The thrilling story of how nine young women, captured by the Nazis for being part of the Resistance, launched a breathtakingly

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Books True Story Books The powerful true story about how nine young women, captured by Nazi for being part of the Resistance, launched a breathtakingly bold escape & found their way home… Caught out in heroic acts against the brutal occupiers, nine young women were each tortured & sent east into Greater Germany to a concentration camp, where they formed a powerful friendship. In 1945, as the war turned against Hitler, they were forced on a Death March, facing starvation & almost certain death. Determined to survive, they made a bid for freedom, & so began one of the most breathtaking tales of escape & resilience of the Second World War. The book is written by Gwen Strauss, the great-niece of one of the nine. In revealing the heart-stopping escape & survival of these heroes who fought fearlessly against Nazi Germany & lived to tell the tale.   Product Information:  •†ISBN:† 9781786581549 •†Author:†  Gwen Strauss •†Publisher:†  Bonnier Publishing Fiction •†For... ...

August Witte is firmly against having children. But after seven years of marriage, his wife is delighted when she realizes she is unexpectedly pregnant. August is terrified, recognizing he never learned the first thing about being a good parent from his father London. A widower since August was a toddler, London has always valued the game of golf--a sport August has never had any talent for--more than his son. In spite of how he hates the game, when August confronts his father, he finds himself agreeing to meet each month of the pregnancy for a round of golf. In exchange, London will give him the only thing that could make August agree to pick up a club again
- memories of his mother, which he has written on golf scorecards since the day he met her. But August quickly realizes that his father's motive is not to teach him about golf but to teach him about life
- & he may discover that the old man just might know something about it worth sharing.

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When his sexton finds a corpse in the wrong grave, the rector of Fenchurch St Paul asks Lord Peter Wimsey to find out who the dead man was & how he came to be there. The lore of bell-ringing & a brilliantly-evoked village in the remote fens of East Anglia are the unforgettable background to a story of an old unsolved crime & its violent unravelling twenty years later. 'I admire her novels.. . she has great fertility of invention, ingenuity & a wonderful eye for detail' Ruth Rendell. This book has 374 pages & is 17.7 x 11.4 x 2.5 cms ...

Based on a novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte (THE CLUB DUMAS) & coscripted by director Roman Polanski, THE NINTH GATE was Polanski's first feature after a long break following the release of 1995's DEATH & THE MAIDEN--in between, there was an aborted proj ...

Read by Andrew Mc Carthy. Eleven year-old Nick Vargas thinks his sucky life is being turned upside down
- his father has just remarried
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Details: Wayward daughters. Missing Husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, & no one
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Alexander Mc Call Smith's warm, humorous & uplifting novels about Botswana's only female private detective agency & this audiobook features 2 stories brought to life with vibrant music & acting. In the Return of Note, Mma Ramotswe finds a compromising situation when her past catches up with her. But things are looking up for her assistant, Mma Makutsi, when she takes up ball room dancing. In the Ceremony, Mma Ramotswe's agency work is finally under control but can she release her fianc ...

do the remains of Noah's Ark really exist? Before he dies, the father of ambitious young archaeologist Dilara Kenner leaves her tantalising clues about the location of the legendary historical artefact
- Noah's Ark. The most fabled relic of all time, Noah's Ark has obsessed many over the years. & when Dilara starts her quest
- aided by former army engineer Tyler Locke
- she rapidly becomes transfixed by the thought of discovering it. But there are sinister forces gathering who have deadly reasons for wanting to be the first ones to get to the relic. From a helicopter crash in the Atlantic to the remote slopes of Mount Ararat, this thrilling page-turner blends nonstop action with fascinating true historical fact. It has been acclaimed as the most exciting, revelatory novel in the genre since The Da Vinci Code.


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Exeter, 1195. Renovations at the new school in Smythen Street are disrupted by the shocking discovery of a partially mummified corpse hidden in the rafters
- & Sir John de Wolfe, the county coroner is called to investigate. Richard de Revelle, Sir John's brother-in-law & founder of the school, immediately tries to blame Nicholas de Arundell, a young outlawed knight living rough on Dartmoor. As Sir John discovers, Nicholas has good reason to bear a grudge against the unscrupulous de Revelle. But is he really a killer? With the victim's identity unknown & the motive a mystery, the murder remains unsolved. But then comes news of a second violent death
- & Sir John is forced to track down the 'noble outlaw' in order to find the answers.

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