April Taylor is not a little girl anymore, but who is she really? With nowhere to go in the wake of losing both her parents, she has had to grow up fast. It's mere chance that leads her to the secluded home of a kindly elderly lady and her deaf teenage grand-daughter, Echo. Here, April finds refuge from her mixed-up life and the confusion that severed her relationship with her elder sister Belinda. But when a dangerous couple arrives with greedy intentions, April finds they will take advantage of her special friendship with Echo to get what they want. Now her survival depends on being true to the one person she's never fully accepted: herself.
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Heart Song: V.C. Andrews
$8.00Following the death of author Virginia Andrews, her family worked with a carefully selected author to complete the outlines and ideas Ms Andrews left unfinished. When Melody Logan's beloved stepfather died, her mother left her with relatives on Cape Cod. She felt alone. The wealthy, tight-lipped Logans harboured dark secrets and no-one but their pleasant son Cary would discuss it. When her mother dies in a car accident, Melody is forced into the room and the clothes of Cary's dead twin sister Laura. For gentle Aunt Sara, she is a replacement for her dead daughter, but for Uncle Jacob, she is a constant reminder of the family's dark past. And more than anyone, Melody is a trigger for Grandma Olivia's dagger-like glares and cruel commands. Melody gets a job working for Kenneth, a handsome, successful artist, who may be her real father. When it is revealed that she and Cary aren't really cousins, their affection grows. But Melody is pointed towards Belinda, the mysterious, half mad woman who may be her real grandmother and she cannot make any promises to Cary until she discovers the truth about her past.
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When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman. Abraham Lincoln. Unfortunately, in China in 1860, a lot of people did: the English vicar's daughter with her cargo of opium; Lord Elgin in search of an intelligence chief; The Emperor's ravishing concubine, seeking a champion in her struggle for power; and Szu-Zhan, the lady bandit as practised in the art of love as in the art of war. They were not to know that behind is Victorian Cross, Flashman was a base coward and charlatan. They took him at face value and he took them for all he could, while China seethed through the bloodiest civil war in history and the British and French armies hacked their way to the heart of the Forbidden City.
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Triple: Ken Follett
$6.001968. Israeli intelligence has learned that Egypt, with Soviet help, will develop atomic bombs within months - an untimely end for the young nation unless a source of uranium for Israeli bombs can be had in complete secrecy. Impossible, of course - unless someone as impossible as the plan can be found to steal it. Working alone, Israeli agent Nat Dickstein concocts an ingenious scenario for the biggest - and quietest - hijacking in history. Against him are the KGB, Egyptian Intelligence and the Arab extremist Fedayeen. With him is a half-English, half-Arab young woman of uncertain allegiance, who discovers Dickstein's Achilles' heel.
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Heaven And Hell: John Jakes
$15.00Book III of North and South. Springtime, 1965. The Civil War is over but there is no peace. The Industrial North has little compassion for the defeated, embittered South. Shackled by occupation, it conspires against the vengeful victor. The wealthy West faces the fury of Indian wars. Everywhere, freedom for blacks is subverted or exploited and public officials foster corruption on an unrivaled scale. This is the background against which the saga of the Mains family of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania continues.
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What did happen to that cowardly, foul-mouthed toady bully Flashman after he was expelled from Rugby in the late 1830s? The discovery of a vast collection of unpublished manuscripts in a Midlands sale room has cleared up the mystery. The tale of the arch-cad is told by Flashman himself. In this first instalment of 'The Flashman Papers' he describes his early career as a soldier, duellist, lover, imposter, coward and hero, from his entry into the exclusive company of Lord Cardigan's hussars to his exile in India, his adventures as a secret agent in Afghanistan, his scandalous behaviour in bed and battle and his truly foulest hour when he took part in the historic disaster of the Retreat from Kabul. He can still hit fouler, stoop lower, lie smoother, deceive further and above all, run faster than anyone else!
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Ruby: V.C. Andrews
$9.00Growing up in Cajun country, the only family Ruby Landry has ever known is her loving guardian Grandmere Catherine and Grandpere Jack, a drunken outcast who lives alone in the swamp. Grandmere's talents as a spiritual healer and craftswoman ensure that she and Ruby are not in want for the essentials and their simple home is happy and secure. Her mother's tombstone is engraved with the date of Ruby's birth and her father was a man who passed through the bayou and doesn't even know she exists and these facts make her sad, yet she is grateful for all she has, as well as future hopes and promises. She falls in love with Paul, the son of a wealthy family who try to forbid their romance, yet she stills dreams of a home and marriage with him. But Grandmere urges her to follow her dram of becoming a great artist and foresees the day when Ruby will leave the bayou and be surrounded by riches. But first, there are terrible secrets, blackmail and revenge to discover - including why she must give up her love for Paul. This book is completed from story line notes made by the late Virginia Andrews, with the permission of her family.
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Hope: Len Deighton
$12.00Book II in the Bernard Samson trilogy. Bernard needs to stay out of trouble for a while and get reacquainted with his wife Fiona and his children as he leaves behind his relationship with his lover Gloria. Then a wounded man arrives in the middle of the night, closely followed by Bernard's brother-in-law George Kosinski. The death of Tessa Kosinski on the night of Fiona's return to the West still casts a long shadow over the Department. Dickie Cruyer is concerned about George's connections in the East and when George goes missing, Bernard takes a strange trip with his boss deep into Poland.
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Masters of Rome VI. Caesar is in the prime of his life and the height of his powers. A man of contradictions, he is happily married and at the same time the lover of Cleopatra. He is a great general but wishes to bring an end to Rome's endless civil and external wars. He is respectful of the Republic and is determined not to be worshipped as a god, but his very greatness attracts dangerous envy.
