Seventeen-year-old Veronica ' Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced & her father moved from New York City to Wilmington North Carolina. Three years later she remains angry & alienated from her parents especially her father.. .until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father a former concert pianist & teacher is living a quiet life in the beach town immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church. The tale that unfolds is an unforgettable story about love in its myriad forms
- first love the love between parents & children
- that demonstrates as only a Nicholas Sparks novel can the many ways that deeply felt relationships can break our hearts.. .and heal them.

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The whites want war & we will give it to them
- Sitting Bull. This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is
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It is 1881 & General George Pomeroy-Colley commander of the British forces in Natal is planning to stamp out a rebellion. He is convinced the Transvaal Boers can pose no serious threat but he needs reliable information. He calls on former army captain Simon Fonthill. A veteran of the recent Zulu & Sekukuni campaigns Fonthill knows to never underestimate the enemy. He & his servant 352 Jenkins agree to carry out a covert diplomatic assignment. But the greatest test is yet to come. As the two armies converge on the heights of Majuba Hill Fonthill & Jenkins are first into the fray. If they are to break the enemy Colleys men must hold the summit at all costs... ...

Set in the tumultuous last year of Leo Tolstoy's life The Last Station centres on the battle for his soul waged by his wife & his leading disciple. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty & chastity on the one hand & the reality of his life of hedonism on the other Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight from his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station of Astapovo he believes he is dying alone while outside over one hundred newspapermen are awaiting hourly reports on his condition. Narrated in six different voices The Last Station is a richly inventive novel that dances bewitchingly between fact & fiction. ...

A sweepingly epic & gloriously intimate commercial debut
- a beautiful & haunting story of lost innocence & a powerful enduring
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The war changed everything for Lily Verner. As the Nazis storm Europe Lily becomes an apprentice at her family's silk weaving factory. When they start to weave parachute silk there is no margin for error: one tiny fault could result in certain death for Allied soldiers. The war also brings Stefan to Lily: a German Jewish refugee who works on the looms. As their love grows there are suspicions someone is tampering with the silk. Can their love survive the hardships of war? & will the Verner's silk stand the ultimate test? The Last Telegram is an evocative & engaging novel for fans of The Postmistress & Pam Jenoff. ...

1291 AD Acre. As the city burns under the onslaught of the Sultan's men the Falcon Temple sets sail carrying a small band of knights & a mysterious chest entrusted to them by the Order's Grand Master. But the ship vanishes without a trace... Present day New York. At the Metropolitan Museum four horsemen dressed as Knights Templar storm the gala opening of an exhibition of Vatican treasures & in a brutal & bloody attack steal an arcane medieval decoder. For FBI agent Sean Reilly & archaeologist Tess Chaykin this is just the start of a deadly game of cat & mouse as they race across three continents in search of the ruthless killers
- & a centuries-old mystery...
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Paris: The Knights Templar has been destroyed by Pope Clement having been persuaded by a jealous king that they are corrupt devil worshippers. There is one survivor
- a knight who swears vengeance. Devon: A charred body is discovered in a burned-out building
- general consensus is that it is an accidental death. However Sir Baldwin de Furnshill believes differently. As he & Simon Puttock the bailiff piece together the evidence they hear of a gruesome murder in a nearby village where the victim was clearly burned alive…

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The Number One bestselling crime series featuring Dr Tony Hill hero of TV's Wire in the Blood written by the award-winning Val Mc Dermid. The hunt for a serial killer leads from Britain through Europe in this terrifying psychological thriller. A twisted killer targeting psychologists has left a grisly trail across Europe. Dr Tony Hill expert at mapping the minds of murderers is reluctant to get involved. But then the next victim is much closer to home... Meanwhile his former partner DCI Carol Jordan is working undercover in Berlin on a dangerous operation to trap a millionaire trafficker. When the game turns nasty Tony is the only person she can call on for help. Confronting a cruelty that has its roots in Nazi atrocities Tony & Carol are thrown together in a world of violence & corruption where they have no one to trust but each other. ...