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Author: Nicholas SparksCondition: 5/10Published Date: 2001
Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. Missy had been his first love, and Miles Feverently believes she will be his last. As a deputy sheriff in the North Carolina town of New Bern, he not only grieves for Missy, but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice.
Author: James JoyceCondition: 4/10Published Date: 1924
This edition - 1995
Joyce's classic depiction of Stephen Dedalus's boyhood and coming-of age in Ireland at the turn of the twentieth century - his child hood, sexual awakening, intellectual development and revolt against Catholicism - remains one of the key works of modern literature.
Author: Tim Lahaye Condition: 10/10This books Published Date: 1999 Pages: 403
The world holds its breath as the Tribulation Force ventures to Jerusalem for the great Meeting of the Witnesses, where tens of thousands defy the Antichrist to sit under the ministry of their paster- teacher, Tsion Ben- Judah.
Author: Matthew Kneale Condition: 7/10Published Date: 2000 Pages: 462
It is 1857 and the Reverend Geoffrey Wilson had set out for Tasmania, hoping to find the true site if the Garden Of Eden. But the journey is turning out to be less than straight forward - dissent is growing between him and sinister reacial - theorist Dr Potter, and unknown to both the ship they had hurrriedly chartered is in fact a Manx summgling vessel, fleeing from British Customs.
Author: Nancy Horan Condition: 9/10This books Published Date: 2008 Pages: 362
In this ambitious debut novel, fact and fiction blend together brilliantly. While scholars have largely relegated Mamah to a footnote in the life of America's greatest architect, author Nancy Horan gives full weight to their dramatic love story and illuminates Cheney's profound influence on Wright.
Author: Michael Palmer Condition: 7/10This books Published Date: 1999 Pages: 446
Dr. Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labor has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances.
Author: Danny ScheinmannCondition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2007 Pages: 431In his remarkable debut, Danny Scheinmann paints a dramatic portrait of two men sustaining themselves through the memory of love; two men whose hidden connections are revealed in a stunning climax that lives long in the heart.
Author: Kimberly LoganCondition: 10/10This books Published Date: 2008Pages: 371What woman could resist such a passionate protector as Royce Grenville, Viscount Stonehurst? Certainly not I, Lady Aimee Daventry. Ten years ago, I was the sole witness to my mother's scandalous murder. Now the memory of that fateful day has begun to haunt my dreams. And only I can finally bring the fiend to justice . . . if he doesn't find me first. With my life in grave danger, Royce is only too willing to watch over me.
Author: Stephen KingCondition: 8/10This books Published Date: 1992Pages: 584
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, is moving ever closer to the Dark Tower, which haunts his dreams and nightmares.
Pursued by the Ageless Stranger, he and his friends follow the perilous path to Lud, a scarred urban wasteland. As Roland crosses a desert of damnation in this macabre new world, revelations begin to unfold about who - and what - is driving him forward.
Author: Hiran DesaiCondition: 10/10Published Date: 2007
High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time.
The judge, broken by a world to messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphaned granddaughter has fallen love with her handsome tutor, despite their different backgrounds and ideals. The cook's heart is with her son, who is working in a New York restaurant, mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006
Author: Michael Connelly Condition: 8/10This books Published Date: 2005 Pages: 448
New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly delivers his first legal thriller an incendiary tale about a cynical defense attorney whose one remaining spark of integrity may cost him his life.
Author: Craig HoldenCondition: NEWPublished Date: 2005
A brilliant love story that resonates to bittersweet effect.
Author: Paul ZindelCondition: 6/10Published Date: 1986
There is a tough- and- tumble action; tenderness and compassion; humour; and an unusually well-drawn young love between John and Lorraine.
It is 1956. Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, has just embarked on a motoring trip through the west of England that will become a journey deep into his past... 'A reamrkable, strange and moving book.' - Independent. 'This brilliant and quietly devastating novel.' - Newsweek.
Author: Jerry B. Jenkins; Tim Lahaye Condition: 9/10This books Published Date: 1996 Pages: 447Four Christians left behind after The Rapture join forces to create the Tribulation Force, fighting the enemies of God left on Earth after three-quarters of the world's population has perished amid disease and natural disaster.
Author: Romamunde Pilcher Condition: 7/10This books Published Date: 1976 Pages: 320
Flora And Rose are identical twins who do not know of each other's existence. Roses has been trained by her frivolous mother with the glossy international jet set. Flora has spent her childhood in the quiet of her father's cottage. And then, by chance, they meet.
Author: VoltaireCondition: 4/10Published Date: 1947
When he wrote Candide, Voltaire had gained a reputation throughout Europe as a tragic dramatist and an epic poet.