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As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars.

This is the story of Sarah Isbister, a young nurse from England, and Grant Alexander, a New Zealand sheep farmer who found that he had, most unwillingly, to accept her as a partner in his estate. Sarah met Grant's unconcealed dislike and distrust with defiant independence and a stubborn resolve to prove to him that he was wrong about her. It was uphill work, but he was beginning to recognize her good qualities when a mischief-making woman came on to the scene, determined on nothing less than establishing herself for ever and driving Sarah out. Would she win? And would Sarah have to leave the sun-kissed, prosperous farm -- and the man -- that she had learned to love? This was also published as "Nurse Abroad"

The life-and-death hunt for a notorious Nazi criminal unfolds against a background of international arms deals. As the story leads to its final dramatic confrontation on a bleak winter's hill-top, the question every reader asked at the end of The Day of the Jackal will inevitably be asked again: Can this be fiction?

Lionel Townsend, Beef's toffee-nosed biographer, finds himself a prime suspect when his aunt in Hastings is poisoned. At the same time, an unpopular publisher is found hanged in the Cotswolds, apparently a suicide. While the two cases seem to have nothing whatsoever in common, Sergeant Beef tramples his flatfooted way to amazing, simultaneous solutions.

The arrangement seemed ideal It would keep Verity in France until her next teaching course -- it would involve traveling to the pretty but remote village of Auray. Of course, her boss hadn't outlined the drawbacks of working for his friend to whom he'd offered Verity's services. Those he'd let Verity find out for herself. An ex-racing-car driver, the wealthy and well known Corbin McCaid was an irascible man, encased in his own private world. Not that it mattered. Verity could cope with him, even if he did dislike her -- she always coped.

A marvellous book about life in a West Highland seaboard cottage with two otters, Mijbil and Edal.

Henry receives an anonymous crossword puzzle in the mail and initially thinks it's just a prank. When he gets bored, and starts to fill in the puzzle, he begins to recognize the names of people who died under mysterious circumstances; and one clue suggests that another death may soon come. The names in the puzzle lead Henry to an exclusive organization of writers with one subject on their minds: murder! When he teams up with his wife Emmy, there is not a criminal in the world who is safe!

When Captain Pascoe Trevellion of the Royal Navy is drafted on to the frigate Icarus , he knows a tense time lies ahead. With the spectre of nuclear war looming ever closer, the Cold War is entering a crucial phase, and NATO must respond to the escalating threat. Trevellion, whose calm and dignified exterior conceals a tragic personal secret, barely has time to greet his new crew before Icarus is plunged into a war simulation exercise. But the danger becomes all too real when an unexpected encounter between Icarus and a Russian submarine leads to a Soviet counter-attack. As the battle arena shifts to northern Norway, the Soviets become suspicious of NATO’s motives. Amidst sub-zero conditions, the Cold War escalates, and the world teeters on the brink of annihilation. Could nuclear warfare become a reality? And can Trevellion and his men do anything to stop it? Or will this clash of superpowers result in the ultimate devastation? --Back Cover

309 pages ; 18 cm

An enormous fortune would be hers on day. Melina was grateful that her grandfather, a Greek shipping magnate, had chosen her as his heir. Yet there was one issue that she hotly disputed with him: the question of whom she would marry. She wanted only one man -- Anthony Seaton, a fiery individual who lived on a neighboring island ... and who'd been haunted by his wife's tragic death until he met Melina. Together they were caught up in a swirl of passion. But their happiness was soon cut short. Because someone was aiming to destroy the shipping empire -- and its only heir, Melina.

563 unnumbered pages (large print)

That double threat, rats and lice (or rather fleas) make history- this time in New York City, as ship's captain Mike Dollard, after a port of call in the Cameroons, dies on arrival in his girl's apartment, and a dock strike gives the disease-bearing rats shore leave. Dr. Eric Stowe, immunologist and public health officer of the World Health Organization, temporarily stationed at a Manhattan city hospital, makes an early identification of the plague, but not before the young doctor who has performed the autopsy is a victim. An all out alert is sounded: finally the city is quarantined; the caseload climbs, and organized violence, arson and sabotage make an even greater disaster area of the city, before the epidemic can be controlled.... A strong but strident situation toboggans from emergency to catastrophe and leaves little time for romance (Drs. Eric Stowe and Trent, and the nurse they both love) but the subject and the author are within a sure sphere of contagion.

A cosy game of darts in a cosy English pub is going well until one of the players dies on the spot. Chief Inspector Alleyn knows it wasn't the dart that killed him, but the prussic acid someone added to the cut.

After his escape from a maximum security prison--rumored to have been masterminded by the KGB or the CIA--convicted Soviet spy Christopher John Boyce, "The Falcon," becomes the most wanted man in America.

Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been bound as friends since childhood. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become a top cowhand with a wild streak. It took just one disastrous confrontation with a band of greedy ranchers to make him an outlaw. And when he crossed that line, it was up to U.S. Marshal Ben Cowan to bring him in alive--if only Catlow would give him the chance....From the Paperback edition.

They'd had one night of delicious pleasure but it had been destroyed. Now Greek tycoon Alexis Petrakis has discovered that their shame-filled night created something beautiful...a baby that he will do anything to reclaim...

DANGEROUS MASQUERADE Lady Lily Bedlington, the most beautiful woman at the Court of Edward VII, is terrified when her husband suspects her of having a love affair with the handsome young Duke of Roehampton. She is also furious when she learns that she has to act as chaperone to her husband's niece, an unknown girl from Ireland who has recently come into an immense fortune from an American godmother. When Cornelia arrived to take her place in London society she was dressed in dowdy country clothes and hiding awkwardly behind glasses. Immediately, Lady Bedlington knew that her husband's niece posed no threat to her intentions and began to weave the plan that would make the young Duke hers alone. Heartbroken and desperate, Cornelia created another identity for herself--that of the intriguing coquette Desiree--and vanished from London. With that one reckless deception Cornelia risked everything to win the Duke's love....

"A powerful novel of the US Cavalry and the Apache wars"--

>The Ariadne Inn catered for two classes: the “regulars” who absorbed their pints of beer in the public-bar, and passing motorists who congregated in the cocktail-bar and the garden. Soon after six o’clock on a warm evening in August, the place was packed with bibulous humanity, and in the general bustle it was not immediately apparent that one of the guests at a table in the twilit garden was not asleep but dead… >There were mysterious elements in the cause of his death and a still greater mystery in his previous activities, for who was this Mr. Warstock and why had he come to the Ariadne? >The ingenious John Rhode has not only set a complicated puzzle for Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn and the Sage of Westbourne Terrace, Doctor Lancelot Priestley, but has also shown the use to which a large country house can be put and the possible danger of belonging to a London Club…

The Morning Gift is a bestselling novel by the English author Eva Ibbotson, based on her own experience as a refugee. The story is set during the prelude and beginning of the Second World War and combines a picture of 1930s emigrant life with a love story.

When taking her annual leave, Staff Nurse Shelley Dexter was rescued from drowning by a senior medical student, Jason Howard. It was not until she returned to duty that Shelley realised she was in love with Jason - despite his apparent indifference to her after saving her life. She knew of his friendship with an unhappily married woman; she was bothered too, about her feelings for Dr. Alistair Forbes. Did she still want to marry Alistair? Or was Jason going to take his place?(

Jane Lindsay was fascinated by the mere idea of the house. but it was a world away, in the teeming oriental port of Kowloon, and she knew she'd never see it. Quite unbelievably her dream came true, altering her life forever. Now the wife of a wealthy art dealer, Jane's life is shattered by the menacing secret of The House of a Thousand Lanterns...

Sequel to The Circle of the Gods

A warm, intimate portrait of President Ronald Reagan by his confidant and friend of over 35 years.Former aide and long–time family friend Michael Deaver first met Ronald Reagan during his 1966 campaign for governor of California and later served him in Sacramento and Washington, DC, as the president's deputy chief of staff. In A Different Drummer, Reagan emerges as charismatic and unwaveringly optimistic, a devoted husband and dedicated leader, disciplined and tough. As Deaver points out in his introduction, worked eight years doing the toughest job on earth; criss–crossed the world; and survived an assassin's bullet, a devastating riding accident, cancer, and brain surgery all after he turned seventy.'Deaver also shares the lows, including the tough times that would test the strength of their friendship. Finally, he shares a look at Reagan today as he battles Alzheimer's disease. It is Nancy Reagan's finest hour, Deaver writes, a validation of the greatest love story he has ever known.

Esctasy, pain and desilusion were in her past - would her new love overcome that past? First love can bring ecstasy and pain, sometimes also disillusion. To Gail Redding it brought all three and for a time it seemed as if she would never be able to throw off the shackles of her past. Eventually she decided to leave England and visit friends in West Africa. She fell in love again, this time with a man of integrity, a Security Officer. But she kept the one secret her husband could never forgive. His work was dangerous, and life in the Bush was good and harsh, but Gail tackled it bravely, until, but a strange quirk of fate, the past imprisoned her again, threatening her husband's career and their life together.

> Expensive coats with a maker's label that reads "Margo". A North-country industrialist worried about the company his daughter is keeping. An extremely frightened pop star. A formidable psychiatrist with an unlikely secretary. A suddenly prosperous garage owner. A mysterious warning from a fairground. For Paul Temple and Steve these seemingly separate threads weave together into an intriguing, yet terrifying chain of events.

Something is not quite right at the Cornwall House convent. One young novice has already died, the apparent victim of a routine fire drill; another has mysteriously withdrawn from the convent, and her family has not heard from her since. The youngest worshippers have long, flowing hair, and Reverend Mother Ann herself wears makeup and perfume. When Reverend Mother Agnes of the neighboring Daughters of Compassion convent receives a bizarre, convoluted letter from an old friend at Cornwall, worries and suspicions are quickly aroused. Mother Agnes dispatches her most trusted disciple, Sister Joan, to see if she can shed light on the strange events. It doesn't take long for Sister Joan to realize that Reverend Mother Ann is running a unique type of sacred institution. There are hushed whispers among the Sisters of virgin sacrifice, Mother Goddess worship, suicide, and even murder. Sister Joan may be able to rectify the wrongdoings at Cornwall House, but can she expose the unsettling truth without sacrificing her own profound religious convictions? Readers of Ellis Peters and Ralph Mclnerny will enjoy A Vow ofSilence, the first in a promising series of mysteries featuring Sister Joan.

From the jacket Inside the wall of a palatial Newport estate, a violent struggle was beginning. Christy Moreland had come back to Spindrift determined to uncover the truth behind the mansion's most tightly held secret: the reason for her father's death. It was a truth that, at times, Christy felt she was barely strong enough to face, for it meant openly confronting Spindrift's domineering mistress-her mother-in-law, Theodora Moreland. Yet it was a battle that Christy knew she could not escape, especially if she was to free her young son from the obsessive and destructive hold the Morelands had come to exert over him. As Christy searches out the mysteries that haunt Spindrift-and the people in it-she slowly unveils a tightly woven web of deceit that only murder can continue to conceal....

At twenty-four Kate marries her first love, Campbell Rivers, and becomes mistress of Quarry House, set brooding and isolated on the Yorkshire moors. Kate is blissfully happy, falling in love should mean happiness and fulfillment, but gradually, it changes to a life of plots and ghosts from the past. She begins to sense the menace that surrounds the house. There is her husband's brooding nature, rumours concerning the fates of his two previous wives, and Kate's fears for Cam's three young daughters. As her anxiety becomes more acute, she realises that her own life is at stake. For her very survival she must unearth the sinister secret of Quarry House - before it is too late.

Fleur had married Alain because she loved him -- not, as he thought, either because he was blind and she felt sorry for him, or because he was rich and her motives were completely mercenary. But how could she ever convince him of the truth?

On the edge of the frontier, boomtowns like Confusion sprang up overnight. Here honest men came to work the mines, while thieves, gamblers and outlaws worked on them. But in Confusion there was more at stake than law and order--the mines themselves were the target of a violent plot.

> What could be more pleasant, or indeed more healthy, than a skiing vacation high in the Alps at a delightfully secluded and quiet resort: or so thought Chief Inspector Tibbett and his wife, Emmy. Because one really didn't need to ski all that much--a token effort on the nursery slopes and then one could sit back and relax in the sun with a long drink and an exhausted air. >Not so. >Not when that exclusive little resort so neatly and conveniently set on a border may in fact be cover for the nefarious smuggling of who knows what kind of contraband--a delightful way-station for, say, drugs on their way to market via the innocuous bags and pocket books of innocent holiday-makers. >Or are they innocent? >One of them at least is not. For one of them is willing to kill. >And suddenly the sunny, snowy slopes, the high crevasses and hidden falls become ominous. Even the staid and safe-seeming chair lift is monstrously threatening, dangerous beyond the wildest nightmares of a timid skier. >For death is much longer lasting than a broken leg.

Story of the rescue attempt of a British whaling factory vessel locked in the ice in Antarctica.

When, after Adrian's divorce, Rita at last moves in with him, she destroys his privacy and threatens his relationship with his 14-year-old daughter. The couple's bickering leads to violent rages, and then to murder. Celia Fremlin's other novels include "Appointment With Yesterday

Een Engelse weduwe bezoekt met haar dochter in Frankrijk een oorlogsmonument voor de gevallenen uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog en brengt haar op de hoogte van geheimen uit haar familie en uit haar eigen verleden.

En Ucrania, en los años 50, la KGB ha construido una réplica perfecta de una ciudad irlandesa con el único objetivo de entrenar en ella a los futuros agentes terroristas y de espionaje. Y allí inicia su aprendizaje Mikhail Kelly, huérfano de un militante irlandés del IRA ahorcado por los ingleses. Años después, en 1982, M. Kelly llega a Irlanda. Su misión: sembrar el caos, desestabilizar el país, impedir cualquier acuerdo entre católicos y protestantes. Para lograrlo, ningún obstáculo le arredra, ni siquiera sus hábitos y su condición de sacerdote. Sus acciones provocan el desconcierto no sólo entre los servicios secretos ingleses sino entre los propios dirigentes del IRA. M. Kelly, sin embargo, consciente de que poderosas manos desconocidas manejan su vida, acorralado por el IRA y el Scotland Yard, abandonado y condenado a muerte por la KGB, decide vengarse de todo y de todos llevando a cabo en solitario su última acción: el asesinato del papa Juan Pablo II durante su visita a Inglaterra. Y como telón de fondo de esta vibrante novela de acción y suspense, el oscuro mundo del espionaje y los servicios secretos, las ocultas peripecias de esa guerra sorda entre las grandes potencias, la situación en el Ulster y la guerra de las Malvinas.

Synopsis (Fantastic Fiction) The scene is Vienna, where an American art expert, Colin Grant, has been dispatched by a Texas millionaire to buy a painting by the Dutch master Ruysdael. He is instructed to get the painting "at any cost" but to keep his employer's name a secret. This seemingly simple assignment turns into a nightmare for Grant as he finds himself in the center of a conspiracy to unleash bloody international terrorism The art world meets cloak-and-dagger intrigue in this Cold War thriller. A triumph of pacing from a veteran of the genre. PRELUDE TO TERROR, published in 1978, was #1 in a series of 3 novels featuring Robert Renwick, written in the last years of the author's life, when she was already 70. She died shortly after the third was published. About the author Helen MacInnes (1907-1985) graduated from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1928 with a degree in French and German. Working as a librarian, she married the classicist Gilbert Highet in 1932 and moved with her husband to New York in 1937.

PRISONER OF LOVE Amanda Burke, daughter of a country vicar, had little experience with men until the day the dissolute Lord Ravenscar saw her in his garden -- and decided he must have her. Amanda's family was both shocked and pleased by the lord's proposal of marriage. Amanda was horrified. Never! Never could she let that despicable man touch her. Then Amanda found herself truly in love with Peter Harvey, a mysterious stranger who took refuge in the vicarage garden. And when Peter's life fell into Lord Ravenscar's hands, Amanda knew she would marry the man she loathed--to save the man she loved....

Fortune placed Lady Mary, elder daughter of the Duke of York, in line for England's throne — and thrust this gentle beauty, at age fifteen, into a loveless political marriage with her cold-hearted Protestant cousin, William of Orange. In her own poignant words, Lady Mary recounts her strange and haunting story: a happy childhood in merry England under King Charles II, her dark and lonely years in Holland, and the upheavals that brought her home once more as England's honored queen. Hers is a richly royal story, with kings and queens, princesses and princes, playing their noble or shameful roles upon Europe's brilliant stage. Among these towering figures Lady Mary's lot had been cast, among them she would grow strong or perish..

Describes the events of December 7, 1941, before, during, and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as the reactions of the men who lived through the attack.

Elizabeth had taken a post for a year on the coast of Provence in one last attempt to try and trace the sister from whom she had been separated since childhood. It was a very long shot, as all she knew was that Diana was living somewhere in France. But real life is often stranger than fiction, and Elizabeth did indeed find her sister - but found, too, that she was in love with the same man as Elizabeth herself; and that the dice were heavily loaded in her favour. For how could Louis de Sergeron, Comte d'Anelle, ever notice, let alone prefer, a humble English nanny when a beautiful, sophisticated woman of the world was his for the asking? Elizabeth could have borne the situation better had she been able to believe that Diana could make Louis happy - but her new-found sister was proving a disillusionment in every way. Should she go away and leave her a clear field, or stay on in the hope that Louis might come to his senses in time?

Elissa had always had the happiest memories of her beloved childhood home in New Zealand, and she was delighted now to have the chance of going back there to do a job she would enjoy. But the picture changed abruptly when she found that she wasn't expected and that the farm manager, Logan MacCorquodale, thought her a nuisance - and probably a nitwit into the bargain! But all that didn't prevent Elissa from falling in love with Logan - which was unfortunate, as it was only a question of time before he married Stacey Cressford.....

Charles Waring has come home to Queensland to attend his mother's funeral and several other people inadvertently overhear his remark, intended only for a family friend to hear. The chain of events which follows convinces Charles that his mother was murdered because she knew a terrible secret from someone's past, and he finds himself in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as he tries to unravel the mystery. Meanwhile, he must face the certainty that someone among those he has come to care about poses a cruel threat.

Veronica Blakeley's job was antiques, and when she received a letter from two old ladies somewhere up in the hills of New Zealand's South island, saying they had some for sale, she felt there might be some treasure trove, and off she went. But they had warned her that there was a dragon nephew there too, who wouldn't take kindly to the idea. And then somehow it all went wrong - and instead of doing business Veronica found herself, for the best of reasons, masquerading as the fiancee of said nephew, Dermid MacBride. And as time went by, it became more and more difficult to tell him the truth.

>When Chief Inspector McLean is sent to solve the murder of a young man in the West End of London he quickly realises that the death is the work of 'The Scorpion', an international criminal whose identity is unknown. McLean's enquiries lead him to Cornwall where he meets Celia, a beautiful pianist, who he suspects is an accomplice of 'The Scorpion'. The Inspector finds himself caught-up in a series of hair-raising adventures before he succeeds in identifying the ruthless killer.