and his love for a ballerina, retold with a twist.
With her signature warmth and lyricism, Newbery winner Cynthia Rylant has crafted a new version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about a tin soldier who falls in love with a ballerina. As in the original story, the tin soldier's love for the beautiful ballerina is thwarted by a goblin. The...
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Colors of Atlantis; Book 1 of the Golden Age Series.DD Adair's sparkling debut, Colors of Atlantis gathers years of research into a rollicking fantasy that is "historically probable", and set in the Golden Age of Atlantis. Step into the intrigue, the crystal technology, and romance. Witness the metaphysical powers, prolific arts, and mixing of species. Fall in love with archetypal characters as they explore other parts of the ancient world. Three...
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Shadows of Atlantis; Book 2 of the Golden Age Series.DD Adair's sparkling debut Golden Age Series gathers years of research into a rollicking fantasy that is "historically probable", and set in the Golden Age of Atlantis. Step into the intrigue, the crystal technology, and romance. Witness the metaphysical powers, prolific arts, and mixing of species. Fall in love with archetypal characters as they explore other parts of the ancient world.Three crystals,...
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Colors of Atlantis; Book 1 of the Golden Age Series.DD Adair's sparkling debut Golden Age Series gathers years of research into a rollicking fantasy that is "historically probable", and set in the Golden Age of Atlantis. Step into the intrigue, the crystal technology, and romance. Witness the metaphysical powers, prolific arts, and mixing of species. "Three crystals, two sisters, one impossible choice."The twin's training is complete and Ziel sets...
8) The Slickers
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Tex Larimee is a grizzled Arizona sheriff who's leaving the deserts of Cactus County behind, blazing a trail east to mix it up with The Slickers in the canyons of Manhattan. Years later Clint Eastwood would follow the exact same trail in Coogan's Bluff-a western lawman on the loose in New York City. Tex's welcome to New York is a rude one. Robbed of his cash, gun and badge, he's locked in a room in back of a run-down bar. Breaking out of the bar,...
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Sunset Maloney is about to find big trouble in the Big Sky country of Montana. Like Alan Ladd as Shane, he's riding into the middle of a ruthless land grab, and his fight for what's right takes an unexpected turn . . . in the face of a young, attractive woman. Slim Trotwood is a cruel, greedy tinhorn-a gambler with little money and less skill-who's determined to take possession of all the land in Puma Pass, whether by fraud or by force. And Sunset's...
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Winchester Remington Smith is a crack shot. Problem is, surrounded by roller coasters and merry-go-rounds, his talent is going to waste, knocking down ducks in a carnival shooting gallery. Win wants some real action, and like Gary Cooper as Sergeant York, he's going to war-running off to join the U.S. Marines to fight a guerilla insurgency south of the border. In the jungles of Central America, Win takes a different kind of roller coaster ride. Quick...
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The Black Marbella, a virus, is spreading across the world. Disease and death is escalating across Europe. An immortal The Protector and his army The Protectors Of The Light defend humanity. Will they be able to save humanity from extinction?
Linda is a lonely and single rich clinical psychologist who leaves her predictable life in Birmingham for adventure in Europe. Colin is escaping poverty in Dublin and backpacks across Europe. He has a passionate...
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"Take my advice, from to-day keep your own counsel. Listen to everything, disclose nothing. Avoid being alone. Come to me if you're in doubt about anything or feel you scent danger. I can assure you we both live in danger."
Geoffrey Mayne is in need of some serious r'n'r after studying intensively for his bar exams in London. A luxurious Pacific island cruise seems just the ticket, especially when one of his fellow passengers is the attractive young...
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"A lot of quiet people are sitting about talking, and one of them suddenly feels there will be murder done. And it was!"
The narrator of This Delicate Murder is Penny Mercer, murder-mystery author. She and novelist-husband Vincent are, invited by Lionel Fonders to a shooting-party at Chustable Manor, where the other guests are mostly fellow-writers of various types. But, Penny and Vincent become embroiled in a vexing murder case when their host is...
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'The man died from wounds on the head. There was no trace of carbon in his lungs, so he must have been dead before he was put on the dump.'
The livelihood of Louie Patra depends entirely on the supply of bad men; men who climb up the face of a house; men who could pick a pocket, steal from cars, forge a signature or a five-pound note. He has a use for them all. Right now he's planning a smash and grab on a valuable collection of silver. But when...
15) He Shot to Kill
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His arms were hanging down, but his face was turned upwards. For the first time Johnny saw a dead man.
Colonel Meroy is a prosperous pillar of the landed gentry. But, his neighbours would be shocked to learn he'd started out as a London pickpocket, and still earns his income from a career in smoothly organized robbery. Now he's hit a perilous snag — his latest job means going up against the rival and ruthless Luvello gang for a fortune in gold bullion,...
16) Murder by Chance
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The knife with the carved sheath inlaid with silver, had been driven up to its haft between the shoulders of Captain Geoffrey Hunt.
Johannis Kudorfer, master mariner, is a fraudster and a rogue. But that suits Sam Hartford just fine, because he is a scoundrel himself. When Sam devises a scheme to wreck a ship for the insurance money, Kudorfer is a key collaborator, along with a small gang of other miscreants and dupes, plus Lena the languid cigarette-smoking...
17) High Seas Murder
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'There's been a murder there.'
Tubby stared at him. 'A murder! Who was it?'
It was the first time in his life that Tubby had been told that he had been murdered.
Carl Swanson, recognized as the best ship's captain in the fishing town of Gilsboro, is about to head out on the unluckiest trip of his career. When he decided to engage with Captain MacTaggert's ship the Ivanhoe, murder is committed, and Inspector Pollitt and his able lieutenants begin...
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Chalk Street, Camden Town, is the busy scene for all kinds of commercial activity – some legal, some a little less so. By day, local crime boss Mr. Rivers works as a market trader, but gladly turns his attention to the potentially lucrative theft of fox-skins in the countryside. However, what should have been a simple robbery leads to a string of murders, and a Scotland Yard investigation, led by Chief-Inspector Thompson. A case in which one of...
19) Tune to a Corpse
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He called out, 'Abie!' The word was swallowed up in the depths of the hall. It was like a morgue.
Captain Eric Macrae is down on his luck, living in a cheap London boarding house and on his wits. When chance puts a string of valuable pearls his way, he can't resist stealing them. But the pursuit of easy money is derailed first by Peggy, a neighbourhood girl who begins to suspect Macrae is up to no good. And then a well-known fence winds up dead …...
20) Good by Stealth
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The real trouble was, as I see since, that people do not discriminate. They lump all cases of what they consider a like nature together, and to their ill-informed minds, I was in the same category as a mentally unsound woman who posts disgusting anonymous letters to her neighbors.
Miss Edna Alice is a lady, of moral rectitude and many other outstanding virtues. At least this is her own, strongly held view-not all others agree. This novel is her personal...
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