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| Swords and Crowns and Rings by Park, Ruth Growing up in an Australian country town before World War 1, Jackie, Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other. But Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie is condemned by her parents. This is the story of their life-long odyssey, and of the triumph of a special kind of courage. | $6.00 |
| Agatha Christie's Poirot: Book Two by Christie, Agatha Monsieur Poirot here pits his mind against fiendishly clever murderers, thieves and kidnappers. Unmasking murderers....The Cornish Mystery. | $3.00 |
| Simon and the Oaks by Fredriksson, Marianne Small, dark and intense, Simon grows up aware that there is something different about him, something that causes late-night quarrels and sometimes tears. With the rise of Hitler in Germany and the coming of war to Sweden's neighbours, the tensions increase. Befriending a young Jew, Isak, who is quickly taken under his mother's wing, enriches Simon's life, but makes it more difficult too - for Isak seems to fit in much better at home than Simon does himself. With the war's end comes the day that Simon, no longer a child, must be told the reason for his affinity for the lake and its surrounding oak trees; for the strange dreams of an old man beneath the waves; for his dark good looks and uncanny musical ability | $5.00 |
| Angels Flight by Connelly, Michael When the body of high profile black lawyer Howard Elias is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight, a funicular railway in downtown LA, there's not a detective in the city who'll touch the case. | $4.00 |
| The Mayne Inheritance by Siemon, Rosamond Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, this remarkable story unfolds like a gothic thriller. For 150 years scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands. | $7.00 |
| Busman's Honeymoon by Sayers, Dorothy L In this, the last of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels (though he did appear again in short stories), the inimitable Miss Sayers has married him off to his beloved Harriet, but this has in no way diminished Lord Peter's determination to see a case through to the very, very end...... | $6.00 |
| The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul by Adams, Douglas When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all. | $7.00 |
| Clouds of Witness by Sayers, Dorothy L A man is found shot, and the Duke of Denver is charged with his murder. Naturally, it is his brother, Lord Peter Wimsey, who is called in to investigate the crime. This is a family affair, for the murdered man was the fiance of the sister of Denver and Wimsey. Why, then, does the Duke refuse to cooperate with the investigation? Is he really guilty, or is he covering up for someone? Why is Wimsey attacked by an enraged farmer on the lonely moors? Why is an attempt made on his life in a Soho Street? | $5.00 |
| A Different Kind of Love by Saunders, Jean There's no way to soften this, so I'll say it outright. I already have a wife.' In a single sentence, Walter Radcliffe destroyed everything Kate Sullivan had lived for up to their wedding day. Conventional family life in 1920s rural Somerset left her totally unprepared for the shame and disgrace of being jilted. Desperate to escape, she accepts the insulting gifts of Walter's money and his sham wedding ring and flees to the honeymoon hotel in Bournemouth to try and forget. | $3.00 |
| Play Little Victims by Cook, Kenneth The year: 2000. Adamus and Evemus, two young mice, set about trying to recreate society after a cosmic disaster has devastated the rest of Earth. Able to talk and reason, they follow the example of man, using the Bible and 4628 editions of the New York Times as their guide to life. And the result is an all too human chaos.... | $8.00 |
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