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The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway 1)

by Elly Griffiths

When she's not digging up bones or other ancient objects, Ruth Galloway lectures at the University of North Norfolk. She lives happily alone in a remote, wild place called Saltmarsh overlooking the North Sea under Norfolk's vast skies. For company she has her cats Flint and Sparky, and Radio 4. When a child's bones are found in the marshes near an ancient site that Ruth worked on ten years earlier, Ruth is asked... (more)

Lord Peter Wimsey: Book 11

The Nine Tailors

by Dorothy L. Sayers

Nine tellerstrokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases, set in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat, fen-country of East Anglia.

The Music Room

by Dennis McFarland

In a novel of devastating beauty, Martin Lambert must come to terms with the aftermath of his brother's suicide.Replaying sad melodies of his affluent youth, Martin embarks on a poignant journey through his family's haunted past--an unforgettable voyage of self-discovery that leads him from a childhood tainted by shocking parental abuse to a present clouded by alcoholic despair and desperate love-- and,... (more)

Leatherneck Legends: Conversations With the Marine Corps' Old Breed

Leatherneck Legends: Conversations With the Marine Corps' Old Breed

by Richard D. Camp

Within the Marine Corps the “Old Breed” has a special meaning, referring to the soldiers of the 1st Marine Division and their heroic defense of Guadalcanal in the early days of World War II, as well as to those who have gone before. This book gives today’s readers a rare chance to hear these old soldiers tell their own stories and to learn firsthand what it was like to be there for some of the twentieth century’s... (more)

Hens Dancing

by Raffaella Barker

Hilarity and tenderness abound in this novel narrated in pages torn from the diary of one Venetia Summers, a thirty-something divorced mother of three who resides in rural England and is owner of, among other things, controlling shares in her ex-husband’s pet mortuary and numerous pairs of oddly colored Wellingtons. While Venetia’s life may not be as glamorous as the one she left behind in the city ten years... (more)

Betty's Wartime Diary 1939-1945

by Betty Armitage

Betty Armitage, a seamstress and theatrical costumer who settled in Norfolk before the advent of World War II, kept a diary in which she described both the great and small events of living through a time that would forever change modern history. This unique record offers a woman's perspective on the crisis, and details the impact of the war on life in rural England. The Battle of Britain, the Blitz, and the... (more)

John Skelton, the Complete English Poems (English Poets)

John Skelton, the Complete English Poems (English Poets)

by John Skelton

Against Dudas Against Venemous Tongues Agaynst The Scottes Agaynste A Comely Coystrowne Agenst Garnesche Ballade Of The Scottyshe Kinge The Bowge Of Courte Calliope Collyn Clout Couplet On Wolsey's Dissolution Of Convocation At St. Paul's Dyvers Balettys And Dyties Solacyous Elynour Rummynge Epitaphe The Garland Of Laurel Howe The Douty Duke Of Albany A Lawde And Prayse Made For Our... (more)

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