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The small English travelling circus of Mr Marvel is stranded by disaster in a remote part of the seemingly limitless plain of La Mancha, in Spain. Mr Marvel returns to England to deal with the insurance problems; and the story is that of the members of the circus ""family" who are left to handle the animals of the menagerie, of the acts and the horses. Among this group of misfits is Rose, who chooses to stay with Toby of the equestrian troupe and Mr. Albert, who has taught her to love the wild animals as he does. Rose - despite her dubious morals - has managed to keep a strange kind of goodness and innocence, even when she sells the only commodity she owns to secure food for the animals. Then Mr. Albert and the dwarf Janos find that they too have something to sell - to the Marquesa, whose desperate plight can never find recompense in her fortune. This is a story of dark romance, disaster and eventual deliverance, cowardice and greed, compassion and cruelty, kindness and love - and told with brilliantly observed humour and pathos. -
The Tower Of London: W.H. Ainsworth
$5.00–$20.00The story of seventeen year-old Lady Jane Grey - known as the Nine Day Queen. History concedes that she was manipulated by ambitious relatives; here, Ainsworth covers her life from her arrival in London to the day of her execution. Ainsworth delighted in the history of the Tower and there are descriptions of secret passages, dungeons and torture chambers; he also explores the characters in-depth. The values and every day life of the period are also present, as a few extra possibly fictional minor characters. Originally published in serial form in 1840, then in two volumes. -
When the Saint and Patricia Holm stumble upon a government test of a weapon of mass destruction, they realise they've seen something that must be kept away from the wrong hands. But the Saint's nemesis Rayt Marius is already nearby and there is only one way to stop Marius from using the weapon to start a war - by kidnapping the scientist who built it.
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The Lawless: John Jakes
$5.00Book VII of The Kent Family Chronicles. 1869: While America flourishes in a new age of prosperity, Gideon Kent pursues the course of a working man and incurs the enmity of powerful railroad boss Thomas Courtleigh. By hiring the criminal fugitive Jeremiah Kent, Courtleigh unwittingly sets brother against brother. Artist Matthew Kent, abandoned by his wife, escapes justice in France and returns to America. Eleanor Kent, Gideon's daughter, dreams of an acting career. Estranged from her father and the victim of terrible violence, she turns to Matthew to help rebuild her life. -
American socialite Sarah Talbot had everything going for her: a multi-million dollar business, a large circle of well-placed friends and a marriage to an English aristocrat and army colonel Edward Talbot. Talbot is killed in the Falklands campaign, leaving her with her adored stepson Eric, a Cambridge. student. When Eric dies from a drug overdose, Sarah tries to uncover the mysterious circumstances of his death and finds all roads blocked by officialdom. When she meets former SAS sergeant Sean Egan, she knows she had found the man who can help her. Together they embark on a quest to the depths of the underworld - truly, a season in hell. -
Arthur Shelby is facing the loss of his farm because of debts. He and his wife Emily believe that they have a benevolent relationship with their slaves, yet Shelby decides to sell two - Uncle Tom, a man with a wife and children and Harry, the son of Emily's maid Eliza - to Mr. Haley, a coarse slave trader. Tom places his faith in God; Eliza takes her son and runs away. Tom, after rescuing a little girl from drowning, is bought by her father in gratitude. After two years her father resolves to free Tom but he is shot before he can legally release Tom and his widow sells Tom to a vicious plantation owner, Simon Legree. Tom keeps steadfast in his faith, inciting Legree's hatred. Eliza and her son meet Eliza's husband George who has also run away and when cornered by slave hunter Tom Loker, George shoots him then carries him to a Quaker settlement to receive care. Can all the threads come together for a happy ending? This book, first published in 1853, is said to have laid the groundwork for the American Civil War. -
If America had a royal family the Winthrops would be it. Popular and charismatic, they have captured the regard of the world with their public service, enormous charity and glamorous lives. But in a single year, all five members of the family are killed in a series of 'accidents'. Dana Evans, beautiful young anchorwoman with a Washington TV network believes something sinister is going on and begins an investigation that yields unbelievable evidence that results in a cat-and-mouse game through several countries in search of a remorseless killer, the placing of Dana and her son in jeopardy and then, Dana becomes the hunted...
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Book I of Queens Of England: Despite the dangers of practicing her faith in the staunchly Protestant England, pretty Queen Henrietta Maria refuses to cast aside her Catholicism, so she finds little favour among the people. She is impetuous and loving, fond of fashionable clothes and gossip and Charles, a family man of principle and integrity, is entirely devoted to her. But their happy if controversial marriage is soon under threat when Henrietta is denounced as a puppet of Rome and charged with leading Protestant England back to Rome. Soon her enemies swarm and the spies in her household prove too much. Only her loyalty and love for Charles can hope to keep him from the road to regicide. -
High on a rocky outcrop above heathland stands a Victorian Gothic mansion, built by the aristocratic and ancient Rose family. In the lodge of the house - the rest being owned by the National Trust - live the last two of the line. Rosalba Rose, seventeen and dutifully submissive to her ferocious great-aunt Martine - until she meets Eugene Seal, a young serviceman. They fall in love but is their passion, surrounded by upheaval, doomed? Cover art by David Senior.
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Treasure: Clive Cussler
$5.00391 A.D. Fanatics destroy the Great Library and museum of Alexandria. But a few conspirators secretly remove the most precious items and ship them to a distant, desolate land. 1991: A UN plane with the Secretary General aboard, crashes in the icy wastes of Greenland, brought down by a monstrous terrorist conspiracy. Trouble-shooter Dirk Pitt, in the vicinity on a search mission for a crippled Soviet submarine, finds himself caught up in a dangerous vortex of intrigue - and with a beautiful lady archeologist who has found an ancient gold coin far further to the north than it should be...Cover art by Chris Foss. -
More short tales of derring-do from the modern day buccaneer: The Pearls of Peace: From Mexico's Lower California comes a tale of two women and a blind man's oyster bed. The Revolution Racket: In the heart of Mexico City, The Saint finds an ice cool blonde with her own saintly ideas - and joins in the fun. The Romantic Matron: Exotic Havana turns ugly and dangerous as The Saint answers a beautiful widow's plea for help. The Golden Frog: Fraud in torrid Panama - with The Saint playing 'the sucker'.
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This story is set on the edge of Humboldt Bay in the fictional town of Sequoia, California. Starting in 1850s, John Cardigan founded the logging company to build a life for himself and his son Bryce, the novel follows the ups and downs of the Cardigan family and the on-going rivalry with Colonel Pennington over logging rights and other business matters. When Bryce Cardigan returns home from the college he finds out that his father's company is in trouble and that Pennington is pushing them out of business. He must try to save the company and topple Colonel Pennington, while engaging in a secret romantic relationship with Shirley, Pennington's niece. -
Sir Montague Merline and his platoon are massacred in a bloody combat in Africa - except for one man. Since her husband is presumed dead, Lady Merline remarries, but Montague emerges a couple of years later in some African village, with no memory. After finding out about his wife's new life, he decides not to ruin her happiness and joins French Foreign Legion. -
Brute Force: Andy McNab
$5.00Nick Stone XI. A cargo ship is apprehended by the authorities off the coast of Spain, packed with enough arms and ammunition to start a war. Twenty years later, an unknown aggressor seems intent on taking out those responsible for the treachery - one by one. The last victim was brutally tortured with a Black & Decker drill and then shot through the head at point-blank range. And Nick Stone - ex-SAS, tough, resourceful, ruthless, highly trained - is next on the killer's list. He has only two options - fight or flight - but which do you choose when you don't know who you are up against? -
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. -
He's a journalist who knows too much. She's his lover, a Norwegian press photographer who shares his deadly secret. They are held in war- torn Iran and Khomeini wants them to talk. Britain is determined they don't talk. Their fate is in the hands of an SAS team that must disappear into the hostile turmoil of Iran in a desperate rescue bid against the clock, a gruelling ordeal that calls for ingenuity, sacrifice and courage in a dangerous, desolate terrain cu off from the outside world. -
Too many things had been going wrong in too many Formula One races. Johnny Harlow, world champion driver and apparent cause of the latest accident, decides the time has come to sort things out - and what he finds has nothing to do with cars. -
Jennifer Parker is brilliant, beautiful and indomitable - the most glamorous lawyer in America and the most successful. Her life is shadowed by two men. Both of them powerful and both drawn irresistibly to her. One is the politician, destined for greatness and the father of her son. The other is a Mafia boss, her only ally when crisis strikes - and who will bring her world crashing down. -
At Hawkridge House in the English summer of 1636, botanist John Nightingale wants only to spend his life in the peaceful ordering of his estate. In Amsterdam, stock market and speculation is rife as fortunes are gambled on rare tulips. John is blackmailed into joining an elaborate money-making scheme. Falling in love with two very different women, pursued by demons of his past and trying desperately to keep ahead of a game spiralling out of his control, John must quickly learn the ways of the world.
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Zulu Dawn: Cy Endfield
$5.0022 January 1879. Across the slopes of Isandhlwana, there came the sound of thunder. Assegai shafts pound against drum-tight shields. Fifty thousand voices cry in one dread voice the Zulu word for kill: U-SU-THU! U-SU-THU! Against the sweeping landscapes of Southern Africa, Lord Chelmsford’s army of eight thousand soldiers moves inexorably into Zululand. Their aim: to subdue a proud and unyielding warrior nation. But what starts as an imperial adventure turns into one of the bloodiest episodes in African history. It becomes a struggle to the death between Chelmsford’s Redcoats and a fearsome army of fifty thousand Zulus, fighting for their nationhood and birth right. This is the story of the tragedy and shattering human drama of that struggle. A powerful action adventure tale, it was made into the hit film Zulu Dawn in 1979. -
Roger Brook adventure No XII. 1814. The Irish Witch is dead - and Europe is at peace. Roger Brook, now Lord Kildonan, is content to divide his time between his young wife, Mary and his life-long mistress and spirit-companion, Georgina. But as the fashionable world glitters at the Congress of Vienna, the power-hungry Napoleon is about to plunge the continent into war once more. And Mary, possessed by demonic jealousy, is hatching a plot which threatens Roger's fortune – and Georgina's life. Reluctantly, Roger Brook must assume his old identity – as Europe's most daring secret agent. -
Rebel: Bernard Cornwell
$5.00Volume I of The Starbuck Chronicles. When Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer snatches young Nate Starbuck from the grip of a Yankee-hating mob, Nate is both grateful and awed by his idealistic rescuer. Recently jilted by his girl and estranged from his family, Nate repays Faulconer's generosity by enlisting in the elite Faulconer legion to fight against his home, the North and against his abolitionist father. When the regiment joins up, ready to march into the ferocious battle at Bull Run, the men are prepared to start a war but they aren't ready for how they - and the nation - will be forever changed by the oaths they have sworn for their beloved South. -
Walden Yapp has lived a singular life. Professor of Demotic History at the University of Kloone, Yapp spends his days highlighting the corrupt capitalistic nature of the upper-classes, and his nights feeding Doris, his computer and only friend, the information he has gathered. So when capitalist Lord Petrefact hires him to write a damaging family history, Yapp seizes the chance to chronicle the corrupt life of the Petrefact family. Spurred on by his expectations of dishonesty and depravity Yapp heads of the town of Buscott, where nobody is what they at first appear to be. Now a pawn in Lord Petrefact’s vindictive family game, Yapp’s presence is as welcome as the plague. From provoking dwarfish marital problems to uncovering an erotic toy factory, Yapp’s presence sparks such a chain of events that going through a car wash will never feel the same! -
Captain Albert Ebbs - M.B.E - expecting to be fired from his job captaining Pole Star company's line freighter the Martin Luther for some unvarnished speaking, is pleasantly surprised to find himself promoted to Captain of the luxury passenger liner Charlemagne. This being a long-held dream since his cadet days, he is confident of handling his duties - after all, all ships float on water, contain machinery and sleep and feed people. It's only the people who differ...and he finds out how very much they do differ! Now he must host cocktail parties, dance with lady passengers, cope with amorous widows, deal with a Chief Officer who's a serial womaniser and a Purser making money on the side by stealing ships supplies - and if all that weren't enough, a lot of unruly children and a crusty British Army officer who claims to know the Chairman of the Board. Subtle and sly British humor. -
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane - the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. The men agree to hide, keep and share the fortune. It all seems simple enough. But what started off as a simple plan slowly devolves into a gruesome nightmare none of them can control... -
Mayday! Clive Cussler
$5.00Major Dirk Pitt picked up the frantic distress call as he cruised his amphibious place over the Aegean Islands. Brady Air Force base was under fire, its entire force of jets destroyed on the ground - by a World War I bi-plane. A psychotic ex-Nazi, a vicious narcotics dealer, a bloodthirsty Greek strongman and a beautiful double agent set Pitt on the trail of the warped mastermind behind the devastating sabotage plot.
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Deadline: John Dunning
$5.00When a circus tent fire calls reporter Dalton Walker into action, he's disturbed to find that an eight year old girl is a victim of the tragedy; and no relatives come to identify the body. While searching for leads Walker has to juggle a second, seemingly fluffier piece: the success story of a young Amish woman he left her pious home to make it big in New York as a dancer. But not every big city story is what it seems....
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