Taking place in 1871 against a backdrop of the golden age of paleontology & the beginnings of human fascination with dinosaurs, this story begins with the violent destruction of a Paleozoic museum in New York City & the unique competition that results. ...

The crowning achievement of an astonishing career, ' Boneland' concludes the story that began over fifty years ago in ' The Weirdstone of Brisingamen'. If the sleeper wakes, the dream dies... Professor Colin Whisterfield spends his days at Jodrell Bank, using the radio telescope to look for his lost sister in the Pleiades. At the same time, & in another time, the Watcher cuts the rock & dances, to keep the sky above the earth & the stars flying. Colin can't remember; & he remembers too much. Before the age of twelve years & nine months is a blank. After that he recalls everything: where he was, what he was doing, in every minute of every hour of every day. But Colin will have to remember what happened when he was twelve, if he wants to find his sister. & the Watcher will have to find the Woman. Otherwise the skies will fall, & there will be only winter, wanderers & moon... ...

In this collection of miscellaneous writings by Margaret Atwood, Gertrude describes what really happened in Hamlet, an ugly sister & a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves, & a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong. ...

Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec, is brought in to investigate. While there, she discovers the mummified remains of two more babies within the same room. Shocked & distressed, Tempe must use all her skills & inner strength to focus on the facts. ...

Having extricated himself from the embarrassment of murdering his lady parishioner, the Reverend Francis Oughterard is now plunged into the traumas of art theft. Forced by the shady Nicholas Ingaza into being a fence for stolen paintings, he endures the investigative probings of terrifying female novelist & amateur sleuth, Maud Tubby Pole, hell-bent on portraying him in her next novel. Haunted by the recent murder & fearful of exposure in his new role of 'receiver', the Reverend blunders haplessly in mesh of intrigue & risible deceit. As before, his antics are commented upon by his cat, the acidic Maurice, & redoubtable bone-grinding ally, the dog Bouncer. ...

Details: Genghis Khan is the powerful leader of a nation united from the tribes & victorious in the long war against the
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Details: Dr Temperance Brennan takes on a case that uncovers horrors she could never have predicted. It is the skeleton
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The skeleton is that of a young girl, no more than fourteen years old
- & forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan is struggling
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At the start of the Civil War, a Russian mining company commissions a great machine to pave the way from Seattle to Alaska & speed up the gold rush that is beating a path to the frozen north. Inventor Leviticus Blue creates the machine, but on its first test run it malfunctions, decimating Seattle's banking district. ...

Sherman Mc Coy is a WASP, bond trader & self-appointed Master of the Universe.

He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue

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