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Title: The Kings of Clonmel (Book 8)
Author(s): John Flanagan

Language: English
Published: 10-05-10
Publisher: PENGUIN group
ISBN: 9780399252068
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Size: 403 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Fantasy & Magic, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Insurgency, Religion, War & Military, Cults, Kings and rulers, War stories, Fantasy:Juvenile, War, Fantasy:General, Kings; queens; rulers; etc., Kings; queens; rulers; etc

Mankind puts its faith in many things - gods, kings, money - anything for protection from the worlds many dangers. When a cult springs up in neighboring Clonmel, promising to quell the recent attacks by lawless marauders, people flock from all over to offer gold in exchange for protection. But this particular group, with which Halt is all too familiar, has a less than charitable agenda. Secrets will be unveiled and battles fought to the death as Will and Horace help Halt in ridding the land of a dangerous enemy.
The worldwide phenomenon is back with a gripping new adventure. Yet for these Rangers, the peril is only beginning....

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Title: the Lake Shore Limited (2010)
Author(s): Miller, Sue

Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Extension: EPUB
Size: 283 KB

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Four unforgettable characters beckon you into this spellbinding new novel from Sue Miller, the author of 2008's heralded best seller *The Senator's Wife*. First among them is Wilhelmina-Billy-Gertz, small as a child, fiercely independent, powerfully committed to her work as a playwright. The story itself centers on *The Lake Shore Limited*-a play Billy has written about an imagined terrorist bombing of that train as it pulls into Union Station in Chicago, and about a man waiting to hear the fate of his estranged wife, who is traveling on it. Billy had waited in just such a way on 9/11 to hear whether her lover, Gus, was on one of the planes used in the attack.The novel moves from the snow-filled woods of Vermont to the rainy brick sidewalks of Boston as the lives of the other characters intersect and interweave with Billy's: Leslie, Gus's sister, still driven by grief years after her brother's death; Rafe, the actor who rises to greatness in a performance inspired by a night of incandescent lovemaking; and Sam, a man irresistibly drawn to Billy after he sees the play that so clearly displays the terrible conflicts and ambivalence of her situation.How Billy has come to create the play out of these emotions, how it is then created anew on the stage, how the performance itself touches and changes the other characters' lives-these form the thread that binds them all together and drives the novel compulsively forward.A powerful love story; a mesmerizing tale of entanglements, connections, and inconsolable losses; a marvelous reflection on the meaning of grace and the uses of sorrow, in life and in art: *The Lake Shore Limited *is Sue Miller at her dazzling best.

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Title: The Kitchen House
Author(s): Kathleen Grissom

Language: English
Published: 02 February 2010
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 9781439153666
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Size: 2 MB
Subjects: Fiction
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction

Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of the highly anticipated Glory Over Everything, established herself as a remarkable new talent with The Kitchen House, now a contemporary classic. In this gripping novel, a dark secret threatens to expose the best and worst in everyone tied to the estate at a thriving plantation in Virginia in the decades before the Civil War.
Orphaned during her passage from Ireland, young, white Lavinia arrives on the steps of the kitchen house and is placed, as an indentured servant, under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate slave daughter. Lavinia learns to cook, clean, and serve food, while guided by the quiet strength and love of her new family.

In time, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, caring for the master's opium-addicted wife and befriending his dangerous yet protective son. She attempts to straddle the worlds of the kitchen and big house, but her skin color will forever set her apart from Belle and the other slaves.

Through the unique eyes of Lavinia and Belle, Grissom's debut novel unfolds in a heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of class, race, dignity, deep-buried secrets, and familial bonds.

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Title: The King's Rose
Author(s): Alisa M. Libby

Language: English
Publisher: PENGUIN group
ISBN: 9780525479703
Extension: EPUB
Size: 301 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Europe, Juvenile Fiction, History, Children's Books - Young Adult Fiction, Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12), Young adult fiction, Historical, Biography & Autobiography, Great Britain, Family, European, etc, Biographical, Royalty, Girls & Women, etc., Children's 12-Up - Fiction - General, Queens, Queen, Marriage & Divorce, Henry, rulers, Kings, King of England, Historical Fiction (Young Adult), Royalty (kings queens princes princesses knights etc.), 1509-1547, 1491-1547, VIII, consort of Henry VIII, Kings; queens; rulers; etc., Kings; queens; rulers; etc, Great Britain - History - Henry VIII; 1509-1547, Proofs (Printing), Biographical - European, Great Britain - History - Henry VIII, d. 1542, Family - Marriage & Divorce, Catharine Howard

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Grade 8 Up-Beautiful Catherine Howard, 15, has attracted the attention of aging King Henry Tudor, who is becoming increasingly desperate for a son. His only son, Edward, is a sickly youngster, and Henry is worried about the succession. He has already rid himself of three wives and, now, he finds a way to dispense with his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, so he can marry Catherine. Catherine has been thrust before him by her powerful Howard relatives, and she knows that her role is to keep the king happy, but she has grown up in the morally lax household of her grandmother, the dowager Duchess of Norfolk, and she has secrets in her past that, if revealed, will ruin her. Told in Catherine's voice, the story gains real immediacy as she glories in the excitement and glamour of the court, but soon realizes that she is in great danger. Her love for young Thomas Culpepper overcomes her common sense, and their affair seals her doom. Period activities such as a bear-baiting contest are skillfully woven into the plot. The dowager Duchess and her accomplice, Lady Jane Rochford, are deliciously amoral in their relentless political scheming. One particularly effective scene has Catherine shocked at seeing a portrait of the youthful Henry and realizing how much he has deteriorated. While numerous sexual encounters are part of the political reality, they are subtly handled. A real treat for lovers of historical fiction.-_Quinby Frank, Green Acres college, Rockville, MD_
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Though well aware of her cousin Anne Boleyn's fate only four years earlier, 15-year-old Catherine Howard acquiesces with her ambitious, conniving relatives' plans and marries King Henry VIII. He calls her "my rose without a thorn," but she is well aware of the thorny secrets she conceals: no virgin when she and the king married, she later begins a sexual liaison at court, partly in a desperate effort to produce an heir. Soon, Catherine begins a downward spiral toward madness and despair. An author's note separates historical fact from conjecture in this account of Catherine's short years as Henry's "rose." Libby offers a convincing, sympathetic portrayal of a young woman who relinquishes her hopes of marrying for love and finds herself doomed by her choices and deceptions. Hardly an active heroine, Catherine falls into a trap early on and, in the end, has little left but her dignity. This one's for historical-fiction fans who will appreciate this character study of Henry's fifth wife. Grades 8-11. --Carolyn Phelan

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Title: The Kitchen Boy
Author(s): Robert Alexander

Language: English
Published: 27 January 2003
Publisher: Paw Prints
ISBN: 9781435290006
Extension: EPUB
Size: 205 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Historical - General, Historical, American Historical Fiction
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters)
Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragic, perennially fascinating story of the final days of Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov as seen through the eyes of their young kitchen boy, Leonka. Now an ancient Russian immigrant, Leonka claims to be the last living witness to the Romanovs' brutal murders and sets down the dark secrets of his past with the imperial family. Does he hold the key to the many questions surrounding the family's murder? Historically vivid and compelling, The Kitchen Boy is also a touching portrait of a loving family that was in many ways similar, yet so different, from any other.
"Ingenious...Keeps readers guessing through the final pages." - USA Today

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Title: The King of Lies
Author(s): John Hart

Language: English
Published: 01 April 2010
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312363758
Extension: EPUB
Size: 349 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery & Detective, Fiction - Espionage, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery And Suspense Fiction, Fathers and sons, Mystery fiction, Legal, Detective and mystery stories, Legal stories, Fathers - Death, Murder victims' families, Fathers, North Carolina
Categories: Fiction, Suspense

John Hart creates a literary thriller that is as suspenseful as it is poignant, a riveting murder mystery layered beneath the southern drawl of a humble North Carolina lawyer. When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack.
Work's troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel.
Hart's mastery of prose and plot belie his newcomer status as he explores the true heart of a man. An illuminating anatomy of a murder and the ripple effect it produces within a family and a community, The King of Lies is a stunning debut.
Now with an excerpt from John Hart's next book The Hush, available February 2018.

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Title: The Lace Makers of Glenmara
Author(s): Heather Barbieri

Language: English
Published: 23 June 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061772467
Extension: EPUB
Size: 269 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Literary, Fiction - General, Americans, Family Life, American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +, Female friendship, Domestic fiction, Contemporary Women, Ireland, Fashion designers, Lace and lace making
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Romance

"This hopeful, comforting novel is a testament to the power of taking chances and starting fresh and a reminder that life can bring joy after sorrow." - Miami Herald
From the author of Snow in July comes The Lace Makers of Glenmara: a "charming, moving story, written with a delicate touch" (Joanne Harris), as a struggling young fashion designer journeys to Ireland to mend a broken heart, and helps a group of local lace makers change their lives-and her own.
"You can always start again," Kate Robinson's mother once told her. "All it takes is a new thread." Overwhelmed by heartbreak and loss, Kate follows her mother's advice and flees to Ireland, her ancestral homeland, hoping to reinvent herself. In the seaside hamlet of Glenmara, the struggling twenty six-year-old fashion designer quickly develops a bond with members of the local lace-making society-and soon she and the lace makers are creating a line of exquisite lingerie, their skilled hands bringing flowers, Celtic dragons, nymphs, saints, kings, and queens to life with painterly skill. The circle also offers them something more: the strength to face their desires and fears. But not everyone in this charming, fading Gaelic village welcomes Kate, and a series of unexpected events threatens to unravel everything the women have worked so hard for.
Fans of the strong feminine voices of contemporary Irish literature such as Maeve Binchy and Cecilia Ahern will fall in love with The Lace Makers of Glenmara.

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Title: The King of Torts
Author(s): John Grisham

Language: English
Published: 27 November 2007
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 9780385339650
Extension: EPUB
Size: 340 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Suspense fiction, Fiction - Psychological Suspense, Murder, Legal, Washington (D.C.), Legal stories, Conspiracy, Public defenders, Drugs, Pharmaceutical industry
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Suspense, Thriller

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week.
As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy too horrible to believe. He suddenly finds himself in the middle of a complex case against one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, looking at the kind of enormous settlement that would totally change his life-that would make him, almost overnight, the legal profession's newest king of torts...

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Title: The Lake of Dreams
Author(s): Kim Edwards

Language: Spanish
Published: 04 January 2011
Publisher: PENGUIN group
ISBN: 0143120360
Extension: EPUB
Size: 1 MB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature
Categories: Fiction, Literature

From Kim Edwards, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter, an arresting novel of one family's secret history
Imbued with all the lyricism, compassion, and suspense of her bestselling novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards's The Lake of Dreams is a powerful family drama and an unforgettable story of love lost and found.
Lucy Jarrett is at a crossroads in her life, still haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade earlier. She returns to her hometown in Upstate New York, The Lake of Dreams, and, late one night, she cracks the lock of a window seat and discovers a collection of objects. They appear to be idle curiosities, but soon Lucy realizes that she has stumbled across a dark secret from her family's past, one that will radically change her-and the future of her family-forever.
The Lake of Dreams will delight those who loved The Memory Keeper's Daughter, as well as fans of Anna Quindlen and Sue Miller.

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Title: The Land of Painted Caves
Author(s): Auel, Jean M.

Language: English
Published: 29 March 2011
Publisher: Hodder
ISBN: 0340824263
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Size: 851 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Thriller, Historical Fiction
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Thriller, Historical Fiction

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this, the extraordinary conclusion of the ice-age epic series, Earth's Children®, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training tasks.

Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the difficulties of daily life, searching for wild edibles to make meals and experimenting with techniques to ease the long journeys the Zelandonii must take while honing her skills as a healer and a leader. And there are the Sacred Caves that Ayla's mentor takes her to see. They are filled with remarkable paintings of mammoths, lions, and bears, and their mystical aura at times overwhelms Ayla.

But all the time Ayla has spent in training rituals has caused Jondalar to drift away from her. The rituals themselves bring her close to death, but through them Ayla gains A Gift of Knowledge so important that it will change her world.
BONUS: This edition contains a reading guide and an interview with Jean M. Auel.

Sixth in the acclaimed Earth's Children® series.

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Title: The Kraken Wakes
Author(s): John Wyndham

Language: English
Published: 07 August 2008
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780140010756
Extension: EPUB
Size: 202 KB
Subjects: General, Science Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fiction in English
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

'Ingenious, horrifying' - Guardian
It started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . .
For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that water - one of the compounds upon which life depends - is turned against them. Finally, sea levels begin their inexorable rise . . .
The Kraken Wakes is a brilliant novel of how humankind responds to the threat of its own extinction and, ultimately, asks what we are prepared to do in order to survive.

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Title: The Kommandant's Girl
Author(s): Pam Jenoff

Language: English
Published: 15 August 2012
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 9780778323426
Extension: EPUB
Size: 368 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Historical - General, Historical fiction, Historical, Romance, Fiction - Romance, Love stories, War & Military, World War, 1939-1945, Nazis, Romance - Historical, American Historical Fiction, Jewish, Poland, Jewish women, World War; 1939-1945, Jewish resistance, 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance - Poland, Jewish women - Poland - Krakow, World War; 1939-1945 - Jewish resistance - Poland, Krakow, Kraków (Poland), Krakƒow, Krakow (Poland) - History - 20th century
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

In her luminous and groundbreaking debut, bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war
Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married only three weeks when Nazi tanks thunder into her native Poland. Within days Emma's husband, Jacob, is forced to disappear underground, leaving her imprisoned within the city's decrepit, moldering Jewish ghetto. But then, in the dead of night, the resistance smuggles her out. Taken to Krakow to live with Jacob's Catholic aunt, Krysia, Emma takes on a new identity as Anna Lipowski, a gentile.
Emma's already precarious situation is complicated by her introduction to Kommandant Richwalder, a high-ranking Nazi official who hires her to work as his assistant. Urged by the resistance to use her position to access details of the Nazi occupation, Emma must compromise her safety-and her marriage vows-in order to help Jacob's cause. As the atrocities of war intensify, Emma must make choices that will force her to risk not only her double life, but also the lives of those she loves.

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Title: The Lady Elizabeth
Author(s): Alison Weir

Language: English
Published: 13 May 2008
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780345495365
Extension: EPUB
Size: 519 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, History, Historical - General, Fiction - Historical, Historical, Biography & Autobiography, Great Britain, American Historical Fiction, Biographical fiction, Biographical, Royalty, Elizabeth, Queens - Great Britain, Queens, 1485-1603, Tudors, Great Britain - History - Tudors; 1485-1603, Elizabeth - Childhood and youth, 1533-1603, Queen of England, I, Childhood and youth
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "A gripping fictional portrait" (Salon) of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would become England's most intriguing and powerful queen, from the renowned author hailed as "the finest historian of English monarchical succession writing" (The Boston Globe)
"Engrossing . . . [Alison] Weir marries conjecture with what is known about the life of Elizabeth I from childhood to coronation, and it makes for ripping good reading."-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Even as a very young child, Elizabeth Tudor is keenly aware that people in the court of her father, King Henry VIII, have stopped referring to her as "Lady Princess" and now call her "the Lady Elizabeth." She soon learns why, as her sister, Mary, tells her of the tragic fate that has befallen Elizabeth's mother, the enigmatic and seductive Anne Boleyn, and that both girls have been declared illegitimate. The death of their father ten years later puts the orphaned Elizabeth in even greater peril: Like her mother two decades earlier, she is imprisoned in the Tower of London-and she fears she will meet her mother's grisly end.
Power-driven politics, private scandal and public gossip, a disputed succession, and the grievous example of her sister, "Bloody" Queen Mary, cement Elizabeth's resolve in matters of statecraft and love, and set the stage for her transformation into the iconic Virgin Queen-a woman far ahead of her time, an independent spirit who must use cunning and wits for her very survival.

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Title: The Last Ring Bearer
Author(s): Kirill Yeskov

Language: English
Publisher: calibre
Extension: EPUB
Size: 458 KB

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More than 15 years ago Russian scientist Kirill Yeskov tried to settle certain geographical problems in Tolkien's fantasy world. One thing led to another, and he tackled a bigger project - what if we assumed that it's no less real than our world? His conclusion was that in such a case, the story of the Ring of Power is most likely a much-altered heroic retelling of a major war - but what was that war really about?

The result of this re-appraisal was the publication in 1999 of The Last Ring-bearer - a re-thinking of Tolkien's story in real-world terms. Dr. Yeskov, a professional paleontologist whose job is reconstructing long-extinct organisms and their way of life from fossil remnants, performs essentially the same feat in The Last Ring-bearer, reconstructing the real world of Tolkien's Arda from The Lord of the Rings - the heroic tales of the Free Men of the West written in that world. We have a pretty good idea how well heroic tales map to reality from our own world...

I was impressed enough by this work to spend a few dozen lunch hours translating it to English. (Reportedly, some publishing houses have considered a commercial translation of this book, which had been published in several major European languages, but abandoned the idea out of fear of the Tolkien estate, which doesn't countenance any derivative works, especially in English. Witness the history of its relationship with New Line Cinema. This translation is non-commercial. The Russian original can be found here.) I have been fortunate to establish communication with the author and have the translation vetted (and much corrected) by him. I now offer this work for your perusal. At 139,000 words, this 1 Mb PDF is about 80% of the length of The Fellowship of the Ring. Suggestions for corrections will be appreciated. Please mention how you heard about this translation when commenting. Errata will be published here soon.

UPDATE: I have translated an essay Dr. Yeskov wrote after the first publication of this book. It may answer some of your questions about his motivation and method.

One user has reported a virus intercepted during downloading. The PDF itself is Javascript-free and ought not to have any payload other than the text. It was likely a false positive when a stub of the file matched some virus signature during download. Sendspace has informed me that my account has gone premium thanks to all the downloads, and users should now see no ads prior to downloading. One user has reported encountering Captcha; I've never seen any, but suspect that Sendspace puts them up when the download request comes from a domain associated with bots. There have been thousands of successful downloads; if yours fails, try again. .odt and .mobi versions are available here thanks to Matthew Wilcoxson.

I have to disappoint the fans of Sauron: His Majesty Sauron the VIII rates only a few mentions in this work, having been nothing more than an enlightened king. Nor does the Ring of Power rate more than a passing mention. Likewise the Hobbits: unlike LOTR, this story is not about them.

I am now working on a second edition, with some corrections (very few, the author was thorough) and, hopefully, smoother prose.
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Title: The Last 10 Seconds
Author(s): Simon Kernick

Language: English
Published: 23 February 2010
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Limited
ISBN: 9780552161671
Extension: EPUB
Size: 350 KB
Subjects: Fiction:Detective
Categories: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller

A nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat, fast-paced thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Simon Kernick, the UK's answer to Harlan Coben. Perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Stuart MacBride and Peter James.

'More twists and turns than a boa-constrictor on speed' - The Times
'Another well-paced, well-written thriller from rising star Kernick' - Daily Mirror
'A wham-bang chase story ... fast-moving and gripping' - Literary Review
'A real roller-coaster of a story that never flags' - ***** Reader review
'Couldn't put the book down' - ***** Reader review
'Utterly brilliant!' - ***** Reader review
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RULE NUMBER 1: STAY ALIVE...

36 HOURS AGO: A brutal serial killer is arrested on the streets of north London after a two-year reign of terror. Known as the Night Creeper, he's earned his reputation by torturing five young women to death.
24 HOURS AGO: Undercover cop Sean Egan has infiltrated one of the country's most notorious criminal gangs. Now he's about to risk his life in a desperate bid to bring its members to justice.
12 HOURS AGO: DI Tina Boyd has discovered that the Night Creeper's murders are part of a much larger criminal conspiracy. But her quest for the truth has brought her into contact with some very dangerous people who want to silence her - permanently.

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Title: The Last Camel Died at Noon
Author(s): Elizabeth Peters

Language: English
Published: 01 May 2001
Publisher: Warner Books
ISBN: 9780446514835
Extension: EPUB
Size: 335 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery & Detective - General, Mystery & Detective, Suspense, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), General & Literary Fiction, Historical, Fiction - Mystery, Detective, Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, Women Sleuths, Crime & mystery, Detective and mystery stories, Women archaeologists, Mystery & Detective - Historical, Mystery & Detective - Series, Egypt, Romantic suspense novels, Peabody, Amelia (Fictitious character), Amelia (Fictitious ch, Peabody; Amelia (Fictitious character), Amelia (Fictitious character) - Fiction, Egypt - Fiction, Peabody; Amelia (Fictitious character) - Fiction
Categories: Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction

Bestselling author Elizabeth Peters brings back nineteenth-century Egyptologist Amelia Peabody and her entourage in this delicious caper that digs up mystery in the shadow of the pyramids.
The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and her precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower had approached them to find his son and his son's new bride, who have been missing in war-torn Sudan for over a decade. An enigmatic message scrawled on papyrus and a cryptic map had been delivered to Blacktower, awakening his hope that the couple was still alive.
Neither Amelia nor Emerson believes the message is authentic, but the treasure map proves an irresistible temptation. Now, deep in Nubia's vast wasteland, they discover too late how much treachery is afoot (and on camelback), and survival depends on Amelia's solving a mystery as old as ancient Egypt and as timeless as greed and revenge.

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Title: The Last Chinese Chef
Author(s): Nicole Mones

Language: English
Published: 06 June 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547053738
Extension: EPUB
Size: 272 KB
Subjects: General, Fiction, Cooking, Literary, Cookery, Romance, Fiction - General, Americans, Non-Classifiable, American Contemporary Fiction - Individual Authors +, Food writers
Categories: Fiction, Literature

The bestselling author of Lost in Translation "unlocks the deepest mysteries of legendary Chinese culinary arts to produce a feast for the human heart" (David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly).

This alluring novel of friendship, love, and cuisine brings the bestselling author of Lost in Translation and A Cup of Light to one of the great Chinese subjects: food. As in her previous novels, Mones's captivating story also brings into focus a changing China-this time the hidden world of high culinary culture.

When Maggie McElroy, a widowed American food writer, learns of a Chinese paternity claim against her late husband's estate, she has to go immediately to Beijing. She asks her magazine for time off, but her editor counters with an assignment: to profile the rising culinary star Sam Liang.

In China, Maggie unties the knots of her husband's past, finding out more than she expected about him and about herself. With Sam as her guide, she is also drawn deep into a world of food rooted in centuries of history and philosophy. To her surprise she begins to be transformed by the cuisine, by Sam's family-a querulous but loving pack of cooks and diners-and most of all by Sam himself. The Last Chinese Chef is the exhilarating story of a woman regaining her soul in the most unexpected of places and "a stunning picture of a country caught between tradition and modern life" ( Entertainment Weekly).

World Gourmand Award Winner

"I don't think there's ever been anything quite like this. It's a love story, it's a mystery, and it's also the most thorough explanation of Chinese food that I've ever read in the English language."-Ruth Reichl

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Title: the Last Child (2010)
Author(s): Hart, John

Language: English
Published: 12 May 2009
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 0312642369
Extension: EPUB
Size: 380 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller
Categories: Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

Fresh off the success of his Edgar® Award-winning, New York Times bestseller Down River, John Hart returns with his most powerful and intricately-plotted novel yet.
Thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon had the perfect life: happy parents and a twin sister that meant the world to him. But Alyssa went missing a year ago, stolen off the side of a lonely street with only one witness to the crime. His family shattered, his sister presumed dead, Johnny risks everything to explore the dark side of his hometown in a last, desperate search. What he finds is a city with an underbelly far blacker than anyone could've imagined- and somewhere in the depths of it all, with the help of his only friend and a giant of a man with his own strange past, Johnny, at last, finds the terrible truth.
Detective Clyde Hunt has devoted an entire year to Alyssa's case, and it shows: haunted and sleepless, he's lost his wife and put his shield at risk. But he can't put the case behind him-he won't-and when another girl goes missing, the failures of the past year harden into iron determination. Refusing to lose another child, Hunt knows he has to break the rules to make the case; and maybe, just maybe, the missing girl will lead him to Alyssa...
The Last Child is a tale of boundaries: county borders and circles on a map, the hard edge between good and evil, life and death, hopelessness and faith. Perfectly blending character and plot, emotion and action, John Hart again transcends the barrier between thrillers and literature to craft a story as heartrending as it is redemptive.

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Title: The Kingdom Beyond the Waves
Author(s): Stephen Hunt

Language: English
Published: 04 September 2008
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
ISBN: 9780765360236
Extension: EPUB
Size: 451 KB
Subjects: steampunk, Fantasy
Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Thriller

A fantastical version of Dickens, filled with perilous quests, dastardly deeds and deadly intrigue - perfect for all fans of Philip Pullman and Susanna Clarke Professor Amelia Harsh is obsessed with finding the lost civilisation of Camlantis, a legendary city from pre-history that is said to have conquered hunger, war and disease - tempering the race of man's baser instincts by the creation of the perfect pacifist society. It is an obsession that is to cost her dearly. She returns home to Jackals from her latest archaeological misadventure to discover that the university council has finally stripped her of her position in retaliation for her heretical research. Without official funding, Amelia has no choice but to accept the offer of patronage from the man she blames for her father's bankruptcy and suicide, the fiercely intelligent and incredibly wealthy Abraham Quest. He has an ancient crystal-book that suggests the Camlantean ruins are buried under one of the sea-like lakes that dot the murderous jungles of Liongeli. Amelia undertakes an expedition deep into the dark heart of the jungle, blackmailing her old friend Commodore Black into ferrying her along the huge river of the Shedarkshe on his ancient u-boat. With an untrustworthy crew of freed convicts, Quest's force of female mercenaries on board and a lunatic steamman safari hunter acting as their guide, Amelia's luck can hardly get any worse. But she's as yet unaware that her quest for the perfect society is about to bring her own world to the brink of destruction...

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Title: The Kingdom by the Sea
Author(s): Paul Theroux

Language: English
Published: 24 June 2010
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0618658955
Extension: EPUB
Size: 331 KB
Subjects: Classic Literature, Young Adult Fiction
Categories: Classic Literature, Young Adult Fiction

Guaradian award winning novel about courage, friendship and war. Reissued into the Essential Modern Classic list. When a bomb during an air raid destroys Harry's home and kills his family, he knows that he is all alone in the world and has only himself to rely on. Anxious that he will be sent to live with his fussy Cousin Elsie he goes on the run across the war-battered land of North East England, his only friend in his journey a stray dog that he meets on the beach. Will Harry ever find a place to call home again, or will he be on the run forever?

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