The Bethesda Falls stage is robbed & Ruth Monroe, the stage depot owner, is being coerced into selling up by local tycoon, Zachary Smith. Meanwhile Daniel Mc Alister returns from gold prospecting to wed Virginia, the saloon's wheel of fortune operator. Daniel hits a winning streak but is bushwhacked & his winnings stolen. ...

' Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip & the beginnings

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Tara, Katherine & Fintan have been best friends since they were teenagers. Now in their early thirties, they've been living it up in London for ten years. But what have they to show for a decade of hedonism? Sure, Tara's got a boyfriend
- but only because she's terrified of spending five minutes alone. Katherine, on the other h&, has a neatness fetish that won't let anyone too close to mess up her life. & Fintan? Well, he has everything. Until he learns that without your health, you've got nothing... All three are drinking in the last chance saloon & they're about to discover that if you don't change your life, life has a way of changing you.. Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781405969208 •†Author:   Marian Keyes •†Publisher:   Penguin •†Format:   Paperback •†Pages:† 640 •†Dimensions:† 12.95 x 3.81 x 19.81 cm
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Filtered through some of its colourful & eccentric inhabitants, from Lady Caroline Lamb in the 18th-century to Princess Diana in the 20th, this work is a portrait of Britain as both empire & the customs & certainties of the old order came to an end. ...

1916. Leaving war-ravaged London, Jenny Doyle sets sail for New York where she is to work for the de Saulles family. Their home, Gatsby-like in elegance, is rife with intrigue & madness. Only Jenny's friendship with dancer Rodolfo offers escape... until, one tragic day, the household is changed forever. 1926. America booms, prohibition rules & Rodolfo has taken his place on the silver screen as Rudolph Valentino. Will the world's most desired film star & his long lost love have their Hollywood happy ending, or will the tragic echoes from their time with the de Saulles thwart them one last time? ...

Johannes Kolmodin (1884-1933)
- philologist in Semitic languages & historian
- travelled from his native Uppsala to Constantinople

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In this extraordinary account, the author details his experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, in which he was shot down, leading to months in hospital as part of Archibald Mc Indoe's ' Guinea Pig Club', undergoing pioneering plastic surgery to rebuild his face & hands. ...

A novel that tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. It

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The outcome of the battle is in your hands!

A dimensional gate has just opened, & monsters are surging over the

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In AD 400 Roman rule in Britain was collapsing as the thinly stretched empire was besieged on all sides. In this book, the author explores various aspects of Late Roman military life, from recruitment to weaponry, marriage to wages, warfare to religion. ...