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In Dark Star Safari the wittily observant and endearingly irascible Paul Theroux takes readers the length of Africa by rattletrap bus, dugout canoe, cattle truck, armed convoy, ferry, and train.

The Sacred Hill rises above the land, drawing men to it like a beacon. But the men who come each have their own reason, their own dreams.

Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory - the afternoon her mother was killed, when

From modest beginnings, Willy and Abby Jennings have built the life of their dreams with their five-year-old daughter who they love beyond measure.

Seventeen-year-old Roland discovers that an unpopular girl in his school is studying alchemy and finds that their destiny is linked with that of a power-hungry magician.

In 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease -a degenerative neurological condition.

Investigating his girlfriend's mysterious disappearance, Will Klein learns that she is somehow tied to his brother's death, and he becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes that eve

November 2001. A Zodiac inflatable slips away from a submarine off the North African coast.

Proud and powerful, the Hardigree family was as unyielding as the Carolina marble that had made them rich.

A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired the adoration of millions, an artist whose name was a byword for genius, sex, and excess.

Jessie's not so sure about moving to an Outback Australian town, but her Dad and her therapist think it might be good for her.

The sequel to "Across the Nightingale Floor" follows the separate fates of young lovers Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, as they fight for survival in a violent time of war, famine and tr

Wife, mother, backer, lover... no wonder she feels spread thin.

In the Irish Country town of Kinvarra, the Miller girls are generally perceived to have it all.

Travelling with his elderly mother to England, Peter Calder reflects on his childhood, growing up in New Zealand and being Pakeha despite being brought up in a very English way.