A collection of short stories.
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- Author: Mariam AkaborSummary:
- Author: ATTENBOROUGH, RichardSummary:
Richard Attenborough and Diana Hawkins have been friends and colleagues for nearly 50 years.They have now teamed up to write this frank and funny account of their unlikely partnership and his extraordinary life. Attenborough is the...
- Author: Jeffrey ArcherSummary:
"This is the story of a man who loved two women, and one of them killed him. Some people have dreams that are so outrageous that if they were to achieve them, their place in history would be guaranteed. Francis Drake, Robert Scott...
- Author: ANTHONY, LawrenceSummary:
It had been nearly a century since elephants had lived in Southern Zululand, South Africa, where Lawrence Anthony founded his Thula Thula wildlife reserve. Yet one day a phone call changed all that. A troubled, unpredictable herd needed...
- Author: Elizabeth AlderSummary:
Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenage daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother, Nonna, receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious...
- Author: Philip BallSummary:
The latest act of David Beckham's career, played out on foreign fields, has outshone all previous drama: His falling out with Ferguson and leaving Old Trafford; the bitter power struggle for his signature betweenBarca and Real; the...
- Author: Celia BrayfieldSummary:
Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South...
- Author: Sir Richard Branson and Sam BransonSummary:
It's hardly a surprise to discover that Sam Branson has a love of adventure and a real concern about our future in a world where the climate is changing rapidly. Journeying into the heart of the Arctic wilderness with his father...
- Author: Pat ConroySummary:
"A young white teacher goes to an island off the coast of South Carolina to teach a group of functionally illiterate black children. Yamacraw Island is backward and primitive, a world for the most part left untouched by the 20th...
- Author: Agatha ChristieSummary:
Even the great detective Hercule Poirot harboured a deep and abiding fear of the dentist, so it was with some trepidation that he arrived at the celebrated Mr Morley's surgery for a dental examination. But what neither of them knew...
- Author: Tim CouzensSummary:
Just before Christmas in 1920, six people sat down to a meal at Morija, headquarters of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in Basutoland (Lesotho). All six were taken violently ill, and one of them died. They had been poisoned....
- Author: Jilly CooperSummary:
At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the...
- Author: CUNXIN, LiSummary:
Chosen from millions of children to serve in Mao's cultural revolution by studying at the Beijing Dance Academy, Li knew ballet would be his family's best opportunity to escape the bitter poverty in his rural China home. From...
- Author: Barbara CleverlySummary:
India 1922. The wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and always in March. The only link between the deaths is the small red roses that mysteriously appear on the women's graves on the...
- Author: CORNWELL, BernardSummary:
An extraordinary and dramatic depiction of the legendary battle of Agincourt from the number one historical novelist Agincourt, fought on October 25th 1415, on St Crispin's Day, is one of the best known battles, in part through the...
- Author: COLE, MartinaSummary:
Maura Ryan was the queen of the criminal underworld when she pulled off the most audacious gold bullion robbery of all time. Since then she's retired from a life of crime to be with the only man she's ever loved. But enemies...
- Author: Jeremy ClarksonSummary:
The publication of The World According to Clarkson in 2004 launched a multi-million-copy bestselling phenomenon. But to no avail. Jeremy's one-man war on crimes against common sense has not yet been won. And our hero's still...
- Author: Patricia CornwellSummary:
The 'book of the dead' is the morgue log, the ledger in which all cases are entered by hand. For Kay Scarpetta, however, it is about to have a new meaning. Fresh from her bruising battle with a psychopath in Florida, Scarpetta...
- Author: Patricia CornwellSummary:
Kay Scarpetta--now a senior forensic analyst for CNN--becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems...
- Author: Clive Cussler and Dirk CusslerSummary:
When an oil survey team is abducted after a suspicious accident, Dirk Pitt follows leads to Mongolia, where he learns about a megalomaniac's plot to supply oil to China and to undermine global oil markets.