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Lyn Andrews - A daughter's journey (coming soon)
Angela is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt and uncle. She's well cared for until she's 16 when her uncle takes too much of an interest in her. Moving to Liverpool in the 60s, she becomes a success in the world of fashoin design. The pain of a disastrous love affair sends her home to Ireland where she makes an astonishing discovery.
Clive Cussler - Arctic drift
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A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming - a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Colombia - a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war.
Emma Darwin - Secret alchemy
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Cruel betrayals, royal secrets and an ancient murder: 'Possession' meets 'The Other Boleyn Girl' in the heartbreaking story of the Princes in the Tower.
David Donachie - The admiral's game (coming soon)
Since being illegally press-ganged into joining King George's Navy, John Pearce has overcome numerous adversaries, which have secured him a position of command on board HMS Faron. Having successfully overcome the French at the siege of Toulon, Pearce and his comrades, the Pelicans, now face the on-going, bloody battle to defend the port.
Michel Faber - The fire gospel (coming soon)
Theo Gripenkerl is a modest academic with an Olympian ego. When he visits a looted museum in Iraq, looking for treasures he can ship back to Canada, he finds nine papyrus scrolls that have lain hidden for 2000 years. Once translated from Aramaic, these prove to be the fifth gospel, written by an eye-witness of Jesus Christ's last days.
Michael Jecks - The king of thieves (coming soon)
Baldwin and Simon must uncover a deadly assassination plot that will change the course of English history. It's 1325, and Sir Baldwin de Furnshill, Keeper of the King's Peace and his bailiff Simon Puttock are in France to join Prince Edward and Bishop Walter's entourage as they journey to the palace of the French king, Charles IV.
Dean R Koontz - Your heart belongs to me (coming soon)
34-year-old Ryan Perry owes his life to a heart transplant - but confronts an imminent and far darker death.
Andy McDermott - The secret of Excalibur
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Nina Wilde and Eddie Chase faced enormous challenges as they scoured the globe looking for the lost city of Atlantis and the tomb of the legendary warrior Hercules. Now watch as they go in search of the most powerful of all swords, Excalibur.
Andy McNab - Brute force
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Days after his car erupts in a ball of flame, Nick Stone narrowly cheats death a second time when a gunman opens fire on him from the back of a motorcycle. Who knows his movements? Who wants him dead, and why?
James Patterson - Cross country
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When Alex Cross is called to investigate a massacre-style murder scene, he is shocked to find that the victim is an old friend. Angry, hurt and more determined than ever, Cross begins to hunt for the perpetrators of this cruel crime, drawing him into a dangerous underworld.
Ruth Rendell - Portobello
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On a shopping trip, Eugene Wren came across an envelope containing money. Rather than report the matter to the police, he wrote a note and stuck it up on lamppost near his house: found in Chepstow Villas, a sum of money between 80 and 160 pounds. Anyone who has lost such a sum should apply to the phone number below.
Danielle Steel - A good woman
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From the glittering ballrooms of Manhattan to the fires of World War I, Danielle Steel takes us on an unforgettable journey in this novel - a tale of war, loss, history, and one woman's unbreakable spirit.
Jessica Stirling - A kiss and a promise (coming soon)
Servant girl Betsy McBride thinks she has as much right as any girl to set her cap at Tom Brodie, the most dashing young man in the district. When her master asks her to help out the Brodie family she jumps at the chance.
Frank Tallis - Darkness rising (coming soon)
Vienna 1903. Outside one of the cities baroque churches the decapitated body of a monk is found. Shortly after, the remains of a municipal councillor are discovered - his head also ripped from his body. It transpires that both men were rabid anti-semites and suspicion falls on Vienna's close-knit community of Hassidic Jews.
E V Thompson - No less than the journey
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Wesley Curnow, a young Cornish miner, arrives in the United States to seek an uncle who is working on the mines in Missouri. Taking passage on a boat from New York, bound for New Orleans, he meets up with a charismatic U.S. marshall who is en route to the western territories to bring law to the area.
