Twenty-year-old Phoebe Dymond, a trained herbalist & midwife, boards the packet ship Providence bound for Jamaica & an arranged marriage. Incidents on board provoke clashes between Phoebe & the ship's surgeon, Jowan Crossley. But, their professional antagonism turns to mutual respect & a deepening attraction. ...

Criminologists have noted a disturbing trend over the years. Though men are most often the perpetrators of murder, violent assault, & child molestation, more girls & women are becoming dangerous criminals. This book explores a scope of girls & women behaving badly. ...

In February 1880, when Arthur Conan Doyle was only twenty years old, he embarked upon 'the first real outstanding adventure in my life, ' seven months as a ship's surgeon on an Arctic whaler. The voyage took the young Conan Doyle into unknown regions & p ...

Dan Chantry, a struggling farmer, is threatened with foreclosure. Charles B Morgan is an unsympathetic & greedy banker who ignores Chantry's honest efforts to clear his debt & turns a deaf ear to his pleas. The meeting between the men turns angry & Chantry storms out of the bank, vowing that should Morgan try to foreclose he will stop him. ...

Hans Bengler, a young entomologist, leaves Sweden for the Kalahari Desert, determined to find a previously undiscovered insect to name after himself & advance his career. Instead, he finds a young boy, whose tribe has been decimated by European raiders. Accustomed to collecting specimens, Bengler re-names the traumatised child Daniel & brings him home to Sweden, intending to 'civilise' him. But Daniel yearns desperately for the desert & his real family. His only consolation is his friendship with a vulnerable young girl who is also an outsider in the community, but even this bond is destined to be violently broken, as Daniel's isolation & increasing desperation lead to a chilling tragedy. ...

Daniel Day-Lewis: The biography is a wonderful portrait of a man of many contradictions &

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Daniel, you really are the greatest!

Whether its being a cuddly bear, a funny monkey, or a brave lion, this uplifting

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The Alien Hunter is playing with fire... Daniel X is on an impossible mission: to eliminate every intergalactic criminal on the face of the Earth. Using his incredible superpower to create objects out of thin air, he's taken on some of the most fearsome & fiendish aliens in the universe. Now Daniel has travelled to England in search of his next target: the explosive demon of fire Phosphorius Beta & his army of flame-weaving henchmen. But it's going to take a whole new level of mojo to destroy this villain. Beta's strength has been growing since he arrived on Earth more than a millennium ago, & he's finally ready to turn the blue planet into his own fiery wastel&. The only way to stop him is by jumping back in time to the Dark Ages to end Beta's blistering reign before it has a chance to begin. But can Daniel X take the heat? Or will the Alien Hunter finally get burned? ...

Based on the romantic best-seller by DANIELLE STEEL, one of the world's most popular & acclaimed novelists. The death of her loving father shatters 16-year-old Crystal's happy life on a remote ranch. Abused by her bitter mother, she's first raped, then blamed for the tragic shooting of her younger brother & finally banished from the family home. Alone & penniless, she flees to San Francisco & takes a job as a waitress in a night club. Her unique singing talents are soon noticed, however; & before long she's carving out a sparkling recording careen: By chance, Crystal meets up with her one true childhood love, Spencer Hill, who's now engaged to a powerful society beauty. Though infatuated with each other, they realise they must go their separate ways
- both eventually reaching the pinnacle of their careers. STAR
- But fame & fortune can never eclipse true love. So, when fate finally brings them together again, will more than a decade of triumphs & tragedies once more stand in the way of happiness & love?

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Based on the romantic best-seller by DANIELLE STEEL, one of the world's most popular & acclaimed novelists. As war rages in Europe, Ariana flees to New York in search of a new beginning. This incredible epic follows the tragic yet inspirational life of Ariana Von Gotthard (Nastassja Kinski), a woman who gains strength & courage as a young girl coming of age in pre-war Germany. THE RING
- As the upper-class Berlin family, Ariana watches her family & her country torn apart at the hands of impending fate. Aware of the dangerous political climate, her father helps Ariana's brother to escape to Switzerl&. He returns to rescue Ariana, but he is brutally killed as a traitor. Unsure of her father & brother's fate, Ariana is now truly alone. She seeks comfort in the arms of a German soldier, but the harsh war claims him as yet another victim. Pregnant with his child, Ariana realizes she has nothing left from her past but her late mother's signet ring. She decides to flee to America to start her life again.
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