The Way Through the Woods
Colin Dexter
They called her the Swedish Maiden, the beautiful young tourist who disappeared on a hot summer's day somewhere in North Oxford. Twelve months later the case remained unsolved-pending further developments.
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The Peaceful Army
Flora Eldershaw
Margaret Preston on Australian women artists; Miles Franklin on suffragist, Rose Scott; Eleanor Dark on Caroline Chisholm; Kylie Tennant on the future... In 1938 women looked to the past for women who had made a mark on Australian history, and they looked to the future. In 1988 we were reassessing the past once again. Kylie Tennant was the youngest contributor to this volume at that time; just before her death in 1988 she reflected on the intervening fifty years. Like mirrors reflecting mirrors, this book shows the precarious position on the intervening fifty years.
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Death of an Expert Witness
P. D. James
An evil-tempered forensic scientist is put to death, putting many of his colleagues out of misery. Commander Adam Dalgliesh must exhume the secrets of Dr. Lorrimer's laboratory in order to lay bare the murderous motive hidden in one human heart. "Death of an Expert Witness" led "Newsweek" to crown P. D. James "the new queen of crime."
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Skin Secrets
Peter Berger
Straightforward examination of the causes and treatment of ageing in skin, hair and nails. Includes a discussion of the drug Retin-A. The author, a Melbourne-based dermatologist, also wrote TSave Your Skin'. Includes an index of skin disorders.
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The Death of Bunny Munro
Nick Cave
Bunny Munro sells beauty products and the scent of adventure to the lonely housewives of England\'s south coast. Set adrift by his wife\'s death he hits the road one last time - with his young son in tow. As Bunny swaggers from door-to-door hawking his wares and feeding his libido, nine-year-old Bunny Junior waits in the car seeking the comfort of his mother\'s ghost and watching his father self-destruct. Haunted by his appetites, jealous husbands and a serial killer in a devil suit, Bunny Munro is a desperate man. And he\'s going to die. Stylish, angry and engrossing, The Death of Bunny Munro is at once blackly comic, raw with heartache and bursting with Nick Cave\'s hallmark wit and lyricism.
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The Appeal
John Grisham
In a courtroom in Mississippi, a jury returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste into the water supply, causing the worst cancer cluster in history. The company appeals to the Supreme Court, whose nine justices.
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Tales of a Magic Monastery
John A. O'Brien
Like the parables of Jesus these tales repeatedly unfold new levels of meaning if we are willing to sit with them.
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A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court
Marianne Mancusi
Imagine a Bridget Jones like character spiralling back in time to the days of Camelot. A CONNECTICUT FASHIONISTA IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT combines, for the first time ever, chick lit attitude with a time travel plot. Author Marianne Mancusi, an Emmy Award winning tv producer pens a sexy, magical, laugh-out-loud romp through the legend you only thought you knew. "I love the voice of Chick Lit," says Mancusi. "But I felt the same old plotlines about a girl in the city with a bad boss and good shoes were getting old. I wanted to do something a little different."CONNECTICUT FASHIONISTA features an outspoken fashion editor named Kat, who's certainly not your typical damsel in distress. But when a gypsy curse sends her back in time to the days of King Arthur, she'll need every ounce of her 21st century wits (and pop culture references) to navigate the legend. After all, surviving a magical plot, an evil prince, and a case of mistaken identity - all without changing history or scuffing your Manolos - takes some doing!So this June, slip on your stilettos and clutch your Cosmos tight, as Marianne Mancusi send you on a wild, wacky, and oh-so-fashionable trip back in time. This is one of the silliest, frothiest, friskiest novels and loads of shameless good fun.
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Full Circle
Danielle Steel
The 1960s. Kennedy. Martin Luther King. Civil rights. Viet Nam. Tana Roberts comes of age in this turbulent decade, and begins a journey that will lead her from New York to the South during the heat of racial unrest. A thoroughly modern young woman, she yearns for a career and is willing to sacrifice everything to get it. And it's only much later that Tana discovers that she can have it all. Career. Love. And peace of mind. As she comes of age, at last, and comes full circle.
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Making Good Churches Better
Kevin Giles
A resource for church leaders, lay and ordained, to help them make their church more evangelistic, caring, prayerful and spiritually rewarding. Chapter titles include 'The Church in the Age of Redefinition', 'Young People in an Old Church', 'Money Matters' and 'Building the Church on a Strong Foundation'. Each chapter includes case studies and further reading. Author is a minister who previously wrote 'Count Me In', a confirmation guide for young people.
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A Case Examined
A. L. Barker
In a parish of rich, well-meaning women Rose Antrobus forms a conference to decide who should benefit from a small bequest left to charity. She hopes that the money will go to Mrs Peachey and her three young children - a family cruelly abandoned in a world of plenty to survive on a pittance. But the Peachey case is destined to cause unheralded ructions, provoke extraordinary confrontations - and Rose finds herself turning back the clock to remember a childhood vacation spent at the margny chateau in france. . . a vacation which, thirty years later, is to provide the solution to her dilemma.
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Mrs. Calliban
Rachel Ingalls
The setting and the characters of Mrs Caliban - American suburbia, a couple existing amidst the fragments of a collapsed marriage - are caught with deftness of touch and a sure ear for dialogue: a deadlocked couple becalmed in a Saragasso Sea.
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The House on River Terrace
James Moloney
Ben Fielding is the 16 year old son of a conservative politician. He is a dreamer and an artist whose friendship with the wild spirited street kid, Jess, draws him inevitably into conflict with his father. Watching him, brooding and beckoning, is derelict Gwendolan House. There are stories within its walls - stories hidden by the dust of time - stories waiting for Ben Fielding to uncover.
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The Rape of Venice
Dennis Wheatley
In the summer of 1796, Roger Brook, a trifle unwilling, undertook a new secret mission for the Prime Minister, Mr Pitt. It gave him a chance to meet Rinaldo Malderini - a Venetian Senator and a disciple of the Devil - and his charming wife Sirisha, an Indian Princess. It bought him into contact with a lot of other interesting things as well: a seance, a duel, a shipwreck, cannibals, slavery, kidnapping, the violating the of a harem and a desperate night, assault against a walled city. All in all, the summer of 1796 was an interesting one for Roger Brook.
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King and Joker
Evelyn Anthony
Victor II, King of England? Well, maybe. . . If Prince Eddy had not died in 1892, a quite different Royal Family would now occupy Buckingham Palace. King Victor himself would be there - a qualified doctor prevented from practising by the TGWU; Queen Isabella, outwardly chilly but adored by her family; Albert Prince of Wales, a lefty amateur zoo-keeper; and princess Louise, who attends Holland Park Comprehensive. There is also a practical joker at the palace, tiresome but seemingly harmless . . .until the discovery of a most bizarre and unpleasant murder.
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Prophet
Frank E. Peretti
John Barrett, anchorman for \"NewSix at Five\", the city\'s most watched newscast has a problem. His comfortable, successful world is being jarred to the breaking point. He\'s caught his producer skewing a story to git her own prejudices, then lying to cover her tracks - and she appears to be hiding something much bigger.
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Rosemary for Remember
June Thomson
The atmosphere at the summer school for creative writing was one of peace, privilege, and intellectual superiority. But Bernard Livesey, poet, critic, and organiser of the school, was having difficulties with his volatile and ill-matched staff. And when the students began to arrive his problems were compounded - for some of them were as explosive as the tutors. But no one had reckoned that the tension would erupt into murder - and a weird murder at that, for why was the corpse clutching a sprig of rosemary in his right hand?
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A Woman of Substance
Barbara Taylor Bradford
In 1905 a kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is 16, single and pregnant. By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler of a business empire stretching from Yorkshire to America and Australia. But what is the price she has paid?
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