Following 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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Heart Song: V.C. Andrews
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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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The warm comic tales that make up Life with Father first appeared in the early 1930s in the then-fledgling magazine The New Yorker. Clarence Day's reminiscences of growing up in a turn-of-the-century New York household which keeps wriggling out from under the thumb of a blustering Wall Street paterfamilias are classics of American humor, lively and nostalgic sketches that evoke the enduring comedy of family life. Father's explosive encounters with horse and cook, servants and shopkeepers, wife and children to say nothing of his vigorous pursuit of ice... Here is a window on the world as it was when life was much simpler - even life with Father. A bestseller when it was first published in 1935, Life with Father was the inspiration for a Broadway hit, a fabulous film and a television series. Illustrated by Mick Ellison.
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With the Russian tanks advancing into Hungary in 1945, Count Karoly Kasinczy-Landsberg is forced to abandon Fetevis, the majestic palace that has been his family's home for the past 500 years. Now after half a century of communist neglect, the new regime wants to be rid of the ruined building. But who is the rightful heir? Zoltan, a multi-millionaire and the last living person to have known Fetevis in its glory, has returned from America, confident the estate belongs to him, only to find it has been given to Terezia, the beautiful impoverished girl who claims to be the only child of Count Karoly. Zoltan is certain he can destroy the proof of her identity but he reckons without Terezia's tempestuous determination or the intervention of Max Anderson, the diplomat whose search for a missing lecturer inadvertently hands him the key that will unlock the dark secrets of the past.
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Graham Trevose is an ardent pioneer of reconstructive surgery, having seen its huge benefit under the hands of a talented American surgeon. However, London is not America and this new form of treatment is received with deep suspicion by orthodox medicine. It is seen as 'defying God’s will' and interfering with matters entirely out of bounds. Yet Trevose is completely committed to this work and uses it to help those in desperate need – whilst also benefiting from performing plastic surgery on the rich and famous.The ethical debates which perplexed medical men in post-First-World-War London, confronted with the horrific injuries of war, are not too far from the issues that today's doctors grapple with as they face the issues of human cloning, animal organ transplants and embryo-screening. -
Frank Chambers is a drifter - when life gets too heavy, he catches the next box car out of town or hitches a ride on the highway. When he stops in a Californian diner in the middle of nowhere, he sees Cora, the waitress. When Nick 'The Greek' Papadakis, the owner of the diner and Cora's husband offers Frank a job, he takes it. Because what has sparked between Frank and Cora is so bad, it's good - she's game for anything in the sado-masochistic affair that follows. Frank wants her to come with him - hit the road, live like gypsies. But Cora wants the diner, and that mean Nick has to be - removed from the scene...One of the most important noir novels of modern literature and originally banned for its steamy bedroom scenes, this tale is set down in the briefest, most direct prose - with flashes of brilliant imagination - the planning, the accomplishment and the sequel to the murder. First published in 1934, from the author of Mildred Pierce. -
In wartime, people are either friends of enemies. In wartime, friends are friends and enemies die. When Tito's rebel forces resist occupation, the Germans infiltrate and plan their destruction. The German High Command masterminds a strategy which will annihilate the partisan resistance. Three Yugoslavs set out to relay the German battle plan to the pro-German Yugoslav Royalists - but where do their loyalties lie? It's a d dangerous journey with dangerous companions, where no one is who they seem...and where the three men find intrigue and betrayal around every corner... -
Tango Havana: Leslie Waller
$15.00Set in Cuba in the days of General Batista's rule. An island where no man was what he seemed. A mafia boss, a missile crisis and a mess that went all the way to the White House. But while history turns on its axis, a conspiracy threatens to tear the Caribbean apart. It takes two to tango. Victor Sanchez and Midge Boardman just have to decide who leads.
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Provence: the annual pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries of gypsies from all over Europe. The Duc de Croytor, distinguished folklorist, is there and so is Englishman Neil Bowman, for no apparent reason. But there is something different about this year's pilgrimage. A small group of gypsies have something they are determined to hide, and Bowman soon learns that curiosity is highly dangerous.Before long, he is on the run for his life.
