Jesse Stone is a down-and-out former L.A. police detective whose biggest battle is now against the bottle, as the demons of his past rise to haunt him while he drives himself to distraction by pursuing a decade-old murder case. Finding refuge in the small town of Paradise, Chief ...
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Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seem...
Jailhouse rock: A young man is sent to prison when he accidentally kills a man in a barroom brawl. While behind bars he takes up singing and is helped in the record business by a beautiful young woman.
A delightful story of a veterinarian's apprentice in rural England.
It's a rainy night on the Welsh moors. Two American students on a walking tour of Europe trudge on to the next town, when suddenly the air is pierced by an unearthly howl ... Three weeks later, one is dead and the other is in the hospital.
All creatures great and small begins with the arrival of vet James Herriot in the Yorkshire Dales in the late 1930s. The newly qualified outsider from Scotland finds he still has much to learn if the countryfolk are ever to accept him as a vet on par with Siegfried Farnon, who es...
Five friends go up to a cabin in the woods where they find unspeakable evil lurking in the forest. They find the Necronomicon and the taped translation of the text. Once the tape is played, the evil is released. One by one, the teens become deadly zombies. With only one remaining...
Beneath the water the body sank rapidly. Above her on dry land, the nightmare was just beginning. When Detective Erika Foster receives a tip-off that key evidence for a major narcotics case was stashed in a disused quarry on the outskirts of London, she orders for it to be search...
"An EcoNest is not just a home -- it is a uniquely beautiful structure that nurtures health and embraces ecology. This complete practical guide explains how EcoNests combine light straw clay natural building techniques with the principles of Building Biology, provides fully-illus...
"Morning Departure - On a routine peacetime mission, the crew of HM Submarine Trojan runs afoul of an electrically operated mine, leftover from the war. An unavoidable explosion sends the ship plunging to the seabed. Emergency signals are sent, and the Captain assembles the survi...
All creatures great and small begins with the arrival of vet James Herriot in the Yorkshire Dales in the late 1930s. The newly qualified outsider from Scotland finds he still has much to learn if the countryfolk are ever to accept him as a vet on par with Siegfried Farnon, who es...
"Mixing informative discussion of relevant infectious diseases with history and first-hand accounts of what it is like to have, for example, the plague, Quiet Killers ranges from the most common disease - tooth decay - to one of the most dangerous - smallpox, deliberately release...
Our Founding Fathers were yearning for a nation of individual liberty. But, the origins of America were overflowing with a deep-seated paradox. They were rallying the colonists to liberty, while many were slave owners. Liberty & Slavery is an Emmy-winning documentary about the co...
When the citizens of Coopers Creek elect Ned Turner as their sheriff, they are blind to the deadly mistake being made. For Turner is a lawless rogue seeking to exploit the position for his own advantage. It will be left to mild-mannered baker Jack Crawley to set things right. But...
In 1911, Carrie Strahorn wrote a memoir entitled Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage, which shared some of the most exciting events of 25 years of traveling and shaping the American West with her husband, Robert Strahorn, a railroad promoter, investor, and writer. That is all fact. E...
"With The Firm, financial journalist Duff McDonald pulled back the curtain on consulting giant McKinsey and Company. In The Golden Passport, he reveals the inner works of a singular nexus of power, ambition, and influence: Harvard Business School. Harvard University still occup...
A pickup hockey player with disapproving parents and a dead end job, Rajveer has dreams of making it to the NHL some day. Enlisting the help of a former pro-player-turned-zamboni drive, he2ll try to do the unthinkable 6 win the biggest tournament of the year with an all Indian te...
Though it doesn't seem likely for twins to have the same middle name, it's clear that Castor and Pollux Stone both have "Trouble" in that spot on their birth certificates. But anyone who's met their grandmother Hazel will know they came by it honestly. Join the Stone twins for a ...