Cazenove
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Music soothes the wild beast – it's a well-known fact. Though you have to admit it very much depends on the music. Dad's bagpipes tend to give people murderous ideas, Billy's flute is torture on all delicate ears … and as for Buddy's various artistic forays, they generate far more noise than harmony. When all's said and done, though, there's nothing like a family jam session to have jolly good fun!
Author
Series
Sisters volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to Just Like Family finds sibling rivals Wendy and Marine continuing their sisterly shenanigans while trying to remember that they actually love one another.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Being a little sister is a full time job for Maureen! One minute she is playing pranks, teasing, and pestering her sister, Wendy, as a good little sister should. The next minute, she is consoling the inconsolable, attempting to mend Wendy's broken heart.
4) Cat & cat
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020-
Language
English
Description
Life was quiet for Cat and her dad, living alone. But when they adopt a cat named Sushi, things get a bit too exciting.
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
From renowned mystery writer Agatha Christie come these 10 tales of intrigue and romance set in art deco era England. In these suspenseful stories, lesser known Christie protagonists--including "happiness expert" Parker PynE--find themselves embroiled in illicit love affairs, supernatural mysteries, false accusations, life-changing encounters, and murder. These classic adaptations are "an engrossing mystery-lover's treasure from beginning to end"...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gorky Park: Three mutilated bodies are discovered buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.
Eye of the needle: An English woman falls in love with a German spy.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When Cat, her dad, his girlfriend Samantha, and her son Virgil, bring Sushi the cat to a family farm, the cat antics get elevated to a new level. Holy cow! Life on a farm is anything but simple with Sushi calling the shots. Wait is that a cat ghost in the old barn? Just when you think it can't possibly get any weirder, Sushi becomes a movie star when he gets selected for a role in a film! Will stardom go to his head? How can...
Author
Series
Liam Devlin thrillers volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In Jack Higgins' classic international bestseller, an audacious Nazi plan to kidnap Winston Churchill threatens to tip the scales of World War II In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA gunman...
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Series
Johannes Cabal volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Johannes Cabal, a brilliant scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul . . . He hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Satan, who is incredibly bored these days, proposes a little wager: Johannes has one year to persuade one hundred people to sign...
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Language
English
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Haunting readers since its first publication in 1911, the classic story of the disfigured Erik who haunts the Paris Opera House and secretly trains singer Christine Daa, leading to an obsessive love and pattern of fear and violence, remains a riveting journey into the darkest regions of the human heart. This updated edition features a new introduction to the gothic horror classic.
14) Les Miserables
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Language
English
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Description
One of the greatest epic novels in history, Les Misérables is the moving story of Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption and his lifelong pursuit by Javert, a police detective determined to return Valjean to chains. Always one step ahead of Javert, Valjean encounters the tragic Fantine, and ultimately rescues Fantine's daughter, Cosette, from her wretched life with the Thénadiers, treating the child as his own as she comes of age in pre-revolutionary...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexander Dumas, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Peer into the drawing rooms of Victorian high society in these vintage adaptations of the writings of Henry James. This enchanting collection plays out the tensions and travails of late 19th-century romance, in which English accents encounter American attitudes to powerful effect. Follow the drama as it unfolds in six scintillating episodes.
17) A knight's tale
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The rousing story of lowborn William Thatcher's quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden and rock his medieval world. Follow this fearless squire and his band of medieval misfits as they careen their way toward impossible glory that's part romance, part road trip and part exuberant swashbuckling.
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Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Over the course of one pivotal year, events that shaped American and world history took place: The North Vietnamese launched the Tet offensive. Prague Spring began. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated. Students protested across the United States and around the world. Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The Democratic National Convention in Chicago was besieged by riots. Apollo 11 launched. And Richard Nixon was elected president of the United States....
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
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Description
From master storyteller Frederick Forsyth-best-selling author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File-comes this collection of five suspenseful gems.
Justice does not always come easily, and it comes in many guises. On the seedier side of London, a shopkeeper witnesses a brutal beating in "The Veteran" (read by Patrick Macnee). In a better neighborhood, a famous London auction house is scammed in "The Art of the Matter" (also read by Macnee)....