A call frm an old friend brings back memories and more than a little guilt for DI John Rebus of the Lothian And Borders olice. Suddenly it seems Edinburgh's streets are crowded with the lost and forgotten. Happy reading
To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls' own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful—a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia and Victoria were the …
Kay scarpetta has been training at the dover port mortuary, mastering the art of virtual autopsy, a ground breaking procedure that could soon revolution forensic science. and it is not long before the new skill urgently need to bwe put into paratice. A young man drops dead apparently from a heart condition, erily close to scarpetta home. But when his body is examined, there are stunning indicat…
A really gripping narrative, full of suspense and unexpected turns, which will keep you hooked until the climax on its final page.... I have never read a thriller based in Russia which has such an authentic feel.bu Orlando Figes, Evening Standard.rnrn'Archangel is Harris's strongest book yet, confirming him as the leading current exponent of the intelligent literary thriller. by Peter Millar, T…
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Books, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel …
On his first voyage, Gulliver finds himself in Liliput, a land where everybodu and everything is one twelfth his size. Then his travels take him to Brobdingnag, a land of giants. Through his experiences, both funny and frightening, he learns many things about people and customs in different cultures.
Step inside the shadows world of medieval Paris and into the ill-fated lives of Quadimodo, the grotesque bell ringer of the Notre-Dame acthedral; the tortured archdeacon Claude Frollo; Esmeralda, the beatiful gypsy dancer and the handsome Captain Phoebus, who tricks Esmeralda into thinking he loves her.
Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah.rnAnd then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restle…
Fourteen year old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father's life - a straight. A student: a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family - and herself - seems to be a lie. Could th…
Elizabeth Bennet is young, clever and attractive, but her mother is a nightmare and she and aher four sisters are in dire need of financial security and escape in the shape of husbands. The arrival of nice Mr. Bingley and arrogant Mr. Darcy in the neighbourhood turns all their lives upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry, enmity and love.