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Russia faces famine. The Soviets are forced to pin their hopes for survival on the U.S. But as the KGB and the CIA watch in horror, the rescue of a Ukrainian freedom fighter from the Black Sea unleashes savagery that endangers peace - and plunges leaders from Washington to Moscow into a web of overwhelming intrigue, terror, and suspense. Only two lovers can save the world from nuclear destruction. Yet every way out means certain death, and the countdown has already begun.... -
Round The Bend: Nevil Shute
$20.00Told in the first person by Tom Cutter, aircraft pilot, engineer, and entrepreneur, the story starts with Cutter's boyhood - he gets a job with the Alan Cobham "National Aviation Day" flying circus of barnstorming aircraft which take customers up for short joyrides, with other entertainment provided. Cutter meets Shaklin, a boy a little older than himself, half Chinese and half Russian - British subject with a deep interest in religion. When the air circus folds, the two drift apart. Cutter apprentices in aviation engineering and learns to fly. He marries Beryl, a co-worker and soon afterwards he's posted overseas as a civilian working in military aviation work during World War II. While overseas, he learns his wife has been unfaithful. He is stern, but forgiving, in letters to her, but when she realises that he is soon to return, she commits suicide. Cutter blames himself and unable to return to his old job or remain in England, he buys and rebuilds a small aircraft and flies it to Bahrain, operating a freight business. In Indonesia he meets Shaklin again, and Shaklin's brand of spirituality begins to make profound changes, not only for Cutter but for a great many people. -
A cult classic, based on an actual murder case. Theresa Dunn, a convent-educated school teacher with a respectable family and a decent fiance haunts the singles bars of New York. She arrives alone, but picks up a take-home man against the long, dark, lonely night. seeking to fill the emptiness within, and always failing. Then she begins to call in sick at school. spending her days with her pick-ups. As Theresa's life starts to spin out of control she meets the wrong man on the wrong night at the wrong bar....A cult classic, based on an actual murder case. -
Jon Jamieson struggles to survive in suburban Sydney, with something of herself intact after twenty-seven years of marriage to a drunken, brutish philanderer. She looks back to a loveless childhood at the mercy of her ambitious mother and into the marriage market where a 'suitable' match is arranged. Two fine children bring her joy, a brief love affair a trace of happiness; her painting gives her satisfaction - but each day she faces more clearly her inability to take control of her future. Resilient and determined, she so often nearly breaks away to remake her life - even urged by her daughter Ruth - but the awesome weight of obligation, the seductive alternative of compromise and a kind of love hold her back - until it is too late... -
When Linda boarded the London train, en route for freedom, she was penniless and alone. A polite offer of help from the stranger in the opposite seat was the last thing she expected. Life with Rowley Frobisher was everything she had ever dreamed of: fast, sophisticated and expensive, In a few months the country girl had changed beyond recognition. But then Rowley has a fatal heart attack - and once again., Linda must take desperate action to survive... -
Storm Of Time: Eleanor Dark
$18.00Book II of The Timeless Land trilogy. Sydney Cove, 1799, and three years since Governor Phillip departed. Against a background of continuing convict settlement, hunger, rebellion and the terrifying force of a barely understood land, the saga of Ellen Prentice and the Mannion family continues. Stephen Mannion marries the lovely Conor Moore and brings her back for Ellen to serve. Johnny Prentice goes bush - and re-emerges for one last confrontation with his old master ...
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The classic adventure tale of early American and Canadian exploration in the 18th century - thrilling tale of naval adventure, rival love, and wilderness experience that captures the rough-and-tumble life on the shores of Lake Ontario during the French and Indian War and the story is set after the events of The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper's works (The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans) were described by J.B. Priestley as having ' a sense of vastness and mystery of the American scene, of a presence in it, half-poetic, half-sinister, of the vanishing tribes of the red men, of painted, shadowy faces in the forest, of fading clouds of dust on the prairie.' Cover art by Fred Exell. -
Jack West Jr I. In ancient times, a Golden Capstone was placed atop the Great Pyramid at Giza during a rare solar event called the Tartarus Rotation. Once every 4,500 years, a superhot sunspot - the Tartarus Sunspot - aligned itself with Earth and caused immense worldwide flooding and sun-scorching. It is said that when the Capstone sat atop the Great Pyramid, no such flooding or solar damage occurred. And, according to legend, whosoever places the Capstone on the pyramid at the next Tartarus Rotation will gain absolute power over Earth for the next 1,000 years. In 2006, the Tartarus Rotation will come again - but the Capstone is nowhere to be found...With the fate of global dominance hanging in the balance, nearly every world power sends forth its troops to locate the Capstone. Among them are the United States, the European Union, Israel, ruthless terrorists, and one other unusual force: a coalition of seven smaller nations that have decided that the Capstone is too powerful for any one country to hold. So they band together against all odds and send an eight-man team to take on all the great forces in the chase. Led by an Australian super-soldier named Jack West Jr., the team includes a Canadian professor, two crack Irish commandos (one of whom is female), a Spanish paratrooper, a Jamaican soldier, an Arab commando, and a daredevil New Zealand pilot. And Lily, the ten-year-old daughter of the Oracle of Siwa - one of only two people in the world who can decode an ancient text that leads to the Capstone. This stalwart group embarks on a global journey filled with booby-trapped mines, stupendous ancient wonders, gigantic evil forces, and adventure beyond imagination. -
Finally married to Ferdinand, Isabella triumphed over every danger, convinced of her true destiny. With mighty Portugal humbled, the Court of the Sovereigns saw the rise of Torquemada, the establishment of the dreaded Inquisition and the coming of Columbus who left the woman he loved to make his dream a reality. The ambitious and unfaithful Ferdinand longed to lead his troops against the Moorish strongholds. Isabella knew a united Spain and a glorious future could be theirs but they must only share it together.
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