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A young American snowboarder travels to the Himalayas. The young man plows into a Buddhist monk named Master Fwap, who…
takes him on as a spiritual apprentice. Using snowboarding as a path to enlightenment, Master Fwap shows how, by fleeing the mind and challenging the soul, one can master any mountain, and master oneself. 1995.
When Detective Inspector John Rebus participates in a raid on an Edinburgh brothel, he is surprised to find a member…
of Parliament, Gregor Jack, among the guests. Because the press seems to have known about the raid, Rebus suspects a setup. Then Jack's wife is found murdered near their cottage in the Highlands. Some strong language. 1994.
Canadian politics as told from the perspectives of Becky Leggatt (the capable and manipulative wife of a hard-right Conservative prime…
minister) and Lise Lavoie (the exotic and unlikely immigrant Governor General) - two wives and mothers living their private lives in public. Becky and Lise engage in a fight to the death in a battle that involves Canada’s relationship to the United States, Afghanistan and Africa. The rest of the time, the women are driving their kids. Includes sex, violence and strong language. 2012.
Guy believes Harriet drowned on the ship that was to take her back to England, and devotes himself to Simon,…
the young officer in the hospital. Meanwhile, Harriet struggles to survive in the strange world of the Levant. Includes sex and strong language. 1980.
Dr Calista St James had worked in the world's most dangerous countries, she had healed the needy and defied the…
ruthless mercenaries who'd tried to stop her. Then she'd been dishonourably dismissed after a tragedy that haunted her still. Now the Alliance wanted her back - and they had information to ensure her co-operation. The lover she'd believed dead was alive, a prisoner in a militant-controlled territory in Russia. 2007.
Sun and candlelight: Alethea Thomas is more than grateful when Dr Sarre van Diederijk saves her pride from being crushed…
by another man. So when Sarre asks her to marry him and become a mother to his children, Alethea accepts. Only when she gets to Holland does she realise the enormity of the task. A star looks down: Professor Alexander van Zeust's four young nieces and nephews need someone to care for them temporarily. As soon as he meets Beth, the professor knows she's the one to help him. Beth is kind, loving and gets on well with the children, so everyone's happy. Except Beth - who's fallen in love with her employer! 2003.
Blaze Rawdon is convinced Francesca has a guilty secret - and, when his new fiancee disappears on the eve of…
their engagement party, Blaze ruthlessly coerces Francesca into becoming a temporary stand-in! Francesca is forced to play along with the pretence, only she mustn't let Blaze touch her heart: their brief affair years ago ended in tears. This time she is determined that while she may be his substitute fiancee, she'll never be his bride. 2000.
The author has been a traveller and novelist for over 20 years and this collection not only records some of…
the events of this career but also gives an insight into the character of the writer. It is wide ranging, beginning with his work as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nyasaland writing a monthly letter to various American papers at the age of 23 and working (albeit unconsciously) for the German CIA, through many literary encounters to the explicit sexual urges of Mrs Robinson. 1985.
At age sixteen, swimmer Lynne Cox achieved her lifetime goal of setting a new record for an English Channel swim.…
So she set her goals higher, becoming the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, crossing the Cape of Good Hope and New Zealand's Cook Strait, and swimming the 38 degree waters of the Bering Strait - in just a swimsuit, cap and goggles. She even swam a mile in the iceberg-choked seas of the Antarctic. 2004.
When an allied raid forces SS General Streicher to abandon his V-2 rocket factory, it sets in motion a monstrous…
conspiracy that still lies hidden today. In present day Vancouver, the RCMP's Special X squad is on the hunt for a pair of Nazi-inspired killers. The cat and mouse game moves between wartime Germany and the manhunt in Vancouver. 2005.
Erik Winter is the youngest Chief Inspector in Sweden; he wears sharp suits, cooks gourmet meals, has a penchant for…
jazz, and is about to become a father. In addition, he is dealing with aging parents while trying to solve a gruesome murder. The city of Gothenburg is preparing to celebrate the millennium and the particularly lurid double murder leads Winter into the world of Goths and the possibility that someone on the force is involved. Followed by “Never end”. 2005. Uniform title: Sol och skugga.
A look at how sugar Africanized the cane fields of the Caribbean to how it fuelled the Industrial Revolution and…
jumpstarted the fast-food revolution. Reveals how powerful American interests deposed Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, how Hitler tried to ensure a steady supply of beet sugar when enemies threatened to cut off Germany's supply of overseas cane sugar, and how South Africa established a domestic ethanol industry in the wake of anti-apartheid sugar embargos. Some descriptions of sex, and explicit descriptions of violence. c2008.
Sylvanus Now, a young Newfoundland fisherman of great charm and strength, wants to woo Adelaide, but she longs to escape…
the sea, the fish, and the stultifying community. But her need of refuge from her own troubled family leads her to Sylvanus and life in the neighbouring outport. Caught between his desire to please his wife and his strongly independent nature, Sylvanus must decide what path his future will take. Some descriptions of sex, some strong language. Bestseller. 2005.
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour. "Surviving Adolescents" is a clear and very down-to-earth…
manual, drawing on his wealth of experience and wisdom. It has advice on all the thorny issues that confront families with teenagers - sexuality, risky behaviours, laziness, school and study problems, and much more. And it is full of practical tips for everyday survival, including: communicating effectively with young people, defusing family conflict, setting limits, keeping the stress of parenting at bay, avoiding common mistakes like fighting over things that don't matter. 2005.
While Willie is playing football, a strange white beam turns his frail granny into Super Gran, with incredible strength, fantastic…
speed and x-ray eyes. Willie and his granny have some adventures which include stopping bank robbers, and fighting a battle with the super toughies so that Super Gran can return the great invention to its rightful owner. Grades 2-4. 1980.
The mysterious drowning of her father soon brings back previous unresolved family tragedies back into focus. Dangerous secrets begin to…
surface and Lucy finds she is being pursued, both by a stalker in her present and a past that seems strangely incomplete. 2004.
Old Swithinford is undergoing more dramatic changes to village life of the late 1960s. It faces the problem of a…
hippy family in its midst and its gravest threat yet from a developer who has the potential to corrupt the values of the long-established farmers. 1997.
The conditions for renting the villa La Felicita were to say the least, odd - insisting on a particular kind…
of family, warning of dire consequences if the strict house rules were not closely observed. Undeterred, Molly Pargeter took her unwilling family and all-too-willing father, the aged roué and columnist Haverford Downs, to the small Tuscan town. 1988.
Written for baby boomers and other generations who grew up before the computer revolution. Carroll explores the skepticism many feel…
towards computers and discusses how technology is changing business. He presents ideas to help people adapt to technology and what skills and attitudes we need to function in the information age. c1997.