On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls desperately in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard. Back in England, he breaks up with his wife and goes to meet Marian at an agreed rendezvous. She fails to show. Ian sets out to solve a mystery that may be 170 years old.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 12 November 2010
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Iron Tiger
Jack Drummond is an adventurer -- a tough ex-naval pilot who is fed up with too many hot countries and strange cities. He resolves to fly only one more mission. Dropping off an illegal shipment of arms in Tibet (his last), Drummond is suddenly caught up in a bloody border war. To escape he must fly a boy king and a very beautiful woman to safety
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 4 November 2010
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A Jacobite exile
Sir Marmaduke was, at that time, only a child, but he still remembered how the Roundhead soldiers had lorded it there, when his father was away fighting with the army of the king; how they had seated themselves at the board, and had ordered his mother about as if she had been a scullion, jeering her with cruel words as to what would have been the fate of her husband, if they had caught him there, until, though but eight years old, he had smitten one of the troopers, as he sat, with all his force.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 29 October 2010
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Lysbeth, A Tale Of The Dutch
Teenage and adult readers will be inspired by this historical novel about a Dutch woman who is caught up in the terrors of the Spanish Inquisition during the 1500s.
Finding out you're a psychic can be tough. But finding out that you have to leave your home and move into a school filled with other psychics is tougher. Sofie has to learn to deal with her new abilities, and surroundings. And to top it off, she gets caught in the middle of a war for her loyalty...and maybe her heart.
