Where Eagles Dare

      Alistair MacLean
     Where Eagles Dare

A team of British special forces parachutes onto a mountainside in wartime Germany. Their mission: To rescue a captured American general from the Castle of the Eagle before the Nazi interrogators can force him to reveal secret D-Day plans. As team members start to perish along the way, the true purpose of the rescue turns out to be infinitely more complicated.

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    Tippy Toler and the Fully Baked Magic Show

      Julia & Marty Kramer
     Tippy Toler and the Fully Baked Magic Show

Tippy Toler is not the kind of girl who lets turtles into the house. At least not anymore. She’s also not a kid who sits idly by while the animal shelter needs her help. In this first book of the series, Tippy Toler and her five and a half best friends set their sights on staging a fundraising magic show to remember.Perfect for ages 6-9.The first book in the Tippy Toler series introduces the comical title character and her brother, Buddy Boy, as they get into and out of trouble. Young readers will enjoy the funny story as well as a tasty lemonade recipe, a few jokes, a brain teaser, instructions for slicing a banana without peeling it, and the secret to creating messages you can only read in a mirror.

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    Marigold Flowers: A Little Blue

      Garnet D Toritto & Garnet F Vaccaro
     Marigold Flowers: A Little Blue

Marigold Flowers believes she is just your average 11 year old until her life takes an unexpected turn. Join Marigold as she learns about her less then normal heritage, which includes the ability to turn blue and fly! But most important…can she defeat her evil stepmother and save her family? With some unexpected help she just might be able to save the day.Poems symbolizing the immortality of love and at times its fickleness. Parekh takes the reader through a paradise naturally embellished with the ingredients of eternal romance and its sporadic failures. As they say life and death are two sides of the coin, similarly with every true anecdote of love there also comes fretful divorce—a thing which has been most sensitively described throughout this great collection of poems for the heart. Written and dipped in each ingredient of his passionate blood, Parekh comes out with startling revelations about the truest of love stories and their failures. Each verse has been delicately intertwined with a boundless aspects of relationships, romance, cheating, betrayal and goes on to prove that Immortal Love towers over every shattered heart. A start to finish with some of the most heart-rendering love poems ever, this makes a great collection for ever true lover breathing and desiring to be loved on earth and beyond. This collection of poems aims at perpetually uniting every heart on this Universe in the spirit of Immortal love and friendship. Because these are the two quintessential ingredients to lead life till its last breath. Irrespective of whatever color, faith or religion, it is only the rainbow of love which can transform the ghastliest monsters and perpetrators of humanity into peaceful lovers. Therefore this book inexhaustibly endeavors to speak and preach the language of love even after its last embossed alphabet.

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    After Rain

      William Trevor
     After Rain

Chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the eight best books of 1996, After Rain presents a collection of twelve dazzling, acutely rendered stories that plumb the depths of the human heart. "Short fiction at its finest."--San Francisco Chronicle.

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    The Flight of the Falcon

      Daphne Du Maurier
     The Flight of the Falcon

"In du Maurier's fiction, she unflinchingly exposed hard truths." --Times (UK) As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life -- until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. The woman, he gradually comes to realise, was his family's beloved servant many years ago, in his native town of Ruffano. He returns to his birthplace, and once there, finds it is haunted by the phantom of his brother, Aldo, shot down in flames in '43. Over five hundred years before, the sinister Duke Claudio, known as The Falcon, lived his twisted, brutal life, preying on the people of Ruffano. But now it is the twentieth century, and the town seems to have forgotten its violent history. But have things really changed? The parallels between the past and present become ever more evident.

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    Love & Hate Series Box Set 2 (3-4) - In Too Deep - Skimming the Surface

      Joanna Mazurkiewicz
     Love & Hate Series Box Set 2 (3-4) - In Too Deep - Skimming the Surface

It can be read as a start of a new series. Skimming above the surface (Love & Hate #4) will be out in March. Handsome, arrogant, intelligent and desperate to discover the truth about his ex-girlfriend’s murder from eight years ago, Micah Thomson is a young detective, ready to take on his first breakthrough case. His wish comes true sooner than he expects. A young student has been murdered in Braxton University and Micah is chosen to be a lead detective in her case. But, some things cannot be forgotten, and destiny cannot be avoided. Micah’s first witness is the victim’s roommate Tahlia Sanderson, a girl that kicks his libido into an overactive mode. His interrogation goes downhill when Micah realises that Tahlia is the same girl that he had crashed with the night before. Tahlia’s life is not what it seems. Her past is filled with secrets, lies, and vivid images which initiate his own memories, his time that he spent growing up on the council estate, his time with his beloved ex-girlfriend Steph, who's murder case was never solved. Will Micah find the real murderer and discover the meaning of his connection to that mysterious suicide girl, or will his ego pull him under the dark waters that hold his repressed emotions forever?

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    Searching for Caleb

      Anne Tyler
     Searching for Caleb

"Magic and true, dazzling and wise...It has an astounding confidence, depth and range...A wonderful, wonderful novel." THE BOSTON GLOBE Duncan Peck has a fascination for randomness and is always taking his family on the move. His wife, Justine, is a fortune teller who can't remember the past. Her grandfather, Daniel, longs to find the brother who walked out of his life in 1912, with nothing more than a fiddle in his hand. All three are taking journeys that lead back to the family's deepest roots...to a place where rebellion and acceptance have the haunting power to merge into one.... From the Paperback edition.

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    The PowerBook

      Jeanette Winterson
     The PowerBook

Winterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided you're prepared to enter the story as yourself and risk leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price, and Ali discovers that she, too, will have to pay it. The PowerBook reinvents itself as it travels from London to Paris, Capri, and Cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths, and popular culture to weave a story of failed but requited love.

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    Sorrow's Point

      Danielle DeVor
     Sorrow's Point

Not All Exorcists are Equal....One is Marked. When defrocked ex-priest, Jimmy Holiday, agrees to help an old friend with his sick daughter, he doesn’t expect the horrors that await him. Blackmoor, his friend’s new residence, rests upon the outskirts of the town of Sorrow’s Point. The mansion’s history of magic, mayhem, and death makes it almost a living thing – a haunted mansion straight out of a Stephen King novel. Jimmy must decide if the young girl, Lucy, is only ill, or if the haunting of the house and her apparent possession are real. After the house appears to affect him as well with colors of magic dancing before his eyes, rooms warded by a witch, and a ring of power in his voice, Jimmy is met by a transient who tells him he has “the Mark.” Whatever being “marked” means, Jimmy doesn’t care. All he wants to do is help Lucy. But, helping Lucy means performing an exorcism.

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    With Shuddering Fall

      Joyce Carol Oates
     With Shuddering Fall

The first novel from New York Times-bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, a thrilling, dark tale of family, revenge, and two souls intertwined by love and violence—now back in print for fans of America’s most prolific storyteller. Written when Joyce Carol Oates was in her early twenties, and first published in 1964, With Shuddering Fall is her powerful debut novel, the first of five new Oates reprints from Ecco. Following the turbulent story of two lovers who discover themselves mortal enemies, the author explores the struggle for dominance in erotic relationships that has become a predominant theme in her work, as well as the perils of patriarchal inheritance, and the ripple-effects of emotional loss in adolescence.  The result is an unsentimental yet sympathetic rendering of a disastrous love affair in which hatred is nearly as powerful as love, and a yearning for destruction is an abiding and insatiable passion. Discover what prompted the New York Times to compare this young writer’s debut to Shirley Jackson’s famous short story, “The Lottery.”  Readers looking for a place to start in Joyce Carol Oates’s vast catalogue will be intrigued by the sheer narrative force of the young author, and her willingness to anatomize the darkest recesses of humanity in a search for redemption and resolution.

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