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Can Hawkins cut through the fog of war in time to stop a Nazi plot? Forty stolen masterpieces. Two continents. One man. Roy Hawkins. Sometimes who you're fighting is less than important than what you're fighting for. Forty modern masterpieces are found concealed on a neutral ship in international waters sixteen months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Their provenance is sketchy and their final destination unknown. The Royal Navy suspects the works...
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King Edward of England looks to secure his annexation of Wales and resolves to put the heir to Gwynedd's throne, the orphaned infant Princess, Gwenllian, out of mind, secure and forgotten in a Lincolnshire Priory. The lady Rowena, ever loyal, undergoes many an ordeal to find, comfort and protect the miserable child, whose real identity has been cruelly kept from her. Eighteen years later when the King conceives a plan to settle any question of Welsh...
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In New York City's Spanish Harlem, Julio and Maritza are each searching for a path that will give their lives meaning, even if it's shadowed by controversy. Julio is an arsonist for hire, pocketing thousands of dollars from investors eager to capitalize on more expensive real estate. But when he has reason to stop setting his neighborhood ablaze and vows to change his ways, Julio's employers threaten his life -- and the lives of those close to him....
4) China Bride
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Beth Connor is suddenly plunged into the nightmarish world of underground Hong Kong when she is kidnapped by the Chinese Mafia while on her way to meet her fiance's parents. A former Olympic runner, Connor makes a daring escape, only to find herself alone and bewildered in an unfamiliar and threatening world of seedy nightclubs and illicit pornography. It will take guts, street smarts, and a healthy dose of good luck for Connor to outfox the Triads...
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The Little Wagons is a fictional novel that captures the turmoil of late nineteenth-century Sicily, when the reverse alchemy of greed and violence forever changed the emerging Cosa Nostra from benevolent gold into corrupted base-metal. The horrors of slavery and oppression forged revolutions and rebels in equal measure, and within this cornucopia of nepotism and brutality, hostility and passion are pitted against endemic hegemony. With protagonists...
6) Manhunt
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Dao Ba Khang has left war-ravaged Vietnam and settles in Australia with an Australian wife and family. One day he discovers that his skin has turned black. He thinks to hide among tribal Aborigines in the Australian outback, but finds as he progresses on his journey that they too have been made victims of a tragic fate - annihilated by British nuclear testing and deprived of their land.
Written in the 1970s, Manhunt is the first novel of B. Wongar's...
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An old Aboriginal ritual leader, Bungawa, lives with a pack of dingoes on his tribal land in a remote part of Arnhem Land (Australia) just as his ancestors lived since time immemorial. His children have been forcibly taken from him by State authorities to be brought up and assimilated into the white man's world.
Bungawa, however, sees them embodied in the souls of the dingoes with whom he shares life in the wilderness, according to traditional...
8) Bivalent
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Ever present in the Agent's mind is her promise that she would keep Kiddo safe. A year after the fateful events in Diablo, she finally catches up with the WCE operative who kidnapped her child. During this interrogation, the Agent learns that the WCE has ordered her termination, and now the elite of their elite agents are hunting her. Moreover, with a team from the Cooperative FBI hot on her trail--a team inclusive of her most loyal friends--the Agent...
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Light of the Diddicoy is the riveting and immersive saga of Irish gangs on the Brooklyn waterfront in the early part of the 20th century, told through the eyes of young newcomer Liam Garrity. Forced at age 14 to travel alone to America after money grew scarce in Ireland, Garrity stumbles directly into the hard-knock streets of the Irish-run waterfront and falls in with a Bridge District gang called the White Hand. Through a series of increasingly...
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Patti is a busy Senior Probation Officer working in Camden, London, with a teenager off to university the following year. Charmaine is a stressed out mum of twin toddlers and Rose is a Pastor's wife with five daughters. Life gets complicated when they meet the three Morgan brothers, Manley, Marcus and reggae star Junior, who are from a close knit Jamaican family. Loving The Brothers is set in gritty London and sun-kissed Jamaica. The women meet and...
11) Emma of Iran
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An American/Iranian woman is forced into exile from her beloved Iran to save herself and her daughters from certain execution. It is a thought provoking thriller and mystery, with strong female characters who will not back down. You will learn what it can be like for Persians living in the United States, and leave you questioning why we are enemies and not allies.
12) The Mughal Harem
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A reminiscence back to the Mughal era, which savored the nuances of being one of the most enigmatic ruling periods under Shah Jahan and his clan; eventually burning down to shreds with the inevitable shuffling for the sovereignty of Padshah Begum.
Narrated by Firdouz, a mere lady-in-waiting to the first lady of Hindustan Begum Jahan Ara, this book shall take you on a majestic tour of mystifying incidents and surplus royalty. Notwithstanding the double-faced...
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When Chris Jones' client shakes hands on a deal to sell his Dubai business, the lawyer is, confronted with a rather inconvenient conflict of interest: Chris has every reason to wish for Mark's deal to fail.
Why? Chris is a bigamist with a family in London and another in Dubai. Now with the Dubai job at risk, there's a fast-approaching deadline to fix the mess caused by this flawed existence.
The crazy to-ing and fro-ing is being brought to an enforced...
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Derek doesn't have much going for him. He only puts up with the long hours minding his brother's strawberry stall because at night he can become a different person... calling himself 'Hank', donning a Stetson and fronting a country-and-western band. Derek has modelled his voice on that of his idol, Nashville star George Jones, and fantasizes that one day he might fly to the United States of America to see him sing at the Grand Ole Opry. But with a...
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Having fled the violent breakup of Yugoslavia, Tanja Lucic is now a professor of literature at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches a class filled with other young Yugoslav exiles, most of whom earn meager wages assembling leather and rubber S&M clothing at a sweatshop they call the "Ministry." Abandoning literature, Tanja encourages her students to indulge their "Yugonostalgia" in essays about their personal experiences during their homeland's...
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En pleine guerre d'indépendance d'Algérie, des familles marocaines de religions différentes permettent à leurs enfants de se marier.
Quatre familles de confessions différentes vivent à Tanger au moment de l'Indépendance de la guerre d'Algérie. Les passions pour le combat permettent des mariages mixtes entre les communautés catholiques, protestantes et musulmanes mais conduisent aussi à des drames comme le départ des Juifs du Maroc. Les...
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On a visit to Ukraine to retrieve a family heirloom secretly buried by his grandfather during the Second World War, Yaroslaw, a Ukrainian-Canadian university student, stumbles into a world full of spies and secret organizations, peril and political intrigue. His discovery of the hidden cache yields clues to the location of a fabled lost treasure-the greatest in all Europe. Working against time, Yaroslaw and a small band of accomplices struggle to...
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Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, Cuba. There, he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student with great charm and panache working the hotels-and discovers that his nemesis, the Uruguayan military torturer Alberto Ríos, is living in the country as well, under a false identity. Putting his tropical holiday on hold, Bianchi goes on the hunt for his sadistic enemy.
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A riveting and unconventional thriller about a motley group of airplane passengers taken hostage by militant hijackers En route to Iran, a plane is captured by Middle Eastern terrorists intent on holding hostage the committee of politicians, religious leaders, and activists on a mission to investigate alleged human rights violations by the shah. But the kidnappers soon discover that there is a greater treasure onboard. Among the passengers are prominent...
20) The Descendants
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Seven years after a brutal encounter with the Hells Angels, two ex-lovers, Jonah Seeger and Ruby Samarodin, return to their Doukhobor religious community in the mountains of British Columbia to heal and start new lives. Jonah is a twenty-five-year-old from a disgraced family, and now injured and battling PTSD from his time as a Marine. Ruby, practically Doukhobor royalty, is a rock star with a substance use disorder.
Jonah finds his mother, Sharon,...
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