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Perfectly Correct
by Philippa GregoryFeminist Dr. Louise Case lives an open-minded, non-traditional life. But when Rose parks her van in Louise's orchard and announces she's staying for a while, Louise's values and ethics are thrown into chaos as she ponders what she should do.
Tomorrow Belongs To Us
by Larry CollinsAn explosive thriller packed with authentic detail, 'Tomorrow Belongs to Us' tells the story behind the headlines as it exposes the terrifying link between religious fundamentalism, the world drugs trade and Iran's nuclear capability. Former CIA agent Jim Duffy, a Near East expert, is urgently recalled from retirement to investigate reports that the Iranians have got hold of three nuclear warheads. With heroin flooding western markets, the CIA believes that the Iranians are financing their pursuit of nuclear capability with vast sums of money from drug trafficking. Meanwhile, in Europe, the 'Professor', a senior member of a secret Iranian terrorist organization, is shopping for high-tech equipment. His primary function is to obtain the hardware required for Operation Khalid, a devastating plan to blow up Tel Aviv and take back Palestine for Islam. When Duffy brings Washington confirmation of Iran's possession of nuclear devices, the Americans must confront their worst nightmare. It can only be a matter of time before the Iranians are capable of inflicting maximum destruction. Can Duffy track down the warheads before it is too late and prevent the nightmare from becoming reality?
Marble Heart
by Gretta MulrooneyA riveting story that illuminates the lives of men and women at the heart of the troubles in Belfast Ireland starts out as a simple story of the friendship between Joan, a hard-working caregiver and her newest client, Nina, an upper class British woman separated from her devoted husband, Martin, who can't understand why his wife feels unworthy to be loved. Joan who has mourned the loss of her brother, Eddie, who was like a father to her and disappeared many years ago, thinks she has found happiness and a partner at last in Rich who is soon to be released from prison. Though she is rapidly becoming weaker because of a terminal illness, Nina teaches Joan about the finer points of decorating, raising plants, cooking and other sophisticated elements of domestic life. In turn, Joan gives Nina extra kind and careful care. When she is alone, Nina is preoccupied writing a series of letters to a former friend now living in Africa about their days together as radicals fighting for Irish Freedom, living with the leader of a small communist group and operating totally under his influence. The sincere and insincere motives of activists is revealed along with their romantic entanglements. Most startling is the planning, and execution of violence and its short and long term aftermath. As Nina nears death the characters come together in surprising ways, and whatever justice is possible is accomplished.
Death and Restoration (Jonathan Argyll Art History Mysteries, Book #6)
by Iain PearsThe monastery of San Giovanni on Rome's Aventine hill has few treasures - only a painting doubtfully attributed to Caravaggio. So Flavia di Stefano of Rome's art police is surprised to receive a tip-off that a raid is being planned on the building. The raid takes place, but the thieves are disturbed and snatch the wrong painting, a curious icon of the Madonna, remarkable only for the affection in which it is held by the local population. Or is this what the thieves wanted all along? Does the legend of the icon's miraculous powers hold any clue? And who murdered the French dealer found in the Tiber soon afterwards? With the help of Jonathan Argyll, Flavia works her way through the intricacies of monastic and police politics and ends up by getting a bigger surprise than she could possibly have imagined. Iain Pears is the most exciting exponent of art-based crime, and Death and Restoration is his most intriguing and gripping novel yet.
A Jack Higgins Quartet: The Last Place God Made, The Savage Day, A Prayer For The Dying and The Eagle Has Landed
by Jack HigginsIn this Collector’s Choice are published four of Jack Higgins’ best known stories. All of them are exhaustively researched and bear the hallmark of Jack Higgins’ superb art as a storyteller. In the introduction, specially written for this volume, Jack Higgins explains how the books came to be written and their importance for him as a writer. THE LAST PLACE GOD MADE - Sam Hannah, ace flyer on the Western Front, was down to pushing ancient planes over the worst jungles in the world. Mallory was a flyer too, one who would rather fly anything than not fly at all, Mallory needed a job and Hannah needed a partner... Two men in battered planes, up against the Savage Huna Indians on Brazil's Rio das Mortes - the River of Death. THE SAVAGE DAY: Simon Vaughan, ex-British army major and adventurer, was rotting in a Greek prison when the British caught up with him. They needed him for a job no one could do better So Vaughan found himself thrust into a world of gun-running, violence and duplicity. Set in Ireland, this is a tough, bitter story, superbly written. A PRAYER FOR THE DYING - Fallon was good with a gun and had never worried about having to use one. The man now wanting him to make a hit was Dandy Jack Meehan, a ruthless underworld boss. That took Fallon to the north of England. It also took him into a conflict of interests that put him on the same side as a Catholic priest and in opposition to Meehan himself And that meant Fallon might live less time than he had recently anticipated. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED: At precisely 1 am, on Saturday, 6th November 1943. Heinrich Himmler, Reichsfuhrer of the SS and Chief of State Police, received a simple message. The Eagle has landed. It meant that a small force of German paratroops were safely in England and poised to snatch the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, from the Norfolk country house near the sea where he was. spending a quiet weekend...
The Oatmeal Ark: Across Canada by Water
by Rory MacleanThe Oatmeal Ark weaves invention through true stories, stitches imaginary characters into real events. It is at once a history and a fiction. It tries to reach beyond our tradition of realistic literature, building on the strengths of Susanna Moodie, the Canadian Vegetable and the NFB documentary, and to reassert the older mythical dimensions of the land. In my writing I strive to cross the line beyond which fact becomes myth to find a truth that is made sharper in fiction. The Oatmeal Ark is a subjective, heartfelt look at Canada, its history and the courageous men and women of all nationalities who struggled -- and struggle still -- to build this country.
Hard Right Turn: The New Face of Neo-Conservatism in Canada
by Brooke JeffreyIn Ontario, Mike Harris is leading his 'Common Sense' revolution. In Alberta, Ralph Klein has taken his right-wing Conservatives to new extremes. In Ottawa, Preston Manning and his Reformers are giving new meaning to the term Official Opposition. Despite their different political labels and regional perspectives, the leaders of the New Right have much in common, including a populist approach to politics and a passionate commitment to the same brand of neo-conservatism -- an ideology previously unknown in Canada and one that runs contrary to our traditional values and beliefs. Jeffrey argues these New Right gladiators are a new breed of politician. Less prepared for public office, they exhibit a dangerous combination of ignorance and zeal, refusing to let facts get in the way of their beliefs. Once in power, their populist mask disappears. Despite their attack on "special interests", they have close links with single-issue interest groups, including pro-life or anti-gun control organizations. And they all believe a government's primary purpose is to satisfy the narrow concerns of those who elected them. What led to their electoral success?
A Rorschach Workbook for the Comprehensive System (Fifth Edition)
by John E. ExnerA Rorschach Workbook for the Comprehensive System (Fifth Edition) by John E. Exner
Hallowe'en Party
by Agatha ChristieAt a Hallowe'en party, Hercule Poirot aids mystery writer Ariadne Oliver in an investigation into the murder of a young girl-who may have witnessed a murder herself. But unmasking the killer proves more daunting than bobbing for apples.
Light Thickens (Roderick Alleyn #32)
by Ngaio MarshThe perfect theater production, the perfect mood, but one night the claymore swings and the dummy's head is more than real... Luckily Detective Alleyn is in the audience.
Mistress Of Mellyn
by Victoria HoltAn impoverished Victorian girl must take a position as a governess to a resentful, eight-year-old girl and her distant, enigmatic father.. The house in which the child lives, the child herself, and the child's father are hiding dark secrets. The governess puts her life in danger as she tries to unravel the mysteries and falls in love with the child and her father.
South By Java Head
by Alistair MacLeanFebruary, 1942: Singapore lies burning and shattered, defenceless before the conquering hordes of the Japanese Army, as the last boat slips out of the harbour into the South China Sea. On board are a desperate group of people, each with a secret to guard, each willing to kill to keep that secret safe. Who or what is the dissolute Englishman, Farnholme? The elegant Dutch planter, Van Effen? The strangely beautiful Eurasian girl, Gudrun? The slave trader, Siran? The smiling and silent Nicholson who is never without his gun? Only one thing is certain: the rotting tramp steamer is a floating death trap, carrying a cargo of human TNT. Dawn sees them far out to sea but with the first murderous dive bombers already aimed at their ship. Thus begins an ordeal few are to survive, a nightmare succession of disasters wrought by the hell-bent Japanese, the unrelenting tropical sun and by the survivors themselves, whose hatred and bitterness divides them one against the other. Written after the acclaimed and phenomenally successful HMS Ulysses and The Guns of Navarone, this was MacLean's third book, and it contains all the hallmarks of those other two classics. Rich with stunning visual imagery, muscular narrative power, brutality, courage and breathtaking excitement, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of South by Java Head offers readers a long-denied chance to enjoy one of the greatest war novels ever written.
Juggernaut
by Desmond BagleyIt is longer than a football pitch, weighs 550 tons, and moves at an average of five miles per hour. Its job-and that of company troubleshooter Neil Mannix – is to move a giant transformer across Nyala, an oil-rich African state. Outwardly politically stable, Nyala erupts in civil war. And Mannix finds himself, and the juggernaut, at the centre of the conflict – with no way to run and nowhere to hide.
Pay Off
by Stephen LeatherWhy does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA, jeopardise his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with the East End underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple: revenge for a cold-blooded act of murder. is adversary is a dangerous gangland boss whose connections stretch from the Highlands to London and beyond. More than a match for a newcomer, especially when his plans contain a fatal flaw which will be discovered only when it is much too late ...
Fallen Hearts (Casteel #3)
by V. C. AndrewsProud and beautiful, Heaven came back to the hills -- to rise at last above her family's shame! As Logan's bride, she would savor now the love she had sought for so long. And free from her father's clutches, she would live again in her backwoods town, a respected teacher and cherished wife. But after a wedding trip to Boston's Farthinggale Manor and a lavish, elegant party, Heaven and Logan are persuaded to stay...lured by Tony Tatterton's guile to live amidst the Tatterton wealth and privilege. Then the ghosts of Heaven's past rise up once more, writhing around her fragile happiness...threatening her precious love with scandal and jealousy, sinister passions and dangerous dreams!
Chronicles Of Wasted Time: Part I: The Green Stick
by Malcolm MuggeridgeChronicles of Wasted Time Part I The Green Stick
Tools for Conviviality
by Ivan IllichA work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan Illich's penetrating analysis of the industrial mode of production which characterises our contemporary world. The conviviality for which noted social philosopher Ivan Illich is arguing is one in which the individual's personal energies are under direct personal control and in which the use of tools is responsibly limited. This book claims out attention for the urgency of its appeal, the stunning clarity of its logic and the overwhelmingly human note that it sounds.
Liverpool Miss
by Helen ForresterHelen Forrester grew up poor, as the eldest of seven children, there was never enough to eat. But her severe malnutrition wasn't her only challenge, her parents' wanted her to stay home and mind her siblings, instead of getting a job and earning her keep.
Great Girls: Profiles of Awesome Canadian Athletes
by Laura Robinson Maija RobinsonProfiles of Canadian women athletes.
The Living Workplace: Soul, Spirit, and Success in the 21st Century
by Ann Coombs Marion E. RaychebaThrough true-life examples and well-tested learning model, the author reveals how to access and utilize the key elements of spirituality such as wisdom, service and creativity, to ensure long-term success. This is a new approach to business.
INDIRA The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
by Katherine Frank Stephen RileyLife of Indira Nehru Gandhi, from her childhood to her Assassination in 1984. The book illustrates Indira as a Person, taking the reader into areas, which were never known.
Final Things
by Richard WrightOn a weekend visit, Farris's 12-year-old son is murdered; he tries to cope, and eventually takes revenge on his son's killer.
Adultery: A Novel
by Richard B. WrightNovel exploring the aftereffects and ramifications of an extramarital affair.
Vancouver
by David Cruise Alison GriffithsA fictional account of all the people who've traveled to Vancouver over the centuries
Getting to First Base with Danalda Chase
by Matt BeamDarcy Spillman wonders why they call kissing a girl "getting to first base." He knows everything about baseball and he thinks he likes Danalda Chase, a pretty girl in his class, but he knows nothing about dating. This has got to change. With help from his baseball-statistics-obsessed best friends; the new girl, Kamna; and former minor-leaguer Grandpa Spillman, Darcy looks for the connection between his favorite sport and his new love interest. With a kiss from Danalda Chase as the goal, he steps up to bat and swings for the fences. This sweet and funny story is perfect for every romantically challenged preteen boy.