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Weatherwitch: Book Three of The Crowthistle Chronicles

Weatherwitch: Book Three of The Crowthistle Chronicles

by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Asrãthiel is a beautiful young woman, the darling of the Weathermaster clan. Yet there is an air of sadness that surrounds this beauty, for Asrãthiel lost her mother to an evil enchantment and her father soon after when grief engulfed him and he set off on a quest to find a way to free his love. While she has want for naught Asrãthiel keenly feels the loss of her parents. Keener still, Asrãthiel feels the loss... (more)

Lonely Planet Great Britain (Lonely Planet Britain)

Lonely Planet Great Britain (Lonely Planet Britain)

by David Else, Jolyon Attwooll, Charlotte Beech, Oliver Berry, George Dunford, Andy Symington

Puff your way up 530 steps to the top of St. Paul's Cathedral for a heavenly view of London, p141. Let the train take the strain while you admire the views on the Ffestiniog Railway, p730. Get your Gaelic up to scratch with a course on the Isle of Skye, p900. Tube ride a Cornish wave in Newquay, a the capital of English surfing, p331. Eleven authors, 3000 hours of research, 195 maps ... (more)

This Book Will Save Your Life

by A. M. Homes

Since her debut in 1989, A. M. Homes has been among the boldest and most original voices of her generation, acclaimed for the psychological accuracy and unnerving emotional intensity of her storytelling. Her ability to explore how extraordinary the ordinary can be is at the heart of her touching and funny new novel, her first in six years. This Book Will Save Your Life is a vivid, uplifting, and... (more)

The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus

The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of Jesus

by Christopher Knight

The Hiram Key is a book that will shake the Christian world to its very roots. When Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, both Masons, set out to find the origins of Freemasonry they had no idea that they would find themselves unraveling the true story of Jesus and the original Jerusalem Church. As a radically new picture of Jesus started to emerge, the authors came to the startling conclusion that the key rituals... (more)

The Island (Charnwood Large Print)

by Victoria Hislop

The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation's leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis women. There's Eleni, ripped from her husband and two young daughters and sent to Spinalonga in 1939, and her daughters Maria, finding joy in the everyday as she dutifully cares for her... (more)

The Double Eagle

by James Twining

James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense. Tom Kirk. The world's greatest art thief. Jennifer Browne. An FBI agent desperate for a second chance. Cassius. The criminal mastermind controlling the art underworld. In Paris a priest is murdered, the killers dumping his mutilated body into the Seine. Only he has taken a secret with him to his death. A secret... (more)

The Secret History of Lucifer: And the Meaning of the True Da Vinci Code

The Secret History of Lucifer: And the Meaning of the True Da Vinci Code

by Lynn Picknett

Lynn Picknett explains in this highly readable and well-researched account that the horned Devil — now posited as an antithesis of God — is merely a new, and admittedly more evil, incarnation of the old woodland deity Pan, while Lucifer was once a personification of the Morning Star, the planet Venus and its goddess. ‘He’ was therefore originally ‘she’, and a divine representation of love, beauty and human warmth.... (more)

The Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus, and the Secret Key to the Life of Jesus

The Book of Hiram: Freemasonry, Venus, and the Secret Key to the Life of Jesus

by Christopher Knight, Robert Lomas

It started as a personal quest to unearth the origins of their order’s ancient rituals—but 14 years after they began their search, Freemasons Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas have discovered much more. The Book of Hiram brings their mission to an amazing close, as it painstakingly rebuilds the long-forgotten story contained in the scattered rites and ceremonies of Freemasonry and puts forth explosive evidence... (more)

Shattered Icon

by Bill Napier

As an antique map dealer in a small English town, Harry Blake appreciates the quiet life. But when a local landowner asks him to value a 400 year old journal and twelve hours later he is brutally murdered, Harry's peace of mind is shattered. What does the dusty journal contain that is a matter of life or death? Why is someone prepared to pay Harry a fortune to steal it? He turns to marine historian Zola Khan to... (more)

Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why a chimp fetus resembles a human being? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction—is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps, a time when it's possible to sell our... (more)

The Broken Shore

by Peter Temple

Peter Temple is currently being hailed as the finest crime writer in Australia, but it won’t be long before he is recognized as what he really is—one of the nation’s finest writers, period. Born in South Africa, Temple is writing a dynamic kind of literary thriller that ultimately defies classification. The Broken Shore , his eighth novel, revolves around big-city detective Joe Cashin. Shaken by a scrape with... (more)

Notes from an Exhibition

by Patrick Gale

The Shakespeare Secret

by J.L. CARRELL

The Last Theorem

by Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl

Two of science fiction’s most renowned writers join forces for a storytelling sensation. The historic collaboration between Frederik Pohl and his fellow founding father of the genre, Arthur C. Clarke, is both a momentous literary event and a fittingly grand farewell from the late, great visionary author of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Last Theorem is a story of one man’s mathematical obsession, and a celebration... (more)

The Last Gospel

by David Gibbins

The Other Half Lives

by Sophie Hannah

Ruth Bussey knows what it means to be in the wrong - and to be wronged. She once did something she regrets, and was punished excessively for it. Now Ruth is trying to rebuild her life and has found a love she doesn't believe she deserves. Aidan Seed is a passionate, intense man who has also been damaged by his past. Desperate to connect with the woman he loves, he confides his secret: he killed a woman called... (more)

The Well of Tears : Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles

The Well of Tears : Book Two of The Crowthistle Chronicles

by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

The beautiful maiden Jewel is the center of her parent's joy. She is the embodiment of their true love and she has grown up surrounded by peace and love in abundance. Jewel's world cruelly shatters when her parents are suddenly killed and she and her uncle Eoin are forced to flee. Leaving the only home she has ever known, Jewel learns that her parents, caught in a tangle of a tragic prophecy, had hidden in the... (more)

National Geographic Mysteries of the MayaNational Geographic

National Geographic Mysteries of the Maya

by National Geographic

Short Story Masterpieces

by Robert A. Warren

With works by Henry James, Stephen Crane, John Cheever, James Joyce and many others, this outstanding collection of 35 American and British short pieces of fiction from the first half of the 20th century is one of the bestselling collections of our time.

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

Crusader's Cross: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries (Paperback))

by James Lee Burke

For detective Dave Robicheaux, memories -- including those of a strange and violent summer from his youth -- are best left alone. But a dying man's confession forces Robicheaux to resurrect a decades-old mystery with a missing woman at its heart. Her name may or may not have been Ida Durbin, and Robicheaux's half brother, Jimmie, paid a brutal price for entering her world. Now the truth will plunge Robicheaux into... (more)

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by Cecilia Dart-Thornton

by David Else, Jolyon Attwooll, Charlotte Beech, Oliver Berry, George Dunford, Andy Symington

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