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During the Japanese occupation of parts of China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian is thrown out of her father's and stepmother's home, joins a martial arts group, and tries to help her aunt and t

McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate coast, leaky as a sieve in the war's early months, became increasingly effective as it choked off vital imports and exp

A sorceress and a police detective track a reborn Jack the Ripper through historically recreated cities, from Victorian London to Montezuma's Mexico City.

Historian Susanna de Vries gives a complex portrait of Daisy Bates: an unconventional, Irish-born and ultimately well known anthropologist, who spent sixteen years living among West Australian indi

Charismatic and ambitious, Simon Forman rose from a poor upbringing in Wiltshire to become one of the wealthiest doctors in London.

Fleeing the remarkable love that was prophesied at her birth, Amber the Untouched does not suspect that the wounded warrior with no memory who has come to her in the darkness is that same foretold

Mesothelioma was the furthest thing from Brian Kember's mind when at the age of fifty two he began to experience shortness of breath.

A story of hardship and heartache in the rough Pilbara outback.

'Nick Davis first saw Daniela Simonici in the American Bar of the Athenee Palace Hotel in Bucharest in June of 1940. He couldn't take his eyes off her.

In 1986, champion cross-country skier Janine Shepherd was training for the Winter Olympics when she was hit by a truck and suffered life-threatening injuries.

In a typical English country lane, ten households form a peaceful, if mundane little community.

1950s Edinburgh is the setting for this murder mystery. Young reporter Rosa's friend and former colleague, Patricia, returns from London to marry her fiance but tragedy soon strikes.

Seattle, 1960's. Joe Sutter, the engineer who spearheaded the design and construction of the Boeing 747, tells the story of the world's first jumbo jet.

In this humorous story, the court magician thinks a quest will cure Prince Roger's unkinglike tendency to laugh constantly.