A startlingly original teenage novel from the internationally acclaimed author of DEATH & THE MAIDEN. Heller is delivering messages in Manhattan's melting-pot of immigrants. Swerving through the city streets on his bike, he's carrying heartbreak & hope from around the world
- & feeling it himself... As Heller reaches his 16th birthday in the long hot summer preceding September 11th, he confronts the timeless perplexities that have left older adults confused since the beginning of time. Unrequited love, state indifference & family dynamics form the background to a fast-paced, moving & unusual novel for teenage & adult readers.
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A man who kills for money...

X marks the spot
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Read by Roger Lloyd Pack. X marks the spot
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The last years of the old century were a dangerous time for Engl&. Alfred of Wessex, a man of many victories, is in failing health, his successor is an untested youth & the Vikings, who have failed so many times to conquer Wessex, seize the opportunity to attack. Uhtred, Alfred ...

The fifth novel in Bernard Cornwell’s epic & bestselling series on the making of England & the fate of his great hero, Uhtred

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Centaine screamed & drove the point of her stave down into the jaws with all her strength. She felt the sharpened end bite into the soft pink mucous membrane in the back of its throat, saw the spurt of scarlet blood, & then the lion locked its jaws on the stave & with a toss of its flying mane ripped it out of her hands & sent it windmilling out & down to hit the earth below.' The passionate love of a beautiful French aristocrat for a courageous South African aviator is begun & extinguished in the blazing skies of war-torn France. But Centaine de Thiry is bent on realizing some of the dreams which she & Michael Courtney had shared
- & sets out to seek a future for his unborn child in the country of Michael's birth. But in a monumental odyssey of disaster & adventure she must first brave all the combined terrors of war, shipwreck, thirst, fever & the burning vastnesses of Namibia's Skeleton Coast before she sees another living soul.
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Cal Jardine is a soldier of fortune. Forced to flee Hamburg after helping jews escape Nazi Germany, he is recruited by a secretive British committee to smuggle guns from Rumania into Abyssinia. Taken to the Horn of Africa, the guns are transported over the harsh landscape, a slave traders ...

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he & his friend killed a 14-year-old girl. Randall did his time & built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, & he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop. But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay, & the missing girl's family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, & Randall Haight himself. Because Randall Haight is telling lies.. . ...

Electricity is as lethal as it vital, taking only one spark of genius can generate panic & death. The Watchmaker
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