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A Suitable Vengeance
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Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery...
Well Schooled in Murder
When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the...
After Thought: The Computer Challenge to Human Intelligence
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Cutting-edge computer scientists are coming to see that electronic circuits really are alien, that the difference between the human mind and computer capability is not merely one of degree (how...
The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh, and Wailer
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Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trenchtown R&B crooners swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers--one of the...
The Victoria Vanishes
One night, Arthur Bryant witnesses a drunk middle-aged lady coming out of a pub in a London backstreet. The next morning, she is found dead at the exact spot where...
The Water Room
When an elderly lady is found inside her own house with her lungs full of river water, London's Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to search for a logical solution....
A Certain Somewhere
Gathered here are essays by J. M. Coetzee on South Africa, Madison Smartt Bell on Haiti, Thomas Mallon on the New York Public Library, Ann Beattie on the Florida Keys,...
Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal
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A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know Detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting...
Friend of the Devil: DCI Banks 17
When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered...
Piece of My Heart: DCI Banks 16
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As volunteers clean up after a huge outdoor rock concert in Yorkshire in 1969, they discover the body of a young woman wrapped in a sleeping bag. She has been...
Shades of Death
Seventeen years after her death, the skeletal remains of an eleven-year-old girl are discovered buried deep in the caves of Derbyshire's Peak District. Close by the body lies a crudely-carved...
Night and Silence
When David marries Tessa he feels life is starting all over again. He gets a transfer to a small police station in mid Wales, leaving behind the stresses of inner-London...
The Tempest
Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in a wintry, misty Venice to study Giorgione s painting 'The Tempest', the subject of his thesis and the centre of his...
Staying Power
From the author of POWER OF HER OWN and DYING TO SCORE, a new thriller featuring Detective Sergeant Kate Powers who finds herself in the middle of a messy case...
Death's Own Door
Journalist Jill Francis and Inspector Richard Thornhill undertake a baffling investigation of criminal perpetration set against the background of the Welsh border town of Lydmouth in the 1950s.
Man Eater: A Murder Mystery
On the eve of the Festivities, Claudia Seferius is actually heading in the opposite direction, but then, even beautiful young Roman widows have to act when their vineyards are threatened....
A to Z of Sport: The Compendium of Sporting Knowledge
THE A TO Z OF SPORT is unique: nothing as comprehensive has ever appeared before. It covers more than one hundred sports, with the treatment of some of the nation's...
The Right Attitude To Rain
The key to contentment in the Scottish climate is the right attitude to rain - just as in life the key to happiness lies in making the best of what...
Walking the Himalayas
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Following his trek along the length of the Nile River, explorer Levison Wood takes on his greatest challenge yet: navigating the treacherous foothills of the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain...
True Believers
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Early one morning at St. Anselm's church in Philadelphia, a parishioner sneaks the body of his dead wife into the sacristy and commits suicide. His wife, a severe diabetic, is...
The Chameleon's Shadow
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In this electrifying new novel from the bestselling author of The Devils Feather, British lieutenant Charles Acland returns home from Iraq, but his serious head injuries are only the outward...
Social History of England
Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects...
The Aesthetics of Computing
'A brand name in computer science' (New York Times), David Gelertner has revolutionised computing with his work in the field of parallel processing. In this provocative new book, he urges...
Turtles, Termites and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel
Does every group have a leader? Does every pattern have a central cause? Most people tend to think so. Increasingly, decentralized models are being chosen for the organizations and technologies...