Kate & John Ryan have four children, of whom the eldest are Michael & Dara. Their small town is peaceful & friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long, hot summers Michael & Dara & their friends fish & swim or play in the ivy-clad ruins of Fernscourt, the great house burned down during the Troubles...
No one in Mountfern has the slightest inkling of what it will mean when the ruins are bought by Patrick O' Neill, an Irish American with a dream in his heart & a great deal of money in his pocket. It is not until the very end of this drama, with its interlocking stories of love lost & won, ambitions nurtured & secrets betrayed, that Patrick O' Neill will understand the irony & the significance of his great dream for Mountfern.
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Kate & John Ryan have four children, of whom the eldest are Michael & Dara. Their small town is peaceful & friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long, hot summers Michael & Dara & their friends fish & swim or play in the ivy-clad ruins of Fernscourt, the great house burned down during the Troubles...
No one in Mountfern has the slightest inkling of what it will mean when the ruins are bought by Patrick O' Neill, an Irish American with a dream in his heart & a great deal of money in his pocket. It is not until the very end of this drama, with its interlocking stories of love lost & won, ambitions nurtured & secrets betrayed, that Patrick O' Neill will understand the irony & the significance of his great dream for Mountfern.
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Fires is the best introduction to the full range & humanity of Carver's writing. It contains four essays, including a moving ...

Lovely & dauntless, abducted by invaders from across an icy sea, the spirited Lady Brenna vowed vengeance on her handsome captor. She swore that no Viking brute would be her master, no barbarian enslave her noble Celtic heart.

Yet Garrick Haardrad, the proud & powerful son of a ruthless Viking chieftain, claimed her with a primitive abandon that left her breathless with desire. The fires of passion which they ignited together blazed through the cold Nordic nights, forging the unbreakable bonds of an overwhelming love in the eternal...
Fires of Winter.


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On the night of 13 & 14 February 1945 the RAF bombed the city of Dresden, causing devastating fires which obliterated the historic city centre & killed many thousands of people. Sixty years later these raids remain one of the most notorious, & also one of the most controversial, episodes in the history of the Second World War.

Firestorm: The Bombing of Dresden 1945 assembles a cast of distinguished scholars, including Sebastian Cox, Nicola Lambourne, Soenke Neitzel, Richard Overy & Hew Strachan, to review the origins, conduct, & consequences of the raids. Each contributor writes from his or her own perspective, offering the reader a panoramic reassessment of the evidence & the issues, including the question of whether or not the bombing of the city constitutes a war crime. Firestorm cogently demonstrates the reasons why Dresden has come to symbolise the military & ethical questions involved in the waging of total war.

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Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody & disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked
- somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely & frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.
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Stopping to get money from a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenaged girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody & disappears without trace. Soon afterwards a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked
- somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely & frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move. Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them In their gripping police procedural about our increasing vulnerability in the modern digitalised world.
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Stopping to use a cash machine one evening, a man inexplicably falls to the ground: dead. A taxi driver is brutally murdered by two teenage girls. Quickly apprehended they appal local policemen with their total lack of remorse. One girl escapes police custody & disappears without trace. Soon afterwards, a blackout covers half the country. When an engineer arrives at the malfunctioning power station, he makes a grisly discovery. Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked
- somehow. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely & frustrated, Wallander begins to loose conviction in his role as a detective. The search for answers leads Wallander dangerously close to a shadowy group of anarchic terrorists, hidden within the anonymity of cyberspace. Somehow these criminals seem always to know the police's next move & Wallander finds himself fighting to outsmart them.
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