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Modest, reliable and decorous throughout his life, George Bland faces retirement with unease. But into his life comes Katy Gibb, who sees in him a chance for self-advancement, while he sees in her a chance for rakish patronage.

One long hot summer in the 1880s, Bram Stoker escaped to Whitby from the pressures of theatre life in London. These months are unaccounted for in the life of the future author of Dracula, and round them Ann Roberts has woven a passionate mysterious novel

The story of the trek back to Capetown, of a young white widow and a black man who had rescued her when she was stranded in the hinterland wilderness.

Beth Dayton discovers that succeeding in a man's world without compromising her principles is a tall order.

Three brothers, born on a Greek island, spread their wings and soar to impressive heights in their three professions.

Based on the author's sojourn in Ireland in 1953 whilst writing the screenplay for the film "Moby Dick", this novel tells of a novice screenwriter coming to Ireland to confront a great director and a mythical beast.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers. Considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century", it was the best-selling American novel from the time of its publication, superseding Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). It remained at the top until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936). Following release of the 1959 MGM film adaptation of Ben-Hur, which was seen by tens of millions and won 11 Academy Awards in 1960, book sales surpassed Gone with the Wind.

Peregrine Vereker, in the eyes of his aunt Julia, who brought him up to the mature age of nineteen, was a polished young gentleman, an incipient artist and poet. In the opinion of his two uncles he was an ignorant mollycoddle, a ladylike nincompoop, unacquainted with manliness. Stung by their scorn, Peregrine ''ran away'' as many a lad before and since, to learn the world and prove his worth, and ran the gamut of happiness and misery, of fear and courage, of loneliness and love before he matched up to the requirements of his two uncles.