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. ...

From the multiple award-winning author of Ysabel, Tigana & A Song for Arbonne, this powerful, moving saga evokes the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, & Norse cultures of a thousand years ago. There is nothing soft or silken about the north. The lives of men & women are as challenging as the climate & lands in which they dwell. For generations, the Erlings of Vinmark have taken their dragon-prowed ships across the seas, raiding the lands of the Cyngael & Anglcyn peoples, leaving fire & death behind. But times change, even in the north, & in a tale woven with consummate artistry, people of all three cultures find the threads of their lives unexpectedly brought together? Bern Thorkellson, punished for his father's sins, commits an act of vengeance & desperation that brings him face-to-face, across the sea, with a past he's been trying to leave behind. In the Anglcyn lands of King Aeldred, the shrewd king, battling inner demons all the while, shores up his defenses with alliances & diplomacy-and with swords & arrows-while his exceptional, unpredictable sons & daughters pursue their own desires when battle comes & darkness falls in the woods. & in the valleys & shrouded hills of the Cyngael, whose voices carry music even as they feud & raid amongst each other, violence & love become deeply interwoven when the dragon ships come & Alun ab Owyn, chasing an enemy in the night, glimpses strange lights gleaming above forest pools. ...

Details: This is the autobiography of Jack Straw
- an MP for thirty-three years & at the heart of government throughout

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From the author of the million copy bestselling The Devil Wears Prada. Heartbreak, headlines & Hermes
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A diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. It shows the diarist as a vibrant human being, a poetic longing for love, trying hard to be worthy of the Communist Party & doing her best to look after her patients under appalling conditions. ...

In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging & sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old & his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County
- to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto
- pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. In a story spanning five decades, Last Night in Twisted River
- John Irving's twelfth novel
- depicts the recent half-century in the United States as 'a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds were generally permitted to run their course'. From the novel's taut opening sentence
- ' The young Canadian, who could not have been more than fifteen, had hesitated too long'
- to its elegiac final chapter, Last Night in Twisted River is written with the historical authenticity & emotional authority of The Cider House Rules & A Prayer for Owen Meany. It is also as violent & disturbing a story as John Irving's breakthrough bestseller, The World According to Garp. What further distinguishes Last Night in Twisted River is the author's unmistakable voice
- the inimitable voice of an accomplished storyteller. Near the end of this moving novel, John Irving writes: ' We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly
- as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth
- the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives'.








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Portia Davenport is the luckiest woman in the world. She & her gorgeous husb&, Andrew, have just finished ploughing a fortune into renovating her ancestral home, Davenport Hall, & are now planning to unveil it as one of the most fabulous, luxurious, five-star country house hotels in Kildare. But life never turns out like you think. ...

In 1844 Henry Lehman arrived in the US from Germany &, with his brother Emanuel, established a modest cotton brokering firm that would come to be called Lehman Brothers. In 2008 Dick Fuld, the last CEO of Lehman Brothers, filed for corporate bankruptcy. ...